While looking through different platforms for visual curations I decided to go with Pintrest and searched for “school library collection development’. I will be honest, I didn’t spend much time searching for a collection (assessment is looming). However, I did locate something that I have seen before, and enjoy looking at. The well renowned book […]
Category: ETL503 – Resourcing the Curriculum
Book Selection Tension.
A question I have asked myself before, should I stop my children reading what they want to read? I speak in reference to my own two girls. I have two daughters, aged 11 and 9, both avid readers. My eldest love history books, historical fiction and graphic novels. While my youngest mostly loves fiction, one […]
Is there Friction with the Fictions?
Fiction vs Non Fiction is a hot topic at the moment. I find it serendipitous that this is a topic for think space this week. It was about a week ago I attended a debate, at a local bookshop where the topic was “Non Fiction is more important than Fiction”. The debaters were local authors. […]
Flow On! Further Resourcing the School Library.
Flow Chart My goodness, Flow Charts, take longer than you think! I have created my own flow chart adapted from Hassell-Hughes & Mancall (2005), this is a draft and I am giving myself permission to make changes as my understanding and knowledge deepens. I have some purchasing to make in the next few weeks and […]
Resourcing for the future.
Dear Future Me, There are some thing you need to know. Your collection is not what you think it is. At this point in time your collection is in transition… transition from a safe and traditional collection to a “Collaborative Access Environment” (Hughes-Hassell & Mancall 2005). This is a letter of recommendation is to ensure […]