Given the literacy and comprehension a challenge facing schools in this time especially those presented by the new information landscape we need libraries and librarians now more than before. Unfortunately, there are many leaders who not understanding these challenges or the role librarians might play in helping teachers and schools to meet their needs. When this lack of understanding combines with budget deficit, we will face a drastic reduction in force across the continent.
Search engines like Google really are remarkable, but they do not offer reliable information in all cases. Without training in search logic, many users wander about drowning in data that may be distorted, inaccurate, irrelevant or biased in which may lead to un desirable results especially in the field of science and research.
Teacher librarians can play a crucial and central role in equipping all teachers and students with the information skills to transform the new resources into a benefit.
Because many schools pay woefully little attention to professional development, staff is often ill-equipped to handle the rapidly changing agenda of the Information Age with skill and assurance. Given the comprehension crisis in the USA, the teacher librarian should become the most skilled teacher of those skills in the building and pass them forward so that they will be practiced by all the teachers.
Note the article "Power Reading and the School Library" first published in the February 2005 issue of Library Media Connection at http://fno.org/sum05/powerread.html
As schools are pressured to go digital, the teacher librarian can help to balance that movement by collecting and displaying resources that appeal to all of the senses - historical artifacts, for example, that might be held in a student's hands and bring the realities of early settlement to life in ways a Web page cannot equal.
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