Youth Collection
BIBLIOGRAPHER: Lindsey Schell,
Youth Collection Bibliographer
OTHER SUBJECT RESPONSIBILITIES: Celtic Literature,
English and American Literature, Gender Studies
ADDRESS:
Research Services Division PCL 3.317
PHONE: 495-4119
- I. Purpose:
- To provide a working collection of children's and
young adults' literature to serve the certification needs of undergraduates and
to support specific graduate courses in library and information science.
- II. General Collection Guidelines:
- A. Languages: Primarily English, with some emphasis on Spanish
language tests or bilingual texts suitable for teaching Spanish-speaking
students. Other foreign languages are acquired only in a highly selective
manner and are usually chosen for some significant feature other than the text,
e.g., outstanding illustrations, unusual format or presentations, etc.
- B. Chronological Guidelines: None
- C. Geographical
Guidelines: None
- D. Treatment of subject: Includes
materials directed toward the younger child (grades k-3) or toward the
pre-adolescent (grades 4-6) and adolescent (grades 7-12) reader. Adult books
of interest to young adults are cataloged in The University of Texas Libraries collection.
- E. Types of Materials: Print and non-print media, basic
reference tools, and selected examples of periodicals for children and young
adults. All Newberry and Caldecott Award books and all Newberry and Caldecott
Honor Books are acquired. Books receiving other distinguished awards are
acquired as possible.
- III. Observations and Qualifications by Subject and LC Class:
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- Footnote 1:
Includes novels, junior novels, poetry,
drama.
- Footnote 2:
Includes wordless picture books, for
beginning-readers, concept books, alphabet books, counting books, Mother Goose
and nursery rhymes, and other books in picture or picture-story format.
- Footnote 3:
Includes traditional folk tales of the United States
and all other countries, folk songs, ballads, superstitions, riddles, jokes,
folk arts and crafts, mythology, legends, hero tales, and other types of folk
expression.
- Footnote 4:
Acquire selectively. Representative
works in a variety of informational areas are sought.
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