This article is about a children’s book, Buster’s Sugartime by Marc Brown, that has been challenged in the Union School District in Tulsa. Luckily the Union school board voted to keep the book on the shelf. The book includes some children who have same-sex parents. Dr. Van Fleet posted this on Desire2Learn in our Evaluation Methods [...]
Posts Tagged ‘children’
Challenged Children’s Book
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, censorship, children on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ethical Librarianship
Posted in Community Relations & Advocacy, tagged access, advocacy, children, community relations, ethics, libraries, public relations on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my Community Relations & Advocacy class, we are currently analyzing and discussing ethical dilemmas. One of the problematic situations is this: “A parents’ group, concerned with recently publicized accounts of children being stalked in the library by pedophiles, requests that the Children’s Department of the library be off-limits to everyone except children under the [...]
Field Test Findings
Posted in internship, tagged children, data collection, field testing, internship, library, marketing, pathfinders on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Field testing and the site visit went well yesterday, I think. First I met with Louix Escobar and Doc Martens, and I showed Doc Martens my pathfinders and explained my process for resource selection and field testing. Despite my getting a little nervous and tongue tied, I think this was fairly well received. Next I went [...]
Pathfinder Creation and Field Testing
Posted in internship, tagged access, children, collections, internship, pathfinders, technology on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Creating pathfinders has put my blogging on hold for the last week, but I’m nearing the end of my internship path, and I will be field testing my pathfinders tomorrow during my advisor Doc Martens’s site visit. As it turned out, 30 pathfinders was a lofty project goal for the time allotted. As of today, [...]
Portrait of the Librarian as a Young Girl
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, librarian, libraries on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Project Projections: Plans A, B and C
Posted in internship, tagged access, book talks, children, collections, genre, information seeking, information services, internship, libraries, OPAC, pathfinders, reader's advisory on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my goals for my internship at Hardesty Library is to develop a project that demonstrates many of the principles and skills I’ve learned through my LIS classes and my internship. I want a showcase piece that I can include as the keystone of my portfolio. Mr. Escobar asked me to develop plans for three possible [...]
Hardesty Library: Then and Now, Part 2
Posted in internship, tagged children, collections, internship, OPAC, policies, procedures, RFID, technology, weeding on June 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post continues the discussion from my previous posting, explaining the various changes instituted by TCCL and Hardesty in policy, procedure and facility design since my early days of library circulation work (1998-2003). TCCL now provides a number of important and valuable resources for staff on its Intranet. The Intranet provides access to the TCCL [...]
Further reflections on Internship Day 1
Posted in internship, tagged access, children, internship, library, library & information studies on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On our tour through the library collections and facilities, Mr. Escobar drew my attention to features such as designated safe areas for wheelchair-bound customers in the event of a fire, and the location of safe areas in the event of a tornado. On the second floor, stepstools are provided to help customers to reach books on [...]
Assessment of the International Children’s Digital Library
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged access, children, cognitive styles, digital collections, information behavior, models, technology on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My final project in LIS 5053: Information Users in the Knowledge Society involved the preparation of a detailed critique of the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) web site as an information resource and recommendations for improvement. By analyzing characteristics of the target audience and the web site’s application of information behavior models, cognitive and learning styles, design [...]
Literacy 2025
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, comics, literacy on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Does it make me a literary elitist if I find this disturbing?
Aspirations: Check! Perspiration: Check!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged career, children, grad school, grant writing, information, library, library & information studies, reader's advisory on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Whew! This semester has been like being tied by the ankle to a runaway llama so far… Which is why I’m so woefully behind on updating this blog. So here’s an essay I wrote about my aspirations for the profession: My long-term career goal is to serve as a public librarian, specifically in the areas [...]
Surprise Inside
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, children, comics on October 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For those of us with fond memories of Richard Scarry‘s Lowly Worm.
Digital Ramblings
Posted in digital collections, tagged books, children, digital collections, librarian, technology on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Story Place is children’s collection I came across recently with some good resources for children and their parents. The Story Place pre-school library offers 15 subjects for children’s activities, each with an animated story, animated activity, take-home activity, suggested reading list and parent activity. This is a nice resource for parents and children’s librarians [...]
Story Time Observations
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, children, librarian, library, Music on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I went to the Martin Regional Library to observe the children’s librarian doing story time. My mom takes my two-year-old nephew to My First Storytime every Tuesday, so I tagged along with my new digital camera to see what I could learn. I asked permission from Ms. Suzanne, the Children’s Librarian, and the [...]
