Promote Native American Resources Collection
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This document discusses the librarian Arlene Salazar's work promoting the juvenile collection and Native American resources at Texas State University. It notes that the juvenile collection contains around 30,000 pieces but many students and faculty are unaware of it or its scope. As subject experts and through outreach, librarians can make these materials more accessible. The librarian initiates roving exhibits to better promote collections and shares information and guides on Native American resources and the juvenile literature collection.
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Promote Native American Resources Collection
- 1. Arlene Salazar Research, Instruction & Outreach Librarian Education Subject Librarian Roving Exhibits Native American Resources A member of The Texas State University System
- 3. Marketing and Promotion is … Juvenile Collection of about 30,000 pieces yet many students and faculty either have no idea we have the collection or are not aware of the scope of material offered. Changing role of librarians Subject experts Outreach & Engagement Most Importantly: Make material easily accessible!
- 4. Be Proactive Roving Exhibits get initiated by the Librarian
- 9. Tools of the Trade
- 10. guides.library.txstate.edu/native-american < Native Languages Award Books > < Not Recommended Recommended >
- 12. @codecan_org
- 19. Questions? guides.library.txstate.edu/native-american guides.library.txstate.edu/juvenileliterature guides.library.txstate.edu/arlene www.slideshare.net/avs0612
Editor's Notes
- I am Arlene Salazar and I serve as my Library’s Education Librarian. My job duties include overseeing managing the Juvenile Collection. My interest in this topic began as I began working to develop this collection as a new librarian at Alkek Library. I started some early marketing efforts by setting up in-house exhibits of the material. These weren’t terribly difficult as I started with Back to School and Halloween. It’s not terribly difficult to find books for an October exhibit of books on pumpkins, trick or treating, ghosts, monsters, witches and goblins. And so when November came up I thought a Thanksgiving exhibit would be perfect and I thought it’d be an easy display because all I had to do was search “thanksgiving” in the library catalog, right? We didn’t have a whole lot to support an exhibit so I started researching thanksgiving titles and that’s what led me down the rabbit hole of recommended titles, even found “not recommended titles”, and bibliographies. From there the rabbit hole continued onto recommended titles about Native Americans as well as awards. I came across two bibliographies by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale, Broken Flute and Through Indian Eyes. As well as a number of websites and articles that talked about things like historical inaccuracies and stereotyping of Native-American depiction in children’s literature. I was especially intrigued when one of my favorite series I read in middle school was mention, Laura Ingalls’ Little House on the Prairie, one of which also won an award. I wondered, how could this be? Needless to say my Thanksgiving display didn’t happen that year because I got caught up in identifying titles useful for a display that would be culturally sensitive. This became especially important to me as I began serving on the Tomas Rivera award committee, an award that recognizes children’s literature that authentically portrays the experiences of Mexican Americans without stereotyping, like the criteria use to evaluate Native-American children’s literature.
- JUVENILE COLLECTION – Many people are unable to resist looking at books on display, so exhibits provide an ideal way to relate available library material to someone by way of culture and special interest. The Juvenile Collection was established in support of education students as well as those in children’s literature courses. Although the Juvenile Collection offers about 30,000 titles, many students and faculty either have no idea we have the collection or are not aware of the scope of material offered. Roving exhibits was a way to expose material in a collection many key stakeholders had no idea we even had or if they knew we had it they don’t realize exactly what we had. Some patrons thought it was all for education majors or for someone taking a children’s literature course. The key was to build on that understanding that yes it is that but also material of interest to those in the helping professions and even parents. As I met with faculty and students, it became apparent how little they knew we did already have and marketing and promotion would still be key in ensuring use of the material. Roving exhibits have provided a valuable outreach opportunity to market the availability of the collection outside the library. CHANGING ROLE OF LIBRARIANS – The role of librarians at Alkek Library has evolved with a strengthened emphasis on engagement, outreach, and marketing of library resources and services. We have also made a concerted shift toward subject specialization. Roving Exhibits allow me to showcase specialized projects I’ve worked on and share my subject expertise with patrons at the events I may not have otherwise have interacted with in the Library. ACCESSIBILITY – One hurdle faced by anyone working with special collections or looking for this material is how do you find it easily. I’ve devised a few ways to help with this like award tracings, subject headings, a library guide.