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Building a Popular Science Library Collection for High School to Adult Learners: Issues and Recommended Resources
In response to the often-cited need to improve science literacy in the United States, this book examines how popular science information resources contribute to this goal and recommends nearly 2,500 significant titles―70 percent published since 1990―representing all fields of modern science. This guide provides librarians, educators, and other information specialists with an understanding of science literacy, as well as the knowledge of the skills and principles necessary to evaluate works of popular science. The annotated bibliographies are organized into nine subject areas and represent the body of current, significant popular literature for the entire discipline, including reference works, autobiography and biography, history of the discipline, and specific topics within the discipline. Nonprint resources are evaluated as well. This work will be valuable for collection development, making reference recommendations, and designing programmatic learning activities and is intended for public, high school, community college, and college and university librarians, as well as for science teachers.
Librarians and information specialists must develop representative collections and be able to evaluate and recommend scientific information resources effectively. This work is unique in developing a unifying contextual background and linking popular science library collections to science literacy. Part One, Scientific Information, Popular Science, and Lifelong Learning, discusses historical and current issues related to popular science, science literacy, and information resources. Included is the most exhaustive discussion available of how to evaluate works of popular science. Part Two, Subject Guides to Popular Information Resources, is an annotated bibliography of 2,500 recommended print and nonprint works in general science, astronomy and space sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and health sciences, natural history, physics, and technology and applied science. Each core entry contains a complete bibliographic citation, a 25-75 word descriptive and evaluative annotation, and a list of review sources. Annotations consider the resource's level of relevance, scope, comprehensibility, and uniqueness, and compare resources, especially the ways in which they complement or contrast with one another. Additional recommended titles contain a brief annotation.
Librarians and information specialists must develop representative collections and be able to evaluate and recommend scientific information resources effectively. This work is unique in developing a unifying contextual background and linking popular science library collections to science literacy. Part One, Scientific Information, Popular Science, and Lifelong Learning, discusses historical and current issues related to popular science, science literacy, and information resources. Included is the most exhaustive discussion available of how to evaluate works of popular science. Part Two, Subject Guides to Popular Information Resources, is an annotated bibliography of 2,500 recommended print and nonprint works in general science, astronomy and space sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and health sciences, natural history, physics, and technology and applied science. Each core entry contains a complete bibliographic citation, a 25-75 word descriptive and evaluative annotation, and a list of review sources. Annotations consider the resource's level of relevance, scope, comprehensibility, and uniqueness, and compare resources, especially the ways in which they complement or contrast with one another. Additional recommended titles contain a brief annotation.
344 pages, Hardcover
First published July 24, 1995
About the author
Gregg Sapp
23 books22 followersNEWS FIT to PRINT:
FORTHCOMING: "Hinky Memorial Dinky Day," the next installment in the "Holidazed" series.
The Latest: "Mother Fracking Earth Day," Book seven in the "Holidazed" series
Follow my humor essays on Medium: https://muddyum.net/something-went-wr...
I've published a new short story, "Buzzard Day," in the lit journal Instant Noodles. Homage to Hinkley, Ohio. https://instantnoodleslitmag.com/buzz...
Check out my interview on Robb Grindstaff's blog, "A Writers Block" https://robbgrindstaff.substack.com/p...
Stories recently published include:
"Knock Knock," Creative Colloquy, https://www.creativecolloquy.com/the-...
"Pray" Muleskinner Magazine, https://www.muleskinnerjournal.com/pray
"The Spud," Darkhouses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, no. 4, May 2022: 87-109
My short story, "Clean Enough to Eat Off," which was published in the Summer 2021 issue of 96Logic, was nominated for the annual Pushcart Prize for the Best in Indie Lit. Cool.
By popular demand (?!?), I am placing the entirety my published creative writing on Medium. As I add to the catalog, I'll also include excerpts, new original material, unpublished stuff, works in progress, and other odds and ends. The first story is "Fu Manchu, Foo Man Choo, Man Chew Food," which originally appeared in Zodiac Review, spring 2012. Go to https://sappgregg.medium.com/
"Murder by Valentine Candy," Book Four of the "Holidazed" series -- Evolved, February 2021
Hey, everybody. My short piece, "Blue Yodel," was published in the latest issue of Bear Creek Gazette. lhttps://www.welcometobearcreek.com/bl...
Published in 2020:
"Upside Down Independence Day." Book Three of the "Holidazed" series. -- Evolved Publishing, available in both print and e-book.
The neighboring small towns, Coon Creek and Golden Springs, Ohio, start their own little war, and may never be the same after the coming Fourth of July celebration.
NOW AVAILABLE:
"The Christmas Donut Revolution" and "Halloween from the Other Side," books one and two in the "Holidazed" series of satires, each set around a different holiday. https://evolvedpub.com/team-member/au...
"Fresh News Straight from Heaven." www.evolvedpub.com/FNSFH. Named one of the Best Ohio Books of 2018 by the Akron Beacon Journal.
"Johnny Appleseed told many a tale about his life and times. He would've liked this book..." Howard Means, author "Johnny Appleseed."
A native of Columbus, Ohio, I've crafted a peripatetic career as a librarian, editor, college teacher, and academic administrator. In my career in higher education, I have authored some 60 academic articles, four monographs, 300-some reviews, and served as editor of five professional journals.
I have master degrees in library science from the University of Washington and adult education from Montana State University. Among my jobs were positions at Idaho State University, University of Miami (FL), University at Albany (SUNY), and the Evergreen State College in Washington.
Back in the 1980's and 90's, I wrote some poems and short stories that appeared in various small literary arts journals (does anybody remember The Redneck Review of Literature?). For my 50th birthday present to myself, I decided to resume creative writing.
Hence, I was thrilled when my first novel, Dollarapalooza -- or -- The Day Peace Broke Out in Columbus, was published by Switchgrass Books of Northern Illinois University Press in May, 2011. Since then, happily, I've published several short stories, some poetry, and humor in journals such as Marathon Review, Zodiac Review, Waypoints, Semaphore, Imaginaire, and been a frequent contributor to Midwestern Gothic.
My second novel, Fresh News Straight from Heaven, is based upon the true mythology of the American folk hero, John
FORTHCOMING: "Hinky Memorial Dinky Day," the next installment in the "Holidazed" series.
The Latest: "Mother Fracking Earth Day," Book seven in the "Holidazed" series
Follow my humor essays on Medium: https://muddyum.net/something-went-wr...
I've published a new short story, "Buzzard Day," in the lit journal Instant Noodles. Homage to Hinkley, Ohio. https://instantnoodleslitmag.com/buzz...
Check out my interview on Robb Grindstaff's blog, "A Writers Block" https://robbgrindstaff.substack.com/p...
Stories recently published include:
"Knock Knock," Creative Colloquy, https://www.creativecolloquy.com/the-...
"Pray" Muleskinner Magazine, https://www.muleskinnerjournal.com/pray
"The Spud," Darkhouses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, no. 4, May 2022: 87-109
My short story, "Clean Enough to Eat Off," which was published in the Summer 2021 issue of 96Logic, was nominated for the annual Pushcart Prize for the Best in Indie Lit. Cool.
By popular demand (?!?), I am placing the entirety my published creative writing on Medium. As I add to the catalog, I'll also include excerpts, new original material, unpublished stuff, works in progress, and other odds and ends. The first story is "Fu Manchu, Foo Man Choo, Man Chew Food," which originally appeared in Zodiac Review, spring 2012. Go to https://sappgregg.medium.com/
"Murder by Valentine Candy," Book Four of the "Holidazed" series -- Evolved, February 2021
Hey, everybody. My short piece, "Blue Yodel," was published in the latest issue of Bear Creek Gazette. lhttps://www.welcometobearcreek.com/bl...
Published in 2020:
"Upside Down Independence Day." Book Three of the "Holidazed" series. -- Evolved Publishing, available in both print and e-book.
The neighboring small towns, Coon Creek and Golden Springs, Ohio, start their own little war, and may never be the same after the coming Fourth of July celebration.
NOW AVAILABLE:
"The Christmas Donut Revolution" and "Halloween from the Other Side," books one and two in the "Holidazed" series of satires, each set around a different holiday. https://evolvedpub.com/team-member/au...
"Fresh News Straight from Heaven." www.evolvedpub.com/FNSFH. Named one of the Best Ohio Books of 2018 by the Akron Beacon Journal.
"Johnny Appleseed told many a tale about his life and times. He would've liked this book..." Howard Means, author "Johnny Appleseed."
A native of Columbus, Ohio, I've crafted a peripatetic career as a librarian, editor, college teacher, and academic administrator. In my career in higher education, I have authored some 60 academic articles, four monographs, 300-some reviews, and served as editor of five professional journals.
I have master degrees in library science from the University of Washington and adult education from Montana State University. Among my jobs were positions at Idaho State University, University of Miami (FL), University at Albany (SUNY), and the Evergreen State College in Washington.
Back in the 1980's and 90's, I wrote some poems and short stories that appeared in various small literary arts journals (does anybody remember The Redneck Review of Literature?). For my 50th birthday present to myself, I decided to resume creative writing.
Hence, I was thrilled when my first novel, Dollarapalooza -- or -- The Day Peace Broke Out in Columbus, was published by Switchgrass Books of Northern Illinois University Press in May, 2011. Since then, happily, I've published several short stories, some poetry, and humor in journals such as Marathon Review, Zodiac Review, Waypoints, Semaphore, Imaginaire, and been a frequent contributor to Midwestern Gothic.
My second novel, Fresh News Straight from Heaven, is based upon the true mythology of the American folk hero, John
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