Welcome to your Library (DVD)

Welcome to your Library (DVD) by Minneapolis Public Library; 027.63 Welco (DVD)

This DVD is in Somali with English sub-titles. A Somali man leads a tour of the library, pointing out services and materials that may be of particular interest to Somalis. This DVD serves as an excellent model for those of you who are interested in developing culturally competent services or materials to particular groups of people in your service area.

For more information visit "Welcome to your Library" on Minneapolis Public Library's website.

Library Services to Indigenous Populations (book)

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

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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!

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.

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:

• 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