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Weed Transportation?
 All
school students deal with the issue of transportation every
day. Transportation schedules and methods sometimes determine
the framework of their days. In addition to logistics, there
is a natural interest in the various forms of transportation.
The curiosity is there from their first words, to first
bikes, to first cars, and first travels. Your collection
should encourage that interest and help students to become
knowledgeable about this vital part of society and life
today.
Suggested
Dewey Numbers to Check:
Transportation
is a fairly easy topic to check, since most of the titles
will be found in the 380s (transportation) and 620s (engineering).
Remember to also check your reference section and AV collection.
Specific
Criteria for Weeding:
Recognizing
that students actually USE transportation every day, currency
is a prime consideration. Do the books you have on cars,
buses, airplanes, etc., look like what your students see
and use on a daily basis? Your students will know and discount
the outdated. There may be some interest in "classic"
models, but most of your titles should be as contemporary
as the transportation means in your community. Illustrations
are important both in the rendering of the vehicles and
also the people. Look for a gender and ethnic balance in
illustrations.
Some
older titles may discuss personal safety in terms of transportation
in a light much different from today's world where such
hazards as congestion and road rage are much more dangerous
from those encountered twenty years ago. Air travel is a
common means of transportation for some students.
Do
your books on airports and airplanes reflect today or yesterday?
Any titles on careers in transportation older than 5 years
need to be carefully examined for accuracy. Your collection
should also include some titles that explore future transportation
methods such as bullet trains or light-rail that may be
realities now only in a few cosmopolitan areas but are projected
to impact all our lives in the future.
Consider
Weeding Titles Like These:
- Airliners
from 1919 top the present day, c.1966. LCCN 66019791
- Airplanes
and trucks and trains, fire engines, boats and ships, and
building and wrecking machines, 1968, c.1966. LCCN 68021295
- America
travels : the story of a hundred years of travel in America,
1933. LCCN 33024917
- Big
city transportation, 1954. LCCN 54001151
- The
boys' book of buses of the world, 1961.
- Busy
waterways, the story of America's inland water transportation,
1964. LCCN 64014216
- Cave
man to space man, picture-history of transportation, 1961.
LCCN 61010105
- Freight
train, c1954. LCCN 549857
- Great
trains of the world, c1953. LCCN 536290
- A
history of land transportation, 1963. LCCN 63010476
- Let's
go to a truck terminal [1964]. LCCN 64018030
- The
life and decline of the American railroad, 1970. LCCN 7783054
- Megalopolis
unbound : the supercity and transportation of tomorrow,
1966. LCCN 66018917
- Moving
around the world : travel by road and rail, 1968.
- My
book of transportation, c1961. LCCN 61066536
- The
new world of helicopters, c1967. LCCN 67000494
- A
picture history of U.S. transportation on rails, road, and
rivers, 1958. LCCN 58013988
- Popular
mechanics' picture history of American transportation, 1952.
LCCN 52014703
- The
story book of transportation, c1933. LCCN 34000188
- The
story of American railroads, 1967.
- The
Suez Canal in peace and war 1869-1969. LCCN 7086500
- This
is an airport, 1967. LCCN 67021166
- Transportation
by bus [filmstrip], 1968.
- Transportation
in the world of the future, 1968. LCCN 68030803
- Transportation
in today's world, [1965]. LCCN 64008099
- Transportation
of tomorrow, [1968]. LCCN 68014067
- Transportation,
USA [filmstrip], 1964.
- Truck
drivers : what do they do?, 1967. LCCN 67004192
- What
you'd see at the airport, [filmstrip], 1968.
- What
you'd see at the harbor [filmstrip], 1968.
- What
you'd see at the railroad terminal [filmstrip], 1968.
- Wheels,
1967. LCCN 67014186
- Wings,
wheels, and motors : a book about how we travel, 1958. LCCN
58001503
- The
wonderful world of transportation, [1960]. LCCN 60012988.
- World
of tomorrow : transport on earth, 1981.
- You
and American life lines : a story of transportation, 1952.
LCCN 52007557
- Your
career in transportation, 1966. LCCN 66008949
- Your
future in the trucking industry, [c.1964]. LCCN 64010200
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