Points of View Reference Center Subscription

25. Points of View Reference Center Subscription Review

Type: Subscription Database
Title: Points of View Reference Center
Ages: 15 and up

Summary: A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 280 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

Critical Evaluation: This subscription is very unique because it provides the type of information that you don't find in your standard textbooks.  What teens will really take advantage is the hot topic issues in the United States today. Topics like Immigration, Abortion, Citizens Rights, Foreign Policy, and Religion.  By providing essays that provide both sides of the argument, students can learn the facts and make their own choices in life on where they stand.

This subscription can specifically help high school students who usually have to pick a hot topic issue and argue for a certain position. These essays can help students point them in the right direction and expand their knowledge on all these topics.

Challenge Issues:

• None

Challenge Ideas: 

• Be familiar with the themes in the material and how they relate to young adults today.
• Stay calm and remember to not be personally offended by their comments or concerns.
• Libraries provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues.  Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
• Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
• LISTEN to what they have to say and reiterate our freedom to read and be without censorship.
• All material for young adults are under the review of the branch manager and even further up, the Library Director and even City Council members.