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Collection Development and Materials Selection Policy
Youth Services Easy Reader Non-Fiction As an area to which childrens' publishers have only recently addressed themselves, this is a small but rapidly growing collection. This section is equivalent to the Easy Reader fiction section. Books with easy and/or controlled vocabulary are included in this section, which includes every Dewey Decimal number and a growing number of easy biographies. Random House's "Step Into Reading" series, with excellent titles about such topics as The Titanic, Pompeii, etc., and Children's Press titles on occupations and various countries, are front runners in the field. Influencing Factors Books in juvenile easy nonfiction help children with reports and supplement more difficult titles for older children. Dinosaurs, sharks, weather, pets, holidays, and sports are popular subject areas. Review sources include Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Horn Book, Science Books and Films, etc. Publishers' catalogs are also consulted. Easy folk and fairy tales, which are faithful to the original, is an area that the Youth Services Department sees as particularly useful and wanted by the community. Since this is an area that needs expansion, weeding is done mainly on the basis of condition. Titles in the easy non-fiction collection are generally very basic and do not date as quickly as more in-depth materials. Titles with child appeal that continue to be used are considered for replacement. This area will experience some growth as more titles become available. |
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