LibraryThing Tags: Competency 5

Through a search using "tagmashes" on librarything.com, I found a book written by Catherine Sheldrick Ross called Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals About Reading, Libraries, and Community. This book talks about the role that libraries play in encouraging reading and literacy.

LibraryThing tags:
accountability(1) adult nonfiction(1) assigned reading(1) aug 07(1) books(1) Books and reading(2) borrowed(1) cultural studies(1) Currently reading(1) education(2) graduate school textbook(1) information science(1) information studies(1) librarianship(2) libraries(7) Libraries and community(1) Libraries Unlimited(1) Library Reference(1) library science(1) lis590lrl(1) literacy(5) ls 5643(1) non-fiction(3) read(1) reader's advisory(1) readers(1) reading(14) reading research(3) Reading-social aspects(1) Reading. Literacy. Libraries.(1) research(2) returned(1) school(1) school library media(1) Spring 2008(1) teaching(1) twu(1) Unread(2) Unreviewed(1)

Link:
http://www.librarything.com/work/691449/book/29424483

Library Journal RSS Feed: Competency 4

For my fourth competency, I decided to focus on my chosen library type (public) rather than on the topic of literacy. The RSS feed that I have added to my blog provides links to stories about public services in libraries from Libraryjournal.com.

Canada's Family Literacy Day Podcast: Competency 3

I found this podcast using Google on a website called Just One More Book (http://justonemorebook.com/). It is an interview with Magaret Eaton, President of the ABC Canada Literacy Foundation. In the interview she discusses Canada's Family Literacy Day.

One point that is stressed in the article is the importance of reading to children every day, especially at a pre-school age. Eaton also talks about other ways to encourage literacy.

Link to podcast: http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/01/19/interview-with-margaret-eaton-about-family-literacy-day/

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Jen Robinson's notes on Jim Trelease's talk http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/jim_trelease_ta_1.html

Canada' Family Literacy Day website http://abc-canada.org/fld/