Reading and Readers' Advisory

Course aim

To familiarise students with the major issues in the provision of readers’ advisory and leisure reading in school and public libraries for children, young adults, and adults.

Course content

Popular fiction for adults, adolescents, and children; understanding the reader; how texts 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; book selection, annotations and reviews; programming for public and school libraries (i.e. book clubs, author talks, etc.), resource based learning; the librarian's professional responsibilities in regard to the provision of leisure reading materials.

Textbook(s)

Sutton, R., & Parravano, M. (Eds) 2010, A family of readers: The book lover's guide to children's and young adult literature, Candlewick Press. , Somerville, MA

Saricks, J. G. 2005, Readers' advisory service in the public library, 3rd Ed, ALA Editions, Chicago, IL

Saricks, J. G. 2009, The readers' advisory guide to genre fiction, 2nd Ed, ALA Editions, Chicago, IL

Cart, M. T. 2010, Young adult literature: From romance to realism, 2nd, American Library Association, Chicago

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Lecture	2 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External (Online resources, moderated discussions and other online interactions)	N/A x 13 weeks

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

Assessment

Book Reviews, Continuous Forum Postings, Genre Guides & Group Evaluation, Programming Plan

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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