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Purpose and Background The Collection Development Policy upholds the mission of the Turner Free Library* which is to serve the cultural, educational, and informational needs of the Town of Randolph. The Collection Development Policy directs Library staff in the maintenance and development of the Turner Free Library collections. The policy also defines collection development practices, and provides continuity to selection, purchasing and retention decisions. As part of strategic planning, the…

Today’s school libraries are seeing a drastic cut in their library budget every year, leaving less money to purchase quality books for their collection. Therefore, it is essential for school libraries to host a book fair at least once a year rather through Barnes and Nobel, Scholastic, and Reading Warehouse. “The book fair is a common staple for many school libraries to earn free books” (Pentland, pg.112). My school recently finished hosting our Fall Scholastic book fair and it could not of…

misery from the eyes of a child. Due to many children demonstrating how easily they can be persuaded, as shown in the novels 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, both parental figures and public school systems fought for certaining books to be banned from their libraries. Within 1984, the reader gains the understanding that children are able to follow the laws of the government, all thinking and acting the same way as if they were robots under control of the higher power. Not one can live free-spiritedly,…

Jaeger (2015) states that the choice to opt in is what really matters (p. 14). This will mean that funding will still be required for public libraries so that the entire population has a means to gain training and instruction regarding the usage of the internet and the hardware required to access the internet in an affordable manner. It is certainly not ideal, but the initiative in providing everyone…

The Library of Congress Cataloging System (LCCS) has long reflected the importance of author’s voice in works of literature by including subheadings such as: Hispanic Americans—fiction; American poetry--Jewish authors; American lesbians--literary collections, etc., while scholarly works of nonfiction, assumed to be impartial, have not been classified in this manner. Therefore, it is not possible to measure who the authors of those works are, and whether, for instance, any of the works located…

help students become the best reader they can be. My English Language Arts class will be all about me encourage and motivating my students to read. In my future classroom, plan to give my students choices of books to read, take field trips to the library, and if possible have authors come speak to…

assignments and projects, so that they do not have to worry about not finishing on time. Public school students (has) have a hard time accessing computer because of their families financial problem and some school’s have a shortage of computers in their libraries. This is a major problem for students completing assignments that requires computer and internet access.…

me to read and explore my love for finding new books. When I was about 8 or 9 years old, he got me my first public library card. He would take me to the public library and open the double doors to the kids section and to me it was like walking into a magic world straight out of a story book.…

My first memory of a library was my elementary school. Learning the dewey decimal system and how to naviaget the card catalog was the right of passage for any first grader. I also remember learning how to read. As if night and day came together, I woke up one morning and the letters on the page of a book also came together to form a word. A new door opened in my life and has never shut. My mother often says to me that she does not know where I learned to write. She stated to me…

“The North West London Blues.” is an article by Zadie Smith that elaborates on the fact that libraries are important and that they need to be kept opened. While technology is being used a lot these days people believe that we don’t need libraries due to this like: Audible, Google Books,etc. However, smith sets out on convincing people that we actually need libraries to stay opened. Furthermore, not only does she write an article she also includes features such as evidence to back up her…