This is my favorite part of being a Social Studies Teacher! Using the resources around us. I have always been a huge library fan even before it became "The Media Center". I frequented the traveling bookmobile in the small town of Onamia often when I was a little tyke. My fear is that the students we have now and the increasing ease of information access- that students will no longer "need" or think they need the library. I find that I revert often back to old school research techniques- Bibliography by hand, use of actual books etc. I am looking forward to setting up a visit with the local library personnel to get all Anwatin students an library card.
I think if they see me embrace the use of a library card used not only to check books out, but to get all the cool information they can only get with the card, my hope is that they too will be excited and more open to new ideas.
One of my favorite library sites is Proquest- the newspaper site. I use it often with students for History Day and myself to find Primary Documents to use in class.
