I try to balance cost against durability. If they are cheaper, I can buy 2 or 3. The kids have to wait slightly longer but there are more to go around.
It puts into words things librarians instinctively knew, but backs it up with solid research. Youth culture emphasizes music, fashion, consumer goods, technology and informality; it is fun, participative, well presented and accessible cheap! To meet the needs of this age group, libraries need to emulate these qualities.
It recognises that this is challenging, and anticipating trends is difficult. So we keep on trying in all areas: library appearance, planning, accessibility avoiding use of charges, for example. Libraries need be places where people can access a wide range of cultural and literary resources.
I also feel that the young people are pretty relentlessly advertised to, and that their choices can sometimes be based on which brands are cool, and wanting to be associated with that brand.
Otherwise are we actually doing the work of the advertising agencies? Is that really offering children and young people a real choice? I always run this game as part of S1 Inductions where it is great because it works for all ability groups — just swap around the books you use.
My condition for including books in this exercise was that they had to have an attractive cover. We talked about films or TV adaptations; we looked at the few titles which were in older editions, chatted about what difference the cover makes.
Funnily enough, no one borrowed an old edition at the end. Maybe sometimes I try too hard. I was helping a pupil choose a book recently, and as I took one off the shelf to show him, it made that sticky peeling sound from when books in PVC covers have been sat squished together.
I was indignant! This was a Young Bond book, not some dusty old thing! Of course when I tested them again a few days later the sticky sound was back…. Perhaps it does! Maybe eventually I should swap to another kind of cover…and so the struggle continues! Epic fail?? Noisy Librarians. Meet the authors. Tag Archives: the reading game. Here are my most recent ones: Each pair has to find one book, and answer one question on it.
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