Candidates are familiar with a wide range of children’s, young adult, and professional literature in multiple formats and languages to support reading for information, reading for pleasure, and reading for lifelong learning.
A library media specialist evaluates books in multiple formats. It is her/his job to look at the quality, age and interest level, diversity, criteria and special quality of the books and other resources.
During my EDUC 717, Children’s Literature course, I learned how to evaluate books and look at award winning books as well. My partner and I presented a report on Randolph Caldecott Medal Awards and each of us picked a book to evaluate. We also presented the different books that received this award from the year 1938 to 2011. I learned that picture books are not just books with graphics, but they have to pass certain criteria to be able to enter this prestigious contest. I have read some of the Randolph Caldecott Medal winning books to my class. I noticed that most of them have beautiful graphics and these were suitable to the story of the book, the plot, settings, mood and characters were easy to notice and understand. I personally like these children’s books because the stories are good and even the students like them because of the illustrations.
In my course SCED 518, Young Adult Literature, my partner and I presented on the Alex Award. These awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. Although I cannot use this in my elementary school, I think this lesson is very useful and informative. I never knew there was an Alex Award until this project was given to us. Awards like this helps us librarians to be more aware of the best books we can recommend to students or use in class. Each year, many books are published, but until a librarian evaluates them, students cannot read them. Other than reviews that we can get from notable websites or magazines like the Library Journal, award-giving organizations help librarians and students to know which books are best to read.
During my ISTC 615, Collection Development course, I wrote a paper about diverse collections from the Library of Congress. The first website was about the performing arts digital collections. It has a diverse collection of music and book collections, manuscripts, periodicals, iconography, and special collections of music, theater and dance. The second website was the international collections from the library of congress, where it has a diverse collections of African and Middle Eastern, Asian, European, Hispanic collections and specialized research and scholarly programs. The third website I picked was the Science and Technology collections because of its wide variety of books about different fields in Science and Technology. In my library, I noticed a diverse collection of books especially on my 300s non-fiction books. There are Asian, European, Middle Eastern, South and North American selections. It helps me and the teachers to find books appropriate for their lesson about fables because there are many options the students can pick to read.
2.1 Literature
Candidates are familiar with a wide range of children’s, young adult, and professional literature in multiple formats and languages to support reading for information, reading for pleasure, and reading for lifelong learning.Artifacts
EDUC 717 Randolph Caldecott Medal Award PresentationSCED 518 Alex Awards Presentation
ISTC 615 Diverse Collections
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A library media specialist evaluates books in multiple formats. It is her/his job to look at the quality, age and interest level, diversity, criteria and special quality of the books and other resources.During my EDUC 717, Children’s Literature course, I learned how to evaluate books and look at award winning books as well. My partner and I presented a report on Randolph Caldecott Medal Awards and each of us picked a book to evaluate. We also presented the different books that received this award from the year 1938 to 2011. I learned that picture books are not just books with graphics, but they have to pass certain criteria to be able to enter this prestigious contest. I have read some of the Randolph Caldecott Medal winning books to my class. I noticed that most of them have beautiful graphics and these were suitable to the story of the book, the plot, settings, mood and characters were easy to notice and understand. I personally like these children’s books because the stories are good and even the students like them because of the illustrations.
In my course SCED 518, Young Adult Literature, my partner and I presented on the Alex Award. These awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. Although I cannot use this in my elementary school, I think this lesson is very useful and informative. I never knew there was an Alex Award until this project was given to us. Awards like this helps us librarians to be more aware of the best books we can recommend to students or use in class. Each year, many books are published, but until a librarian evaluates them, students cannot read them. Other than reviews that we can get from notable websites or magazines like the Library Journal, award-giving organizations help librarians and students to know which books are best to read.
During my ISTC 615, Collection Development course, I wrote a paper about diverse collections from the Library of Congress. The first website was about the performing arts digital collections. It has a diverse collection of music and book collections, manuscripts, periodicals, iconography, and special collections of music, theater and dance. The second website was the international collections from the library of congress, where it has a diverse collections of African and Middle Eastern, Asian, European, Hispanic collections and specialized research and scholarly programs. The third website I picked was the Science and Technology collections because of its wide variety of books about different fields in Science and Technology. In my library, I noticed a diverse collection of books especially on my 300s non-fiction books. There are Asian, European, Middle Eastern, South and North American selections. It helps me and the teachers to find books appropriate for their lesson about fables because there are many options the students can pick to read.