Controversial Project

Tonight I met with my group in the Computer lab at school. We were finally able to come up a brief outline of how we want to put our power point together for our topic. After we decided on an outline we began to look deeper for related articles. Our topic is controversial religious issues in school libraries. We are planning to talk about the history of religious book banning, misrepresenations in religious books, bias views in religious books, and incorrect information in religious books. These three main areas are reasons why religious books get censored. Some examples that we'll use will come from "The Da Vinci Code", "The Golden Compass", "Big Mama Makes the World", and "Hey God, It's Me Magaret". We are going to break up the power point into different sections that we will each take turns talking about for the presentation. We also decided to make a loud statement with wearing matching T-shirts! It's going to look good! We found some video clips on You Tube that will work well in the slide show.
I was really beginning to worry about this project, b/c we all seemed a little confused...but we really got the ball rolling tonight!! And we were able to put together a few slides!!

Work, Work, Work

So far these week I was able to get my critique #3 finished for this class. I am so glad that I got the research critique out of the way last time. Because this selection tools project is requiring a lot of time. I don't mind the selection tool project. I am learning a lot from all of the tools. Today I went to talk to my librarian to see which one that she uses the most to look for reviews and ordering for the school library collection. She uses Follett Library Resources or Titlewave( which is part of Follett). She also mentioned Permabound. I am going to check it out online. She doesn't do any ordering from actual books, everything is online. Most of my tools that I'm working on are online tools. I have found that many of the journals and catalogs have websites that you can pay to use as well. I have a little over half of this project completed. I was hoping to work on it again tonight, but too many other things going on ...so I thought I would write up a quick blog.

For the censorship project, I have been trying to find some articles on ERIC and I am trying to get a book from the ASU library. I'm not sure if I filled the thing out right to get a book. I"ll have to email about that. Our goup is going to try to meet sometime this week to work on our power point. We all don't feel like we are doing enough for this project and I think we're all a little confused still of what to do!! We'll learn as we go I guess!! I can't believe the semester is almost half over!

Overwhelmed

Okay this pressure is on....

So I finished my critique on Sunday night. I went ahead and did my research article for this time around. I figured things are going to get a little more hectic around here.
I did a research article on the study of sex education & the public library. The author researched three libraries and interviewed them with four main questions. Most of the librarians did not see the public library as the place to teach sex education, only a place to find resources and information about sex education. It was quite interesting!

The next thing I've worked on this week is my policy and analysis project. I have pretty much finished, but I haven't looked over it yet. It is due next Tuesday. I'm not sure if I actually accomplished the assignment correctly! We'll see!

I hope to do my readings over the weekend!

Critique #1

Well I have finished writing my critique, now I just need to have my husband edit it, then I'll email it in. It actually took a litttle longer than I thought it would. I am hoping that critiqued the right way. I wanted to say "I" so many times, but she said that wouldn't fill the requirements. The article was a little hard to understand at first. That might be because I feel a litte outdated when it comes to technology. Even though I'm still young, I've never been real savy with technology. The article was about how Wake Forest's Library webpage is being updated with small videos that students can click on if they have "how to questions". I think this project is probably a good resource for the students and saves the reference staff a lot of time. The article just failed to mention in the beginning that the "toolkits" or videos that were made are only "how to videos". When I first started reading it, I was a little unsure of what a tutorial toolkit was. Once I clicked on the YouTube link to view a tutorial, I completely understood. I also read Chapter 4 in our book today. Everything seems to be piling up at once!!

Controversial Group Chat

My group for the Controversial Issue Project includes Tina, Shea, Tiffany and myself. We were able to meet today to talk about our topic that we chose on the first night of class. Our topic is going to be religious issues. Tina came to the group with a lot of great ideas for the project. She had already spoken to the librarian at her school and she came with various book titles that may cause religious controversy in a school library. She made the point that we may not personally like the message these books send to our children about certain religions, but we have to keep an open-mind about keeping certain books in the library.
Some of the book titles that were brought up were, "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The Golden Compass", "Big Momma Makes The World", "Bridge To Terabithia", and "Hey God, It's Me Again, Margaret". We also talked about if a school library contains the Holy Bible, then it would need to also contain the Torah, the book of morons, or the Koran, plus many more. We mentioned that school libraries would need to contain books about all multicultural areas and the way they celebrate their own holidays.
Shea mentioned that no matter what kind of books a library has, someone will always get offended with religious issues and it is a touchy subject for some parents. We all felt that religious issues is probably more of a controversy in this area because of the Bible belt. Tiffany mentioned that however people feel about something, will always start at a young age.
We talked about breaking our topic into 3 different area such as, picture books, non-fiction, and fiction books that relate to religious controversy.
We ended our chat by deciding that we would all continue to do a little more research via the computer, our own librarians, or looking deeper into some of the books mentioned.

My First blog

Wow, Technology! Sometimes this stuff can be overwhelming!