Seminar by Kasey Garrison: Awards with rewards: Implications and perceptions for collection development for youth

Dr. Kasey Garrison is a lecturer with the Teacher Librarianship Team in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University’s Wagga Wagga campus in New South Wales, Australia. She earned a PhD in Education from Old Dominion University in August 2012. Her dissertation, entitled “’This intense desire to know the world:’ Factors Influencing the Collection Development of Multicultural Children’s Literature,” was a mixed methods study focused on diversity within library collections and their surrounding communities.
 Kasey’s primary research areas focus on diversity within children’s and young adult literature and reader responses to such titles.

The professional library literature is fraught with debates about the value and quality of children’s book awards. Sometimes the crux of the issue in these discussions is the fact that adults are making the choice of the best books; these may not necessarily be the books that the intended audience (i.e., children) would choose as the “best” or books that they would even check out from the library at all. Hateley (2012) notes the importance of encouraging librarians and patrons to use a critical lens when evaluating award winners and to also examine the collection development policies in relation to such choices. In the United States, much controversy surrounds ethnic specific book awards including the Coretta Scott King Award, the Pura Belpré Award, and the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. In this mixed methods study analysing the factors influencing the collection development of multicultural literature in children’s collections, youth librarians revealed perceptions about these award lists and how/if they used them for collection development and reading promotion.

Additional information about Dr Garrison is available at:

http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/staff/profiles/lecturers/kasey-garrison

EVENT DETAILS

12:00-1:00pm

Wednesday 3 June 2015

School of Information Studies Seminar Room, Building 05

Charles Sturt University

Wagga Campus

This session can be attend remotely via Adobe Connect: http://connect.csu.edu.au/infostudies-seminar/

For more information about this Seminar or the Seminar series, please contact:

Dr. George Yi

(02)6933-2416

gyi@csu.edu.au

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Strand leaders: Sharynne McLeod (Bathurst), Christine Edwards-Groves (Wagga)

Noella Mackenzie  - Albury

Christina Davidson - Wagga
Kasey Garrison - Sydney
Kate Crowe - Sydney
Sarah Verdon - Albury
Jane McCormack (RIPPLE adjunct) - Albury
Linda Harrison - Bathurst
Nicole Watt Pappas (adjunct)

PhD Students:
Brooke Scriven - Wagga
Sarah Masso - Sydney
Ben Pham - Bathurst
Suzanne Hopf - Sydney Natalie Thompson - Albury
Stephanie Garoni - Albury
Sarah Hayton - Wagga
Helen Blake - Newcastle
Tessa Daffern - Canberra

Our first photo of the Speech, Language and Literacies strand at the RIPPLE meeting Wagga Wagga (left to right):
Kasey Garrison, Noella Mackenzie, Sarah Verdon, Natalie Thompson, Christine Edwards-Groves,
Sharynne McLeod, Stephanie Garoni, Sarah Hayton, and Christina Davidson