Our Children’s Collection
Okay, what in the world should we discuss next? There isn’t much going on here in the library this week with classes out and no students on campus. I really don’t know what to do with my self when there isn’t anyone here to help! So, what can I teach you guys next?
Let me see, we did Interlibrary Loans and some of Library 2.0, which I still haven’t had much time to look into myself. How about our children’s collection, since all of the schools are about to be vacant for the holidays. The Thomas University Library’s children’s collection consists of 1500 books. 829 of them are part of the Juvenile collection and the other 671 are in the Easy Readers. The main highlights of these collections are the Newberry and Caldecott award winners. We worked (and nagged) hard to complete our collection of these books in spring of 2007. We are still missing one or two that are no longer in print, but hope to get our hand on them in the future.
The Caldecott Medal is awarded each year by the Association for Library Service to Children, to the “artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children” (ALA). This award is named for Randolph Caldecott, a nineteenth-century English illustrator. The winner of the 2007 Caldecott Medal was Flotsam, by David Wiesner. This and other past Caldecott Medal winners are available for checkout in the Easy Readers section of the library.
The Newbery Medal is awarded each year by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the ALA, to the “author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children” (ALA). This award is named for John Newbery, an eighteenth-century British bookseller. The winner of the 2007 Newbery Medal was The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron. This and other past Newbery award winners are available for checkout in the Juvenile section of the library.
Other than these books, our collection is full of a great variety of interesting fiction and non-fiction books to share with little ones or to use in classes you teach. These kids’ books are all circulating materials and all available for checkout!
