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Important Note to all students taking this course Spring 04: The communication
part of this course will be conducted on a distance education program
titled Blackboard. You must register (no fee) before Jan. 20, 2004. Here
is how:
Note: if you have an account on Blackboard (tigris) then skip to step
5
1. Access the web site: http://tigris.sjsu.edu
2. First create yourself an account. It will ask you for personal information.
Put in your address and telephone number where you can be reached (sometimes
your instructor needs to contact you.) You can lie about your age.
3. Create your own user name and password (write this down!!!!!)
4. Finally, submit this information. Now you have an account.
5. Now find the Courses tab and "browse the course catalog"
6. Find the 262 course and to the right click "enroll." You
are in!
7. Content for the course will be through this web page. Communications
will occur through Blackboard.Com
8. You will always enter the course through tigris. For those enrolled
in blackboard in previous semesters, do not go to blackboard.com. We
are serving out Blackboard from SLIS now and so access should be instantaneous.
Also, be sure you are on SLISADMIN so you can get all official
messages from the School. Here are the directions: We use an
electronic list to keep you informated about important school information.
All students are required to be on the list it is called slisadmin. To
join: (1) Go into your email program and in the To: box enter listproc@listproc.sjsu.edu
(2) Leave the subject line blank. (3) In the body of the message write
subscribe slisadmin yourfirstname yourlastname. For exampe: subscribe
slisadmin Linda Main. (4) send the message. You should receive a confirmation
that you are subscribed.. Please note: You cannot post to this list. It
is merely a way for the faculty and the staff to distribute school-related
information. For more information on al the school's electronic lists,
please check out: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/electroniclists.htm
San Jose-Based Students: (Saturdays)
Feb. 7 SJSU modulars 1-4pm
March 6 SJSU modulars 1-4pm
April 3 SJSU modulars 1-4pm
May 1 SJSU modulars 1-4pm
Course Description
Materials for adolescents and preadolescents and methods for incorporating
these materials into library planning. Collection development, needs assessment,
and programming will be featured. Information services for young adults
in a variety of settings will also be addressed.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will have:
*built a repertoire of the world of literature and curricular materials
in a wide variety of genres and across the media of interest and use to
young adults;
*the tool skills needed to access the entire spectrum of materials for
young adults whether in the print, visual, audio, or digital worlds and
across the technologies.
*learned the techniques of building a wide repertoire of media, materials,
and information for young adults;
*built a specialty area (become a mini-expert)(w1yhtml) in at least one
topical area or genre of use in the world of the young adult;
*Contributed to the ebook project.
*developed a critical sense of quality in a sea of mediocre materials
and information technologies;
*created a repertoire of techniques for working with the teenager in the
first decade of this millennium both as an information seeker, a consumer
of media and materials, and as an individual.
*started on the road to becoming a materials expert who has the capability
of working with adults serving young adults in educational and recreational
environments.
Textbooks
Required:
None.
Access to a wide variety of materials and technologies of use to the
young adult whether through purchase or through collections designed to
serve young adults. Numerous titles will be assigned throughout the course
and should be read, viewed, listened to, or encountered in preparation
for classroom discussion. This includes access to the professional literature
about the world of media for young adults and young adult services in
schools and public libraries.
Recommended:
• Because of the expense considerations, the following text is
recommended but not required: Donelson, Kenneth L. and Alleen Pace Nilsen.
Literature for Today's Young Adults. 6th ed. Addison Wesley Longman,
2000. Aprox. $93. (The instructor will use this resource for mini-lectures.)
• Jones, Patrick. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries.
2nd ed. Neal-Schuman, 1998. Patrick's new edition is chuck full of tips,
ideas, lists, and conversations of value in building young adult service
programs in public libraries. See also his web page that accompanies the
book at: http://members.aol.com/naughyde/connecting/index.htm
• York, Sherry. Children's and Young Adult Literature by Latino
Writers: A Guide for Libraians, Teachers, Parents, and Students.
Linworth, 2002, $36.
Walter, Virginia A. and Elaine Meyers. Teens & Libraries: Getting
It Right. ALA, 2003.
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Office Hours
Loertscher: For Spring, 2004, Dr. Loertscher will be at his home: 312
South 1000 East, Salt Lake City UT 84102, tel. 801-532-1165 or cell phone
801-755-1122. You are welcome to reach me particularly in early morning
or late evening. or email me any time at davidl@slis.sjsu.edu If you need
course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, if you have
emergency medical information to share with me, or if you need special
arrangement in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appointment
with me as soon as possible.
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Grading
Media file of annotated items read, viewed, listened to 40%
Mini-Expert Project and e-book project: 20%
Class/Internet discussion 20%
Attendance at face-to-face meetings to participate in activities and
work with YA programs 20% (makes the difference between an A and a B)
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