Librarian+Interview

Our recently retired librarian has been a friend for more years than I care to remember - we go way back! The last few years we were car buddies so did much talking about many different subjects - several of them having links to this course.

Our school is very lucky to have many resources available to us - Access PA, United Streaming, Promethean and Smartboards (of which I now have one - but not yet usable!) and videoconferencing (maybe called webinars? we actually did it once in the library with our tech guy - who happened to be in Northern Potter). Then, there are the book searches available (Power Library??). I was surprised to walk into her room one day and see the card catalog missing - they had gone over to the automated card catalog system (much more convenient to use). Our Librarian taught a unit on website validity (for many years) to our 8th grade students. It was really fun to listen to some of the stories she had associated with that. (It looks valid because it just does, or, the ads were good so the site must be - that type of thing)

Pat showed me how to look up books related to music topics using a computer-based search engine - gives you a listing (with bibliography) of all books on a particular subject or just a general listing - great for my research projects in the 9th grade!

Her knowledge of how to check for plagiarism was quite helpful during research time - caught several students because of her.

She is a person who will be greatly missed - not only an encyclopedia n her own right but a great friend to have (that part I won't miss - I still talk & see her regularly.

She was always adamant about using Wikipedia - ONLY as a general usage site - information was to be verified through other sites (of course, she was up on the various ruses to get by that - 1 smart lady!!)

On the personal side, she also has a very wry sense of humor and can turn most anything you say into a pun (sometimes they were groaners!) - I got a lot of them in the car.........

NETS.T 5c