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Book Collection Development PK-12
with Rebecca Large-Swope
If you’re passionate about shaping meaningful reading experiences for PK–12 students, this course is your starting point. Explore how to evaluate collections, choose impactful titles, and build libraries students love.
This course is designed for people interested in working with PK–12 aged students and book collections. Participants gain experience in analyzing current book collections, selecting new titles, and ordering books that enrich and diversify students’ opportunities to read and explore.
Discussion threads encourage meaningful conversation, deeper understanding, and shared perspectives, with all learners posting and responding in every thread to help create a lively, collaborative environment.
The course concludes with a final project that brings together the skills and insights gained along the way. A built‑in peer feedback component adds an additional layer of learning.
Audience: Anyone who works with PK-12 aged students and reading. This includes school librarians, library staff, public librarians, classroom teachers, home school coops, and people interested in collection development for PK-12 aged readers.
| The Details | |
| Dates | Starts June 8 |
| Time | Asynchronous |
| Cost | $145 |
| Location | Online |
| Graduate Credits Available | 1 |
Purpose & Outcomes:
- Learn the process of selecting, ordering new books for school libraries, libraries, and classroom books.
- Identify their student population.
- Analyze their current book collection, observing strong and week points.
- Create a list of books to order based on their school demographics and current collection.
- Compare different book vendors to see which one is most suited for purchasing the books.
- Submit a final project on this process.
Rebecca Large-Swope
Facilitator
Rebecca Large-Swope has worked for the University of Colorado at Denver since 2010 as a guest lecturer teaching online master’s level School Library courses. She has 25 years of experience working as a Teacher Librarian at Longs Peak Middle School in the St. Vrain Valley School District. Rebecca has served on many school and district committees. She has presented professional development classes at the school, district, and state levels. She served on the District Digital Library committee and helped create the Sora collection for St. Vrain Valley School District. She has specialized training in library design, genre- based library collections, multilingual learners, trauma- based classrooms and Title 1 schools.