Week+5+Selection

====Now for the fun part! We've spent the last few weeks considering our community, our policies and our existing collection. You've made the case as to why you should get additional $ to buy new books. What are you going to buy?====

====Mona Kerby states, "In library school, I memorized a hundred professional selection sources. But let's stick to the magic number of three. In my opinion, no matter how poor your school district is, you have current subscriptions to the following three professional sources: Booklist and Booklist Online, Horn Book Guide, and School Library Journal. These three provide an excellent balance of opinions. Some of my students who are practicing school library media specialists prefer Book Links” (10).====

====I agree with Ms. Kerby on three sources, however, I prefer to use The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books published by the University of Illinois, School Library Journal and Horn Book. You too will develop your preferred set of resources. What’s most important is that you use highly regarded sources such as those discussed during our face-to-face session on Oct. 12.====

**Task**
==== Choose two new fiction or informational books (published w/in last 2 years, if possible, but I'm flexible on this) that you are **unfamiliar** with. You'll need to actually get your hands on the books, so pick titles your school or public library library has or can obtain for you if you don't want to purchase them. ====

==== First, find at least two reviews on the book. Make sure at least one review for each title is from a reputable print review source like those listed below. The second review can also be from one of these sources, or it can be from a blog (see below for a few examples, but there are many more out there). The blog should be written by an adult reviewer with some experience/insight into materials for young people. ====

==== Be sure you have the complete original review; don’t rely on a secondary source like Barnes & Noble to give you a full text review. B&N and Amazon can help lead you to reviews, but try to make sure you find the original source. To find reviews, check out the review databases subscribed to by the NLU library and/or vendor sites, like Follet's [|Titlewave](school libraries), BWI's [|Titletales] (public libraries) and [|Baker & Taylor]. ====