"Best sites for information literacy tools"

The December 2005 issue of Teacher Librarian has an interesting article by Joanne Troutner in the Web Wonders section. Detailed are several web sites to be used as information literacy tools, evaluating information. What is so great about these sites? They are "bogus web sites to use for practice activities." Click on the post title to view the article

Note: The link is an OhioLINK proxy persistent link. You will be directed to login before viewing.

Electronic Textbooks in the CMC

If you have electronic (CD/online) textbooks for K-12 in your collection, please share your experiences. How did you acquire them or access to them? How do you circulate them or monitor access? How do faculty and students use them? Are local schools using them? How have patrons responded to these resources?

OELMA Midwinter

Come to OELMA Midwinter 2006, Sat., March 11, 2006 in Columbus. (This is my experiment with posting. Hope it works!)

Finding and Using Library Statistics

Denise Rosenblatt, National Library of Education, passed along the following information concerning libraries and statistics via the EBSS list serv (1/25/06). Each of the titles are available online or may be ordered from Ed Pubs.

• Library Statistics (home page)
  
• Improving Literacy through School Library Evaluation
  
• America's Public School Libraries: 1953-2000
  
• Fifty Years of Supporting Children’s Learning: A History of Public School Libraries and Federal Legislation from 1953-2000

InfoSpeak

This site was posted on the ACRLog yesterday. It caught my attention for two reasons; it included a radio interview using flash, podcast, and mp3 technology, and the person interviewed was Joe Janes. "In this exclusive interview for InfoSpeak, Professor Janes points out how we all want to be heard; internet search (and for that matter, this podcast) reflects this fact perfectly. The question now, as he says, is how are we going to be found?" (InfoSpeak, 1-18-06)

For those of us who remember, Joe was the keynote speaker at the 28th Annual ALAO convention in 2002. He is also the American Libraries Columnist, Internet Librarian.