Of course. Librarians are working on this all the time--or should be. The graying of the profession is changing things big time. The Library 2.0 movement is about getting everyone up to a basic level of information literacy and then moving them past that into information proficiency.
That's a BIG task, and it shouldn't just be librarians doing it. I'm not sure what educators are doing in regards to this topic (a lot, I hope), but some of this should be covered in schools.
I know that the only reason that I know as much about how to navigate a library as I do is because I had a really, really dedicated elementary school librarian, Mrs. Wilcox (god rest her wonderful soul), who from the first grade to the fifth made damn sure we knew how to find anything and everything in that library, and didn't think that there was such a thing as being too young for a card catalog or the Dewey Decimal system.
We used to have "find a certain book/type of book" contest and games in the library during our time there. I was so totally good at it.
But I got lucky with her, you know? I never even knew who the librarians at my other schools were. And god only knows how many kids had schools that had no libraries or libraries they never went into.
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Date: 2009-02-06 04:36 pm (UTC)That's a BIG task, and it shouldn't just be librarians doing it. I'm not sure what educators are doing in regards to this topic (a lot, I hope), but some of this should be covered in schools.
I know that the only reason that I know as much about how to navigate a library as I do is because I had a really, really dedicated elementary school librarian, Mrs. Wilcox (god rest her wonderful soul), who from the first grade to the fifth made damn sure we knew how to find anything and everything in that library, and didn't think that there was such a thing as being too young for a card catalog or the Dewey Decimal system.
We used to have "find a certain book/type of book" contest and games in the library during our time there. I was so totally good at it.
But I got lucky with her, you know? I never even knew who the librarians at my other schools were. And god only knows how many kids had schools that had no libraries or libraries they never went into.