LAB B - GARDENING PROGRAM FOR LIBRARY

LAB B - GARDENING PROGRAM FOR LOCAL LIBRARY
  with bookmark and poster

LAB B

The librarian and I discussed creating a reading list with the subject of gardening due to that being such a popular topic at their library.  We discussed also whether they would be interested in a gardening reading list being available on their Web site.  There was no commitment made to this due to the upkeep and cost of anything Web related. The librarian thought a short reading list would be great and she also thought if I wanted to make a display poster that would be wonderful as well. 

Bookmark For Gardening Book List (click to download)

GARDENING READ LIST – CN = Call Number

1.      The complete guide to lower Midwest gardening by Lynn Steiner CN:   635.0977 STE     

2.      Month-by-month gardening in Indiana b  James Frizzell  CN:   635.09772 FIZ 2006 

3.      Indiana gardener's guide by Tom Tyler, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp CN:   635.09772 TYL  

4.      Gardening in the lower Midwest by Dianne Heilenman CN:   635.0977 H4665g  

5.      Got shade? : a "take it easy" approach by Carolyn Harstad CN: 635.9543 HAR 

6.       How to grow house plants from seeds by Elvin McDonald  CN:     635.965  

7.      What's wrong with my plant (& how do I fix it? by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth CN: 635.049 DEA

8.      How to make your garden grow: a beginner's guide  by Toby and Lisa Buckland CN: 635.9 B9242h

9.      The North American guide to common poisonous plants and mushrooms by Nancy J. Turner and Patrick von Aderkas  CN:  581.659 TUR             

10.  A backyard vegetable garden for kids by Amie Jane Leavitt  CN:    j635 LEA 

 Alternate Reading List to use by the Display

1.      Month-by-month gardening in Indiana : what to do each month to have a beautiful garden all year / James A. Fizzell. – “The Month-By-Month series is the perfect companion to take the guesswork out of gardening. With this book, you'll know what to do each month to have gardening success all year. Written by authors in your state, the information is tailored to the issues that affect your garden the most. When is the best time to plant trees and shrubs? Should I fertilize my lawn now?’call# 635.09772 FIZ 2006 

2.      Guide to Indiana Vegetable Gardening (Vegetable Gardening Guides) Paperback – February 1, 2008 by James Fizzell  

3.      Gardening for a lifetime: how to garden wiser as you grow older / by Sydney Eddison ; illustrations by Kimberly Day  - Call number:    635 EDD  Subject:     Gardening for older people.  Low maintenance gardening.   

4.      Gardening for dummies by Sue Fisher, Michael MacCaskey, Bill Marken, and the editors of the National Gardening Association.    DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK  

5.    Montgomery, S. (2000). Eat Your Lawn!. Scientific American Explorations, 3(2), 8. – “Discusses information about nutritious foods that can be grown in the backyard. Wild strawberry; Field mustard; Plantain; Dandelion; Wild Blue Violet.” -  http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.ilibrary.org/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url,cpid&custid=marion&db=tth&AN=2971003&site=ehost-live 

 

6.      4 Fun Kits for Mom & Dad. (2007). National Geographic Kids, (370), 46. – “The article suggests various activities for the family on Mother's or Father's Day. It offers tips on how to grow a herb garden and presents a recipe for pizza. Step-by-step instructions for making a car shampoo and an air freshener are provided. The whole family can watch films on DVD together at home.” - http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.ilibrary.org/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url,cpid&custid=marion&db=tth&AN=25066772&site=ehost-live 

 

7.      Clark, K. (2008). Eat Your Own Spinach. (cover story). U.S. News & World Report, 145(14), 66. – “The article discusses the growing of one's own produce. The cultivation of a "square-foot garden" is described, mentioning the ability for apartment dwellers to design a garden with small one-foot-by-one-foot sections that is capable of growing enough vegetables to produce one meal per day for around five months” - .http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.ilibrary.org/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url,cpid&custid=marion&db=tth&AN=35864445&site=ehost-live

Articles about botanical and horticultural libraries

    Hassert, Rita, “The library in a public garden”, appendix E (3 p.), in: Rakow, D. & S. Lee, Public Garden Management. John Wiley & Sons, 2011. 416 p. Read online on Google Books

    Fescemyer, Kathy, “The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries”, Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, 11 (2, 2010): 73-80. Read excerpt : Importance of botanical and horticultural information.

    MacPhail, Ian, “Information Resources for Botanical Gardens”,  AABGA Bulletin, 15 (3, 1976): 90-95.  Read online

    Reed, John, “Problems of horticultural and botanical libraries”, Arnoldia, 30 (1, 1970): 2-8. Read PDF online on Arnoldia archives

    More articles and libraries’ profiles in the CBHL Newsletter.

Past CBHL Publications – Bibliography Series

This occasional series of topical bibliographies prepared by CBHL members covers a diverse range of subjects.

1. McKiernan, Gerard. 1978. Desert Gardening: Desert Plant and their cultivation: An Annotated Bibliography. PDF
2. Schwartz, Diane. 1978. Vegetable cookery: an annotated list of references. PDF
3. Schwartz, Diane. 1978. Edible wild plants: an annotated list of references. PDF
4. Schofield, Eileen K. 1983. Botanical crafts: an annotated list of references. PDF
5. Zanoni, Thomas and Eileen K. Schofield. 1983. Dyes from plants: an annotated list of references. PDF
6. Miasek, Meryl A. and Charles R. Long. 1985. Endangered plant species of the world and their endangered habitats: a compilation of the literature. PDF
7. Schofield, Eileen. 1988. Cooking with vegetables, flowers and fruits: an annotated list of references. PDF
8. Miller, Heather S. 1990. Children and gardens: an annotated bibliography of children’s garden books 1829 to 1988. PDF

http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-are-weeds/ -

The Book display I have worked up will include

The Seed Repository at Glendale Library Branch of the IMCPL.org.  - http://www.imcpl.org/IndyPL_SeedLibrary/ - "The IndyPL Seed Library is located at the Glendale branch and is free and open to the public. It is available during regular branch hours from late March through October. We provide seeds for check-out (as well as education and resources about growing and saving seeds and organic gardening). The vast majority of the seeds are open pollinated. Many of them are also organic or heirloom seeds.
Patrons may check out up to 5 packets per visit, to a total of 15 packets per season, and plant them in their home garden. At the end of the growing season, patrons may choose to save seeds to return to the library and/or keep for their garden next year." 

GARDENING FOR KIDS

Worms eat my garbage / by Mary Appelhof ; with illustrations by Mary Frances Fenton.  CN: 639.75 APP 1997

Cool carrots from garden to table : how to plant, grow, and prepare carrots by Katherine Hengel. CN:      j635.13 HEN

A gre j635.923 LAYen kid's guide to preventing plant diseases by by Richard Lay ; illustrated by Laura Zarrin. CN: j635.923 LAY 

A kid's guide to how plants grow [electronic resource] by Patricia Ayers. An e-book: - http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1053942  

Cool basil from garden to table : how to plant, grow, and prepare basil by Katherine Hengel. CN: j635.7 HEN

BOOKLIST OF WEBSITES FOR GARDENING AID:

Purdue Cooperative Extension Service for Garden - https://extension.purdue.edu/Marion/pages/c.aspx?intHomeID=50&intCatgID=13 

 

Garfield Park Conservatory
2505 Garfield Plaza Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46203

IMA Horticultural Society
Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1200 West 38th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208

Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society
"Promotes the appreciation, preservation, conservation, utilization and scientific study of the flora native to Indiana."

Purdue Master Gardener Program
Rosie Lerner, Extension Consumer Hort. Spec./Master Gardener State Coord, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010

Purdue University Consumer Horticulture
Rosie Lerner, Extension Consumer Hort. Spec./Master Gardener State Coord, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010

White River Gardens
1200 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN 46222

POSTER FOR DISPLAY -

I also thought this video running on a digital photo display at our library display with the booklists would be entertaining and engaging.  http://collections.libraries.iub.edu/IULMIA/items/show/85

My Lab B Library

This Library is a mid-sized library that serves the residents of the an eastside neighborhood.  

The library I chose has a well-rounded popular collection of adult and juvenile titles in both non-fiction and fiction titles.  This branch offers 21 computers for Internet access, color printers, copy machine and several programs ongoing at all times.  They have monthly book club meetings.  Meetings for textile creation, pre-school programs to explore, and a reluctant readers program where they use a trained therapy dog to encourage children to read are just a few of the programs.  They also have the “eBook Tinker Station,” which is a mini class on using and downloading for eReaders.  The patrons of the area seem to frequent this library and use every single corner that the library contains.  

I was informed that fiction and garden-themed and graphic novels are two extremely popular collections at the library at this time.  With spring the library finds many patrons seek plans for an planning this season’s garden.  The librarian thought this would make a good upcoming themed library program.  The manager worked with me to create a book list we thought the patrons might use.  

We also created a poster and a bookmark with garden reading list to be used in the library at the same time as promoting the book list.

We also had the good intentions of creating a display area around the poster and booklists. The form these items would take was considered.  There is a lot of information on gardening in Indiana and the Midwest so we thought a bookmark for a patron could use for a start to gardening information and also for a bookmark to use as a placeholder.  Rather than include every item on gardening, some links to Web sites and programs in Indianapolis were to be included on another form of hand-out commonly used at the library which was a 8.5 x 5.5 (half sheet of paper).  

We didn’t plan to do any read-alikes due to our focus on gardening.  

All materials were created using Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop.  The Sherlock database was used to create the bookmarks as well as the additional annotated booklists. I made sure to stay within the materials available through the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library access and databases.  

The most difficult part of this assignment was getting 10 annotations to fit on a page the size of a bookmark.  I ended up having to make my bookmark go from 2.917 wide x 9.528 high to 2.694 x 9.931 to get the 10 annotations to fit.  It also proved, in the end, to be difficult for me to get to the library physically to work with the staff.