LIBR 262-10
Resources for Young Adults
Summer 2003

Cathleen L. Yetter, Ed.D
First (and best) choice for communication:
yettercl@wahoo.sjsu.edu

Additional Contact Information:
9 Blossom Lane S.W.
Lakewood, WA 98499
(253)512-0194
yettercl@attbi.com

GREENSHEET

Class Session: May 27th-August 8th

On campus meetings: Fullerton Campus, Bldg. PLS 69
Meeting Dates: July 11 - July 17; 9:00am-5:00pm

Office Hours: By appointment July 10-18

Course code: 80069

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Materials for adolescents and pre-adolescents and methods for incorporating these materials into library programs. Collection development needs assessment, and programming will be featured. Information services for young adults in a variety of settings will also be addressed.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

REQUIRED young adult literature texts and other materials.

YA Texts as listed on Blackboard Course in Project #7.

Research Articles on electronic reserve for Project #2.

Web-site Consultations as Noted in Projects # 3, #5
and #6.

Professional Review Resources as listed on Blackboard Course for Project #6.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES:

Kenneth L. Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilsen. Literature for Today's Young Adults, 6th edition. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2001. This is the comprehensive text for the study of adolescent literature. Its cost is high, but its value is priceless. For those of you who plan to work with this age group, you might want to invest in the Donelson and Nilsen text.

Eliza Dresang. Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age. H.W. Wilson, 1999.

Patrick Jones. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries, 2nd edition. Neal-Schuman, Publishers, 1998.

Patrick Jones and Joel Shoemaker. Do It Right: Best Practices for Serving Young Adults in School and Public Libraries. Neal-Schumann, 2001.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

* Describe current issues in adolescent literacy and discuss recent research studies, findings, and implications for library professionals.
* Describe national professional association stances on adolescent literacy.
* Evaluate selection tools, and consult appropriate resources to develop a young adult collection for your community needs including all appropriate formats.
* Describe the issues associated with intellectual freedom and censorship as they relate to young adult services and collection development.
* Demonstrate an understanding of major genres in young adult literature and specific titles within each, the historical development of this genre, and current trends and issues.
* Conduct a study of an author's work and relationships to her/his life.
* Develop appropriate collections, programming, and services for young adults in your community.
* Apply information on adolescent development, psychology, sociology and popular culture to plan appropriate programming and services for teens in your community.
* Describe the current reading, viewing and listening habits of young adults in your community, and applying this knowledge in program planning and collection development.

This course also supports the following SLIS objectives:

* Research and Scholarship Goal:
* SLIS contributes to the knowledge base of the information community by engaging in basic and applied research and communicating its results through faculty and student presentations, activities, and publications. SLIS supports an environment whereby faculty and students create, promote, and disseminate research in the information and library professions and in other relevant disciplines.
* Information transfer
* Information management, including the selection, organization, storage, retrieval, dissemination and utilization of information resources
* One or more specialized aspects of information management
* Knowledge of other relevant disciplines

PROJECTS TO DOCUMENT YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS And COMPETENCIES

To accomplish the goals and objectives of this course, students will complete projects and provide evidence of successful accomplishments in each of the following areas:

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Please see Blackboard Course for full details on each assignment. Specific information is available under the Assignments tab. All projects must be submitted in final form by August 8th.

PLEASE NOTE: All of the assignments are designated as due in rough draft format during the session on campus. Rough drafts will be used to promote exploration and discussion of the topics we will examine and should be as complete as possible by the date noted. Following each project discussion, you will have some time to reflect on our class discussions and add notes to your projects. I will collect your projects at that point and provide feedback to you during the week

Being prepared for the week on campus will be a significant factor in successful completion of the course work. Modifications of projects based on thinking with colleagues is expected, but individual engagement with each of the projects prior to time on campus ensures the depth of exploration for each student enrolled in this class.