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Collection Development

Page history last edited by Pam 9 years, 10 months ago

 

Weeding

CREW: A Weeding Manual (excellent information from Texas State Library)

“Crying Over Spilled Milk” (LMC article on weeding a library)

 

Awful Library Books - blog about weeding, with examples

 

Weeding the Library Collection (guidelines for our district)

Ordering

District Requisition (Excel document; your building will have a different form for in-house accounts)

Ordering Considerations

 

Barcodes & Processing

DestinyExpress (online ordering for barcodes and scanners)
Follett Software ("extra barcodes" order form)
Sample barcode order (sample, partially filled out)
 

Building Codes (Follett customer numbers, barcode location codes, IFAS codes, building numbers, PowerSchool numbers, MARC codes)

 

Add or Edit Vendor information (how to record the vendor information, including barcode range information)

 

Demco spine label (this is the one that works with Destiny)

Cataloging Forms

Barcode ranges (IMPORTANT! Keep this list of barcodes you have used or assigned to a particular vendor. You don't need to do this IF you maintain the list of vendors as described in the Add/Edit Vendor Information doc above.)
Processing & Call Number Standards (elementary; keep this page handy anytime you are doing any cataloging)

Processing & Call Number Standards (secondary)

 

Readers' Advisory & Selection Tools

 

A Book and a Hug (find-a-book tool, Books for Boys, books by genre. Good selection tool for students, teachers and to recommend to parents)

All Together Now (ATN wiki; booklists compiled by librarians; read-alikes, themes, etc.)

Annick Press (free whiteboard-ready booktalks)

Bank Street College (recommendations from Bank Street College)

Based on the Book (books made into movies)

Bold Books... (article from English Journal about selecting middle school books)

Book Lovers wiki (readers' advisory, ebooks, ARCs, all-things-book!)

Book Trailers for All (K-12 book trailers, watch, download or embed)

Book Trailers for Readers (K-12 book trailers)

BookBrowse (recommendations, "find-a-book," reading guides, authors)

Bookends (blog about YA and children's books)

Bookish (book lists and readers' advisory)

BookLamp (suggests books based on similarities; "Pandora for books")

BookLeads (wiki with links to reading promotions, trailers, author websites, reading resources, podcasts, ebooks)

Booklist Online (ALA; without a subscription this online resource doesn't have everything that the journal does, but it's still a good resource!)

Bookseer ("What do I read next" advice from Amazon, BookArmy and LibraryThing)

Bookwink (video booktalks; search by title, author, grade, subject)

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (reviews)

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site (reviews)

CCBC Cooperative Children's Book Center (topical booklists)

Classroom Bookshelf (blog: book reviews, classroom extensions)

Danger of a Single Story (inspirational TED talk that also provides a philosophical basis for a balanced, deep library collection)

Delightful Children's Books (book lists, links to resources, blogs)

Digital Book Talk (K-12 book trailers)

Diversity in Children's Collections (ALA white paper)

Education World ("Best books for teaching about...." )

Fantasy Book Review (reviews, author information, bibliographies)

Find a Good Book (Johnson County Library; age levels, genres, read-a-likes)

Flashlight Worthy Books

Fractured Fairly Tales (listed by original tale)

Half-Remembered Books (IPL; strategies and tools for finding that book that you can't quite remember)

International Reading Association booklists (children's choices, teachers choices, YA choices)

International Settings (list of fiction books with international settings, links to other resources)

Jen Robinson's Book Page

Junior Library Guild

KidsReads

Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes (search for novels, short stories or poems without knowing the title or author)

Multnomah County Library book lists - by grade level; also, lists of good read-alouds, and lists of books for kids reading above their grade level)

NAEYC (Building an anti-bias library; 10 Steps for Reviewing Children's Books)

No Flying No Tights (reviews of graphic novels)

NPR Best YA Novels (the 100 winners AND the 235 finalists)

Novelist and Novelist K-8 -- links on your library home page

Outstanding Science Trade Books
Oyate (selecting Native American books)

Playing by the Book (reviews of children's books)

Read.gov (reading resources and booklists)

Read Kiddo Read (James Patterson's recommendations of books that kids will like)

Readers' Advisory wiki (wonderful resource, from Australian librarians)

Reading Rockets (book advisory lists, teaching reading,article on selecting "Just Right" books)

Reading Rumpus

Richie's Picks (reviews about children's and YA books)

School Library Journal

Series & Sequels

Small Demons (a "storyverse" captures the people, places, songs, movies, food and other details in a book)

Uncommon Corps (blog; recommended nonfiction; standards-based instructional ideas for using nonfiction)

USSBY (recommended international books)

Wakefield (MA) Library Booklists

What Should I Read Next? (If you liked...)

What's Next? (series books)

World of Words (culturally authentic international children's and YA literature)

YA Books and More (Naomi Bates - YA books, trailers, and technology)

YALSA's booklists (lists of award winning & recommended titles)

Young Adult Books in Series and Sequels

Young Adult Books - What we're reading now (blog)

Young Readers Choice Award 

YPulse (teen books & media)

Library & Technology Supplies

 

LYRASIS Vendor Discounts (contact Lindsay Cronk, Member Services Specialist, 800.999.8558 x 2957 for more ordering information) 


ACP Direct

Audio Visual Aids Corp

B & H Photo Video

Cable Guide (computer and TV wires/cables)

Current Source (Chad 323-9692)

D & B Brite Lights (projector lamps, laminator film, overhead projectors; Don @ 888-6950 or 870-8223)

Demco (library supplies)

Digital Connection (cables, connectors)

Equipment repair (local businesses)

Highsmith (library supplies)

JSD#2 ETS suggestions (suggestions about criteria for selecting a projector)

JSD2 iPad / iPod ordering procedure

Librarian's Yellow Pages Online

OETC (discounts on technology hardware & software)

Office Depot (check with your building secretary for best prices)

The Library Store (library supplies) 

Troxell (AV & computer equipment, lamps; Clint Knudsen, clint.knudsen@trox.com)

Upstart (division of Highsmith; reading/library promotions)

Vid (software for logitech webcams)

Visual Guide to Computer Cables & Connectors

Yahoo Tech (product reviews, comparisons)

Wize (product reviews)

Buying Books!

(This list is not definitive, just a starting place!)

 

ACQWeb's Directory of Publishers & Vendors

Barnes and Noble (crm2740@bn.com)

Bound to Stay Bound (David McPhee, dmcphee@btsb.com )

Delaney Educational Enterprises

Gumdrop Books (Art McGram, wecare@gumdropbooks.com)

Mackin

PermaBound (Gretchen Bates, gbooks@spro.net)

Publishers of Children's Literature (list from OK State U)

Rediscovered Bookshop (Laura & Bruce Delaney, Laura@rediscoveredbookshop.com)

TitleWave (Follett Library Resources)

World Book (John Ybarra, john4wb@yahoo.com)

Book Repair

 

Book Repair Manual (Dartmouth University)

 

Local Bindery Services

Bindery Services (Garden City, 322-4000)

HF Group (Walla Walla, WA)

Idaho Book Bindery (Nampa)

World Languages Library Materials

 

Amazon

Asia For Kids

Asian Parent (Chinese)

Cheng & Tsui (Asian materials)

Culture for Kids (bilingual and multicultural materials)

Language Lizard (multicultural)

Lectorum (Scholastic: Spanish titles)

Mackin

MEP Foreign Books (look for the Children's book tab)

Multicultural Kids

NetStoreUSA (multicultural)

Powell's Bookstore

Shen's Books (multicultural, particularly Asian materials)

Shoenhof's

TitleWave (Follett Library Resources)

World Language Store

Add or Edit a Vendor.docx  

 

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