Designed for courses that prepare LIS students for school librarianship, this title teaches basic reference processes, sources, services, and skills and provides authentic school library reference scenarios and exercises. This fourth edition of Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips acknowledges the vital importance of reference skills in school libraries. It focuses on new reference skills for school librarians and includes more online materials such as Webliographies and a glossary. Teaching reference skills and providing reference services to students and staff in schools are extremely important tasks and are required of librarians on a regular basis. Aimed at pre-service and in-service school librarians, this book covers all types of reference materials including almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other standard information sources, giving extra emphasis to the online sources to which students increasingly turn. This edition addresses more online reference resources than previous editions and offers practical suggestions for use in K-12 student instruction.

ANN MARLOW RIEDLING is Associate Professor at Saint Leo University, St. Petersburg. She has worked in the field of library science and information technology since 1974. Her previous books include Reference Skills for the School Library Media Specialist: Tools and Tips, Catalog It! A Guide to Cataloging School Library Materials, Learning to Learn: A Guide to Becoming Information Literate, and Helping Teachers Teach: A School Library Media Specialist's Role (3rd ed.), and a trade book, How We Became Camels.