Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement

I can’t say enough about the PBS teachers site (www.pbs.org/teachers).  “Discover the power of social media while promoting your students’ civic engagement” through  Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement.
The site contains curriculum guides and lesson plans designed for k-12 (the higher level lessons can easily be tweaked for college freshmen). [...]

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It’s only Logical

Stumbled upon this “musical elitism” t-shirt design which is available at http://store.dieselsweeties.com/products/elitism.  It all makes perfect Boolean sense, right? -LF

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Thinking Outside the Book

I’m excited to have two essays (“Libraries and Literary Clubs: The Perfect Match” and “The Poetry Sweepstakes: Beating the Odds of Getting Published”) featured in this new anthology compiled and edited by Carol Smallwood. The book has many creative ideas to offer to innovative librarians…
“Professionals in all areas of librarianship will find inspiration in [...]

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WILU 2009

They announced the call for WILU 2009: Reflections is the conference theme. For anyone who is not familiar with WILU it is a great conference in Canada about Information Literacy.
-MM

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Are You a Know It All?

Think you know everything about online applications? Check out this list by Social media guru Chris Borgan: 50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider. I bet there’s something in there that you haven’t heard of yet!-LF

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Poetry, Politics, and Research

Check out this great lesson plan on Allen Ginsberg: poetry & politics, sponsored by American Master’s (PBS). There’s a lot that could be tweaked in these lessons to combine library research, internet research/evaluation, technology skills, and critical thinking skills. In my Lib300 class, students are each assigned an American roots musician to research. [...]

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“Rethinking Libraries” – Color coding the Subjects on the shelves

via Tame the Web
Here’s the link to the project’s page, with a link to the explaination about the Senior grad project at the Emiliy Carr University.
I especially like the book information readily available on the book wrap. including the citation format in MLA and APA style! This would make the library such a colorful [...]

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Evaluation vs. Discovery

via: Librarians Matter
A while back, I came across this blog post by Kathryn Greenhill discussing how librarians tend to emphasize how to use discovery and search tools, more than evaluation skills.
Surely it would make more sense to teach students how to work out whether an item is authoritative, well researched and/or suitable for citing in [...]

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