Collecting for the Curriculum: The Common Core and Beyond - Softcover

"This text provides librarians with a primer of the Common Core State Standards, an overview of the role of the academic curriculum librarian within the standards, and offers text-specific chapters with accompanying resource lists. . . . As the book is meant to be a toolkit for professionals in the field, it does well in providing context for the discussion, outlining the professional research, and delivering clear and accessible instruction and resources. This is a useful and useable text." - VOYA

If you're a librarian charged with collecting curriculum materials and children's literature to support the Common Core State Standards, then this book-the only one that offers explicit advice on collection development in curriculum collections-is for you. * Draws on current research and interviews with some of the most experienced curriculum librarians in the United States to help faculty and teachers better understand the Common Core * Provides explicit applications of the CCSS for librarians working in post-secondary institutions * Covers the diverse teaching strategies of faculty and teachers * Includes an extensive appendix with lists of books that support all curricular areas, as well as lesson ideas and other resources * Offers a regularly updated companion website