Promoting a Juvenile Awards Approval Plan: Using Collaboration and Selected Projects for Improved Visibility and Findability to Promote Juvenile Collections in Academic Libraries

Abstract

This article describes a project to promote an approval plan for purchasing award-winning juvenile books. The overall project utilizes a combination of projects for promoting awareness and use of the awards books and the juvenile collection in general. The promotion plan includes collaborative work with teacher education faculty, projects to increase the visibility of the juvenile collection in the library, and projects to improve the findability of the juvenile books via the online catalog and an online subject guide. Initial assessment of the plan indicates some success with increased book circulation and increased use of the online guide.

Remote reading: a shelf list analysis of an academic library’s juvenile collection

“…Technical services are represented in articles about materials acquisition and about the specific organizational and cataloging needs of juvenile collections. Thornton (2011) examines an automatic acquisition plan of award-winning books; Schmit and Lear (2018) explore a cooperative acquisition plan of award winners; Shipman (2014) describes an approval plan for purchasing award-winning books. Kogut et al (2021, p. 9) assess the three main acquisition methods (patron suggestions, librarian subject selection and an awards-based plan) used to identify where these methods “complemented each other and prevented gaps in the collection”.…”

La place du bibliothécaire intégré dans la perspective d’approche-programme adoptée par les facultés d’éducation québécoises

“…Dans ces recommandations, comme dans plusieurs autres articles que nous avons examinés, le bibliothécaire intégré n'est donc pas explicitement nommé. Par contre, il apparaît que les bibliothécaires des didacthèques accordent une importance à la collaboration dans l'élaboration des services de formation et d'information (Clarke,1991 ;Dickinson, Cogdell et Gavigan, 2004 ;Walker, 2012) ainsi que dans le développement des collections (Gelber et Uhl, 2012 ;Locke, 2007 ;Madray et Catalano, 2010 ;Meyer, 2012 ;Shipman, 2014 ;Teel, 2008 ;Williams, 2011).…”