Blog #3: Let's Get Physical (References)
One of our primary jobs as teacher librarians is to guide students towards accurate information. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, maps, atlases, bibliographies, and biographies are all types of references that provide this information. Over time, however, our reference sections in school libraries have dwindled as we have moved towards digital references, due to ease of use and budgetary restrictions. When recently talking to a grade 4/5 teacher on my staff, I asked her what the process is in her classroom when a student has a good question and is seeking information. Does she come and ask me for a reference from the library? Does she go to our district website, search for the login info for EBSCO, log in, and then type out the question? "I use google," she said. Right. I think it's a safe assumption that m ost people, when they have a question, use google. In fact, there are 3.5 billion goog...
