Gail Bush, PhD, is professor in the reading and language department, director of the Center for Teaching through Children's Books, and director of the School Library Program at National-Louis University in Chicago, IL.
Jami L. Jones, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Library Science at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC.

Foreword: Horace's Story by Theodore R. Sizer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter One
Dispositions
Section One
"Nuts and Bolts"
Chapter Two
Instructional Strategies
Chapter Three
Information Literacy
Chapter Four
Assessment
Section Two
"The Right Book for the Right Child"
Chapter Five
Literacy and Reading
Chapter Six
Diversity
Chapter Seven
Intellectual Freedom Carrie Gardner
Section Three
"Standing Up for What You Believe"
Chapter Eight
Communication
Chapter Nine
Advocacy Gail K. Dickinson
Chapter Ten
Collaboration
Section Four
"A True Act of Service"
Chapter Eleven
Resiliency
Chapter Twelve
Leadership
Chapter Thirteen
Professional Ethics
Epilogue
Appendix: The AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and the Dispositions in Action
Quotation Bibliography
About the Authors and Contributors
Index

This groundbreaking book about developing the professional dispositions of school librarians uses three fictionalized librarians to serve as authentic models addressing familiar topics and situations.
Tales Out of the School Library: Developing Professional Dispositions is a book that empowers anyone working in the school library to redefine their practice to meet the needs of young learners today. It covers familiar, everyday topics of the most concern to practitioners-assessment, literacy and reading, diversity, intellectual freedom, communication, collaboration, and more. But it is the approach that makes this book unique.
Each chapter of Tales Out of the School Library begins with a story from one of three fictional, yet recognizably authentic library media specialists-composites of real professionals, each with distinctive personalities, strengths, and challenges. These tales of elementary, middle, and high school librarians play out over the course of a school year, and serve as the focal point for discussions of essential aspects of teaching, communication, and leadership. Follow-up questions, an annotated bibliography, connections to AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, and discussion questions further add to the value of this innovative volume.