Reading and Readers' Advisory

Course aim

To give students the skills to understand the major issues for the provision of readers' advisory and reading in schools and public libraries for adults, children, and young adults; including how to develop an inclusive, relevant and community focussed collection.

Course content

Fiction and nonfiction for adults, adolescents, and children in various formats (CDs, DVDs, e-books, print, audiobooks, etc.); understanding the reader; how different materials reflect the society that produces them; social debates over what people should or should not read, and what is good literature; low versus high culture debates; readers’ advisory for adults, children, and young adults; materials selection, annotations and reviews; and resource based learning; the librarian's professional responsibilities in regard to the provision of leisure reading materials; collection management of both physical and digital collections. Marketing, censorship, and intellectual property as it pertains to readers' advisory and readers, and the library collection.

Textbook(s)

Johnson, P. 2018, Fundamentals of collection development and management, 4th Edition, ALA Editions

Wyatt, N., & Saricks, J. G. 2019, The readers advisory guide to genre fiction, 3rd Edition, ALA Editions

Cart, M. T. 2021, Young adult literature: From romance to realism, 4th Edition, ALA Neal-Schuman

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External	3 hours x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Case study, Group project, Review

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4A)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.