Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional Guide for School Library Media Specialists

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Summary: A comprehensive, "user friendly" and highly recommended text
Review: Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional Guide For School Library Media Specialists by Kathleen W. Craver (Head Librarian, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.) is the latest title in the outstanding "Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship" series. Creating Cyber Libraries is organized into ten major sections: Cyber Library Guidelines; Cyber Library Policies; Constructing Web Libraries; Using Portals; Acquiring Fee-based Cyber Libraries; Establishing Remote Access To Subscription Resources; Creating Cyber Reading Rooms; Providing Cyber Library Instructional Services; Managing Evaluating Cyber Libraries; and Promoting Cyber Libraries. Enhanced with a six-page bibliography, a twelve-page "Links Citation List", and an extensive index, Creating Cyber Libraries is a comprehensive, "user friendly", and highly recommended text for library staff members charged with the responsibility for developing, expanding, maintaining, and updating a cyber library with its attendent and evolving technology, as well as an essential, core addition to any academic Library Science reference shelf.