Re: Article: "Kids that grew up with the Internet are not 'digital natives'"

In response to David's comments on navigating databases...I beg to differ. Learning to navigate and make proper use of online databases and digital information is where school librarians should be stepping in. If librarians in your school aren't teaching these skills I would find out why. A school librarian is trained to teach how to disseminate information be it online or on paper. They also should be teaching (in this context) about plagiarism, the difference between a website and a database, and how to conduct a successful search for information.

I realize that it is tough for teachers to give up time to librarians to work with students on these goals, but as we all know, collaboration is key to our student's success.

Suzanne Feldberg
Upper School Librarian
Albuquerque Academy

On Aug 8, 2010, at 11:43 PM, David P. Dillard wrote:

> Do adolescents know history, algebra, chemistry and so forth on their own. Not likely. Somebody has to teach these skills. The techniques of searching internet search engines and databases, in my experience, are not part of the curriculum in K-12 and while students are often required to find quality articles for their projects and research, little or no attention is paid to teaching them how to find these articles. Most K-12 teachers that I have met over the years do not know that many if not most states in the United States provide access to some databases from EBSCO, First Search and some other databanks and that in some of these databases are selected content of full text magazines, trade journals and academic journals. When students do not know about, let alone know how to use such tools, the quality of their research work goes down and they are ill prepared for doing college level work.
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> Articles & Databases
> The New York Public Library
> http://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases
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> Content Sample
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> Page 1 of 3 Next
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> Free Web resource - available anywhereA2A - Access to ArchivesContains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
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> Accessible only at select Library locations
> ABES: Annotated Bibliography of English Studies
> Covers secondary literature in English Studies in four main subject areas: Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, and Film Studies.
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> Free Web resource - available anywhereNew York Online Virtual Electronic LibraryAcademic One FileThis database has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. It also contains some full text titles that are cited in databases such as AGRICOLA, CINAHL, EconLit, ERIC, MEDLINE, MLA International Bibliography, PsycINFO and others.
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> Accessible outside the Library with your NYPL card
> Academic Search PremierA multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals.
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> Accessible only at select Library locations
> AccessUN Index, articles and full-text database of United Nations documents covering 1998-present.
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> Accessible only at select Library locations
> ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
> Provides online access to a fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
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> Free Web resource - available anywhere
> AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and VendorsProvides links to websites of publishers throughout the world, searchable by alphabetical, geographical, and topical lists.
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> And in New York City that is just a small part of the letter A in the above content sample.
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> MORE:
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> DATABASE OR DATABASES
> http://tinyurl.com/mx7p97
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> INTERNET RESEARCH
> http://tinyurl.com/n8mokd
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> INTERNET SEARCH
> http://tinyurl.com/lbacf9
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> David Dillard
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