Receive insights, reports, and confidence around the titles you choose for featured displays, storytimes, reading programs, and more. Book resumes provide you with the book’s bona fides: awards, reviews (from up to 8 professional sources), genres, reading levels, and more. Collection analysis reports give you insights into diversity, recency, fiction/nonfiction, and more – while also helping you identify titles for possible augmentation. Both tools provide immediate documentation and consistent information about the titles in your library. The goal of this session is for you to leave with confidence and the knowledge to optimally support your library collections. Benefiting from this program are library staff, including those who might worry about community pushback to book selections. Please note that the tools and resources taught in this session utilize the California State Library’s licensed TeachingBooks.net literacy service, provided to all California libraries, schools, and residents from the State Library’s COMPASS program.
