Re: [LM_NET] school without library

[Kathy Graves <kgraves@SNOWCREST.NET>]

I have taught an interesting session on Information Literacy to 
teachers, and one of the lessons I developed was a contest to see who 
could find 4 facts about Sophie Tucker the fastest.  I had the tech 
person time the group and I had a stop watch on myself.  The teachers 
were in the computer lab (with a connecting door to our county office 
of ed. library) and were told they could use any resource they wanted 
to.  They all chose to search the Internet.

The first teacher to find all 4 facts did so in 2 minutes 11 seconds 
using the Internet.  I found the same information in 12 seconds using 
the Biographical Dictionary - a good old print source most of the class 
had never heard of.

So, if we are talking about one small component of finding information, 
one can consider the expense of time as well as in knowing what kinds 
of information one can expect to find in print and non-print resources. 
  In my experience, it takes an LMT and a fully stocked library to share 
and teach that information.

Just thought I'd share.

Kathy Graves

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