Are you looking for lesson plans to help teach online research? Edudemic and Google to the rescue! Edudemic recently highlighted 15 lesson plans, courtesy of Google, designed to make students better online researchers. The lesson plans are organized by difficulty and meant to help students become better online searchers.
Want a quick overview? Check out this Lesson Plan Map first to see what they offer.
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Think you had a busy year? How about handling nearly 1 million items in one year! Or how about getting 1,000 requests a day for loans and articles! These are just a couple of the many surprising numbers on the 2014 Minitex Arithmetic infographic. Check out the version below for more numbers or click here for a PDF version.
In his 2-part look at libraries as publishers, Phill Jones from The Scholarly Kitchen, examines the history of libraries as publishers but also their possible future.
In part one, he examines the start of library publishing programs. Many, he points out, “were partly motivated by a desire to disrupt subscription publishing and a feeling that digital publishing ought to be cheaper and faster than traditional print.” Those libraries quickly learned that digital was just as costly.
Jones points out that the higher cost lead libraries to collaborative relationships with university presses, learned societies, and small print-only journals. For many this has been an highly successful relationship.
In part two, Jones talks about still having hope that libraries as publishers can disrupt the existing publishing industry. He points to the idea of data sharing and data repositories as ways that libraries can go beyond the traditional and couple it with something publishers aren’t offering.
The future of libraries as publishers certainly has yet to be written. What do you see? What do you want?
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Do you use Google at your school? Or are you planning on it? Google for Education IT Guide to the rescue! This resource contains everything you might want to know about planning, deploying, and supporting Google hardware and software at your school. Here’s just a sampling of things you can use:
Besides these, they even offer links to Device Grants and, of course, Help Centers.
Looking for more information about the Great River Regional Library? Look no further than their new informational video! Among other things, you’ll learn more about their locations and materials. Did you know GRRL has all of the top 100 movies from the American Film Institute?