5 Steps to Become a Book Selection Expert (0–8 Years Old Book Selection Guide)

When you choose books for your own baby or rec­om­mend books for oth­er babies, you may be tempt­ed to think: “My baby real­ly likes X, so what book should I choose?”, “I real­ly hope my baby does X (or not X), so what book should I choose?“A warm reminder: books are not med­i­cine. Treat­ing books as med­i­cine often back­fires.How­ev­er, choos­ing books based on a cer­tain theme is a good start, and to be hon­est, so-called book selec­tion experts often start this way.

By the way, the “what” and “how” men­tioned here are expressed in terms of “sub­ject words”, which are com­mon­ly used in libraries.MARCData (com­mon­ly known as “Mark data”) gen­er­al­ly stores key­words in606field, on the copy­right page of most booksCIPIn the data, for exam­ple,III.

①Chil­dren’s Sto­ries–Port­fo­lio–USA–mod­ern”, this stan­dard sub­ject word is main­ly used for lit­er­a­ture retrieval and is of lit­tle help for dai­ly book selec­tion. But Mark Data also has a610The “Uncon­trolled Sub­ject Head­ings” field allows for arbi­trary key­word def­i­n­i­tions, such as “princess,” “fear of the dark,” “brave,” “moth­er­ly love,” “excre­ment,” etc. Few libraries actu­al­ly define these, but once prop­er­ly used, they can be very help­ful in our dai­ly book selec­tion.

Okay, based on the above com­mon sense, the train­ing of book selec­tion experts can offi­cial­ly begin.

First, please have a copy of “Read­ing Lights Up Child­hood:0~8“Books Par­ents Must Read at the End of the Year”.
 Red Mud Book Pur­chase Link:http://www.hongniba.com.cn/bookclub/bookinfo.jsp?bookid=30003567


Step 2, please turn toP25Page key­word details page, find the key­word you want to searchFor exam­ple, we find “fear” (sec­ondary sub­ject word) under “emo­tion man­age­ment” (first-lev­el sub­ject word), seeP26Page.

Step 3: Turn toP44Page, find detailed bib­li­og­ra­phy:


   
For exam­ple, you might be inter­est­ed in the book “Go Away, Big Green Mon­ster!” and guess your baby might like it based on the name. But what kind of book is it? What age group is it suit­able for? Please pay atten­tion to the num­ber after the title.20100606, which is the num­ber arranged in order in the book library chap­ter of this book, and its mean­ing is prob­a­bly “2010Year6The ser­i­al num­ber of the month­ly final­ists is6of the book”.
 

Step 4: Turn to the library sec­tion of this book and search in order of num­ber20100606,existP177On the page we found the intro­duc­tion of this book. Please note that the appro­pri­ate read­ing age is not absolute. It is only for gen­er­al sit­u­a­tions. The spe­cif­ic sit­u­a­tion of the baby still needs to be specif­i­cal­ly judged. Here we only pro­vide basic ref­er­ence sug­ges­tions.

Of course, in the fourth step, you can also search for spe­cif­ic book infor­ma­tion through the Inter­net to deter­mine whether you need to pur­chase it or bor­row it from a near­by library or pic­ture book library.




Tips: The books retrieved through the above method are not all the books avail­able on the mar­ket (it can be said that they are far from enough). It is more like a demon­stra­tion for start­ing prac­tice.1500This is a selec­tion of books2005–2014The books care­ful­ly select­ed by the Red Mud Read­ing Club and “Par­ents Must Read” over the years are, with­out exag­ger­a­tion, a good book that you can pick up with your eyes closed. How­ev­er, whether they are suit­able for your baby’s cur­rent needs requires fur­ther spe­cif­ic judg­ment.




The fifth step is an advanced book selec­tion guide for tech­nol­o­gy enthu­si­asts. Those who are a lit­tle afraid of search­ing com­plex data­bas­es can stop here for now.The above four steps are gen­er­al­ly suf­fi­cient to make you a book selec­tion expert in your office and among your friends. The fol­low­ing steps are more suit­able for pro­fes­sion­als, such as those in the pub­lish­ing indus­try, teach­ers, pic­ture book library oper­a­tors, and read­ing pro­mot­ers.




No.5.1Step 1: Vis­it the Red Mud Dig­i­tal Plat­form Cloud Library Search Plat­form:

Web­site:http://www.hnbclub.cn/dp2OPAC/searchbiblio.aspx



The above is the ini­tial inter­face after enter­ing the search plat­form. Before search­ing, you also need to select the match­ing method, data­base name and search path. The demon­stra­tion is as fol­lows:



 

No.5.2Step 1: Select the search con­di­tions.For exam­ple, keep the match­ing method as “mid­dle con­sis­ten­cy”, select “Book Library” as the data­base name (of course, you can choose not to select it, the results will be more com­pli­cat­ed), and select “Sub­ject Word” as the search method (this includes the above606and610Then you search for “afraid of the dark” and see what the results are.



No.5.3Step 2, observe the above results,Note that the cur­rent results are19Items, dis­played in two pages, this is from the recent7You may need to fur­ther fil­ter the results retrieved from tens of thou­sands of book data. The “faceted nav­i­ga­tion” on the left is a very use­ful func­tion. You can fur­ther refine it accord­ing to its options; detailed, brief,MARCIt is a choice of pre­sen­ta­tion inter­face, and you can try it.



 

No.5.4In the next step, you can change the search con­di­tions to try dif­fer­ent effects.As shown below:

At this point, con­grat­u­la­tions, you have mas­tered the most basic book selec­tion tools!Prac­tice dili­gent­ly, make good use of it, and often choose and rec­om­mend books for your own or oth­er chil­dren. I believe you will soon become a pop­u­lar book selec­tion expert.



 

Ajia …
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