Description
Book SynopsisSummarizes the responses of school librarians to questions about how they learned to use the Internet, and for what purposes.
Trade ReviewThe teacher-librarian is provided with all the necessary background to better understand the main focus of this work, a research report...provides quantitative and content analysis of Internet traffic, summaries of school librarians responses, and many analyses of literature, electronic sources and policies. * Teacher Librarian *
The book will be of general interest to anyone using the Net, and particularly for Listservs. Various services available are mentioned and their use for and in schools analysed. Chapters one and six are particularly useful...well worth dipping into... * School Librarian *
A handbook to allow children's specialists to take their place as specialists and managers. * Australian Library Journal *
The historical background on the development of the Internet is clearly and succinctly presented. Overall, this is a good project at the time, it has some interesting and useful information. * Lisca *
A highly readable, well researched and clearly laid out book. It contains lengthy bibliographies (both printed and electronic) at the end of each section, a comprehensive index and a detailed list of contents...a good glossary, gives many suggestions for using electronic communications in schools...the author makes a number of very sound observations on security, student access, the importance of global electronic information in the school library and the future explosion of digital information. * Program *
