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Dream it, believe it, build it

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The Answer Lies Within

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  My Big Take-Aways from Theme 1 Source   Teacher-Librarians wear many hats, including that of “information specialist”.  “An information professional or information specialist is someone who collects, records, organizes, stores, preserves, retrieves, and disseminates printed or digital information. The service delivered to the client is known as an information service.” (Greer, 12). In the above list of duties of the information specialist, there is no mention of “providing the answers to the questions”.  Source This may come as a shock to some of my clients (middle years students) who are looking for a quick answer to their research question.  My usual response is, “the answer lies within”, (use of theatrical voice and dramatic pointing to resource is necessary for full effect).  Although no doubt an Oscar-worthy performance, I need to consider the following: Students are developing their basic and more specifically, information literacy skills. Click ...
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