Audio Book Breakthrough: A Guide to Selection and Use in Public Libraries and Education - Rilegato

Hoffman, Preston; Osteyee, Carol H.

 
9780313286902: Audio Book Breakthrough: A Guide to Selection and Use in Public Libraries and Education

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This is the first book on audio book selection and use for public and school librarians and teachers. Topics addressed include how to begin and upgrade a collection, the relative merits of complete and abridged audio books, a sample written selection policy for the audio book collection, how to evaluate production qualities of audio books, ratings of products from major producers and distributors based on a survey of AV librarians, an informative directory of producers and distributors, and an annotated bibliography of more than 200 outstanding audio books. A chapter on audio in education offers a rationale and strategies for incorporating audio books in education from elementary school through adult literacy programs.

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Informazioni sugli autori

PRESTON HOFFMAN is the Book Sounds columnist for Wilson Library Bulletin and author of A Change of Voice: The Art of the Spoken Word (Wilson Journal) and a monograph on audio books Occasional Papers #184 (University of Illinois Press). He holds an M.A. in speech communications and English from Columbia University and is the extension services librarian for the Burke County Public Library in North Carolina.

CAROL H. OSTEYEE received a doctorate in education from Columbia University and teaches in the Burke County, North Carolina, public schools. She is the author of Critical Thinking Model and Handbook (1992). Her interest in curriculum innovations, especially whole language, led to her research in the use of audio books in education.



PRESTON HOFFMAN is the Book Sounds columnist for Wilson Library Bulletin and author of A Change of Voice: The Art of the Spoken Word (Wilson Journal) and a monograph on audio books Occasional Papers #184 (University of Illinois Press). He holds an M.A. in speech communications and English from Columbia University and is the extension services librarian for the Burke County Public Library in North Carolina.

CAROL H. OSTEYEE received a doctorate in education from Columbia University and teaches in the Burke County, North Carolina, public schools. She is the author of Critical Thinking Model and Handbook (1992). Her interest in curriculum innovations, especially whole language, led to her research in the use of audio books in education.

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