Selection+Report

**Selection Report**



**Guiding Philosophy and the Selection Process:** When one hears the task, you have $2000 and your mission is to spend it for your community, initially, it may seem like a dream come true. Yet, as with all aspects of thoughtfully and thoroughly developing a library's collection, this is a daunting task. I have found that the weeding process was one of greater ease than the selection process. During the weeding of the library's collection I was able to physically scower the aisles, turn the pages of the resources, press play and explore the audiovisual collection; However, the selection process can be more disconnected, more distant. I found that knowing my school's collection and the community was an essential foundation, because from there I could narrow my exploration of recommended and available resources. Colleague and student input is invaluable, as was the wealth of recommendations and scholarly reviews. Nonetheless, although various publisher sites and Amazon.com had a "look inside" feature, the physical act of exploring resources, as I had the leisure to do in the weeding process, is incredibly helpful. As such, when I am working in my own library I fully intend to take advantage of publisher visits and professional development opportunities that afford me the access to physically explore resources before making selection decisions. Bishop emphasizes the importance of clearly articulating who is responsible for the selection process and ultimate decisions (2007, p.43). In this process, this was myself. this meant that I utilized all possible resources to support my decision making process, but through such support and thorough knowledge of my community, their needs, and the current collection's strengths and pitfalls, I was able to make decisions confidently and thoughtfully. I consulted with my Teacher-Librarian regarding her process and her support systems. I reached out to a PLN of T-Ls in my district for suggested publisher lists and sources of review and recommendation for my area of the collection selection, as well as checked in with colleagues in my school. As the compass steering all of this input was my previous community analysis, collection evaluation and weeding process. From these endeavors I knew that the collection needed many things. Firstly, there were major holes in its geography section, and there was little in the area of environmental history, connecting our history to current environmental and global issues. Secondly, many of the social history resources were outdated and insensitive. These resources would need to be replaced. Third, there were numerous secondary sources that were outdated or superficial. Overall, more primary sources, and support in information literacy skills and critical thinking skills using these historical documents was necessary. Fourth, the collection could greatly benefit from close, authentic primary and secondary sources that provide a variety of focused perspectives on history and Canadian curriculum. In addition, there were fewer resources than necessary to adequately promote a Humanities, holistic approach to the Socials 10 curriculum. As such, art prints, illustrations, music, poetry and fiction of the time needed to be added to the collection. The need for more up-to-date audiovisual materials spanning all of these above criteria was also necessary. And finally, the current collection greatly lacked supportive historical fiction and resources that promote visual literacy, such as picturebooks and graphic novels. With these needs clearly established in my mind, and with all of the resources available to me, I selected the following resources outlined below as essential and enriching selections that better the current collection and the patrons' learning and enjoyment. ***Note: The following selection report is a little skewed because of formatting errors in the embedding process. The column labels are off by one column. Below is also the original document with correct formatting*** **Selection Report: ** || ** Title ** ** Genre ** || ** Justification ** || ** Review Source ** || Canadian Geographic || 08885077704 || Fowllett Titlewave || 32.21 || Atlas Hardcover || ***Comprehensive Canadian atlas** ***Visual appeal: illustrations, charts, timelines** ***Collection weeded outdated geographic resources and need replacements** || Library Journal Booklist School Library Journal || ***Supports multiliteracies and students with Learning Disabilities** || Resource Links || Nonfiction || ***Historical and present military conflicts and foreign relations** ***visual appeal with illustrations and maps** || Resource Links || Series Nonfiction || ***multitude of historical and photographic images** ***well-rounded view of Canadian History** ***suitable for Socials 9-History 12** ||  || ***Local history content** ***First Nations Content** ***Area lacking in present collection** ||  || Nonfiction || ***Great primary source** ***Multicultural perspectives on key Canadian history** ***Sidebars explain vocabulary, and web site connections are included** || Library Media Connection || Publishers || 1551381855 || Amazon || 22.43 || Paperback Nonfiction || ***Curent collection has holes in biographies of Canadian Prime Ministers** ***Key curriculum resource** ***Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book** ||  || Nonfiction || ***First Nations Content** ***Presents First Nations literature and press coverage** ***Cross curricular possibilities** ||  || Nonfiction || ***Crosscurricular possibilities** ***Supports Humanities-based Social Studies instruction** ||  || Nonfiction || ***Key resource for Canadian Identity portion of Socials 10 curriculum** ***Explores past to present** ***Key social history units, looking at music, media, etc** ||  || Nonfiction || ***Crosscurricular support** ***Multicultural History** ***Learner Support such as note taking, highlighting, etc** ||  || Nonfiction || ***Multicultural History and critical political history** ***Rich in primary sources, diaries, narratives, etc.** ***Suited for Socials 9 and 10** ||  || Fiction || ***Crosscurricular** ***Holes in current Canadian poetry section of collection** ||  || Nonfiction || ***Colour photos and primary sources used on every page** ***Visual appeal** ***Supports students of lower reading level** || Library Media Connection || Nonfiction || ***Colour photos and primary sources used on every page** ***Visual appeal** ***Supports students of lower reading level with highlighting, notetaking, weblinks, etc.** || Library Media Connection || Nonfiction || ***visually very appealing** ***Includes colour photographs, maps, enhanced website, and downloadable materials** ***Suited to various grade levels and abilities** ***Suited for crosscurricular** || Horn Book School Library Journal || House of Anansi Press || 0888999534 || Fowllett Titlewave || 21.19 || Hardcover Multimedia Nonfiction || ***Suited to younger audience but incorporates music from the time period, excellent illustrations** ***supports mature examination of musical primary sources to teach history** || Horn Book Kirkus Review Library Media Connection Publisher’s Weekly || Nonfiction || ***Profiles 164 well-known Canadian artists from 17th century onwards** ***Current collection is lacking in art and prints that support Socials 10 curriculum** || Booklist || Nonfiction || ***Excellent secondary source for political, social and geographic history** ***Visually appealing with photos, illutstrations and maps** ***Numerous summative secondary Canadian history sources were weeded and need replacing in the current collection** || Library Journal Reference and Research Book || Novel || ***Historical fiction told through a chorus of female voices** ***Perfect for Historical Lit Circles** ***Promotes enjoyment in reading** || ERAC School Library Journal || Novel || ***Historical fiction that captures the tone and setting of 1800 Canada** ***Perfect for Historical Literature Circles** ***Crosscurricular possibilities** || ERAC School Library Journal || Novel || ***Historical Fiction that explores and fleshes out the Gold Rush** ***Perfectly suited as a class-wide historical novel study, literature circle resource, or for students’ reading for pleasure** || ERAC School Library Journal || (set of 14) || Paperback Nonfiction Student Workbook || ***Informative, visually appealing** ***Superb resource for Socials courses, as well as Geography 12** || ERAC School Library Journal || Novel || ***Historical Fiction that is a part of a series perfect for lower reading levels** ***Suited for literature circles and students’ reading for enjoyment** || ERAC Canadian Library Association || ***Suited for literature circles and students’ reading for enjoyment** || ERAC Canadaian Library Journal || ***Suited for literature circles and students’ reading for enjoyment** || ERAC Canadian Library Journal || Nonfiction || ***Visually appealing** **Great for visual literacy and primary footage analysis** ***Connects historical content with present day** ||  || Newsworld || 2010 || Joe Media Group || ZZY-08-09 || CBC Learning || 150.00 || DVD || ***documentary that explores key environmental history** ***Suited for Socials 10-History 12 and Geography 12** ***Connects past geography and history to today** ***Teacher Resources and student activities included** ***Web resources and links included** || ERAC || Nonfiction || ***Excellent resource for primary source and visual literacy** ***First Nations content** || Canadian Aboriginal Books For Schools || Nonfiction || ***Primary and secondary sources included** ***First Nations content** ***Connects history to present day** || Canadian Aboriginal Books For Schools || ***IRP recommended resource** ***Current collection lacks all audio resources for Socials 10** ||  || Nonfiction || ***Supplements core content** ***Social history** ***Female perspective of Canadian content** || BC Books For BC Schools || Nonfiction || ***Close examination of children’s perspective of Socials 10 content** ***Connects to selected Historical novels** ***Connects to social justice issues (Global Issues Club in school community)** || BC Books For BC Schools || ***Supports students with different learning needs** || Resource Links || Fiction || ***Engaging novel exploring true events in Canada’s arctic and climate change in present day** ***Suitable for Literature Circles** ***Crosscurricular possibilities** ***Teacher guide and student supporting website** || ERAC 2006 Alberta YA Book of the Year 2006 International White Raven Selection || ***Aboriginal perspective and strong environmental message and issues of sustainability make it appealing for classwide novel study** ***Supports lower level readers** ***Crosscurricular possibilities** || ERAC School Library Journal Booklist || Fiction || ***Explores the contemporary refugee experience** ***Connects to Socials 10 historical content and community needs** || Quill & Quire BookList School Library Journal || Graphic Novel || ***Current collection lacks supportive curriculum in the graphic novel format** ***Promotes visual literacy** ***Helps reach reluctant readers** || Publishers Weekly || Graphic Novel || ***Current collection lacks graphic novels** ***Resource is crosscurricular** ***Promotes visual literacy** ***First Nations content** ||  || Picturebook || ***Current library collection lacking picturebook resources** ***Excellent resource to use in conjunction with immigration unit in Socials 10, combined with other picturebooks (ex: The Arrival) and visual literacy skills** ***Connects to social justice themes and refugee experiences** || Kirkus Reviews School Library Journal || Picturebook || ***Won the Caldecott Medal** ***Supports Socials 10 immigration unit and crosscurricular** ***Promotes visual literacy** ***Could be connected with visual technological tools to have students create own picturebooks of true immigration experiences** || Publishers Weekly School Library Journal || Nonfiction || ***Rich primary document unlike anything in the collection** ***Includes historical maps by First Nations, Northwest Territories land surveyors, and all key explorers throughout Canadian history** ***crosscurricular and multi-grade level use** ||  || ***Each unit includes primary sources, illustrations, political cartoons, poems, maps, etc.** ***Guides students through analyzing, interpreting, and critical thinking skills** ||  || Nonfiction || ***Varied anthology of Canada’s dark past** ***Essential critical resource to supplement the wealth of immigration resources present in the collection** ***Supports numerous subject areas, including Socials justice** ||  ||
 * ** Author ** || ** Date ** || ** Publisher Information ** || ** ISBN **** Catalogue **** # ** || ** Vendor ** || ** Price ** || ** Format **
 * **The Canadian Atlas: Our Nation, Environment, and People** || Ed. Andrew R Bryers || 2004 || Reader’s Digest
 * **Canada the Land** || Bobie Kalman || 2010 || Crabtree || 0778792625 || Fowllett Titlewave || 39.77 || Ebook || ***comprehensive geographic resource: environment, industry, resources, people**
 * **Canada Under Attack** || Jennifer Crump || 2010 || Dundurn Group || 1554887313 || Fowllett Titlewave || 19.98 || Paperback
 * **How Canada Became Canada Series** || Sheila Nelson || 2006 || Mason Crest Publishers || 1703566372 || Fowllett Titlewave || 109.65 || Hardcover
 * **Native Art of Canada** || Daval Productions || 2007 || Daval Productions || 772035001 || Follett Titlewave || 16.99 || DVD || ***Cross curricular support**
 * **To Stand and Fight Together: Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada** || Steve Pitt || 2008 || Sandcastle || 155002731 || Fowllett Titlewave || 17.98 || Paperback
 * **Canada’s Prime Ministers, Governors General and Fathers of Confederation: 83 Portraits with Biographies** || Irma Coucill || 2005 || Pembrooke
 * **Aboriginal Canada Revisited** || Kerstein Knopf || 2008 || University of Ottawa Press || 0776606794 || Fowllett Titlewave || 44.91 || Paperback
 * **Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada** || Domenic Beneventi || 2004 || Guernica Editions || 1550711679 || Fowllett Titlewave || 9.87 || Paperback
 * **The Beaver Bites Back? American Popular Culture in Canada** || David H Flaherty || 1993 || McGill-Quebec || 0773511202 || Fowllett Titlewave || 32.30 || Paperback
 * **Black Like Who? Writing Black Canada** || Rinaldo Walcott || 2003 || Insomniac Press || 1897414471 || Fowllett Titlewave || 16.90 || EBook
 * **Black Refugees in Canada: Accounts of Escape During the Era of Slavery** || George Hendrick || 2010 || McFarland & Co. || 0786447338 || Fowllett Titlewave || 34.94 || Paperback
 * **Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets** || Eds. Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane || 2004 || Nightwood Editions || 088971195 || Fowllett Titlewave || 20.33 || Paperback
 * **Canada: A Primary Source Cultural Guide** || Lois Sakany || 2004 || PowerPlus Books || 0823939987 || Fowllett Titlewave || 29.90 || Hardcover
 * **Canada: A Primary Source Cultural Guide** || Lois Sakany || 2004 || PowerPlus Books || 0823939987 || Fowllett Titlewave || 39.82 || EBook
 * **Canada in Pictures** || Eric Braun || 2003 || Lerner || 0822546795 || Fowllett Titlewave || 23.92 || Hardcover
 * **Canadian Railroad Trilogy** || Gordon Lightfoot || 2010 || Groundwood Books
 * **Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings** || Anne Newlands || 2007 || Firefly Books || 1554072905 || Fowllett Titlewave || 59.32 || Hardcover
 * **A Brief History of Canada** || Roger Riendeau || 2000 || Fitzhenry & Whiteside || 1550415557 || Fowllett Titlewave || 18.65 || Paperback
 * **The Buddha in the Attic** || Julie Otsuka || 2011 || Knopf || 9780307000 || Amazon || 22.00 || Paperback
 * **The Heart Specialist** || Claire Holden Rothman || 2011 || Soho || 978156947 || Amazon || 25.00 || Paperback
 * **Crown of Dust** || Mary Volmer || 2011 || Soho || 1569478615 || Amazon || 24.00 || Paperback
 * **Compact Research: Energy and the Environment set** || School Library Journal || 2010 || School Library Journal || 1601520784 || Reference Point Press || 469.70
 * **Dear Canada: Orphan at my Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope** || Jean Little || 2002 || Scholastic Books Canada || 439988346 || Amazon || 10.82 || Hardcover
 * **Dear Canada: Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott** || Carol Matas || 2002 || Scholastic Books Canada || 0439988353 || Amazon || 10.94 || Hardcover Novel || ***Historical Fiction that is a part of a series perfect for lower reading levels**
 * **Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage: the Loyalist Diary of Mary Macdonald, Johnstown Quebec, 1789** || Karleen Bradford || 2002 || Scholastic Books Canada || 0439889794 || Amazon || 10.94 || HardcoverNovel || ***Historical Fiction that is a part of a series perfect for lower reading levels**
 * **100 Photos that Changed Canada** || Mark Reid || 2010 || Phyllis Bruce Books || 1554684977 || Amazon || 18.80 || Paperback
 * **Battle For the Arctic** || CBC
 * **Classic Images of Canada’s First Nations: 1850-1920** || Edward Cavell || 2009 || Heritage House Publishing || 1894974646 || Amazon || 11.29 || Paperback
 * **First Nations, First Thoughts: The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada** || Annis May Timpson || 2010 || UBC Press || 0774815529 || Amazon || 20.94 || Paperback
 * **Radio Minutes** ||  ||   || Historica Dominion Institute ||   || Historica Dominion || 25.00 || CD || ***Excellent audio primary source**
 * **Rebel Women of the Gold Rush** || Rich Mole || 2009 || Heritage House || 1894974769 || Amazon || 7.27 || Paperback
 * **Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917** || R.A. Parker || 2010 || Policy Press || 1847426680 || Amazon || 35.19 || Paperback
 * **National, Provincial, and Territorial Symbols of Canada Kit** ||  || 2008 || Mcintyre Media || MCl1011DV || McIntyre Media || 299 || DVD/Kit || ***Current Socials 10 collection is lacking in kits to support student learning**
 * **On Thin Ice** || Jamie Bastido || 2007 || Red Deer press || 0889953376 || Amazon || 11.36 || Paperback
 * **The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian** || Sherman Alexie || 2007 || Little, Brown Books for Young Readers || 0316013680 || Amazon || 15.32 || Hardcover Fiction || ***National Book Award Winner**
 * **No Safe Place** || Deborah Ellis || 2010 || Groundwood Books || 0888999733 || Amazon || 18.95 || Hardcover
 * **Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography** || Chester Brown || 2006 || Drawn & Quarterly || 1894937894 || Amazon || 15.16 || Hardcover
 * **Red: A Haida Manga** || Michael Yahgulanass || 2009 || Douglas & McIntyre || 15536530 || Amazon || 19.10 || Hardcover
 * **How I Learned Geography** || Uri Shulevitz || 2008 || FSG Kids || 0374334994 || Amazon || 13.68 || Hardcover
 * **Grandfather’s Journey** || Allen Say || 1993 || Houghton Mifflin Books For Children || 0395570357 || Amazon || 17.20 || Hardcover
 * **Historical Atlas of Canada** || Derek Hayes || 2006 || Douglas & McIntyre || 153650775 || Amazon || 11.66 || Hardcover
 * **Defining Canada: History, Culture, and Identity** || Nick Brune et al || 2002 || McGraw Hill Ryerson School || 0070913837 || Amazon || 101.59 || Hardcover Nonfiction || ***Excellent format, including teacher guide, and student workbook format**
 * **The History of Immigration and Racism in Canada: Essential Readings** || Barrington Walker || 2008 || Canadian Scholars Press || 1551303406 || Amazon || 31.47 || Paperback
 * ** TOTAL ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || ** 1990.45 ** ||   ||

 **Key Selections with Reviews: ** **The Canadian Atlas: Our Nation, Environment, and People: [|Review] ** **Canadian Railroad Trilogy: [|Review] ** **Canadian Paintings, Prints, and Drawings: [|Review] ** **The Buddha in the Attic: [|Review] ** **Crown of Dust: [|Review] ** **How the Blacks Created Canada: [|Review] ** **Seeking Refuge: [|Review] ** **Battle For the Arctic: [|Review] ** **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Classic Images of Canada's First nations: 1850-1920: [|Review] ** **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography: [|Review] **