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Course Schedule
San Jose-Based Students: (Saturdays)
Jan. 29 SJSU modulars 1-4pm
March 5 SJSU modulars 1-4pm
April 2 SJSU modulars 1-4pm
April 30 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.
Course Requirements
Important Note to all students taking this course Spring 05: The communication part of this course will be conducted on a distance education program titled Blackboard. You must register (no fee) before Jan. 30, 2005. Here is how:
Note: if you have an account on Blackboard (tigris) then skip to step 5
- Access the web site: http://tigris.sjsu.edu
- 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.
- Create your own user name and password (write this down!!!!!)
- Finally, submit this information. Now you have an account.
- Now find the Courses tab and "browse the course catalog"
- Find the 262 course and to the right click "enroll." You are in!
- Content for the course will be through this web page. Communications will occur through Blackboard.Com
- 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. For more information on all the school's electronic lists, please check out: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/electroniclists.htm
Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
Students who need accommodation due to a disability must register with SJSU's Disability Resource Center (DRC) during the first three weeks of the semester. The Center will work with the students to determine the disability, document it, and determine the services and accommodations necessary for student success. Then, the DRC will contact the faculty member to determine the types of consideration necessary.
Students attending the Fullerton campus should first contact the Disability Resource Center in San Jose since they are SJSU students. The DRC will then direct the students to supporting resources on the Fullerton campus.
The DRC Web site: http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/
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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
For Spring, 2005, 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.
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Grading
See Course Web site
Read the SJSU Academic Integrity Policy
http://www2.sjsu.edu/senate/S04-12.pdf
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