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Reading Committees How to Get the Skills You Need
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Presentation for Reading Committees: Getting the Skills You Need. Presented at 2013 Texas Library Association Conference.
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Reading Committees
How to Get the Skills You Need
Introductions
Viki Ash, San Antonio Public Library ([email protected])
Dreanna Belden, University of North Texas Libraries ([email protected])
Martha Edmundson, Texas Bluebonnet Award ([email protected])
Kathleen Houlihan, Austin Public Library ([email protected])
Jennifer Smith, Legacy Middle School ([email protected])
Why Serve on a Book Selection Committee?
Critically analyze books
Build a vocabulary for describing books
Reading outside your comfort zone
Working with other librarians/book people
Working with publishers
How to Get on a Committee
How to Get on a Committee
Application
Reading Experience
Ability to talk/write about books
Texas Bluebonnet Committee
Martha Edmundson
Texas Bluebonnet Committee
Appeal vs. Quality
For the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List, a book should have:
One part appeal and two parts quality,
or,
One part quality and two parts appeal
Attributed to Christina Wohl, TBA Coordinator
Texas Bluebonnet Committee
Appeal Words for Tone
AmusingAngst-filledBleakDarkly humorousEmotionally intenseFeel-good
FunnyGrossGruesomeHopefulInspirationalMoving
Adapted and excerpted from Ebsco/Novelist
Spirit of Texas and In the Margins Committees
Kathleen Houlihan
Mock Reading Committee
Kathleen Houlihan
Lariat List Task Force
Dreanna Belden
Purpose of the Lariat Reading List: The annual list of Lariat award winners calls attention to outstanding fiction published during the year that merit special attention from adult readers. The main criteria for selecting books for the Lariat List is that they are “a pleasure to read.”
Diverse Genres
Structure of the Task Force
Your friend the publisher …
Staying Organized … for the group and yourself
Working together amicably
Newbery Committee
Viki Ash
Where Do I Sign Up?
2X2 Committee- http://txla.org/groups/CRT-the-round-table
Texas Bluebonnet Award Committee – http://txla.org/TBA-forms
YART Committees - http://txla.org/groups/yartvolunteers
Lariat - http://txla.org/Lariat
Where Do I Sign Up?
ALA Committees
AASL - http://www.ala.org/aasl/working-with
ALSC - http://www.ala.org/alsc/aboutalsc/coms
YALSA - http://www.ala.org/yalsa/workingwithyalsa/yalsacommittee
