Like many of you I have not had the opportunity of working with the selection, evaluation and maintenance of the reference section. Although I had the pleasure of helping a fellow librarian weed her newly acquired library of encyclopedias form the 1970's...I kept a couple for art projects...talk about the library not being an archive!
I like Riedling's approach her layout is quite clear and concise. The only issue I may have is that some categories would not be useful in the elementary school library. For example bibliographies would be a section that possibly the librarian would have more use of and teachers and students would not have the time to search out materials using this source. And the library itself may not have the selections listed within the bibliographies as well.
Bibliographies created form your own library database form Destiny would be useful for patrons...especially one organized by subject headings which is possible within Destiny and has been quite useful to myself when working with student research projects on certain subject areas within the curriculum. I found this helped students to be more independent in locating their own resources using a user friendly system that they were already familiar with.
I also love all the resources and websites she includes for each category at the end of each chapter, they are quite useful and informative!
Also the weeding process has always been a difficult issue with me. Unless the resources are blatantly out-dated it would be difficult for me to discard these costly references especially when many are considered out-dated after 5 years. Much consideration and evaluation would need to be done and I agree with Riedling when she says, "no two school library media specialists (and collections) are alike...and...the process is a highly individual one...student needs differ form school to school." (Riedling, pg.22)
And I also agree with the fact that the TL must have an excellent knowledge of the collection and its use by all patrons before selection decisions are made.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
From Lesson #3 - Riedling’s Approach to Evaluation
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Yes, I really like that particular function in Destiny. When you work in the PYP environment, it's almost critical to have some kind of electronic platform to keep track of unit resources. I also like the level of access where teachers can share (and change) the lists in an electronic environment.
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