Consider a school library collection that you are familiar with; is it in a phoenix stage, a dodo stage or somewhere between? Or is the picture painted by Wade not really relevant to that library? At my school the library is not in danger of extinction because it is expected that an international school have […]
My knowledge about school library collections has taken on new dimensions as a result of the learning I have done. While at the beginning of the course I had a somewhat accurate view of what a school library collection is comprised of, the term collection development policy was completely new to me. It is interesting […]
It wasn’t until I read the material in Module 4 after the first assessment task that I was aware of what the “copyright issues” could be concerning the use of online resources. I was operating under two of the misconceptions on the Smartcopying website: 1.2.c. Once a work is published or in the public domain, […]
Reading about the issue of censorship in school libraries helped me to see that this is a much broader issue than I was aware. One way reading the articles in Module 2.6 opened my eyes was in learning the many forms censorship can take. In “Covert Censorship in Libraries: A Discussion Paper,” Moody (2005) gives […]
As I was completing the first assessment, I had to make decisions about what resources to include in my list and which to drop. The decisions I made helped me to understand the importance of having selection criteria and, in the process, helped me to refine my selection criteria. I’d like to share some anecdotes […]
Here are the selection criteria I can think of when considering what resources to purchase for my school library. These criteria would apply equally to eResources and text resources. Quality- well-written; physical quality- made with durable, attractive materials; for e-resources this would mean attractive, easy to navigate/ intuitive Authoritative (for nonfiction)- written or maintained […]
Module 1: Choose a level of teaching and a curriculum topic and explore that area. Consider how you might go about resourcing that topic. Because my school follows the Primary Years Programme, I decided to look for resources that lend themselves to inquiry-based learning within a second grade unit of inquiry on structures. Knowing that […]
