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Hilary brought up an interesting point. I think all of us would like to be
automated, if we aren't already, and many of us use InfoTrac or other
computer indexes, many of which include many articles full-text. I
wondered for a while why I should bother to teach the use of the Reader's
Guide, when we weren't using it, and InfoTrac was so easy! However, an
experience I had last week made me think twice.
I took my daughter and her friend to the public library to do some
research. The previous two times they had used InfoTrac, as well as some
other sources. This time, however, a sign on the computer held the
dreaded sign, "Out of Order". At first we panicked, and thought of
driving several miles to another branch, until we noticed that they
still carried the good old Readers' Guide. We sat down to search, when I
soon realized that the girls had no idea what the numbers meant in the
Readers' Guide (volume, pages, etc.). So I attempted to educated
them (briefly).
It so happened that I began a unit this week on "using magazines
as a reference tool" to my sixth graders. I'm now planning on
including a section, "how to decipher the Readers'Guide", just in case.......
Sheryl
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Sheryl Lee _/ Waterloo Public School
Library/Media Specialist _/ Waterloo, NE
slee@esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us _/ sher3333@aol.com
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