Today, at work, I was presenting to students on how to simply look up books in the library, and working with my students has raised some concerns I have about this Library 2.0 shift. It seems to me that maybe we don’t want to completely ditch Library 1.o because students don’t seem to really know the foundation of library research (such as looking up a book & how to locate a book on the shelf). Granted, I don’t think students need to know Dewey numbers off the top of their heads like I do (and pride myself for being able to do!), but they should at least grasp that there is a purpose to those little stickers on the spine and that they correspond to a record in a catalog. I worry that by focusing on the new gadgety stuff like wikis and blogs, we may be unintentionally abandoning some pretty crucial skills… These are just some thoughts I’ve had after a long day of introducing students to the library! I guess my main (and only point) is that I really want to make sure I’m teaching a foundation of skills and offering a variety of formats, not just picking up on the newest and coolest thing.
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January 29, 2008 at 2:51 pm (Uncategorized)
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So, I know I’m a little late, and I apologize for that. It has been a hectic few weeks. Anyway, I’m in my second year as a High School Librarian at Duxbury High School, and I am looking forward to all this class has to offer. I consider myself fairly internet savvy, but I know next to nothing about setting up and maintaining a wiki. I currently have my Duxbury High School Library web site set up as a blog (web.duxbury.k12.ma.us/dhslibrary), and I also am current with the myspace/facebook phenomena. BUT I have no idea how to download podcasts or create them, or how to create and manage a wiki.
I’m always online, so I have lots of both positive & negative experiences. I guess a positive one would be any one of the numerous times I’ve found the answer to a tricky reference question. Or the primary source a student needs that we didn’t think we would be able to find. Some negative experiences would be reading student work that has bibliographies where I can tell the sources are inaccurate or not particularly in depth.
