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Teacher librarians crucial in info age, by Holly Godfree | Librarians are lifelong learners

Teacher librarians crucial in info age, by Holly Godfree | Librarians are lifelong learners | The Information Professional | Scoop.it
Teacher librarians can evaluate online information and, more importantly, they know how teach others to do it for themselves.
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Because of the internet, what used to be called ''library skills'' or ''research skills'' have now become essential skills for functioning in the world. Teacher librarians help students of all ages to locate, select, organise, synthesise, evaluate and share information. This is called information literacy, and it is a teacher librarian's bread and butter.

Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/teacher-librarians-crucial-in-info-age-20120903-25abs.html#ixzz2FOOPAuJN
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Teacher librarians are essential catalysts towards access to knowledge; not only information!

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Librarians and Digital Rights Management, interview with Terry Plum, by Sasha Nyary

Librarians and Digital Rights Management, interview with Terry Plum, by Sasha Nyary | The Information Professional | Scoop.it
When it comes to digital rights, librarians can be awfully cranky—just look at the debate around HarperCollins ebooks. Librarian educator Terry Plum, Assistant Dean of Technology at the Simmons Graduate School of Library ...
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Librarian educator Terry Plum, Assistant Dean of Technology at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science about "the basic issues of fair use and the first sale doctrine, which librarians have guarded and sanctified for decades and aren’t giving up without a fight."

 

Questions being answered:

 

"1. What do librarians want in this digital age?

 

2. What is the issue of fair use with regards librarians?

 

3. What does that mean for libraries?

 

4. The comparison about the book-to-ebook trend and the print-journal-to-ejournal process."

 

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