LIBE 467 Group Project

Reflection: (taken from my assignment 3 part I)

For our collaborative assignment, my partners were: Connie and Carrie.  Our communication was done mostly through email correspondence, but Connie and I did discuss and brainstormed ideas through a telephone conversation.  (Connie and I live close to each other, but Carrie lives further away and calling us would incur long distance charges).  Through our emails we considered how to approach the assignment, examined assignment details, discussed personal and collaborative plans for the assignments and offered each other support and guidance.  We had some difficulties determining the collaborative and independent components of our group assignment, as well as, the assignment’s requirements and purpose.  Eventually, we decided to approach the assignment differently depending on our individual needs and assignment interpretations.  As a collaborative group, we chose to use World Book Online encyclopedia as our reference resource, with each person focussing on a different online version.  Carrie chose to use the World Book Kids version, for young students.  Connie chose to use World Book Student, for elementary and middle school students.  I chose to use World Book Advanced, for high school students, as my reference resource.

LIBE 467 Lesson 13 - Evaluating Reference Services

Activity/Reflection: Open Access to Resources

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I believe in open access to resources.  I think library resources should be accessible and available to everyone.  One of the purposes of a library is to provide information to it members; therefore, I think there should open access to its entire collection.  But with that being said, I think it’s the library’s responsibility to choose material that reflects its mission and philosophy for its collection.  The library needs to consider its members’ needs and if the material is appropriate for its members.  In the case of a school library, the teacher library and the district can determine what resources students have access to by deciding on whether or not the material is student friendly and suitable (i.e. content, readability, and format) for children’s learning.  In conclusion, I’m an advocate for open access resources, in a library collection, but not necessarily complete access to all information available.

LIBE 467 Assignment #3 Part I

My focus for this assignment is exposing the World Book Online: Advanced version to a high school Science teacher.  Using the CBAM we will try to collaborate together on a lesson or assignment to progress her 'change'.