What do the Professionals Have to Offer?

Book Links

When considering a professional resource I turned to the readings for this course to get an idea of sites that might be useful to those who want to add quality to their multicultural collections. I took another look at the websites listed in Tami C. Al-Hazza's article that reviewed some of the children's literature available. My search led me to the Book Links page published by the American Library Association (https://www.ala.org/ala/productsandpublications/periodicals/booklinks/booklinks.htm) .

I essentially found the same article from the January 2006 issue of Book Links that is a publication of the American Library Association. I think that the resource, Book Links does a good job dealing with issues of diverse literature and offers as many examples as possible for the literature in publication. There are various articles in the January 2006 publication that deal with different cultures and offers links to websites that discuss more in depth the materials covered throughout the text. (https://www.ala.org/ala/ProductsandPublications/periodicals/booklinks/webconnections/Webconnectionsjan2006.htm)

I feel that this publication, whether it is subscribed to or is visited at its website, offers information that can be very useful when trying to develop a classroom library in general and does a excellent job in making titles of multicultural texts available for the ever preceptive mind.