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Beyond the Net
Catching up on some reading, I just came across a good article by Marylaine Block in LMC, called "Getting Students Beyond the Net."Lectures by grownups won't convince students that there's more to information than the Internet. For one thing, they won't believe us, because they're convinced they know more about the Net than we do. They haven't yet learned the distinction between the delivery system (the technology), which librarians may or may not understand very well, and the deliverable (information), which we do understand. Students don't realize that because librarians understand how knowledge is organized, we can head directly toward the best source for the answers, once we have clarified what the question is (a step students often leave out). Block gives examples of how to allow students to discover the limitations of the Internet on their own while providing librarian support and help. She also provides a pie chart that illustrates information sources, of which the internet is only one small piece. This would be a good graphic to show students. Good article!
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Research Library Union Catalog
RLGs RedLightGreen Project. David Dillard writes "Posted to NetGold, a review of a powerful new web based free public access database of monographic titles from RLG named RedLightGreen.
The full message can be seen at this URL including a sample search with some of the resulting citations from that search shown."
I suggest that all within the sound of this message hike over to this
database and give it a test drive. It would be hard for me to come up
with enough superlatives to describe the value of this research tool.
...." [LISNews.com]
This could be a valuable tool for our high school students, especially those working on their IB extended essays. I have previously sent them to OCLC's WorldCat, but this seems as though it might be more focussed, in the sense that it is just research support materials.
Gary over at ResourceShelf has some words about this catalog as well.
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Graphic Novels 101
A friend forwarded a message from the AISL mailing list with information about this excellent site put together by one of the librarians at the Bunn Library of the Lawrenceville School. The site covers all the aspects of graphic novels that I have had questions about as they have become more and more popular in the last couple of years. We have several on order right now, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the students like them. Our good-sized collection of "bandes dessinées" in French is well-used, and comics are a popular art form here in Belgium.
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