[CALIBK12] NYT Article: In Web Age, Library Job Get Update

[Rob Darrow]

The front page of the New York Times today (Feb. 16, 2009) included this
article.  Good reading and congrats to the New York Times for understanding
the importance of school libraries.  Here is the beginning of the article.
Be sure and see the video on the link below as well.
*In Web Age, Library Job Gets
Update*<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/motoko_rich/index.html?inline=nyt-per>

It was the "aha!" moment that Stephanie Rosalia was hoping for.

A group of fifth graders huddled around laptop computers in the school
library overseen by Ms. Rosalia and scanned allaboutexplorers.com, a Web
site that, unbeknownst to the children, was intentionally peppered with
false facts.

Ms. Rosalia, the school librarian at Public School 225, a combined
elementary and middle school in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, urged caution.
"Don't answer your questions with the first piece of information that you
find," she warned.

Most of the students ignored her, as she knew they would. But Nozimakon
Omonullaeva, 11, noticed something odd on a page about Christopher
Columbus<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/christopher_columbus/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
.

"It says the Indians enjoyed the cellphones and computers brought by
Columbus!" Nozimakon exclaimed, pointing at the screen. "That's wrong."

It was an essential discovery in a lesson about the reliability — or lack
thereof — of information on the Internet, one of many Ms. Rosalia teaches in
her role as a new kind of school librarian.

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....

Rest of article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/books/16libr.html?_r=1&hp.<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/books/16libr.html?_r=1&hp>

Enjoy,

Rob Darrow, Coordinator of School Libraries, Clovis USD.
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