17 November 2006
A View of the World - just published
A View of the World is an annotated bibliography which I have co-edited with three other librarians, and which has been published this week.
You may well ask "What is an annotated bibliography?" It's a list of books, and in this case also films, with a brief synopsis and review for each entry. The main audience will be people who are looking for ideas about what to read or want to find out more about our multicultural world.
We set out to find books and films, which spoke with the authentic voices of the peoples of different cultures, and if possible, written or made by people from within those cultures, or who had a deep, first-hand knowledge of the culture. The list includes novels, poetry and biographies, but we generally avoided travel books. We also set ourselves the task of finding material recently published so that the view of the world we presented would be as current as possible. Many of the titles chosen reflect the experiences of migrant populations, of life in unfamiliar surroundings, of the perils and difficulties of escaping from repression.
Above all we have tried to find books and films which will be enjoyable, or challenging or thought-provoking, suitable for readers from age 11.
A View of the World is published by the School Library Association and includes reviews not only by many librarians working in Oxfordshire schools, but also staff and students from OLCSS. There will be an official launch at Waterstone's in Oxford (date to be confirmed) and a celebration for OLCSS contributors during the Reading and Storytelling Festival in the Library next week.
Copies may be ordered from me in the Library.
You may well ask "What is an annotated bibliography?" It's a list of books, and in this case also films, with a brief synopsis and review for each entry. The main audience will be people who are looking for ideas about what to read or want to find out more about our multicultural world.
We set out to find books and films, which spoke with the authentic voices of the peoples of different cultures, and if possible, written or made by people from within those cultures, or who had a deep, first-hand knowledge of the culture. The list includes novels, poetry and biographies, but we generally avoided travel books. We also set ourselves the task of finding material recently published so that the view of the world we presented would be as current as possible. Many of the titles chosen reflect the experiences of migrant populations, of life in unfamiliar surroundings, of the perils and difficulties of escaping from repression.
Above all we have tried to find books and films which will be enjoyable, or challenging or thought-provoking, suitable for readers from age 11.
A View of the World is published by the School Library Association and includes reviews not only by many librarians working in Oxfordshire schools, but also staff and students from OLCSS. There will be an official launch at Waterstone's in Oxford (date to be confirmed) and a celebration for OLCSS contributors during the Reading and Storytelling Festival in the Library next week.
Copies may be ordered from me in the Library.
# posted by BH @ 6:18 pm 
