Ms. Rosalia, 54, is part of a growing cadre of 21st-century multimedia specialists who help guide students through the digital ocean of information that confronts them on a daily basis. These new librarians believe that literacy includes, but also exceeds, books...
Soon Ms. Rosalia progressed to teaching students how to ask more sophisticated questions during research projects, how to decode Internet addresses and how to assess the authors and biases of a Web site’s content.
Now for the bad news,
Yet as school librarians increasingly teach students crucial skills needed not only in school, but also on the job and in daily life, they are often the first casualties of school budget crunches.
Certainly both of these statements are true in Minnesota--media specialists are teaching these vital skills to students and teachers and are among the first programs/staff that are cut to trim budgets. A recent KSTP-TV Investigative Report highlighted both of these issues.
There is much research, including two Minnesota studies done by Metronet in 2002 and 2004, that shows that a professionally-staffed, well-stocked school library media program impacts student achievement. This research needs to be shared with school administrators at all levels.
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One of the schools video taped for that new show was south. Susan has been weeding for years, trying to get rid of all the old books, but they managed to find a section that hadn't been weeded for awhile.
I thought he showed some ignorance when he opened an older book to where the circulation card would have been and saw a stamp from 1985. Then he said it hadn't been checked out since then. Honestly, hasn't he heard of computers?
I felt that it was a pretty fair article though. Our students are using older materials because there is little or no money to replace them. The majority of our books come from the School Foundations. Without them we would almost never get new books.
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