Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning

by Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Overview

With a renewed emphasis on facilitating learning, supporting multiple literacies, and advancing equity and inclusion, the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this trusted text provides models and tools that will enable library staff who serve youth to create and maintain collections that provide equitable access to all youth. And as Hughes-Hassell demonstrates, the only way to do this is for collection managers to be learner-centered, confidently acting as information guides, change agents, and leaders. Based on the latest educational theory and research, this book

presents the argument for why collection management decisions and practices should focus on equity, exploring systemic inequities, educational paradigm shifts, developments in the information environment, and other key factors;

lays out the theoretical foundation for developing and managing a library collection that facilitates learning, supports the development of multiple literacies, and provides equitable access to an increasingly diverse group of young learners;

touches upon current competencies and standards by AASL, YALSA, and ALSC;

uses a learner-centered and equity perspective to cover core issues and criteria such as selection and removal of materials, budgeting, and cooperation among libraries;

shows how a business viewpoint can assist the learner-centered collector in articulating the central significance of the collection to learning;

discusses how library staff can work collaboratively to create policy and negotiate budgets; and

includes customizable tools and templates, including a Stakeholder Contact/SWOT Analysis, Decision-Making Model for Selecting Resources and Access Points that Support Learning and Advance Equity, and Collection Development Analysis Worksheet.

This resource will be as useful to current school librarians and supervisors, youth librarians in public libraries, and educators as it will to LIS students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838947500
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	05/25/2020
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her 25-year career she has been an elementary school teacher, a school library media specialist, and director of the Philadelphia Library Power Project. In her current research she focuses on social justice issues in youth library services and the role of school library media specialists in education reform. Dr. Hughes-Hassell has experience as both an editor and author. Her most recent edited volume, School Reform and the School Library Media Specialist: Principles and Practices (with Violet H. Harada, Libraries Unlimited, 2007) was named the most important school library book of 2007 by Teacher Librarian. Recent journal publications include articles in Library & Information Science Research, School Library Media Research, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and Knowledge Quest. She teaches courses related to materials and services to children and youth, and school library media programs.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: The Library as a Place for Learning xv

Part I Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 1 Why a Focus on Equity? 3

Chapter 2 Changing Theories and Frameworks for Practice 17

Chapter 3 Models of Collection Management 33

Chapter 4 Collector Behaviors 41

Part II Strategies for Learner-Centered Equitable Collection Management

Chapter 5 Policy as the Foundation for the Collection 51

Chapter 6 Selecting Resources That Support Learning 75

Chapter 7 Budgeting for Maximum Impact 103

Chapter 8 Collaboration and Collection Planning 121

Part III Tools For Equity, Inclusion, And Learning

Tool 1 Stakeholder Contact/SWOT Analysis 137

Tool 2 Identifying Resources in Your Community 138

Tool 3 Identifying Learner Characteristics 139

Tool 4 Preparing a Strategic Learner-Centered Equitable Access Environment Vision and Collection Goals 140

Tool 5 Learner-Centered Equitable Access Environment Policy Critique 141

Tool 6 Decision-Making Model for Selecting Resources and Access Points That Support Learning and Advance Equity 142

Tool 7 Matrix for Gathering Data about the Curriculum 143

Tool 8 Matrix for Gathering Data about Learning Outcomes in Public Libraries 144

Tool 9 Collection Development Analysis Worksheet 145

Tool 10 Shelf Audit for Diversity and Inclusion 146

Tool 11 Identifying Funding Sources in Your Community 147

Tool 12 Budget Justification Plan 148

Tool 13 Checklist for Planning Promotional Efforts for an Equitable Access Environment Collection Development Plan 150

Index 153

Editorial Reviews

"Most would agree that a modern collection development policy needs to address issues of diversity. Hughes-Hassell takes this further and has created a fully formed description of what this should look like ... This book does not stand alone, but should be used to reform the existing tools of collection development for libraries which represent youth in the community. The attitudes and biases which are sometimes ignored by existing tools can be challenged with a framework such as this which creates a strategy to move forward and represent all voices of the young community equitably."

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