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Title: Young Adult CriteriaCollection Development Concerns: Beyond the RR criteria


1
Young Adult Criteria/Collection Development
Concerns Beyond the RR criteria
  • Dr. Betty Marcoux
  • LIS 566
  • Fall Quarter 2004

2
Concerns for YA collections
  • Age appropriateness
  • Subject appropriateness
  • Format appropriateness
  • Timeliness
  • Convenience
  • Other

3
Trends in YA publishing
  • From 1950s clean to 2000s bleak
  • Similarities to adult topics/concerns
  • Experiments with language/rhythm
  • More authenticity and enthusiasm by authors of YA
    materials
  • Clearer treatment of subjects
  • Illustrations better, more relevant
  • Documentation increase

4
Collection Criteria Questions
  • What is the total collection development
    philosophy?
  • What is the quality and quantity of collections
    that can be accessed by this population?
  • What is the budget, space, staff available for
    this population?
  • What are your own professional values?
  • What information needs is this YA collection
    supposed to meet?
  • What are your goals for this collection?
  • What roles has the library/facility chosen for
    itself in the context of YAs and their
    reading/accessing/use of information?

5
YA Collection Quality
  • Series Fiction meeting YA needs (Scales, 1993)
  • Reassures YAs they are normal
  • Physically
  • Mentally
  • Emotionally
  • Socially
  • Presents opportunities for emotional independence
    of adults
  • Shows them how to resolve problems
  • Allows them to experience success
  • Helps them picture satisfying relationships
  • Provides help in establishing roles
  • Supports development of socially responsible
    behaviors
  • Helps them work out their personal philosophies
  • Furnishes opportunities for
  • Emotional engagement
  • Pleasure
  • Relaxation
  • Series Fiction (Makowski,VOYA, 1994)
  • Kids like them
  • They fill a collection need
  • They provide a collection development focus that
    costs the least of any such focus
  • The professional needs to know the YA interests
    to do this work
  • They improve circulation

6
Who is doing the reviewing? What criteria is in
place for reviewing?    
7
Sites on graph
  • Popular, Broad
  • AAbout.com   www.about.com
  • BYahoo Groups www.groups.yahoo.com
  • CDMOZ www.dmoz.com
  • DLibrarians Index to the Internet www.lii.org 
  •  Popular, Narrow
  • EU.S. GenWeb www.usgenweb.com
  • FCyndis List www.cyndislist.com
  • GLibrary Lovers Live Journal
    www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?userlibraries
  • HMaryland Genealogy Yahoo Group
    www.groups.yahoo.com/group/marylandgenealogy/?ygui
    d95864340  
  • Academic, Broad
  • IVirtual Library www.vlib.org
  • JInfoMine www.infomine.ucr.edu  
  • Academic, Narrow
  • KHuman-Computer Interaction www.hcibib.org
  • LUbiquitous Computing Resource Page
    www.ucrp.org
  • MIntelligent Environments Resource Page
    www.research.microsoft.com/ierp/

8
Collection Choices
  • Demand vs Quality
  • Circulation vs Standards
  • Permanency vs Immediacy
  • Recreational vs Educational vs informational vs
    Cultural
  • Professional vs Careful
  • Librarian vs Buyer of books
  • Customer vs Collection ( other customers)

9
How to select
  • Identify audience
  • Identify facility issues
  • Identify sources of information for selection
  • Consider convenience and relevance
  • Consider uses
  • Consult others

10
Curriculum alignments
  • Correlated with curriculum
  • Correlated with developmental concerns
  • Correlated with learning community
  • Useful formats
  • Convenient knowledge sources

11
WASL for Washington
  • High stakes standards http//www.wlma.org/Instruct
    ion/standards.htm
  • High stakes testing http//www.k12.wa.us/assessmen
    t/WASL/testquestions.aspx http//www.wlma.org/WaLi
    braries/policies.htm
  • Culminating project issues http//www.wlma.org/In
    struction/culminatingproject.htm

12
Review components
  • Complete bibliographic information
  • of pages
  • Price
  • Catalogue/subject area
  • Intended audience profile
  • Summary of the contents
  • Quality of material
  • Connection to YA concerns
  • Recommended for

13
Strategies for reviewing
  • Read the material
  • Consider the audience and not your own issues
  • Review other good reviews for models
  • Be creative
  • Be truthful

14
Print Review Sources
  • ALAN Review (Assembly on Literature for
    Adolescents)
  • Booklist
  • Books for the Teen Age
  • Books for You
  • Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books
  • Childrens Literature in Education
  • English Journal
  • Horn Book Magazine
  • Journal of Adolescent Adult Literacy
  • Journal of Youth Services in Libraries
  • Junior High and Senior High School Catalogs
  • Kirkus Reviews
  • New Advocate
  • Publishers Weekly
  • School Library Journal
  • TALL (Teaching and Learning Literature with
    Children Young Adults)
  • VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

15
YA specific review sources
  • Best books for young adults (YALSA/ALA, 2000)
  • Books for the teen age (NYPL) (annual)
  • Genreflecting A guide to reading interests in
    genre fiction (Lib Unlimited, 2000)
  • Hooked on horror (Lib Unlimited, 1999)
  • Reference guide to mystery detective fiction
    (Lib Unlimited, 1999)
  • Romance fiction a guide to the genre (Lib
    Unlimited, 1999)
  • Graphic novels http//my.voyager.net/sraiteri/gr
    aphicnovels.htm

16
Virtual Review Sources
  • http//www.reviews.com/home.cfm?stylesimpletarge
    tpage (computing reviews)
  • http//www.surfnetkids.com/
  • http//www.ipl.org/div/teen/
  • http//yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/index.html

17
Booklists to use/consider
  • Alex Awards
  • Best Books for Young Adults
  • Margaret A. Edwards Award
  • Michael L. Printz Award
  • Outstanding Books for the College Bound
  • Popular Paperbacks
  • Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
  • Selected Audio Books
  • Selected DVD's and Videos
  • Best of the Best Revisited
  • Junior High and Senior High School Catalogs

18
Bottom Line
  • Does it work for this audience?
  • Can it work for this audience? HOW???
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