Selection
Policy Draft
Preferred mode: Team with one
individual piece
Value: 10 points
Updated 1-14-09 (ready for 2009)
Related Items: Selection
Policy Assignment | MAF's
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Purpose
This assignment provides an early feedback opportunity for
one of the two large products required in this course. The
rationale for this assignment and full explanation for each of the
three components are given in the Selection
Policy Assignment description.
In this exercise, you
will work as a group to construct two necessary components of a
selection
policy, and reflect as an individual upon your own stance regarding
intellectual freedom.
Full credit is given for complete
assignments, along with qualitative formative feedback. We expect
you to apply this feedback in your completed Selection Policy.
Task
First, you should read the entire Selection Policy
Assignment for context.
Create a group of two to
three people. Collaboratively, construct these essential
components of a Selection Policy:
- Selection
Principles (these do not change much from year to
year)
- Annual
Selection Targets
- Restate the School Mission
- Based on Program Goals from PDEP
- These Targets very likely change every year.
- Accompanied by Rationales that tie Target to Program Goal(s)
and School Mission
- Targets should clearly indicate the kinds of things to be
purchased.
- Develop one or more for this Draft. In
your Final Order this semester, you will
design a collection around a single Target. (In rea life, you
will work with several at a time; for this learning experience,
managing just one makes for an easier introduction.)
- Selection
criteria
Second (or parallel to the
tasks above), reflect deeply about the principles of intellectual
freedom. The Selection Policy requires you to state your
position as a team. While you will eventually negotiate this position
within your team, it is helpful to take time to think this through for
yourself first. You may adopt AASL's position or ALA's position
(AASL/ALA, 1998),
adapt, combine, or reject them and replace
with a statement of your
own. Write out your position (in 3 double-spaced pages or less),
citing any material you borrow. Most important, include your
reasoning. Please submit this statement in your own WebCT dropbox
under the Selection Policy Draft assignment. To clarify, each team
member will submit a separate
intellectual freedom statement. You may ask for confidentiality
regarding this statement if you wish. It need not be that
personal, but you have this option
if you need it.
Tips
and Advice
Format
- This assignment need not be posted online
beyond submitting it to the dropbox.
- One group member should upload the group
document, named according to the pattern below. No prints are
necessary. List all members at the top. Number
pages.
- Perform a group
self-assessment,
and consider collecting an outside review of Selection parts (reviewers
can be classmates or
other SLM
professionals);
submit all paperwork in one folder.
- In brief, submit:
- One project file with rubric in one member's
dropbox, named after this pattern: maryann-joe-sally-spd.doc
- Separate intellectual freedom statements in
each dropbox, named after this pattern: maryann-ifs.doc
Evaluation Checklist
Group members:
|
| Component |
Value |
Your
assessment |
MAF's
Assessment |
Selection
Principles listed
|
1
|
|
|
Annual
Selection Target(s) with Rationale(s) provided
|
2
|
|
|
Rationale(s)
link to School Mission
|
1
|
|
|
| Rationale(s)
link to PDEP Goal(s) |
1
|
|
|
Selection
Criteria listed
|
1
|
|
|
Individual:
Intellectual Freedom Statement
|
4
|
|
|
| Total |
|
|
|
Reference
- American Association of
School
Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and
Technology. (1998). Information
power: Building partnerships for learning. Chicago: American
Library Association. [The ALA and AASL Intellectual Freedom
positions statements are in the appendices, pp. 152-154.]
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