April 19, 2024

Webinar Tackles a Conundrum for Kids and Educators Alike: Research Skills

Librarians shared the best strategies when working with students and research in a recent webinar. The bottom line? The need to push them to think beyond the results—and instead examine how they got there.

School Librarians’ Role in ‘Crap Detection’ Cited

The crisis of information literacy is getting some wider attention. In the November 2011 Wired, Clive Thompson cites the work of school librarians Frances Harris and Buffy Hamilton in building search skills among so-called digital natives.