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Factors Related to Kindergarten Teachers' Book Selection
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The Influence of Book Selection Agents Upon Book Collection Usage in Academic Libraries
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Librarians’ book selection practices and budget fluctuations in the City of Cape Town, South Africa
… thus an essential part of library services. The selection of materials that align with community needs and interests is an especially important aspect of collection development. With reference to the Helen Haines theory of book selection which is community-centred and highlights the role of …
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Library Science Education and Its Relationship to Competence in Adult Book Selection in Public Libraries
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Book selection in junior high school libraries : with particular reference to Stanford Junior High School, Sacramento, California
… appreciation. It is therefore necessary that the books from which they choose their reading are of the best available, and so it is important that the librarian give the greatest thought and study to the selection of books for her library.</p><p>To make these ideals practical and usable, carefully …
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A study of the interaction in book selection between provincial library systems and their affiliated public libraries in South Africa
Current methods of book selection in provincial library services in South Africa are examined with a view to establish whether they are the most effective possible from the point of view of the affiliated public libraries throughout the country. This involved tracing the history and development of …
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The interrelatedness of book selection and censorship in public libraries with special reference to the position in the Republic of South Africa
… or not there is any interrelatedness between book selection and censorship in public libraries , in two ways : viz.(a) a review of the literature, and (b) an exploratory empirical investigation of the position in South Africa. The literature survey was the major part of the study in which the …
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The fiction problem in public libraries : a study with special reference to Cape Town City Library Service
… staff, resulting in differing views as to the book selection policy of this institution. Book selection policies have been taken to reflect the attitudes of library staff towards users' wants in terms of their adherence to the tenets of Anglo-American public library objectives.
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Self-censorship by middle school librarians
… are faced with difficult decisions when choosing books for the middle school library collection because of the students' ages, and involvement from the administration, staff, parents and special interest groups who want to protect children from certain material. Middle school librarians may …
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Learning Through Literature: A Case Study of an Exemplary Teacher
… and interest dependent on a process of self-selection of books? Is book selection controlled by the teacher as her pedagogical concerns interact with student book choices both inside and outside the classroom? Is there a pattern of dominant social values apparent in the books selected? How …
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Do Prekindergarten Teachers Design Their Classrooms to Enhance Early Literacy?
… the classrooms scored 100% proficiency in the Book Area and Book Selection categories. The results indicate the prekindergarten teachers knew how to design their classrooms to enhance early literacy. The classrooms scored 86% proficiency in the Writing Materials category, 73% proficiency in the …
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The Impact of Gender Related Influences on the Reading Interests of Boys and Girls: An In-Service Education Project to Inform Teaching Practices
… boys and girls. In many ways, the patterns of book selection revealed by recent studies seem to mirror the stereotypes of what is considered masculine and feminine in our society. This starts at a very early age and the gap continues to widen as students get older. It is important for educators …
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Freedom Through Books: Helen Haines and Her Role in the Library Press, Library Education, and the Intellectual Freedom Movement
… schooling, Haines became a staunch advocate of books as a means to opportunity, equality, and freedom. This belief was strengthened by experience in the book trade under her first employer, Richard Rogers Bowker, and then broadened by her membership in the American Library Association, for whom …
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The genesis of youth services in public libraries in China, 1912-1937
… of years, libraries in China were treated as book repositories and remained closed to the public. It was not until the end of Imperial China and the establishment of a Republican China (1911) that the first public libraries became available. The Republic of China Era (1912-1949) witnessed …
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Rethinking Bibliotherapy: Portraits of Gifted Adult Readers
… participant actively engaging in discussion, and book selection meets the socioemotional needs of the reader. The findings show that using literature to meet the socioemotional needs of a reader without engaging in formal discussion and instead utilizing metacognition is a new form of …
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Factors Which Influence Kindergarten Teachers Selection of Trade Books for Use in Readaloud Sessions in Their Classrooms
… investigate the factors that influence teachers' selection of trade books for use in readaloud sessions in their kindergarten classrooms. Participants included six kindergarten teachers with varying levels of experience, and data were collected in the naturalistic setting through means of …
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30 years of Judy Blume novels... are we still censoring?
… she started writing novels in the 1970s. Her books have been removed from shelves in school media centers all over the country by either the school board, or even the media specialist. Many studies have been done in the past about censorship and Judy Blume's books were always a popular …
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Children's motivation towards reading
… choice and reasons for reading information books. Results revealed that a positive self-concept, attributing a high value to reading, parental pressure, accessibility and familiarity with reading material, and choosing one's own reading material, were all factors which contributed to …
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Library media specialists are not ready to "radically change:" the use of radical change children's books in New Jersey school media centers
… students, (b) determine how LMSs were using books with Radical Change characteristics; and (c) determine if LMSs were not using books with Radical Change characteristics, what were the reasons why they were not using or did not own the books. From the results of the questionnaire, the …
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