This website is the final group project of Becky Haagsma, Beth Snow, Emily Barney and Maura McKee in LIS501LEB with UIUC's LEEP program. We are showcasing our collection development plan for comic books and graphic novels using a fictional "library committee blog" and library "teen website."
Links to be used in the presentation:
(You can find all these links listed on every page at the top right under "Categories")
We've put together a lot more information than we'll be able to cover in seven minutes with just those links. If you enjoy the presentation we hope you'll come back and check the rest of the blog out - you can browse by reading through each page, of course, or you can check out the list of individual tags we've used to see the range of topics covered in the posts.
Thanks for visiting!
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Local Inventor believes comic books "feed the imagination," sponsors collection for youth at Gotham Free Library
article by Emily Barney
Photo by Alper Çuğun
Burt T. Wigglesworth, a local businessman and self-proclaimed "eccentric inventor" recently sold a new and improved mousetrap to a pest control company for a significant sum. Among his many generous gifts to the town of Gotham has been a $15,000 grant for Gotham Free Library to create a collection of graphic novels in their teenspace section of the library.
Wigglesworth's desire to create this collection is a reflection of his own experience with the Gotham Free Library, a personal history that goes back to his grandmother, Ms. Mildred Schiller, who served as the children's librarian from 1938-1962. "My Gram didn't believe reading comic books was an appropriate way for any young person to spend their time," says Mr. Wigglesworth. "She was thrilled that I loved to read about important scientific discoveries and help organize her collection of rare moths, but there was no way we would ever have seen a comic book in the library when she was in charge."
As a boy Mr. Wigglesworth says he had to beg other friends to let him read their comic books, but "they always seemed to give away the endings before I could get a crack at 'em. My grandmother wanted me to save all my earnings for college, so it was hard to find a way to buy any myself and Mr. Moriarty always chased us out of the drugstore if we tried to sneak a glimpse without paying. I always wished I could read these at the library, but I knew there was no money to spare in their budget even if my grandmother didn't think they were a waste of time."
With the sale of his Pulverizing Rat Impounder to Victor Products, Mr. Wigglesworth believes it's fitting that his first gifts honor the research skills his grandmother taught him at the public library. "I loved my Gram," he says, "but I think the library is better now than when she ran it. She thought the library's job was not only to provide me with books to read, but to tell me which ones I should read and how to read them. I believe the library should be a place where everyone feels welcome to explore all kinds of new experiences and ideas."
"Along with the Scientists of the Future program I've sponsored at the Wayne Academy, I'm hoping that the youth of Gotham today will enjoy this wonderful storytelling style as much as I did. It's just as important to feed the imagination and see the world as it could be as it is to build our knowledge of the world as it is."
Photo by Alper Çuğun
Burt T. Wigglesworth, a local businessman and self-proclaimed "eccentric inventor" recently sold a new and improved mousetrap to a pest control company for a significant sum. Among his many generous gifts to the town of Gotham has been a $15,000 grant for Gotham Free Library to create a collection of graphic novels in their teenspace section of the library.
Wigglesworth's desire to create this collection is a reflection of his own experience with the Gotham Free Library, a personal history that goes back to his grandmother, Ms. Mildred Schiller, who served as the children's librarian from 1938-1962. "My Gram didn't believe reading comic books was an appropriate way for any young person to spend their time," says Mr. Wigglesworth. "She was thrilled that I loved to read about important scientific discoveries and help organize her collection of rare moths, but there was no way we would ever have seen a comic book in the library when she was in charge."
As a boy Mr. Wigglesworth says he had to beg other friends to let him read their comic books, but "they always seemed to give away the endings before I could get a crack at 'em. My grandmother wanted me to save all my earnings for college, so it was hard to find a way to buy any myself and Mr. Moriarty always chased us out of the drugstore if we tried to sneak a glimpse without paying. I always wished I could read these at the library, but I knew there was no money to spare in their budget even if my grandmother didn't think they were a waste of time."
With the sale of his Pulverizing Rat Impounder to Victor Products, Mr. Wigglesworth believes it's fitting that his first gifts honor the research skills his grandmother taught him at the public library. "I loved my Gram," he says, "but I think the library is better now than when she ran it. She thought the library's job was not only to provide me with books to read, but to tell me which ones I should read and how to read them. I believe the library should be a place where everyone feels welcome to explore all kinds of new experiences and ideas."
"Along with the Scientists of the Future program I've sponsored at the Wayne Academy, I'm hoping that the youth of Gotham today will enjoy this wonderful storytelling style as much as I did. It's just as important to feed the imagination and see the world as it could be as it is to build our knowledge of the world as it is."
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Using WorldCat Lists for the big picture
by Emily Barney
WorldCat.org is an excellent tool to use if you would like to link to many sources housed in libraries around the world. To share these sources with other people, you can create a login and start making lists. You can make private lists, too, but public lists could be a great way to acquaint your local users with materials they could get using interlibrary loan if you can't afford to keep them in your collection.
Worldcat itself can sometimes be used for interlibrary loan - if your library is set up to do this, all the better reason to use these lists. You can annotate your list using the "details" tab or export citations in multiple formats by using the "citation" tab. We've created several lists for this project that you may have seen linked to in other posts, but here's the home page for them:
http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/GothamFreeLibrary/lists
I think it's pretty intuitive and fun to play with, but here's a little description if you don' t have time to play with it to figure it out:
You have to log in to add books to the lists or to make new lists. You can't comment on another person's list - it isn't a terribly "social" tool yet. It can also be hard to tell if you've already added a book when you work on adding new ones, but it still has some great features.
In the details view (the automatic tab) you can add notes about each book. The problem is, especially with long lists, you can only see 10 books at a time and it's hard to get to the end of the list.
In the "citation view" (the second tab) you can view a list of all the books in the list. You can sort the list several different ways, and you can choose between five different citation styles.
There are extra options only the person who makes the list can use:
You can write a short description paragraph that will show above the list, send the list to a group of people with a link to view it (how nice to use for a reading group or class!), or export the data. The Export data comes as a "CSV" file, which you can open as a table using most spreadsheet programs like Excel. And they have a handy print version too, that opens in a new window and will show all the books.
WorldCat.org is an excellent tool to use if you would like to link to many sources housed in libraries around the world. To share these sources with other people, you can create a login and start making lists. You can make private lists, too, but public lists could be a great way to acquaint your local users with materials they could get using interlibrary loan if you can't afford to keep them in your collection.
Worldcat itself can sometimes be used for interlibrary loan - if your library is set up to do this, all the better reason to use these lists. You can annotate your list using the "details" tab or export citations in multiple formats by using the "citation" tab. We've created several lists for this project that you may have seen linked to in other posts, but here's the home page for them:
http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/GothamFreeLibrary/lists
I think it's pretty intuitive and fun to play with, but here's a little description if you don' t have time to play with it to figure it out:
You have to log in to add books to the lists or to make new lists. You can't comment on another person's list - it isn't a terribly "social" tool yet. It can also be hard to tell if you've already added a book when you work on adding new ones, but it still has some great features.
In the details view (the automatic tab) you can add notes about each book. The problem is, especially with long lists, you can only see 10 books at a time and it's hard to get to the end of the list.
In the "citation view" (the second tab) you can view a list of all the books in the list. You can sort the list several different ways, and you can choose between five different citation styles.
There are extra options only the person who makes the list can use:
You can write a short description paragraph that will show above the list, send the list to a group of people with a link to view it (how nice to use for a reading group or class!), or export the data. The Export data comes as a "CSV" file, which you can open as a table using most spreadsheet programs like Excel. And they have a handy print version too, that opens in a new window and will show all the books.
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