Has your library caught the fever that is Pokémon Go? This phenomenon is catching fast and is getting people out and engaged in their communities. There are many ways that libraries can harness this power for good for their patrons! Thomas Findley, Adult Services Manager at the Frisco Public Library, gave me permission to share… Continue reading Pokémon Go: What You Need To Know
I have always been a big fan of Wikipedia but felt I had to keep that to myself when I first began library school. Everyone was so against it. It did, after all, threaten our very existence as librarians! (No, not really). It was really that kind of attitude that made me want to be… Continue reading Less abstinence and more PLUS for real information literacy
Google Search Education provides search literacy lesson plans that can be used in the classroom to teach students about picking the right search terms, understanding search results, narrowing a search to get the best results, searching for evidence for research tasks, evaluating credibility of sources. Each of these topics has a plan developed specifically for… Continue reading Search literacy lesson plans from Google for the classroom
