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Blueprint for tomorrow : redesigning schools for student-centered learning
Prakash Nair
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2014]
Blueprint for Tomorrow provides simple, affordable, and versatile ideas for adapting or redesigning school spaces to support student-centered learning. In particular, the author focuses on ways to use current spending to modify existing spaces, and explains which kinds of adaptations offer the biggest return in terms of student learning.
Adults just wanna have fun : programs for emerging adults
Audrey Barbakoff
Chicago : ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2016
There are a wealth of resources out there geared towards serving the needs of toddlers, school age children, young adults, and senior citizens. But something’s missing. Library users in their 20s and 30s constitute one of the most underserved populations for public libraries, and there’s a scarcity of guidance on how to target them. Barbakoff’s fun and practical programming book helps to fill that gap.
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The new librarianship field guide
R. David Lankes ; with contributions from others
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities — librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship, reminds librarians of their mission: to improve society by facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. In this book, he provides tools, arguments, resources, and ideas for fulfilling this mission. Librarians will be prepared to become radical positive change agents in their communities, and other readers will learn to understand libraries in a new way.
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