Getting There

Can the Big6 still help your students keep up with their information needs in a 2.0 digital world? In the world of Web and libraries 2.0, is the Big6 still viable? How have you integrated Web 2.0 tools into the Big6? Are you using blogs and wikis as part of the search process leading up [...]

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I found a website dedicated to teaching teens about intellectual property. answers questions about intellectual property and offers a 4 unit curriculum containing sixteen relevant activities. Typically high school librarians do not have this many sessions with students to teach this very important concept. In addition, teachers are often unwilling, due to the vast [...]

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I continue to learn from Joyce Valenza and Carolyn Foote, two prolific and informative bloggers. Joyce’s blog “The Never Ending Search” and Carolyn’s blog “Not So Distant Future” should be on your RSS aggregator so you don’t miss a word they post. Here we are at the NECC ‘08 conference convincing Barbara Jordan to [...]

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Someone please correct me if I am wrong. How can teachers keep current if they do not read in their disciplines? I rely so heavily on my professional associations, lists, and by following blogs of those whose opinions I respect, that I cannot even imagine doing my job without them. Many teachers are still instructing [...]

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Just coming down from the NECC conference. Feeling overwhelmed and motivated. I always go into conferences thinking that I know a lot and come out realizing that I am not quite there. Rock star school librarians such as Joyce Valenza, Carolyn Foote, Diane Cordell, Anita Beaman, and others can inspire me to go further. Joyce [...]

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