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=Assignment Five: Selection Report=

Like this gentleman, I found the selection process to be a bit overwhelming. I found that I could find a book to buy, but not find a review, or find a review of a book, but not be able to find up to date purchasing information. The assignment took a lot longer than I had predicted because of frustrations like this. I did, however, learn a lot about the selection procedure. The most useful reviewing site I found was the Canadian Review of Materials. Many of the other sites required an account, or didn't have many books on my chosen topics, or had an American focus. As I was searching mostly for Canadian history books, I had to consider issues of currency, sensitivity, and relevancy, as well as reading level and attractiveness. I did find a number of resources that look like they meet those criteria. I am lucky in that I have been keeping my administrator informed about my projects in this course, and after I weeded my section of the library, she said that I could have up to $2000.00 to replenish it! So the resources that I have selected will actually be added to my school library's collection. I am looking forward to finding out whether the reviews I used are reliable, and ones I would turn to again. Overall, I learned that selecting resources is not a simple, straightforward procedure, but that doing a quality selection job means that the resources that you eventually buy will be quality ones that meet your needs. Attached is my table of selected resources.