Accidental Systems Librarian by Rachel Singer-Gordon

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Elementary school librarians are asked to perform all the duties of managing a library. Although they will not be asked to become "Systems Librarians" that are employed in Academic and Public libraries, they perform many of the same tasks using the same technology.

Science News For Kids

I added an RSS feed from Science News For Kids. The link is a great site for up to date Science research and another method of internet navigation to introduce to the students. There is also a teacher tab that leads to lesson and science experiments.

Reference Revolution

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=84218&title=Reference_Revolution


This video would be great to introduce a lesson on digital information retrieval or research using databases. The engaging music and graphics would jumpstart questions and answers to garner prior knowledge of the learner.

The Beatles' song "Revolution" plays while the pictures and captions depict the "old way" of research versus the high tech searches using a database. This is an advertisement for a database service.

Google's search engine was used to find Teacher Tube and I typed in reference lessons and got Reference Revolution.

Related Blog

As Congress works on reauthorization of NCLB, K-12 and higher education advocates should form a vocal alliance to add a provision that will address multiple remediation issues: they should urge Congress to include, among others, a requirement that all schools have a library managed by a state-certified school library media specialist. This will make a significant difference in students’ abilities to conduct research when they reach college.

http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202009/full-educational-ecosystem.html

Found using blogsearch.google.com using "School library and information retrieval" keywords.

School Librarian

This blog was created to develop my competency
in the use of a blog for a graduate course in
Library Science focusing on information retrieval
and the technology available to do so.

My area of interest is in the school library setting and teaching students about information retrieval for use across the elementary curriculum.