Career Index: A Selective Bibliography for Elementary Schools

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With the stress on career orientation in the early levels of education, this bibliography will be welcomed by educators as a basic guide to career education materials appropriate for elementary school students. The Career Index is intended for teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, and students from kindergarten through sixth grade. This annotatated listing of 1,066 print and nonprint items includes fictional, bigraphical, and poetic as well as nonfictional works focusing on materials for self-awareness and career awareness. RQ This reference work is designed to help teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, parents, and students identify materials to increase career awareness at the kindergarten through sixth grade level. The annotated bibliography covers primarily recent works, published since 1970, that can offer career information for both children and young adults. In addition to the general or collective works that appear, the compiler, acknowledging the inspirational role biographies can play in career education, has included such works in the bibliography. The only exception is sports biographies, which, due to their sheer number, had to be excluded. The volume is organized by career or vocation, with general eerks listed at the beginning of each chapter. Throughout each category and subcategory, entries are listed alphabetically, with cross-references at the end of each chapter dealing with subject overlaps. Entries consist of the essential bibliographic information for each work, an approximate grade-range recommendation, a brief annotation, and a key to note the inclusion of indexes, photographs, appendices, etc. A group of separate indexes are also included, which classify the information according to author, biographie, and subject area. This unique reference book will be an important source for career education courses, as well as a valuable addition to elementary school libraries and those college libraries associated with teacher training.

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. . . Baldauf's Career Index has more limited use. It is designed to help teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, parents and students themselves identify materials to increase career awareness' for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. More than 1,000 items (books, filmstrips, cassettes, and videotapes) are roughly organized as general' career information or under 18 categories such as animal care, arts, business, communication, construction, and education. Entries give author; title; publisher; date; length; suggested grades; abbreviations noting index, bibliography, maps, photos, etc.; plus a one-sentence description. One unique feature of this work as career' information is that it includes many biographies (Janet Jackson and Tina Turner under Musicians, ' Ralph Nader and Sandra Day O'Connor under Law' ), as well as some fiction. Sports biographies are specifically excluded due to the sheer number of them.' The book is indexed by author, biographee, and occupation. Publication dates range from the early 1970s to the 1989 biography of Winnie and Nelson Mandela, with lots of basic A Day in the Life of . . . or I can be a . . . titles. Perhaps Baldauf tried to be too inclusive--such titles as Famous Firsts of Black Americans or Reluctant Warrior: Ulysses S. Grant are hardly illustrative of career opportunities today. But some children's collections may want this for collection development or to guide their patrons to what already exists on the shelves.-Reference Books Bulletin
. . . This is a good beginning bibliography for elementary school career materials and is more approachable for elementary school students than other existing sources.-Reference Quarterly
Career Index fulfills its more modest ambitions as capably . . . Within career clusters (e.g., animal care, education, an law), it, too identifies books and audiovisual materials on some fifty careers, among them circus workers, journalists, farmers, ranchers, postal workers, marine scientists, and home-makers. All of the 1,066 items are appropriatefor children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The brief descriptive annotations note gradelevel and the presence of a bibliography, photographs, an index, or other features. Because they "can play an inspirational role in career education," biographies and autobiographies have been included. Of the three indexes (author, title, and biographee), the last is the most useful. Children's and school librarians will find this useful as both a collection development tool and a reference guide.-Wilson Library Bulletin
Looking for materials on a career as a chemist Career Index: A Selective Bibliography for Elementary Schools is designed to ease location of print and nonprint career sources. Works covered are nonfiction and include biographies except for sports figures. Each of the 1,066 entries includes basic bibliographical information, a grade-level recommendation, a one-sentence annotation, and abbreviations denoting such features as maps or photographs. Balduaf provides indexes by author, biographee and occupation.-American Libraries
." . . This is a good beginning bibliography for elementary school career materials and is more approachable for elementary school students than other existing sources."-Reference Quarterly
"Career Index fulfills its more modest ambitions as capably . . . Within career clusters (e.g., animal care, education, an law), it, too identifies books and audiovisual materials on some fifty careers, among them circus workers, journalists, farmers, ranchers, postal workers, marine scientists, and home-makers. All of the 1,066 items are appropriatefor children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The brief descriptive annotations note gradelevel and the presence of a bibliography, photographs, an index, or other features. Because they "can play an inspirational role in career education," biographies and autobiographies have been included. Of the three indexes (author, title, and biographee), the last is the most useful. Children's and school librarians will find this useful as both a collection development tool and a reference guide."-Wilson Library Bulletin
"Looking for materials on a career as a chemist Career Index: A Selective Bibliography for Elementary Schools is designed to ease location of print and nonprint career sources. Works covered are nonfiction and include biographies except for sports figures. Each of the 1,066 entries includes basic bibliographical information, a grade-level recommendation, a one-sentence annotation, and abbreviations denoting such features as maps or photographs. Balduaf provides indexes by author, biographee and occupation."-American Libraries
." . . Baldauf's Career Index has more limited use. It is designed to help teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, parents and students themselves identify materials to increase career awareness' for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. More than 1,000 items (books, filmstrips, cassettes, and videotapes) are roughly organized as general' career information or under 18 categories such as animal care, arts, business, communication, construction, and education. Entries give author; title; publisher; date; length; suggested grades; abbreviations noting index, bibliography, maps, photos, etc.; plus a one-sentence description. One unique feature of this work as career' information is that it includes many biographies (Janet Jackson and Tina Turner under Musicians, ' Ralph Nader and Sandra Day O'Connor under Law' ), as well as some fiction. Sports biographies are specifically excluded due to the sheer number of them.' The book is indexed by author, biographee, and occupation. Publication dates range from the early 1970s to the 1989 biography of Winnie and Nelson Mandela, with lots of basic A Day in the Life of . . . or I can be a . . . titles. Perhaps Baldauf tried to be too inclusive--such titles as Famous Firsts of Black Americans or Reluctant Warrior: Ulysses S. Grant are hardly illustrative of career opportunities today. But some children's collections may want this for collection development or to guide their patrons to what already exists on the shelves."-Reference Books Bulletin

Author Bio

GRETCHEN S. BALDAUF has been a classroom teacher, a curriculum lab librarian at SUNY College at Buffalo, and a visiting lecturer at SUNY Buffalo's Library School. She is currently a substitute school librarian.