New Books

• Reading Group Choices (2009): Selections for Lively Book Discussions
• The Back Page by Bill Ott
• The Children's Catalog (2009 Supplement to the 19th ed.)

Book Cart Drill Team - 2009

Here's the winner...DEMCO Sponsored 2009 ALA Fifth Annual Book Cart Drill Team World Championship
OPPL Warrior Librarians 1st Place Winners

New Books

• American Library Directory, 2009-2010 (62nd ed.) - 2 vol. set

FYI: Includes organization and personnel indices. You can request photocopies of listings and they will be sent to you through interoffice mail.

• Managing Children's Services in the Public Library by Adele M. Fasick and Leslie E. Holt

FYI: "Everything children's librarians need to know about running a department in the public library." -from the back cover

New Book

• Answering Consumer Health Questions: The Medical Library Association Guide for Reference Librarians by Michele Spatz

FYI: "Answering Consumer Health Questions: The Medical Library Association Guide for Reference Librarians is designed to help librarians provide health and medical information to their users. It is geared especially toward librarians who do not provide this type of information on a day-to-day basis, although even new and experienced medical librarians will find much here to use in their practice." - from the Preface

New Book - The Third in an Exciting Series of Posts (made you look, I hope)

• Research-Based Readers' Advisory by Jessica Moyer

FYI: "Written in straightforward terms, this one-stop guidebook provides an easily accessible resource for both research and its implications for everyday interactions with readers. Chapters include real-world examples of RA changes based on the results of research, as well suggestions for future study. Moyer offers extensive coverage on a wide range of topics, from book groups to audiovisual readers' advisory to collection development and management." -from back cover

New Books - The Second in an Exciting Series of Posts

• The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges by James LaRue
• Service Learning: Linking Library Education and Practice by Loriene Roy, Kelly Jensen, and Alex Hershey Meyers
• Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries: Issues and Practices edited by Andrea M. Morrison for the Government Documents Round Table

New Books - The First in an Exciting Series of Posts

• ALA-APA Salary Survey: Librarian-Public and Academic, 2008 by Jenifer Grady and Denise M. Davis, Project Directors
• Implementing for Results: Your Strategic Plan in Action by Sandra Nelson for the Public Library Association
• Developing a Compensation Plan for Your Library (2nd ed.) by Paula M. Singer and Laura L. Francisco
• Transforming Library Service through Information Commons: Case Studies for the Digital Age by D. Russell Bailey and Barbara Gunter Tierney