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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:54:33 -0500
This message is from Miriam Lang Budin, who had trouble posting:
Like Megan, I am grateful to have colleagues with whom to discuss books I--for one reason or another--hesitate to add to our collection.
One of the recurring questions I struggle with is whether it is better to have a mediocre (or poor) book on a subject for which there is no other material than to have nothing at all.
To give a real-life example, I was immensely relieved and pleased to see MORRIS MICKLEWHITE AND THE TANGERINE DRESS by Christine Baldacchino at ALA MIdwinter. And the reason for that (apart from the fact that I think Baladacchino's book hits all the right notes concerning a boy who wants to wear a dress whenever he likes) is that our children's room had recently purchased a different book on the same subject which I thought was...let's just say "less successful."
Though the rest of the children's librarians on our staff persuaded me to keep the "less successful" book in our collection (we're still waiting for our order of MORRIS MICKLEWHITE to arrive) I am not entirely convinced that a bad book is better than no book at all.
I'd like to hear what others think about this.
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:54:33 -0500
This message is from Miriam Lang Budin, who had trouble posting:
Like Megan, I am grateful to have colleagues with whom to discuss books I--for one reason or another--hesitate to add to our collection.
One of the recurring questions I struggle with is whether it is better to have a mediocre (or poor) book on a subject for which there is no other material than to have nothing at all.
To give a real-life example, I was immensely relieved and pleased to see MORRIS MICKLEWHITE AND THE TANGERINE DRESS by Christine Baldacchino at ALA MIdwinter. And the reason for that (apart from the fact that I think Baladacchino's book hits all the right notes concerning a boy who wants to wear a dress whenever he likes) is that our children's room had recently purchased a different book on the same subject which I thought was...let's just say "less successful."
Though the rest of the children's librarians on our staff persuaded me to keep the "less successful" book in our collection (we're still waiting for our order of MORRIS MICKLEWHITE to arrive) I am not entirely convinced that a bad book is better than no book at all.
I'd like to hear what others think about this.
--
Miriam Lang Budin
Head of Children's Services
Chappaqua Library, NY
2014 Chair
ALSC Melcher & Bound to Stay Bound
Scholarships Committee
--
Megan Schliesman, Librarian
Cooperative Children's Book Center
School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 N. Park Street, Room 4290
Madison, WI 53706
608/262-9503
schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
My regular hours are T-F, 8-4:30.
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