Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.
In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug.Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his ......
When faculty, students, and colleagues come to you with legal questions and you suddenly find yourself in the thick of a copyright conundrum, you don't need pages of historical background information and long-winded legal explanations - you need answers, fast. Previously included in Choice's Top 75 Titles and Resources for Community College ......
Educators Speak Out on Teaching in a Time of Book Bans
Educators at the frontlines of the censorship wars share stories of survival and strategies for resistance American educators are contending with an unprecedented wave of restrictions on reading-indeed, a majority of today's secondary English teachers and students have less of a say over what gets read in school than at any time since the ......
The school-to-prison pipeline impacts communities across the country; often, this system and families impacted by it remain invisible. But librarians, educators, and others who work with youth know first-hand that libraries and reading can be life-altering for youth impacted by incarceration. Written by public librarians who have supported youth ......
Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination
The fascination with time travel and its consistent popularity within the science fiction genre is deeply rooted in science fiction writers' and readers' passion for history and, by extension, for libraries and other kinds of archives. However, time travel, archives, and history intersect in the public imagination in ways that don't always match ......
When someone faces a difficult intellectual freedom (IF) issue, they usually don't have time to wade through dense text to find the answers they need. Designed as a real-world reference, OIF's Intellectual Freedom Manual provides trusted, comprehensive guidance for every library worker, from the volunteer to the director, in plain language. ......
Today's libraries are thoroughly digital environments, not only storing and preserving written information electronically, but also emphasizing digital access to information as a pathway to equitably educating the community on issues of health, employment, education, and local history. And fostering patrons' ability to effectively use digital ......
Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art
An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state's capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates ......
