LIBR 262-01
Resources for Young Adults
Summer 2007 Greensheet
David V. Loertscher
E-mail
Phone (Home): 801-532-1165
Phone (Cell): 801-755-1122
Office Location: Salt Lake City UT
Office Hours: Available by email and telephone at any time.
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Course Description
The course includes 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;
- acquired 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 in at least one topical area or genre of use in the world of the young adult;
- contributed to the online textbook project including the bibliography: YA Literature and Multimedia on http://seedwiki.com and YA Reviews, another wiki at the same location.
- 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.
LIBR 262 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;
- compare the environments and organizational settings in which library and information professionals practice;
- recognize the social, cultural and economic dimensions of information use;
- use the basic concepts and principles related to the creation, evaluation, selection, acquisition, preservation and organization of specific items or collections of information;
- describe the fundamental concepts of information-seeking behaviors.
Textbooks and Readings
Required Textbooks
Harlan, Mary Ann, David V. Loertscher and Sharon McElmeel. Teen Literature and Multimedia: A Quick Guide. 2nd ed. Hi Willow, 2006 (available from the instructor). This textbook has four supplemental sources:
- The wiki: YA Reviews at http://seedwiki.com
- The wiki: YA Literature and Multimedia at http://seedwiki.com
- Supplements to the textbook at: http://www.lmcsource.com under freebies and then under book extensions
- McElmeel, Sharron. Best Teen Reads for 2007. Hi Willow
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.
During the semester, we will also be linked to a Ning (a social network) in which we will record much of our work and communicate with one another. Directions will be given for participation.
Recommended Texts
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.
- 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.
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
Important Note to all students taking this course Summer 2007
Please note that the School requires that all incoming students have computer access at home or work as detailed at: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/homecomputing.htm The communication part of this course will be conducted on two distance education programs. One is titled Blackboard. You must register (no fee) before June 1, 2007. If you already have an account for Blackboard, then enroll in this course. If not, have Dale David set you up an account and then you can enroll. The other is Elluminate. You will be participating in weekly sessions on Elluminate. A new URL is required for reaching each week’s session. The list of URLs will be emailed to students and posted under Announcements on Blackboard. Please visit the Elluminate website to familiarize yourself with the technology. There are a series of tutorials available on their site. You must obtain a microphone and earphones for your computer in order to participate in the weekly sessions.
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 informed 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 example: 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 all the school'''s electronic lists, please check out: http://witloof.sjsu.edu/comps/lists.htm
You must also be a member of MySJSU and check your email from that account.
Course Website
The content, assignments, and other directions for this course are at: http://www.davidvl.org
Office Hours
For Summer 2007, 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.
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+ |
| 70-72 | D |
| 67-69 | D- |
| Below 67 | F |
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.
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/
One Washington Square - San José, California USA, 95192-0029
Phone: 408-924-2490
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