Hi all.
After reading Jacquie's email I realized that this is the perfect subject
and opportunity to teach keywords. Students need to think about other ways
to look up books in the catalog. What painting style did he use? Where did
he paint? When did he paint? These are the same questions they should be
asking when they do database and internet searches.
I might even use an artist to have a class brainstorm about keywords. Books
about what other topics could you find this artist talked about? What terms
besides his name could we use to find information?
Carla
On 3/27/07 3:38 PM, "Jacqueline Henry" <JHenry@GANANDA.ORG> wrote:
> A 9th grade student came up to me today, looking very confused. The
> class was required to use a book to locate information about a
> Renaissance person. She confessed to me sheepishly that she had no
> idea how to find a book. Wow.... That's something to think about! I
> wonder how many students are too embarrassed to ask for help?
>
> Here is another thought about the situation. This young lady was
> searching for information about Albrecht Durer. We have a lot of
> excellent information in various books - but not an entire book about
> Albrecht Durer. Wouldn't it be great if our MARC records came with the
> full text of the books as a matter of course? She could have then typed
> in Albrecht Durer and located all the wonderful books in the history and
> art sections that have very useful chapters about Albrecht Durer. Alas
> - had she gone directly to the catalog, it would have told her that we
> had nothing at all about Albrecht Durer. What a pity. In this case, I
> am glad she did not know about library catalogs and came to me directly
> instead. Many students just give up if the catalog comes up with a big
> fat zero. When will our catalogs catch up with Google? Yes - I know
> about Google Book Search - but it is just too overwhelming for school
> students in its current form. We need a Google book search just for our
> own individual libraries. Think Google could do that for us? Ahhh!!
> Copyright... But we OWN the books. Shouldn't we be able to search them
> more effectively? There must be an answer out there.
>
> Jacquie
>
> "The Librarian, whose job is to heal ignorance, to keep life safe for
> poetry and to put knowledge smack dab in the middle of the American
> way."
>
>> From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-20-03
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jacquie Henry, MLS
> Ruben A. Cirillo High School (GHS)
> Gananda Central School District
> 3195 Wiedrick Road
> P.O. Box 609
> Macedon, NY 14502
> 315-986-3521 x 3144
> jhenry@gananda.org
> Library Page: http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/indexgcl.htm
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