More ideas!

I feel like, if I searched hard enough, I could find a famous quote about the best research coming from a plethora of ideas.  So, hopefully, I am on the right track because I have two more vague research ideas.

1. Researching something about freshman preparedness for college (focusing on the student athletes)
2. I read an article the other day that criticized the Newberry award for becoming unrelated to children's real preferences.  Therefore, I could analyze the popularity of the Newberry, Caldecott, Other awards in actual student reading.  I could also see which titles are making into the classroom curriculum.

Those are just two new ideas... that I could be equally excited about!  So, who knows!

Where to begin?!?

These blog posts will mainly be my musing while developing a research proposal.  It always helps for me to "talk out" my ideas and this is a good way to do just that. So...

I am thinking of looking into what children are reading (what a novel idea!).  Specifically, I am considering one of the following research ideas:

1. Comparing the circulation records of public and school libraries for children's literature.  I want to see if children are checking out mainly education/content-related book from school libraries & pleasure reads from the public library. 
2. Comparing the circulation records at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.  I personally checked out books for pleasure when I was in high school, mainly.  I tended to stick with education related books in middle school.  I would like to see if this is a common trend.

So.... those are my ideas.  I am not quite sure how feasible it all will be.  However, I do think that both could show how libraries should focus on collection development.