The Art of Learning

  Meena Rakhra       Improving Reference Services                                         LIBE 467   Assignment #3                      Analysis According to Evaluating, Selecting and Managing Learning Resources: A Guide (2008) , learning resources should be supportive of continuous learning by the individual, and be relevant to the needs of the student.  When assessing reference sources, evaluations based on content, accuracy, authority, bias, arrangement and presentation, permanence, and cost should be considered (Riedling, 2000).  ‘Every effort should be made to ensure that resources are selected for their strengths rather than rejected for their weaknesses’ (ESMLR, 2008, pg. 5), so that information needs can be answered effective...

Meena LIBE 467                                   Evolving Teacher Practice Through Reference Services I have been a classroom teacher for the last 16 years.  Over this time I have seen a gradual change in the school system in regards to the children we teach, the curriculum, use of technology, instructional approaches such as inquiry based learning and critical literacy, new pedagogies such as collaborative learning.  With all these changes, there has also been a change in research practices and resources themselves.  I remember as a highschool student sitting in the library with my social studies class preparing to undertake a research assignment and listening to our teacher and the TL talk to us about good research practice.  They showed us how to use the index for the encyclopedias and books stacked on the rolling cart already prepared for us.  They expla...