Marketing Your Digital Materials

Course

Curating Research Resources [3:33]

Learn the importance of being involved in your state library association to strengthen your voice
Learn to how to support the use of credible and reliable resources
Learn some other go-to places for curating research resources

So what are your to go, your go to places for curating. And that's 14, 15 and 16 on this Jamboard. And Joyce valenza is like one of my go tos, so her blog is she has it's the NeverEnding Search blog and I think it's still active. I think she's still posting. I haven't looked the last couple of months, but she is definitely somebody that I am always looking to for, to find these high quality resources. Future ready librarians, I agree. Also like your state library association, so hopefully you are somewhat involved or actively involved, and if not, I give you the challenge to try to get more involved, because I think that that is one way that as a community nationally, we can just have a stronger voice, is if we're talking to one another and collaborating with one another and then having kind of a common message. Thank you for putting that in there, the Joyce Valenza's NeverEnding Search. Yep, LibGuides, again, that comes to the we don't have to create everything all on our own. And actually, that EdWeb, that is where they had a webinar, and I'm actually after reading this, the post that we shared by Joyce, I want to go see if I can find the archive of that webinar, because I think that would be something that would add to the learning of this. And David, always advocating for Library Association. Oh, yes, Richard Byrne.

So just, yeah, look at your state library resources and they might subscribe. I know that CLC in Connecticut here, support certain databases. So see if the School Library Connection/ABC-CLIO databases are supported in your state. And if they're not, start that conversation. Maybe the people at the state level don't know enough about the really great resources that ABC-CLIO and SLC have for librarians. So you could start that conversation in your state. Lots of there was oh, this is middle school librarians Facebook group. There was also I don't know, I don't think I see it on here, the Hacking School Libraries Facebook group with Kristina Holzweiss. She is also like a plethora of information, always with the different digital tools that are really useful and helpful for our work that we do. The News Literacy Project and Checkology are really amazing. I've really gotten to know a lot of their resources and a lot of you also had really expressed concern or the idea that we need to continue to really emphasize credible and reliable resources. And that is that argument—that's why Google isn't the end-all-be-all. And that's why we need to teach our learners and our teachers how to really utilize those paid databases, because that is where we will avoid a lot of the misinformation that's coming out from all these different places. So News Literacy Project, if you do not know them or do not follow them on social media, definitely add that to your to do list because they have complete, I think they have a complete curriculum you can pull from and lessons ready to go and all the tools you need. Lots of really amazing stuff. These are great. Awesome thank you.

Curating Research Resources

In this course, Melissa often talks about her go-to resources and how she has come to rely on those for interesting articles or exciting ideas. What a great way to strengthen your library community by using resources that others have recommended.

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Course Packet

REFLECT & PRACTICE:

In this lesson, Melissa Thom hosts a discussion of some of the attendees' favorite go-to places for curating research resources. Using pages 10–11 of the Course Packet found in the Resources above, choose 2-3 of the suggested resources and do some research on what they have available. Did you know about this resource before? If you find it to be helpful, why not spread the word to other librarians through social media or at your next conference? For each resource you've looked into, come up with a few lesson ideas using that resource. You will then start a curation of research tools to keep right at your fingertips.

MLA Citation

Thom, Melissa. "Marketing Your Digital Materials: Curating Research Resources." School Library Connection, August 2021, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Course/2267080?learningModuleId=2267071&topicCenterId=2247903.

Entry ID: 2267748

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About the Author

Melissa Thom, MA, (she/her) is a teacher librarian at Bristow Middle School in West Hartford, CT. She spent 12 years teaching grades four to six as a classroom teacher, and eight years ago she earned her library media specialist certification. She is the president of the Connecticut Association of School Librarians, a 2019 AASL Social Media Superstar Reader Leader finalist, and a 2022 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

MLA Citation

Thom, Melissa. "Marketing Your Digital Materials. Curating Research Resources [3:33]." School Library Connection, ABC-CLIO, August 2021, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Course/2267080?learningModuleId=2267071&topicCenterId=2247903.

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https://schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Course/2267080?learningModuleId=2267071&topicCenterId=2247903

Entry ID: 2267080