book.and.bloom

I signed up for this course because it was a core course and required for the completion of the Teacher Librarianship Diploma at the University of British Colombia (UBC). The topic seemed interesting, but apart from a vague understanding of reference material that I had gleaned from my summer job as a page at our local community library, I had not given reference material much thought. As the weeks passed, I came to an understanding about the value of reference resources and started looking with interest for my school library’s reference materials. To my dismay, they were out of date, obsolete and all were scattered around the library like paper sheets in a windstorm. Once they were reunited, they formed a very sad and very embarrassing reference collection.   From this very limited reference resource section, I selected the  Dorling Kindersley Ultimate Visual Dictionary  for the purposes of this paper. I was drawn to evaluate this resource because it looks to be in quite...