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Intellectual access to information: the teacher-librarian as facilitator.

Publication: Teacher Librarian
Publication Date: 01-JUN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Intellectual access to information: the teacher-librarian as facilitator.(school library tech ideas)

Article Excerpt
There is a plethora of wonderful hardware and software available to the teacher-librarian. At the American Library Association Midwinter 2009 meeting, there were several booths exhibiting great ideas and concepts to make access to information faster and more direct for learners. However, this leads me to the issue of intellectual information access, which is where the professional in the school library--the teacher-librarian--matters most.

Physical access to information means the ability to link a learner to the information in some manner. It is the learner's ability to physically get to the information. Now more commonly used as a computer hacking term (White, 2003), in the school library "access to...

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