Selection Principles and Criteria
Required
Readings
- Bishop 4
- Bishop 7
- Bishop 8 (for specific format criteria)
Supplemental Readings & Materials
- MAF's commentaries on Bishop 4, 7, 8: see WebCt 6340 Resources.
- Morris 9
Standards
- 3.3C Translates
for the
school the ways in which the LMP can enhance
school improvement efforts
Discussion Points
Criteria first, because they're smaller:
- "Criteria" - general meaning; relationship to rubrics
- Selection "criteria" : what does text say?
- Examples
- Choosing your own
Selection Criteria in practice
- Overall: synthesizing an
informed opinion (what if some
judgments are
negative and others are positive?)
- What is the place of
popular/social review as a Selection
Tool? How do criteria (personal? corporate?) figure into this?
Example: The Golden
Compass (Pullman, 1996), or any controversial topic
- Criteria and how they fit into
selection
policies
(Selection Policy Assignment)
- On top of everything you
have program
goals,
which
lead in part to ...
- ... Annual selection targets.
- Targets must have rationales.
- Program philosophy
influences selection principles and criteria.
- General selection
criteria: these apply to most items, regardless of format.
These might be: currency; sturdiness; multicultural sensitivity; age
appropriateness;
etc.
- Make sure your criteria each
indicate a positive quality. Here, I differ with Bishop on
certain ones - as discussed in commentaries.
- Specific criteria...
- What
criteria are involved in writing a book
review? How can you compare your criteria with a reviewer's criteria?
- The issue of meeting all versus
some selection criteria: I discourage you from inferring in your SP
that all of a long list of criteria be met. In the selection process,
how are criteria applied? It is
probably not reasonable to expect every item purchased to meet every
criterion.
- In your Selection Policy,
you list criteria. In your Order,
you demonstrate their application.
- Another take: Cohort7
blog, 17Jan08
Selection
Principles
- These are general
statements that govern how materials are selected.
- They should change
little over the years.
- These present a fine opportunity to
express many
of your program values. Ideas:
- Support of leisure reading
- Support of personal interests of
learners
(which can vary significantly from the curriculum)
- Support of the curriculum
- Bishop, p. 42: she uses the term
"Selection Objectives" for what I would call "Selection
Principles." Again, it doesn't matter so much what they are
called; the important thing is that they be there under some label.
- At times, criteria and principles seem to
overlap. This is not a big problem.
Application
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References
- Bishop,
K. (2007). The collection program in
schools: Concepts, practices,
and information scources (4th ed.). Westport, CT: Libraries
Unlimited.
- Logo by CoolText
- Morris, B.J. (2004). Administering
the
school library media
center (4th ed.). Westport,
CN: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN
1-59158-183-4.
- Pullman, P. (1996). The golden
compass. New York: Knopf.
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