LIBR 261-10
Resources for Children, Ages 6-12
Summer 2008 Greensheet
Shirley Lukenbill, Lecturer
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Location: This course is an online course, so all class interactions are conducted via Blackboard.
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Important Note to all students taking this course Summer, 2008: The communication part of this course will be conducted via a distance education program entitled "Blackboard." You must register (no fee) before June 2, 2008. You should be able to self-enroll in LIBR 261-10 by May 31, 2008. A message will be available on the MYSJSU messaging system with directions for self-enrolling when the Blackboard site is opened. You must be a member of MYSJSU to receive the email with the enrollment code. The course begins on June 2, 2008.
Course Description
This course will provide an overview of materials for children, ages 6-12, and methods of incorporating these materials (print and non-print media, websites, and other online resources). Needs assessment, collection development, and information services for children ages 6-12 in school and public libraries will be featured. The course begins on June 2, 2008 and ends on August 8, 2008.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply information on child development, psychology, and sociology to reading and media choices of children ages 6-12.
- Demonstrate knowledge and appreciation of literature and media for children, including both the historical perspective and current trends in the field.
- Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of children’s literature genres and authors as well as other selected media.
- Evaluate literature and media selection tools, and use appropriate resources to develop a children’s collection for children ages 6-12.
- Understand and articulate a philosophy of intellectual freedom and the importance of protecting the First Amendment rights of children.
LIBR 261 supports the following SLIS Core Competencies:
- use the basic concepts and principles related to the creation, evaluation, selection, acquisition, preservation and organization of specific items or collections of information;
- use service concepts, principles and techniques that facilitate information access, relevance, and accuracy for individuals or groups of users;
- demonstrate oral and written communication skills necessary for group work, collaborations and professional level presentations;
- evaluate programs and services on specified criteria.
In addition, this section supports the following SLIS Core Competencies:
- articulate the ethics, values and foundational principles of library and information professionals and their role in the promotion of intellectual freedom
- apply the fundamental principles of planning, management and marketing/advocacy
- demonstrate proficiency in the use of current information and communication technologies, and other related technologies, as they affect the resources and uses of libraries and other types of information providing entities;
- contribute to the cultural, economic, educational and social well-being of our communities.
Textbooks and Readings
Required Texts and Readings
Course Document Readings
In addition to the textbook and children’s books, there will be required readings posted to Course Documents on Blackboard for each week. Some of these will be in text form, some in .pdf format, and some will be on the Web. You are responsible for reading the weekly assignments posted to course documents to prepare you for discussion and for your assignments.
Textbooks
(The textbook Essentials of Children’s Literature (6th edition) is an integral part of the readings in this course. Many discussion forums will be based on paging in the 6th edition, which is extensively revised from the 5th edition.)
- Lynch-Brown, C., & Tomlinson, C. Essentials of Children’s Literature. 6th ed. ISBN 0205520324. Allyn and Bacon, 2007.
Required Children's Books
All of the books listed below are available in paperback. Books may be purchased or borrowed from the local school or public library.
- DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Candlewick, 2001.
- L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. Yearling, 1998.
- Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Bantam, 1993.
- Nye, Robert. Beowulf: A New Telling. Laurel Leaf, 1982.
- Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. Harper, 1987.
- Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. Aladdin, 1987.
- Ryan, Pam Munoz. Esperanza Rising. Blue Sky Press, 2002.
- Sachar, Louis. Holes. Bantam, Doubleday, Dell, 2000.
- Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Puffin, 1991.
- White, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. HarperCollins, 2001.
Go to SLIS eBookstore.
Course Requirements
Communicating with the Instructor
Mrs. Lukenbill lives in Austin, Texas (Central Time Zone). Her preference is that students communicate with her first by email. If the student requests a follow-up phone call, the student should provide the following information for Mrs. Lukenbill: time zone, preferred time for contact, complete 10-digit phone number. The best time for students to reach Mrs. Lukenbill by phone is between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Central Standard Time. Mrs. Lukenbill will try to respond to an email message or phone call within 24 hours of the contact.
Blackboard
This is a Web-based course. Our course interactions will take place on the SLIS Blackboard site. You should be able to self-enroll on or after May 31, 2008. A message will be available on the MYSJSU messaging system with directions for self-enrolling when the Blackboard site is opened. The course begins on June 2, 2008. Course materials will be available primarily through Blackboard course documents and assignments. Assignments for the course should be posted to the Assignment Manager. Our class discussions will be conducted using Blackboard discussion board forums. Course work begins on June 2, 2008.
- Blackboard Discussion Forums (Meet Course Objectives A, B, C, D, E.) 40% of final grade—Participation required in each discussion forum (Regular and Group Discussion Forums) during the course:
In order to practice professional evaluation of materials, students will spend time in Blackboard discussion forums discussing selection of books and media as well as developmental and philosophical foundations for collection development. Specific instructions and rubrics for participation in Blackboard discussions will be provided early in the course. You will be graded on your participation in the weekly general and assigned group discussion forums, with the expectation that you will be posting your original contribution early in each week and responding later in the week to at least two of your colleagues in each regular and assigned group discussion forum. Therefore, Mrs. Lukenbill’s expectation is that you post a minimum of three (3) times per discussion forum. Your grade will be based not only on frequency and timeliness of posting, but also on quality of information in your messages. Discussion forums for the course will include your professional reflections and evaluations (based on background reading, personal research, and reading of required books and evaluation of media, websites, and assigned professional readings). No credit will be given for posting to the discussion forums after the date each discussion forum closes. The purpose of having discussion forums is to achieve communication among students, not just to post for the sake of posting! Posting late means that no one will be reading your contribution and will not be responding to your message. - Assignments: (Meet Course Objectives A, B, C, D, E.) 60% of final grade
Please see note under Grading for information about penalty for Late Work.
All student products (assignments) must be prepared in MS Word and posted to the Assignments portion of Blackboard by the due date for each assignment. Detailed descriptions of the assignments will be available on Blackboard in Course Documents for each assignment. In each of the assignments, students will be expected to use the full-text SJSU databases in order to locate the professional book, media, and website reviews of materials and websites included in your projects. Please note: While many students are familiar with using the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database for reviews, this source and others such as Book Index with Reviews, Books in Print, Children’s Books in Print, Novelist do not give the complete citation for reviews For example, sometimes these resources do not cite the pages on which a review can be found and other essential bibliographic information. I require that you locate the actual reviews in the review sources and cite the complete bibliographical information for the sources. You must learn to cite the Persistent URLs for the reviews or articles you locate on the books and materials you include in your assignments or discussion forum postings. As librarians, we need to know how to locate the actual reviews to support our collection development decisions for our libraries. All bibliographies will be prepared using the Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. and must include the Persistent URL for the complete and unabridged reviews of the items.- Assignment 1: Professional Readings Journal (30% of final grade):
Submit Part 1 by midnight, June 23, 2008 (worth 15% of course grade); Submit Part 2 by midnight, July 21, 2008 (worth 15% of course grade): (Meets Course Objectives A, B, C, D, E.)
Students will keep a journal of critiques of professional readings on the major topics of the course. In Course Documents, I will post an outline of major topics in the course, the format for the journal entries, and the grading rubric for the project. Each entry must include complete bibliographic information in APA format (Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.), and the Persistent URL for the article in the SJSU Library databases. - Assignment 2 (Due July 9, 2008): Thematic Collection Development Project for Materials for Children Ages 9-12, including print and non-print media, websites, and other online resources. Detailed information and a grading rubric will be posted in Blackboard course documents. Mrs. Lukenbill will retain a master list of themes on which each member of the class will develop a thematic project. Detailed information and a grading rubric will be posted in Blackboard course documents. Each entry must include complete bibliographic information in APA format (Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.), and the Persistent URL for the article in the SJSU Library databases.
All projects will be shared and discussed before the end of the class. (Meets Course Objectives A, B, C, D, E.) (30% of final grade)
- Assignment 1: Professional Readings Journal (30% of final grade):
Grading Scale
The standard SJSU SLIS Grading Scale is utilized for all SLIS courses:
| 97-100 | A |
| 94-96 | A- |
| 91-93 | B+ |
| 88-90 | B |
| 85-87 | B- |
| 82-84 | C+ |
| 79-81 | C |
| 76-78 | C- |
| 73-75 | D+ |
| 70-72 | D |
| 67-69 | D- |
| Below 67 | F |
In order to provide consistent guidelines for assessment for graduate level work in the School, these terms are applied to letter grades:
- C represents Adequate work; a grade of "C" counts for credit for the course;
- B represents Good work; a grade of "B" clearly meets the standards for graduate level work;
- A represents Exceptional work; a grade of "A" will be assigned for outstanding work only.
Students are advised that it is their responsibility to maintain a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0.
Grading
Percentage weight assigned to class assignments:
| Assignment Description | % of Course Grade | Dates due |
| Blackboard Discussion Forum Participation (Group and Regular Discussion Forums) | 40% | weekly |
| Assignment 1, Part 1: Professional Readings Journal, Part 1 | 15% | 6-23-08 |
| Assignment 1, Part 2: Professional Readings Journal, Part 2 | 15% | 7-21-08 |
| Assignment 2: Thematic Collection Development Project for Materials for Children, Ages 6-12. (Project focuses print and non-print media, websites, and other online resources for children, ages 6-12) | 30% | 7-9-08 |
Late Work
Penalty for late or missed work:
- Blackboard Discussion Forum Participation: Each discussion forum has a timeline for posting to the forum. It is important that students post their initial contribution early in each posting period and then return later in the week to respond to at least two of their colleagues’ posts. Late posting (after the discussion forum closes) is not acceptable. It is imperative that students pay close attention to the time period for each discussion forum.
- Assignments: Late work will be accepted, but late work will lose 2 points for each day the assignment is late. For example, if an assignment is due on July 14, 2008, but it is submitted to me on July 21, 2008, I will deduct 14 points from the grade earned by the student on the assignment because the assignment was 7 days late. All late work must be completed by July 21, 2008 to be considered for credit. Assignments must be posted to the Assignment Manager by the deadline for each assignment in order for students to get full credit. If students post an unfinished assignment by the deadline and then send a revision to Mrs. Lukenbill later, the date of completion of the assignment will be the date of the revision, not of the original posting.
Students should plan their work in order to post their finished products to the Assignment Manager by the posted deadline. Students need to communicate with Mrs. Lukenbill about personal or other issues that might affect completion of the work on time.
Academic Integrity
Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at San José State University, and the University's Academic Integrity Policy requires you to be honest in all your academic course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the Office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The policy on academic integrity can be found at http://sa.sjsu.edu/student_conduct.
A Statement on Plagiarism
Plagiarism is serious. You must give credit for five or more words in a sequence by using quotation marks and indicating the source of the quote, and you must indicate the source of other factual information and ideas. Copying another student’s work in part or whole is plagiarism. Plagiarism in an assignment or in course discussions will result in a failing grade for the assignment or discussion forum, and the student will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development for the infraction.
Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability,
please e-mail me as soon as possible. Presidential Directive 97-03 requires
that students with disabilities register with the Disability Resource Center
(DRC) to establish record of their disability.
No matter where students reside, they should contact the SJSU DRC to register. The DRC Web site: http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/
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Phone: 408-924-2490
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