Andre and all,
I agree with your assertion that some points in this article were not going
to force school administrators to go out hire a slew of librarians to
replace the ones they fired. However it may force them to think about why
the Internet doesn't provide all the answers that students need.
Many of us work in places where we have to fight to get funds for online
databases and reference resources. Our pleas are met with the comments of
how everything the students need is available for free online. I've heard of
new high schools that are being built with smaller reference collections in
favor of computer stations.
This article was written by a Stanford scholar who taught a course on
"Information Quality" at Berkeley. He dealt with bright people who grew up
with the Internet . His assertion is that if these students had difficulty
evaluating online information, many other students are going to the "traps"
online unless they are instructed to evaluate their Google hits. He also
stated that most of them "ignored other resources that the libraries have
access to..."
Jo
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Josephine G. Dervan, Library Media Specialist
Strathmore Elementary School, Aberdeen, NJ
home:rderva@infionline.net
school:jdervan@marsd.k12.nj.us
He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre Taylor" <Divalibrarian2@AOL.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] SHARE Impact of Schools Libraries on Achievement
> Here is my problem with the article:
>
> "Up to now, librarians have taken the lead in developing information
literacy
> standards and curriculums. There's a certain paradox in that, because a
lot
> of people assumed that the digital age would require neither libraries nor
> librarians. But today, students have only limited contact with librarians,
> particularly because they do most of their online information-seeking at
home or in
> the dorm.
>
> More important, leaving information literacy to librarians alone suggests
a
> failure to understand the scope of the problem."
>
> Well duh, the librarians were the ones teaching students how to use the
new
> medium. But wait isn't that one of the things we were trained to do? Teach
> users how to access various mediums and the best way to locate the
information
> and evaluate the information found. Hey why can't information literacy be
left
> to the librarians. Oh snap that would mean that the adminstration would
need
> to hire more librarians. Librarians could take this article apart and
explain
> to ther various school administrations why librarians are important.
> Sorry didn't mean to fall into a rant!
>
> Andre Taylor, Librarian
> Houston ES
> Washington DC
> divalibrarian2@aol.com
>
>
>
>
>
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