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Source 1: This article discusses the future role of the library media specialist, which describes that they need to have a bigger role in education. Many believe that librarians are the original specialists so they call it “the information perspective” (Lowe, 2000). This is where the library media specialists look at the curriculum, assignments, and learning in terms of information resources, processes, and technologies required for student success. The library media specialists are going to

also as coordinating placement of students and collecting materials. She also acts as the in-school suspension teacher during part of the day, technology facilitator, and as a substitute for classes. Throughout her day, students and teachers constantly flow into the library for her to repair devices and troubleshoot programs. She also must cover classes during the day when teachers are pulled for meetings or other outside duties. One advantage of the role a media coordinator plays in the school

another person. In the kids book “The LIbrarian from the Black Lagoon” written by Mike Thaler a librarian is described as a kid laminator “they say she laminates you if you talk in the library” (5). or when they say “She also has rubber stamps on the soles of her shoes. And whenever she steps...it says OVERDUE” (7). A librarian being described this way can infact instill fear into some people and although its just a kid's book people stay with this image of a librarian. It makes people assume that they

Since 1982, all kinds of books have been banned for the content they hold. Topics like race, sexually explicit content, homosexualaity, religion and more. Books are banned by librarians and teachers because they do not want children or teenagers to read about these topics. Children and teenagers are told they are not supposed to read these books with harsh topics because they are afraid it could influence them. They are afraid that books that talk about suicide, like 13 Reasons Why, will influence

In 5th grade, I remember that our visiting times to the school library decreased and so did my urge to read. I almost forgot how it felt to be reading books of my own choice. The only time when I would read was when my teacher would assign a specific chapter to read of the book Wonder, and a worksheet. Filling out a worksheet after reading or while reading is like a punishment, the sheet is not letting me enjoy what i’m reading. Instead it’s made me a working machine, trying

Annotated Bibliography on Research and Information Fluency Shannon O’Neill Sam Houston State University   Annotated Bibliography on Research and Information Fluency Viele, P. (2012). Information fluency: Where to start. The Physics Teacher, 50(6), 379-380. doi:10.1119/1.4745701 Summary: According to Viele (2012), she states that when it comes to information literacy, there seems to be an abundance of definitions. The most concise and all-encompassing meaning is that information fluency is

improving but, in the past, my history with reading was not the greatest. Unfortunately, I still cannot say reading is a hobby of mine but, I hope that in the upcoming years that will change. In my younger years, my experience with reading was that the teacher would assign the class a specific book and I would force myself to read. I feel like this is a big factor in the way I saw reading getting up to this stage, as back then I found reading as homework which was like a punishment. I want to be able to

on just their in-person reference and research services. Seal (2008) best defines this shift from ‘reference and instruction to learning and engagement’ (p. 257). An emerging solution for this shift is the embedded librarian. Lewis (2007) among others, presents the embedded librarian as the up and coming model for academic library services when he attempts to outline a strategy for academic libraries to

What is google? Google is a search engine that is used to help direct you to any particular information that you are willing to locate in its search bar. Many individuals such as students, teachers, librarians, and etc. use this search engine to gather and broaden their information whether it’s from the web or a scholarly source on this search engine. People who search on the web needs to know what information literacy is before they perform most of their searching’s because it is important to know

Get Rid of Banned Books for Good The American Library Association has recorded a total of 275 books that were challenged in 2015, The Holy Bible was one of the top 10 most challenged books. The challenging and banning of books is a huge item in the United States of America. The American Library Association has a week devoted to banning books which takes place the last week end of September. Banned Books Week for 2016 will be September 25 through October 1. It is not ethical to ban books due to content