Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2021.1882241
Malik Haroon Afzal
ABSTRACT COVID-19 has re-shuffled human life in numerous ways. The ideology of restraint and social distancing is on top of all the changes gifted to mankind by the novel virus. In other words, social distancing as a ‘new normal’ has become an established reality. In this context, the study aims at exploring the mechanics of construction of this ‘new-normal’ via texts –literary and non-literary. According to new historicism, texts and co-texts are employed by power as tools to build as well as restraint a particular ideology. The paper aims at showing the treatment of COVID-19 by the literary texts produced during this vast human crisis particularly child fiction. It also re-validates the critique of new historicism in the under-discussion context. For this purpose, two short stories—Together by Kevin Poplawski and My Hero is You by UNICEF—have been analysed in the backdrop of the political (non-literary) discourse produced to combat COVID-19. The analysis, thus, finds the heavy reliance of world powers on literary and non-literary discourses for the inclusion of the ‘new normative’ of social distancing and personal care. It is also suggested that the pandemic has bestowed a relatively polite image to ‘power’ due to its efforts to construct the ‘new normal’ abiding selves and inoculate the ‘new normative of social distancing’ that ultimately favours humanity.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2021.1882245
R. Srivastava, Praveen Babel
ABSTRACT Human beings all over the world are struggling in all fields of life after the emergence of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Librarians are also trying to provide services to their community that includes protocols to be followed for the prevention of COVID-19 transmission. Considering the uncommon and quickly changing conditions identified with COVID-19 flare-ups, a few scholastic course books, digital books, and academic distributers have briefly opened admittance to their copyrighted and limited materials. This article discusses and analyzes the importance of open access (OA) and institutional repositories after the outbreak of COVID-19 where students can educate themselves staying safe at home by using OA resources and repositories.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2021.1882242
Nanthini R.O., Rekha Rani Varghese
ABSTRACT The following is a user study conducted among staff and students of government high schools and higher secondary schools in Puducherry, India, to identify the quality of collections and services provided and recommend necessary changes. The major findings are as follows. It was found that majority of the users accessed Tamil language newspapers (83.8%) and books to read comparing to English, but they also utilized the dictionary (73.7%) to a great extent. Only 63.6% users were satisfied with the library collection and dictionaries and encyclopedias showed a positive satisfaction mean of 4.03 value. The overall service satisfaction was positive with 4.07 mean value. A total of 66.7% users wanted changes in resource arrangement and of it, 71.2% wanted shelf labels and subject wise arrangement respectively. Overall study showed the need to improve the quality of collection and the need to modify the existing resource arrangement to meet the users’ needs.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2021.1949239
D. Cheetham
ABSTRACT One of the foundations of picturebook studies is that the visual- and verbal-texts together create an integrated experience of the whole text. However, for poetry in picturebooks, the designation of “poem” is traditionally applied only to the verbal-text. In this paper I argue that visual techniques can be more than simply “poetic” and can be part of the structural and technical choices that make a poem. I apply this theoretical discussion to the example of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are concluding that combined visual and verbal techniques create an integrated visual-verbal poem.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2021.1949232
Shai Rudin
ABSTRACT This study examined the assumption that children’s stories conclude with a happy End and found five different types of Ends in Hebrew children’s literature: the happy End, the happy-enough End, the ambivalent End, the open End, and the bad End. In addition to the Bibliotherapeutic Approach whereby children should be exposed to realistic texts that do not enhance escapism, additional approaches also exist. The open, ambivalent, and bad Endings enable the emergence of more complex themes, together with multi-layered poetics, that challenge children’s thinking and turn children’s stories into a complex art medium rather than a didactic one.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2021.1972748
J. DeLooper, C. Brooks
This article discusses the findings resulting from the creation of a comprehensive bibliography of English Language children’s opera books published from 1895 to 2015. Historically opera was often assumed to be an elitist art in the United States and was thus seldom discussed in library collection development literature, and equally rarely highlighted in children’s literature periodicals. This paper, supported by a Carnegie Whitney grant from the American Library Association, investigated the impact of opera themed children’s books by compiling a bibliography which documented instances of opera in published English Language children’s literature over 125 years. By analyzing what was published, this article discusses library collections and the cultural appreciation of opera in the United States. It finds that opera has been and continues to be a significant subject in children’s literature, and provides new insights about opera’s presence and impact in America’s libraries.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2021.1971392
Åse Hedemark
ABSTRACT Research speaks of a disconnect between young adults and library culture. Young adults, despite having overall low expectations, often show dissatisfaction with library services, while librarians perceive teens as both a prioritized user group, and a problematic group of users. Ninety-two young adults participated in a focus-group study. The interviews revolved around their views on reading and public library services. Results showed that young adults’ choices to engage in reading practices are influenced by the context of the practice, the motivation for engaging in the practice and the format used.
{"title":"Authenticity Matters: The Reading Practices of Swedish Young Adults and Their Views of Public Libraries","authors":"Åse Hedemark","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2021.1971392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2021.1971392","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research speaks of a disconnect between young adults and library culture. Young adults, despite having overall low expectations, often show dissatisfaction with library services, while librarians perceive teens as both a prioritized user group, and a problematic group of users. Ninety-two young adults participated in a focus-group study. The interviews revolved around their views on reading and public library services. Results showed that young adults’ choices to engage in reading practices are influenced by the context of the practice, the motivation for engaging in the practice and the format used.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123115535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2020.1774268
Sunah Chung
ABSTRACT Informational picturebooks aim to provide information and facts to child readers. However, few studies investigated how informational picturebooks portray and describe animal subjects. The current study explored the content depicted in children’s informational picturebooks, concentrating on visual representations in view of common features in both sharks and polar bears. This study analyzed a total of 22 books focused on a target audience of Grades PreK-1 children. The results showed distinctive differences in visual representations of each animal. The study contended that educators, publishers, and caregivers should acknowledge such stereotypical descriptions contained in children’s informational picturebooks.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2020.1774267
Sue C. Kimmel, Krystal Lancaster
ABSTRACT The Dewey Decimal Classification or alphabetical order employed by many libraries may create an opaque boundary for patrons seeking resources. A system that promotes browsing may be more appropriate for young children. This case study applies a concept of boundary objects to examine how the re-classification of the picture book section in a small public library served to address the desires and learning needs of young patrons. Through interviews with key staff and documents maintained and shared by the librarian, this study recounts the steps undertaken in the process and analyzes the kinds of learning engendered by the new arrangement.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2020.1799647
D. Becker
{"title":"How Children’s Literature and Librarians Can Engage Young People in Conversations about Race and Privilege","authors":"D. Becker","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2020.1799647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2020.1799647","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133660859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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