Just a heads up to you students that so far I have identified only 127 historical fiction picture books in our collection. While I expect to find some more as I go through our picture books one at a time, I wanted to ask you to please be considerate of your fellow classmates while working on this genre. We have about 60 students in Stephenville taking this class, as well as a few students in the Fort Worth and Weatherford classes that use the Dick Smith Library regularly. Rather than checking the books out, please try to use the books on site in the library, or check another library if you have access to one.
Historical fiction at the Dick Smith Library that I've identified so far is listed here:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rdg301library&tag=historical%2Bfiction
Please note that this list also includes about 100 chapter books; read the tags carefully.
These books will start going on display on Thursday, October 29. Today I ordered 30 more historical fiction picture books, but unfortunately these won't be in before your assignments are due.
Librarians at school or public libraries should be able to help you find additional historical fiction titles in their collections. Please don't hesitate to ask them (or me) for help!
Amanda Pape
Special Services Librarian II
pape@tarleton.edu
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
New Display, New Books
The display area behind the lower level reference desk, which last week had traditional literature, now has fantasy books on display.
Also, we received 22 new books in March, most of which are on display on top of the low stacks next to the office downstairs. We'll be adding these books to the relevant genre lists as fast as we can!
In the meantime, you can find out about them in our LibraryThing account first. You can see the books at:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rdg301library&tag=2009. If, upon clicking the link, you get a page (it will be this one) that asks you to sign in, just try the link above again later. The sign-in page will also have “LibraryThing is experiencing high visitor load. To see the site, you need to sign in or sign up. This is a temporary issue” in a gray box near the top.
At the top of the list of books, you’ll see a message that says “rdg301library has a suggested style for viewing this library (use it).” Click on the “use it” link to get the books sorted by LC classification (also known as the call number). For each book, there is also a picture of the cover, the title, author, date of publication, and tags.
Under tags, I have listed the genre(s) and the book type (picture, chapter, etc.). I’ve also added some tags for ethnicity and for books that deal with other issues such as age, class, religion, gender, etc. The tag “text” means that the book is listed in your textbook. This latest batch of books is mostly award winners, so tags for the awards have been added as well.
You can click on a tag and it will pull up a list of all books with similar tags – if, for example, you are looking for fantasy, you will get a list of the last 33 fantasy books added to our collection. Please keep in mind that I only have the last 143 NEW books listed in LibraryThing. Please let me know in the comments if you find this tool useful!
Also, we received 22 new books in March, most of which are on display on top of the low stacks next to the office downstairs. We'll be adding these books to the relevant genre lists as fast as we can!
In the meantime, you can find out about them in our LibraryThing account first. You can see the books at:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rdg301library&tag=2009. If, upon clicking the link, you get a page (it will be this one) that asks you to sign in, just try the link above again later. The sign-in page will also have “LibraryThing is experiencing high visitor load. To see the site, you need to sign in or sign up. This is a temporary issue” in a gray box near the top.
At the top of the list of books, you’ll see a message that says “rdg301library has a suggested style for viewing this library (use it).” Click on the “use it” link to get the books sorted by LC classification (also known as the call number). For each book, there is also a picture of the cover, the title, author, date of publication, and tags.
Under tags, I have listed the genre(s) and the book type (picture, chapter, etc.). I’ve also added some tags for ethnicity and for books that deal with other issues such as age, class, religion, gender, etc. The tag “text” means that the book is listed in your textbook. This latest batch of books is mostly award winners, so tags for the awards have been added as well.
You can click on a tag and it will pull up a list of all books with similar tags – if, for example, you are looking for fantasy, you will get a list of the last 33 fantasy books added to our collection. Please keep in mind that I only have the last 143 NEW books listed in LibraryThing. Please let me know in the comments if you find this tool useful!
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