Events & Calendars Building a Multilingual Children's Book Collection

What are the greatest children’s books around the world? What are the classics, the favorites, the best contemporary books? In this course, you will work collaboratively with librarians and other college staff to develop a new special collection of children’s books in multiple languages other than English. The new collection will be accessible both at the Frost Library and at a nearby Amherst elementary school. Students will develop their skills in a wide variety of areas: working with others to produce a complex, tangible outcome, local community engagement, global community outreach, translation, using multiple languages, assessing and writing about children’s literature and various skills related to librarianship, which may include collection development, special collections and cataloging. We will meet four times, in the Frost Library and at the Fort River School library. The early sessions will involve direct instruction and the latter ones will be spent working on group projects. Students may need to spend several additional hours during interterm working on the project. Students who wish to may continue to be involved in the project during the spring semester, as the books are physically collected and catalogued.

Schedule:
Tuesday, January 9 from 1 - 4 p.m.
Thursday, January 11 from 1 - 4 p.m.
Tuesday, January 16 from 1 - 4 p.m.
Thursday, January 18 from 1 - 4 p.m.

Facilitators:
Lani Blechman, Librarian at Fort River School
Emily Merriman, Writing Associate and Advisor for Multilingual Students
Este Pope, Head of Digital Programs