LIBR 262-10
Resources for Young Adults
Summer 2006 Greensheet
David V. Loertscher
E-mail
Phone (Home): 801-532-1165
Phone (Cell): 801-755-1122
Office Hours:
E-Mail is the best way to make an appointment. Consultations are best when classes meet in either the north or south. You may also call the professor.
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Resources Blackboard Blackboard Tutorials |
You must enroll on the Blackboard course site before June 4, 2006. You will be required to enroll with an access code which I will provide via MySJSU.
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 online textbook 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
Please order your own from Amazon.com or your favorite book dealer
Required
Harlan, Mary ann, David V. Loertscher and Sharron McElmeel. Teen Literature and Multimedia: A Quick Guide. Hi Willow, 2005 (available from the instructor)
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
Recommended textbooks for this course are:
- 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. 7th ed. Pearson Education Inc., 2005. Aprox. $93.
- Jones, Patrick. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries. 3rd ed. Neal-Schuman, 2004. 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 Librarians, Teachers, Parents, and Students. Linworth, 2002, $36.
- Walter, Virginia A. and Elaine Meyers. Teens & Libraries: Getting It Right. ALA, 2003.
Other professional titles for school and public librarians are reviewed by the instructor in Teacher Librarian and can be found on their Web site.
Course Requirements
Course Meetings
Fullerton-Based students meet on Saturdays on the following dates:
- June 3: 1-4pm, Fullerton campus library basement
- July 1: 1-4pm
- July 29: 1-4
Blackboard
The communication part of this course will be conducted on a distance education program titled Blackboard. You must enroll before June 4, 2006. You will be required to enroll with an access code which I will provide via MySJSU.
SLISADMIN
Also, be sure you are on SLISADMIN so you can get all official messages from the School. We use an electronic list to keep you informed about important school information. All students are required to be on the list; it is called slisadmin.
To join:
- Go into your e-mail program and in the To: box enter listproc@listproc.sjsu.edu
- Leave the subject line blank.
- In the body of the message write subscribe slisadmin yourfirstname yourlastname. For example: subscribe slisadmin Linda Main.
- 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.
MySJSU
You must also have access to MySJSU and check your e-mail from that account.
Assignments and Grading
Check the Blackboard Assignment Manager for the points on the individual assignments and attendance.
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+ |
Office Hours
For Summer 2006, 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. 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.
Academic Integrity
Read the SJSU Academic Integrity Policy
http://www2.sjsu.edu/senate/S04-12.pdf
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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