Day: October 31, 2014

A few patrons have asked about Black-Eyed Susan books lately, so we created a display. The Maryland Association of School Librarians started this book award back in 1992 and I love the fact that students get a chance to vote on the titles that win.

To create the display, I used BCPL‘s website because they have a list of the winners and the nominated books from 2011 to the present year, for the picture books on up to high school. A display of just the winners wouldn’t fill the display, plus a lot of the recent winners are checked out anyway.

Good luck to Jacqueline Woodson‘s This is the Rope in the picture book category this year.

I can’t seem to avoid doing presentations in just about all of my library classes. My User Instruction (LBSC 702) is no exception. We all had to present a database of our choice for ten minutes. I’m glad it’s over with, but the one positive point of doing this assignment is that I got a chance to explore Oxford African American Studies Center’s database. The scenario I presented to the class was of a 9th grade class visiting their high school media specialist for research help for a paper on the writers of the Harlem Renaissance.