- IDEALS Home
- Graduate School of Library and Information Science
- GSLIS Publications
- Allerton Park Institute
- 1992: Evaluating Children's Books: A Critical Look
- View Item
Tools of the trade: School library media specialists, reviews, and collection development
Bookmark or cite this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/650
Files in this item
| File | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
Schomberg_Tools.pdf
(950KB)
|
| Title: | Tools of the trade: School library media specialists, reviews, and collection development |
| Author(s): | Schomberg, Janie |
| Subject(s): |
Book reviewing
School media library specialists School libraries Collection development |
| Abstract: | How many times might you peer into a school library media center in a school building in the United States and see this picture? A school library media specialist sits at a library table in a darkened building late in the afternoon looking at what seems to be an oversized, overwhelming jigsaw puzzle. Six thousand of the pieces represent the approximate number of children's books published annually, 4,000 small pieces represent the number of dollars allotted to purchase books for the year, and 500 pieces of more prominent size and shape represent the number of students and staff served by the school library media collection. Off to the side of the table is a small box into which all the puzzle pieces must fit, representing the average cost of children's books, now hovering near the $15 mark. Did you recognize me at the table? Although the number of pieces may vary greatly, this puzzle is a visual image of the collection development dilemma faced by all school library media specialists every year. |
| Issue Date: | 1993 |
| Publisher: | Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Citation Info: | In B. Hearne and R. Sutton (eds) Evaluating children’s books : a critical look : aesthetic, social, and political aspects of analyzing and using children’s books (Papers presented at the Allerton Park Institute held October 25-27, 1992): 37-46. |
| Series/Report: | Allerton Park Institute (34nd : 1992) |
| Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/650 |
| ISBN: | 0-87845-092-0 |
| ISSN: | 0536-4604 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-04-16 |
Items in IDEALS are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
-
1992: Evaluating Children's Books: A Critical Look
Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 34, 1992); Edited by Betsy Hearne and Roger Sutton
Item Statistics
- Total Downloads: 52
- Downloads this Month: 7
- Downloads Today: 0