Competency #6

http://teenswritingforteens.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/interview-with-cassandra-clare-author-of-the-mortal-instruments/

Cassandra Clare is an up-and-coming young adult fiction writer who has not quite gotten the hype of Stephenie Meyers or JK Rowling, but I feel her works are just as inspiring and exciting. Many young adults will be pulled into the world of this series, if merely exposed to its existence. I want to advertize these books as much as I can. I support young adult writers who push the limits in an attempt to engage young minds.

When libraries carry these materials, more young adults come in search of them. Excellent literature that is exciting, relevant, thought-provoking, imaginative, etc, is what they need.

Competency #4 Tagging

I went to LibraryThing.com and set my user name and password.

I searched for our class text, Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age by author: Chu... first name Heting.

The author has only written one book, and there is no picture provided. I click on the link and am taken to page where I see that many of my classmates and students who took this class before me have created tags.

My tag is: TWU ISAR 5013.22 Dr. Yi

Not very original, I know, but it is relevant, and the process of tagging was and is quite simple.

Next, I searched Librarything.com for books that are relevant to my research topic: Ways to get young adults back into the library.

I found several very relevant titles, but none of them have tags. So, I provided a tag for the book most beneficial to my topic. The book is: Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual, 4th Edition (How-to-Do-It Manuals) This book goes through various procedures and programs, etc that others have tried that were successful in bringing young adults into their school and public libraries for more than just research. This is what I strive to do. I want to get juveniles interested in reading and thinking of libraries as places to discover what fun reading can be again. Also, I want them to feel that visiting the library helps connect them to their community.

The tag is: Uniting Youth and Libraries

The website is: www.librarything.com