Library Services to Indigenous Populations: Viewpoints & Resources. Kelly Webster, ed., Office for Literacy and Outreach Services - ALA, 2005. 64 pp.
isbn 0-8389-8316-2
call # - 027.63 Libra3
Check it out!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Learning to Question to Wonder to Learn (Book)
Why question? Why bother? Isn’t thinking enough? What’s the difference, anyway? Isn’t questioning and thinking part and parcel of the same whole? Pg. 1
The first paragraph of this book immediately starts modeling the practice of questioning. The book is full of easily understandable thought provoking quotes on thinking and questioning such as:
1-“At worst, thinking can resemble a cow chewing its cud.” Pg. 2
2-“Questioning is to thinking as yeast is to bread making. Unleavened bread is flat, hard and unyielding. Unleavened thinking is uninspired.” Pg. 7
3-“Questioning is central to learning, growing and acting. An unquestioning mind is condemned to ‘feeding’ on the ideas and solutions of others. An unquestioning mind may have little defense against the data smog (Shenk, 1997) so typical of life in this information age. An unquestioning mind is too much like a rudderless sloop swept along by storm swelled currents.” Pg.15
At least 10 different types of questions (Essential, Irreverent, Irrelevant, Inventive, Hypothetical, Probing, Divergent, Provocative, Unanswerable, Subsidiary ) are eloquently defined. The reader is provided concrete examples to help their understanding. Reading this book is like attending one of those “just in time” workshops that send you home with a toolbox of new techniques to try on your students first thing Monday morning. Don’t question yourself on this one, check it out! It would be a great professional book group study for any building!
The first paragraph of this book immediately starts modeling the practice of questioning. The book is full of easily understandable thought provoking quotes on thinking and questioning such as:
1-“At worst, thinking can resemble a cow chewing its cud.” Pg. 2
2-“Questioning is to thinking as yeast is to bread making. Unleavened bread is flat, hard and unyielding. Unleavened thinking is uninspired.” Pg. 7
3-“Questioning is central to learning, growing and acting. An unquestioning mind is condemned to ‘feeding’ on the ideas and solutions of others. An unquestioning mind may have little defense against the data smog (Shenk, 1997) so typical of life in this information age. An unquestioning mind is too much like a rudderless sloop swept along by storm swelled currents.” Pg.15
At least 10 different types of questions (Essential, Irreverent, Irrelevant, Inventive, Hypothetical, Probing, Divergent, Provocative, Unanswerable, Subsidiary ) are eloquently defined. The reader is provided concrete examples to help their understanding. Reading this book is like attending one of those “just in time” workshops that send you home with a toolbox of new techniques to try on your students first thing Monday morning. Don’t question yourself on this one, check it out! It would be a great professional book group study for any building!
Build Your Own Information Literate School (Book)
Koechlin, Carol, and Sandi Zwaan. Build Your Own Information Literate School. Salt Lake City, UT: Hi Willow Research and Publishing, 2003.
ISBN: 0-931510-89-9
This is a must have for all library teachers who are working with staff on research projects and ties in so well with the OSLIS resources available for such projects. I’m very impressed with the number and quality of the templates and rubrics. I especially like the Research Reflections and Assessing My Effort Student Templates. Jeri Petzel from Wilsonville recommended this book at her session at the OEMA Fall Conference. Check it out now!
The book has in-depth sections on Define and Clarify the Research Process; Locate and Retrieve; Select, Process, and Record Data; Analyze; Synthesize; Share and Use; Reflect, Transfer and Apply, and Adding It all Up.
ISBN: 0-931510-89-9
This is a must have for all library teachers who are working with staff on research projects and ties in so well with the OSLIS resources available for such projects. I’m very impressed with the number and quality of the templates and rubrics. I especially like the Research Reflections and Assessing My Effort Student Templates. Jeri Petzel from Wilsonville recommended this book at her session at the OEMA Fall Conference. Check it out now!
The book has in-depth sections on Define and Clarify the Research Process; Locate and Retrieve; Select, Process, and Record Data; Analyze; Synthesize; Share and Use; Reflect, Transfer and Apply, and Adding It all Up.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Libraries and Google (Book)
Libraries and Google. William Miller, Rita M. Pellen, editors.
Collection of articles covering a diverse set of perspectives about Google as a reference tool and more; contents include:
Collection of articles covering a diverse set of perspectives about Google as a reference tool and more; contents include:
- Introduction: Libraries and their interrelationships with Google / William Miller
- Disruptive beneficence : the Google Print program and the future of libraries / Mark Sandler
- The Google Library Project at Oxford / Ronald Milne
- The (uncertain) future of libraries in a Google world : sounding an alarm / Rick Anderson
- A gaggle of Googles : limitations and defects of electronic access as panacea / Mark Y. Herring
- Using the Google search appliance for federated searching : a case study / Mary Taylor
- Google's print and scholar initiatives : the value of and impact on libraries and information services / Robert J. Lackie
- Google Scholar vs. library scholar : testing the performance of Schoogle / Burton Callicott, Debbie Vaughn
- Google, the invisible Web, and librarians : slaying the research Goliath / Francine Egger-Sider, Jane Devine
- Choices in the paradigm shift : where next for libraries? / Shelley E. Phipps, Krisellen Maloney
- Calling the scholars home : Google Scholar as a tool for rediscovering the academic library / Maurice C. York
- Checking under the hood : evaluating Google Scholar for reference use / Janice Adlington, Chris Benda
- Running with the devil : accessing library-licensed full text holdings through Google Scholar / Rebecca Donlan, Rachel Cooke
- Directing students to new information types : a new role for Google in literature searches? / Mike Thelwall
- Evaluating Google Scholar as a tool for information literacy / Rachael Cathcart, Amanda Roberts -- Optimising publications for Google users / Alan Dawson
- Google and privacy / Paul S. Piper -- Image : Google's most important product / Ron Force
- Keeping up with Google : resources and strategies for staying ahead of the pack / Michael J. Krasulski, Steven J. Bell
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Best New Technologies: Keeping Up with the Storm (DVD)
From the Soaring to Excellence Series 2006-2007: “Library 2.0 and Beyond”
Best New Technologies: Keeping Up with the Storm. Speakers: Steven Bell and Aaron Schmidt
New technologies keep coming at a rapid pace, and librarians are subject to the stress of being expected to both absorb and implement them. Is there any surprise that the challenges faced in keeping up with this storm of new technology is where the talk turns when librarians gather? Our cause for optimism is that a handful of these new technologies may actually help librarians to more effectively connect with their communities and involve community members in developing resources and content.
This program will examine the challenges librarians face as we enter the world of Web 2.0. It will explore several of the newest technologies, investigate why librarians are adopting them and how they’re being used, and examine sensible approaches to choosing and implementing the technology that are right for your library.
Original broadcast date: October 27, 2006. Running time: 1:30.
Best New Technologies: Keeping Up with the Storm. Speakers: Steven Bell and Aaron Schmidt
New technologies keep coming at a rapid pace, and librarians are subject to the stress of being expected to both absorb and implement them. Is there any surprise that the challenges faced in keeping up with this storm of new technology is where the talk turns when librarians gather? Our cause for optimism is that a handful of these new technologies may actually help librarians to more effectively connect with their communities and involve community members in developing resources and content.
This program will examine the challenges librarians face as we enter the world of Web 2.0. It will explore several of the newest technologies, investigate why librarians are adopting them and how they’re being used, and examine sensible approaches to choosing and implementing the technology that are right for your library.
Original broadcast date: October 27, 2006. Running time: 1:30.
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