Description

This webinar will empower participants add diverse titles to their collection through awards, lists, websites and social media. Additionally, participants will explore programming ideas and instructional activities for engaging diverse students and parents and ways of incorporating instructional technology. Participants will begin by reviewing a definition of diversity and the American Library Association’s Bill of rights. They will then delve into using keyword searches as a method of analyzing their collection for diversity. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their circulation and fines policies, hours of operation as a means of promoting diversity. They will be encouraged to consider how the Dewey Decimal System and Library of Congress Subject Headings may or may not support diverse collections. Various web based applications such as Biblionasium, Bookopolis and Goodreads, to name a few, will be presented.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will analyze their collection to determine if diversity is present.
• Participants will scrutinize their school library program policies to determine if they support diversity.
• Participants will locate publishers, lists and specific titles to add to their collections.

Speaker(s):

• Michelle Easley, Media Services, Fulton County Schools