Collection+Mapping+Assignment+3

The principal outcome of this assignment is for you to be able to apply appropriate policies, criteria (general and specific), processes, and procedures, including collection mapping in order to develop an emphasis collection (real and virtual) in a specific curricular area that You should review and incorporate any principles or ideas you have gained throughout 5512 in planning your collection. **Step 1**: Choose a school in county school district where most of your group members work. It should not be a school in which one of you currently works (in order for the assignment to be equivalent for all group members). Find out the demographics of your chosen school by going to the **National Center for Education Statistics** [|http://nces.ed.gov/ and doing the following: Here's an example of the data you can get for Chiles High School in the Leon County School District with giving the address (7200 Lawton Chiles Lane; Tallahassee, Florida 32312) and lowest (9) and highest (12) grades and nothing else. Practice with the Chiles information and then look up your school. Find out the following information. If after several tries you cannot get the information on your school you may either get it another way (from web site, etc) or you may select a different school. **Step 2**: Choose a topic for a general emphasis collection that fits with what you know about your school, its curriculum, and its students. If you know nothing about its curriculum, choose an emphasis collection that would make sense at your level of instruction (elementary, middle, or high school). It MUST cut across several Dewey Decimal categories; do NOT select a topic that will fit nicely into one Dewey Decimal category (See Dewey categories at [|http://www-lib.nearnorth.edu.on.ca/dewey/ddc.htm  Your group will have about 30 minutes to plan in class on Wed June 4. You should arrange to meet in chat or on a discussion board between June 4 and 9 to continue planning this project.    Your topic is due by 11:55 p.m. on Mon. June 9. One of your group post the subject on the discussion board labeled Emphasis Collection Topic by that time. If you have questions prior to submitting your topic, email me or post them in the faculty office.    __Step 3__: Assume that your school’s media advisory committee (consisting of teachers, parents, and students), __based on a quantitative and a qualitative evaluation__ of the collection, has decided that approximately $1500 of your budget will go to build a general emphasis collection relating to your chosen topic. (A) Write a description of what you would have done (using Loertscher’s Collection Mapping procedures) to provide the committee with (1) quantitative data to allow them to reach this conclusion and with (2) qualitative data to allow them to reach this conclusion. Refer back to the information give in the demographics you collected and in Loertscher’s method and be specific about how you would obtain the data, what it would include, etc. This should take you three or four paragraphs. You do NOT have to actually collect qualitative data; it would be impossible without a real assignment with real kids. (B) Describe (or create, but a description is acceptable) two collection maps or charts that you would create to demonstrate to the committee where the need lies (and what else you might use it for). Both of them must relate to your chosen emphasis topic. __Step 4__: Assume that the committee has asked you to develop a collection plan that will include resources that are available in the library or __available in the school building; items in the community; and items that can be located or obtained from somewhere not nearby but available through ILL or other means__. Make a list of the __types__ of resources (not titles, but types) that you will put in the emphasis collection and why you'll choose each type. Be as varied as possible in types and vary where they are located. __Step 4__: Assume the committee has asked you to determine how to spend the money with the following stipulations: You must also include awards and recommended list where you found the resource. Using Titlewave [|www.titlewave.com] (Curriculum and Library), the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database, amazon.com, bn.com, any other review media to which you have access, and your collection development plan, prepare a suggestion for the library committee on spending the $1500. Include the following: (A) What percentage of the $1500 budget you would spend on each category of instant access materials (fiction, non-fiction books, videos, CDs, etc). Note which materials are free. Putting this is table form is a good idea. (B) Give at __least ten specific examples__ of materials you would purchase (you cannot exceed $1500.) In table form, provide the following information about each material (1) Complete citation including (if applicable) title, author, format, publisher, # of pages or length, current cost, ISBN. Note is the work is fiction or non-fiction. (2) Whether it is AR material, and if so reading level. (3) Whether it meets a FL state curriculum standard (you may substitute another state if you currently work or plan to work in that state as a media specialist. Please note that you are making the substitution at the beginning of your response), (4) where it was reviewed what the opinions of each of the reviewers were, (5) note if any of the materials have won any awards or appear on any bibliographies or recommended lists (including state standards lists). (6) Referring to the selection criteria in your policy plus those in VO & B chapters on general and specific criteria, note which ones you think might apply each resource. (7) What (if any) demographic characteristic of students you had in mind in selecting the resource. (8) The name of the recommended bibliography, list, website, or database (like Titlewave) where you located the resource Step 5: Ahead of time evaluate the FSU collection in your emphasis area. Select five resources from the collection that you will locate and display for the class while in Tallahassee for your class. (You will have a few minutes to do this). Step 6: Prepare a 10 minute presentation of your emphasis area and some of the highlights of your process to present to the class on Tues June 17. It can be humorous! Also you will post your table for everyone to see online.
 * meets the needs of the users and
 * employs appropriate professional methods and sources for locating, evaluating, and acquiring resources in all forms and formats, print, electronic, and digital.
 * **Click on Search for Schools, Colleges, and Libraries**.
 * Using the "visit popular NCES sites" drop down menu click on the appropriate choice, e.g., search for public schools and school districts.
 * Click on Search for Public Schools
 * Fill in the information about the school you've chosen You ** do not need ** to enter information for all fields. But do go to the school's or school district’s web site and get what information you can. If your school is not in the database, choose another school. Submit the form.
 * both print and digital (including web pages) materials must be included and
 * at least 30% of what you purchase has an Accelerated Reader test with it.
 * Items must be on some recommended list (NOT simply part of another library's collection). The recommended lists can be local or national, published or unpublished. (Inclusion in Titlewave with positive reviews is considered recommended).
 * A few fiction books as well as non-fiction materials are expected.
 * How does each resource meets state of Florida standards and which standards. http://etc.usf.edu/flstandards/
 * Each book you choose must have 3 positive reviews and the source in which the reviews appear; include reviews for non-book items if you can locate them (not required).
 * You must have at least 3 free sources (web sites or materials in the International Children's Digital Library).
 * Your materials must be chosen with the demographics of the student users in mind (gender, race/ethnicity, poverty, geographic location).
 * All resources must have a one sentence annotation (either cited or original. If you copy, then be sure to cite, using APA style).