Amy Watkins wrote:
> This has been on my mind for several days and now I am asking for your thoughts
>on the matter. Our district continues to use the term "card catalog" for students
>who access the library resources from any library computer within many schools.
>My question/thoughts about the matter are:
> 1. Are students now even more confused? Where are the cards? Where is the
>catalog? This online feature doesn't resemble anything like what they associate
>with the word catalog. Are we teaching terminology to all students which does not
>have an association to them?
>
Of course, when the confuser is thoroughly confused, it gets called
"other" names, some of which aren't all that nice! <big grin>
Some teachers here are already anticipating no school on Monday due to
the major ice storm due here tomorrow. How quickly they forget the two
weeks many of them were without electricity after the ice storm in
January. Must be nice to be young!
I've got my ice storm reading right here: Intellectual freedom manual;
Write grants, get money; and Connecting kids & the web.
--
David Lininger, kb0zke
MS/HS Librarian
Skyline MS/HS
Urbana, MO 65767
(417) 993-4226
t s s 0 0 3 @ t n p dot m o r e dot net
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