May 2002 Issue
Management Strategies & Tips
By Frank L. Christ
Email: flchris@mindspring.com
Tip
#21: Building
Staff Professionalism Through A Learning Support Center Professional Library
Even though your campus library has some learning support center related books and journals that are available to you and your staff, every learning support center should have its own collection of books and journals for ready reference and professional development. In addition to books on learning support centers, their programs and services, your library ought to contain books on management, personal development, technology, and general academic support. Here are five titles that you might consider to initiate your center's professional library. If accessible on the Internet, the publisher's web site and any book reviews are noted after each title.
Casazza, Martha E. and Sharon L. Silverman (1996). Learning assistance and developmental education: A Guide for Effective Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers.
Publisher Summary: http://www.luc.edu/depts/lac/book.htm
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Christ, F. L., K. Smith, and R. Sheets (Eds.) (2000). Starting a learning assistance center: Conversations with CRLA members who have been there and done that. Clearwater, FL: H& H Publishing Company, Inc.
Publisher Summary: http://www.hhpublishing.com/_professional/start_lrng_asst_ctr.html
Book Review: http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/~lsche/resources/booksnreviews/bnr_lrngspprt/monograph.html
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Flippo, R. F. & D. Caverly (Editors). (2000). Handbook of college reading and study strategy research. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Publisher Web Site: http://www.erlbaum.com/
Book Review #1: http://www.ccp.cc.pa.us/VPACAFF/DIVESS/view2/f01v3n1/frreview.htm
Book
Review #2: http://www.netg.com/research/library/idbooks.asp#TOC10
[Also see book review by Roseanna Almaee in this issue of the LCN]
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Keimig,
R.T. (1983.). Raising academic standards: A guide to learning improvement.
AAHE/ERIC Education Research Report No. 4, Washington, D.C.: American
Association for Higher Education.
Publisher
Web Site: http://www.josseybass.com/cda/product/0,,0913317039,00.html
Book
Summary: http://www.eriche.org/digests/ED284512.html
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Maxwell, M. Improving student learning skills: A new edition (1997). Clearwater, FL: H & H Publishing Company, INC.
Publisher
Summary:
http://www.hhpublishing.com/_professional/isls.html
These
books won't make a difference to a learning support center staff unless they are
read and referred to frequently. A
manager who mentors his/her staff will keep track of book usage with a
user card or loan list. He/she will ask a staff member to report on a book or a
chapter from a book as a meeting agenda item. He/she will get staff involved in
selecting other titles that might be useful. And, of course, the manager will
have read all of the titles that are in the learning support center professional
library.
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