Module 2: Transforming Library Collections

Module Objectives

  • Reflect on library collections and identify strategies to make them more culturally responsive.
  • Identify a library competence to engage with this semester as part of a professional growth project.

Think

  • Module 24a: Transforming Library Collections, Part I from Hughes-Hassell, S., Rawson, C. H., & Hirsh, K. (2019). Project READY: Reimagining equity and access to diverse youth [online curriculum]. https://ready.web.unc.edu/

Choose one or more of the following:

Create

Submit the following to your instructor, per their directions.

Step Two: Select a Standard

The purpose of the professional growth project is to develop your expertise in the area of school librarianship. To do this, you will first decide on a Librarian competency or Library alignment that you wish to grow in your practice.

Which standard(s) do you wish to develop? You may choose between one and three. Be sure to use proper numbering practices (i.e., Framework Shared Foundation.Domain.Number; Library III.B.3).

Step Three: Background Research Assignment

Answer the following questions:

  • On a scale of 1 to 5 (with 5 being the highest) rate your current comfort level with each of the competencies you listed above.
  • Find the competencies you listed in the MSU LMC Candidate Evaluation (use the Standards & Alignments tab to cross reference between the National School Library Standards and the Eval Rubric - AASL.
  • How would you rank yourself based on this rubric? Where do you want to be at the end of this project? What knowledge, skills, or dispositions do you need to improve your comfort and/or skill level?
  • Locate three articles that will help you make some decisions about planning and implementing your activity. Create a list of best practices you gleaned from the sources you utilized. (For your thought process only.)
  • What questions do you have at this stage of the process? (NOTE: This section may not be left blank, nor should you say that you do not have any questions. Everyone has questions! What are you wondering about? What are you curious about? What are you unsure of? What do you need to answer for yourself before you can complete this activity?)

Step Four: Select an Activity

What activity would you like to pursue? If you did not select one from the suggested list, create your own title. 

Share

In the Module 2 forum, add to the discussion around the following prompt. Do not create a new thread, but rather continue the discussion your classmates have started. You may still reply to a specific classmate. 

  • Think of a specific BIPOC child or teen you have worked with. You don’t need to share any specifics, but how do you think this person would react to seeing their life experiences authentically represented in the resources in the library? In what ways would it be sustaining for them?
  • Also, reflect on one of the six features of effective library collections. Share 3 to 5 specific ways that the library might embody that feature. Be creative. Be sure to consider not only the physical collection, but also the library’s digital collection.

In the Resource forum, share the item you explored from the Think and then reflect on your choice by answering three of the following questions.

  • How has my prior experience and personal values influenced my understanding of this topic?
  • What are other theories of this topic that might provide me with a different viewpoint?
  • How could my education colleagues support me or collaborate with me in learning more about this topic?
  • What new information did I learn? What questions do I have?
  • How could I apply this information to my practice?
  • If you disagree with the information presented, how so? Why?
  • What opportunities / challenges could this information lead to?

Respond to three or more of your classmates in either discussion forum.

Grow

Continue your Project READY journal.