I am probably going to get some criticism for this but
I could no longer not comment on this discussion.
Whether you are for labeling books or not --- the sad
part of this entire discussion is the number of
responses it has generated on this listserv.
The important issues of public relations, advocacy,
NCLB issues, etc. do not elicit the kind of responses
that discussion of book labeling and reading incentive
programs do.
This is a sad commentary on what is being focused on
instead of advocacy for libraries and the fact the
media specialists do not need to be highly qualified
under NCLB - fudning issues - where is the discussion
and concern ---
If media centers and media specialists are going to
survive - let's focus on the important issues. Band
together and speak out to others about the role of
media centers and media specialists -
In the grand scheme - book labeling pro or con is not
a big issue. The existence of media centers should be
the concern.
Paula
--- Jodi Freeze <jodifreeze@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> Carol wrote: "When books are segregated into
> 'special' shelving because of their controversial
> subject matter, it draws attention to children who
> go
> there to browse."
>
> Which was exactly the issue which started this
> thread:
> an effort to segregate reading materials due to
> controversial subject matter. Only the subject
> matter
> in that case was evolution, rather than sexuality.
> Is
> there anyone who would advocate for that type of
> labeling? I sure as heck wouldn't! And I would
> fight
> it tooth and nail in my own library (WHEN I get one
> :-)).
>
> Recently while shelving books at the middle school
> where I am interning, I found one book pushed behind
> the others. While this is not unusual -- I find
> them
> every day like this -- this particular book was on
> teen pregnancy and it was far from the section where
> it belonged. It would seem that someone was trying
> to
> read this book surreptitiously while appearing to be
> browsing an entirely different topic. What if all
> the
> books that dealt with pregnancy were labeled in some
> way in this middle school media center? And perhaps
> placed in an area near the circulation desk so the
> LMS
> could monitor "those" books. You know, the s-e-x
> books. Would this person have gotten the
> information
> s/he needed? Probably not.
>
> As for labeling with AR points, it is not done in
> the
> library where I am interning. But the AR books do
> have a gold star on the spine.
>
> "where students are only allowed to read in their
> ZPD"
>
> Oooo. Another topic entirely. Don't even get me
> started on how practices like this can turn kids OFF
> of reading. Then I morph from a MLS student into
> the
> mother of a 10 year old boy identified as AG in
> reading who used to be an avid reader but now cannot
> be coerced into reading.
>
> Christine -
> Color me clueless, but what does "leveling our
> library" mean?
>
>
> =====
> Jodi Freeze
> MLS Student
> East Carolina University,
> Greenville, NC
> freezejodi@yahoo.com
>
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