IRC Hours Update: Spring Break

A complete listing of IRC hours updates is available on the IRC web site.

Pinterest: Dr. Seuss Resources

Just in time for Dr. Seuss's birthday and Read Across America Day on March 2, 2012, a new board has been created on the IRC Pinterest site. The board features books written by Dr. Suess in the juvenile collection, books written about Dr. Seuss in various library collections, Internet resources, and videos.

Interested in the status of one of the books presented? Call numbers are presented with each title and links to the catalog are available to check their status.

IRC and Pinterest

The IRC is now on Pinterest! Our page, http://pinterest.com/ircaulibrary/, has two boards available for viewing: QR Codes in the IRC and Hugo Cabret & Automatons.  More pin boards are planned, as they are published announcements and links will be "tweeted" to the IRC twitter account.

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AU Circulating: Education

The following books have been added to the library circulating collection. You will find them displayed in the new book area on the library's main floor or in their regular location on the second floor.

• Purposeful Classroom: How to Structure Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind
  LB1025.3 .F57 2011
• Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner
  LB1027.23 .H56 2011
• Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom
  LB1031 .T67 2010
• Ghosts of No Child Left Behind
  LC153.N48 C37 2011
• Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving From Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap
  LC2717 .B59 2011

AU Circulating: Education & Technology

The following books have been added to the library circulating collection. You will find them displayed in the new book area on the library's main floor or in their regular location on the second floor.

• Advocacy and Educational Technology: A Guide to Getting Your Voice Heard
  LB1028.3 .G64 2011
• Digital Citizenship in Schools
  LB1028.43 .R52 2011
• How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom
  LB1029.G55 P68 2011

IRC Reference

The following books have been added to the IRC reference collection. You will find them shelved directly inside the Instructional Resource Center, library second floor, in the IRC reference section.

• Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers, Grades 6-9: Supplement to the Second Edition
  Z1037 .G482 2009 Suppl.
• Best Books for Hight School Readers, grades 9-12: Supplement to the Second Edition
  Z1037 .G483 2009 Suppl.

Mock Caldecott Panel

Dr. Mary Rycik's children's literature classes participated in a Mock Caldecott Award session Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Criteria and terms followed were those used by the Association for Library Services for Children, American Library Association Medal committee.

Titles selected for review mix well known illustrators with artists new to the field of picture books illustration. A variety of art mediums are represented including collage, painted oils, pencil, watercolors, ink, acrylics, and mixed media. Each book considered was a recent addition to the library's juvenile collection (November 2011 - January 2012). 

Students considered eighteen (18) picture books and narrowed the original field five semi-finalists and then  voted for a winner and honor book:

And our winner is: 

Balloons Over Broadway, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

And our honor book winner is ...

Neville, illustrated by G. Brian Karas

A complete list of picture books considered by Dr. Rycik's class, links to more information about each picture book's illustrator, and resources for the Caldecott Award, is featured on the IRC web site's Mock Caldecott Panel page. 

The Association for Library Services for Children's Book and Media Award winners will be announced from the ALA mid-winter meetings in Dallas, TX, on Monday, January 23, 2012.