#5 Tagging/Indexing/Cataloging

Children's Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide (Library and Information Science Text Series) by Sylvia M. Vardell


Tags:

(Sept. 2008)(1) books and reading(1) children(1) children and reading(1) children's literature(2) history and criticism(1) Librarian Guide(1)

http://www.librarything.com/work/5598595


While searching for "children's literature" to use in the library and adding books into my own account on LibraryThing, I came across the book I have now tagged. It is written by my own advisor, Dr. Sylvia Vardell, at TWU. I actually purchased this book after I saw it listed for a class I will be taking in the future. The information I have read has been very informative in selecting books to place into the library and for lessons to go with stories to share in the library. While looking on TitleWave, I read that this was an excellent reference book for the graduate student, the new librarian and even the librarian that has seen it all. The book is known to have lessons that cover all genres and activities to inspire the love of reading into all students and their families. I look forward to reading the book and using it as a valuable resource for the library.

#4 Adding RSS

Before I started this class, I wondered what that little symbol that looks like a speaker sound meant! Now that I have had to look for a specific one to add to this blog, I became familiar with them!
I chose School Library Journal for their interviews with Authors. This helps me pull in the latest and greatest authors that are currently in the news. By adding this RSS feed from
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/community/Interviews/47052.html
I am able to see many authors, read information about them and learn about their books. I look forward to keeping up with the many great books that are coming out every day by reading about the authors that wrote them.

#3 Adding a Podcast

For this week's assignment, we were to search for a podcast that relates to our topic of interest. This was very easy to achieve. The first site I opened was the perfect one for children's books and authors. I am amazed at the number of podcasts available on this specific site. Using http://www.podcastdirectory.com/ , I was able to locate Just One More Book at http://www.justonemorebook.com/. This website contains podcasts on a variety of books and authors as well as up to date activities for literacy. They are well organized and have spotlight themes, author's and books for certain weeks/months. The information learned from the podcasts will make library lessons more interesting and relevant to students. This podcast site is one that will become very useful in my selection of stories I will use in library. I could see it being used on a blog specifically for the library or even shared among teachers.

#2 - Related Blogs

When looking for blogs to go along with my topic of exposing teachers and students to children's books and authors, I found a large number of blogs in this field while searching on blogsearch.google.com. I chose three to begin with, but the blog I had the biggest connection with is maintained by Jen Robinson and will refer to it in coming months when I am looking for stories to read and recommend to students in my library. This person has personally read many books from different levels, gives information about the book and why she chose to read it. Her thoughts as to why children should read and why parents/teachers should be involved in their children's reading is very insightful and inspiring. When building my own personal blog to use with my school, I will be using this blog as a reference.

As stated in her website, http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/ , located in her Mission Statement:

I think that children who love to read grow up with better vocabularies, and the ability to read more quickly, and that they do better in school, and have more opportunities in life. But I think it's even more fundamental than that for me. I think that I just loved reading SO MUCH as a child that I want to give that gift to other people. And it's tough to grow up loving books if you don't start very young.
That is why I've started this website. This site is for anyone who has an interest in raising children who love books. It is for librarians and teachers, and parents and aunts and uncles and grandparents. And it's for people like me, who believe that the world will be a better place if more children grow up with the opportunity to love books. I hope to provide encouragement and education, a sense of community, and of course book ideas. I welcome your feedback. Thanks for reading! -- Jen