An important part of the collection of the Library Media Center are resources that support your program/ class. Last month I provided you with the guidelines to the process that is taken in obtaining and excluding a title from the collection. In this issue I would like to focus on how we can work on closing the gap with regards to items we would like to acquire.
Over the past few years I have worked with several shop and academic teachers focusing on systematically adding titles we felt were needed to establish a baseline for the collection.
Over the past few years I have worked with several shop and academic teachers focusing on systematically adding titles we felt were needed to establish a baseline for the collection.
The best possible outcome is that we would have in our print collection books that would expand further knowledge of the topic being explored in shop or class. This unfortunately is a very cost prohibitive measure and therefore requires thinking about the best titles that would enhance what is already being taught.
I invite you to come and have a look in the stacks as to those titles that are already part of the collection that can add much to your classes, as well as, request that you and collaborate to identify titles that can augment what is being covered in current text books or classroom teaching. For example, in the 2017/2018 school year we will be offering a Forensic Science Course. Just recently I have secured a complete classroom set of How to Clone a Mammoth - The Science of De-Extinction by Beth Shapiro (Associate professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA) published by Princeton University Press 2015.