Blog 2 Learning Resources

As I read through Riedling’s book I am slowly acquiring a large wealth of information.  After reading through chapters 3 to 8 I was amazed to learn about the vast assortment of resources available to us.  After reading through the chapter on Bibliographies I was pleasantly surprised to find that bibliographies are written as databases for use by the Teacher Librarian when searching for resources.  My understanding was that bibliographies are what are written at the end of a paper or research project.

            Secondly, I never realized that there were so many different kinds of dictionaries available for student use.  I was aware that we had your basic English Language dictionaries as well as dictionaries available for translation between one language and another.  I was also aware of the Thesaurus.  I was very interested to find out that there are so many different kinds available.  I guess teaching in an elementary school limits the types of resources that are available to us since we would not really have the same need as at a middle or high school.

            Chapters 3 to 8 also provided me with a better understanding of the terms that we read about in the glossary in lesson one.  Throughout these chapters Riedling provided us with clear, concise information for evaluating and selecting resources.  Having never worked in a library, her criteria provides me with a starting point in my reference selection and evaluation.

            I am also grateful to her for providing the many on-line resources, at the end of each of the chapters, most of which I had never heard of before.  Now that I know about these on-line resources, I will be able to provide my Grade 11 and first year university children an abundance of resources that they may use in their future endeavours.