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LIBE 463 Cindy Nedo Assignment 5

//**Selection Report; Continents of the World**//

====As a teacher librarian, the selection process is always one that is exciting and purposeful. In fact, purchasing is one of my favourite duties as a TL and I found this assignment very rewarding. I certainly enjoyed exploring all the avenues to locate good resources. I mostly used online sources but I did have the opportunity to seek out suggestions from my local public childrens librarian. She suggested some resources for my topic, many of which were databases in which my school already subscribes too. As for online sources, I used the LIBE 463 wiki to guide me when looking for quality book reviews. For me this was the most frustrating part of this assignment was to find credible book reviews for my topic. Many of the book review sites suggested didn't have anything on my topic, but I did find a few worthy ones in which I noted in my list. I tried to vary my search terms to find the best possible results.====

====This was really my first time using online book reviews for purchasing purposes. I really hadn't explored this area before. In the past, I would ask the staff at ULS, Kidsbooks, Chapters and my local public children's librarians. However, I have to say, I think I am a changed TL whose is ready to embrace a new way of thinking and doing. The book reviews were a great way to be informed quickly about the newest books and books of a certain subject area. The reviews seem to favour fiction books in which there was alot more variety of reviews for these books rather that nonfiction. But I was able to manage and locate what I could on the Continents of the World. In the end, I managed to spend a total of $2034.75. My purchases included a wide variety of books including fiction and nonfiction books, dvds, atlases and digital sources (online games, maps, databases, e-books).====