At the same time I was taking LIS 567 (see post below), I also studied Children’s materials. In this class we DID focus on collection development, from everything from board books, picture books, early readers, series paper backs, chapter books, tween books, magazines, DVDs, music CDs, console games, websites, and just about everything that one finds in the Children’s section of a library. It was a whirl wind tour, but one of the best classes I’ve taken.In the last week alone I’ve drawn on knowledge I learned in this course in helping patrons choose books for their own reading, my family members choose gifts for babies, and my own reading choices. We looked at printed reviews in places like School Library Journal, and Booklist, and read a very large amount of the actual materials- things we wouldn’t have normally done on our own (at least those of us without children of our own to read to). Here is a document with all I read for this class, and my own reviews of it.
We also created booktalks—commercials for books, to get kids excited about reading. Here are mine for We are the Ship a non-fiction chapter book relating the story of the Negro baseball league, and The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex.
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