The New York Times web site on Sunday ran this story about the new librarian.  While the feature looks at k-12 skills, much of the content can be applied and echos some of our podcast with Becky Hines on The Screen is Flat

Ms. Rosalia, the school librarian at Public School 225, a combined elementary and middle school in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, urged caution. “Don’t answer your questions with the first piece of information that you find,” she warned.

Most of the students ignored her, as she knew they would. But Nozimakon Omonullaeva, 11, noticed something odd on a page about Christopher Columbus.

“It says the Indians enjoyed the cellphones and computers brought by Columbus!” Nozimakon exclaimed, pointing at the screen. “That’s wrong.”

It was an essential discovery in a lesson about the reliability — or lack thereof — of information on the Internet, one of many Ms. Rosalia teaches in her role as a new kind of school librarian.

The Future of Reading – In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update – Series – NYTimes.com.

Tags: information literacy, libraries, media, the screen is flat

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