Megan Beverly
LIB 103
11/29
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/october2009/wrestlemania_yalsa.cfm
NEWSFor Immediate Release October 20, 2009
YALSA, WWE® kick off WrestleMania® Reading Challenge
News Report 5
The Young Adult Library Services Association is a division of ALA has partnered with the WWE to do the WWE Wrestle Mania Reading challenge. It strives to get children and teens to read more, at least one book or magazine a week throughout the year. WWE superstars such as John Morrison, Kofi and Nikki are the spokes persons. At the end of the year, twenty-one finalists who have participated will win airfare, accommodations and a ticket for a parent or guardian t o go to Wrestle Mania and their library wins $2000 dollars. The finalists then compete in a final round challenge. Then three winners from those categories will win ringside seats.
I think that anytime an entertainment business gets on board to help with reading or literacy it is a good thing. It encourages kids to really think that it is cool to read and learn, if their favorite wrestling superstar also thinks that it is cool. Everyone knows that you can sell a kid anything if you have the right angle. I think that more library projects should be done like this to encourage kids to read. If I had been a part of something like this as a child I would have been really excited to read and go to the library. Everything with children that makes learning fun and exciting is a good thing. Also I think it is great that the child’s library receives money because these days I know that libraries are on tight budgets.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
News Report #4
Megan Beverly
11/12/09
NEWSFor Immediate ReleaseOctober 27, 2009
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/october2009/safeway_ola.cfm
“ALA partners with Safeway Inc. to launch cereal box initiative”
The company Safeway Inc. is a fortune 50 company that has donated $248 million dollars to important causes. They are one of the biggest food and drug retailers in the country. They have now partnered with the American Library Association to bring education about libraries and librarians to consumers. Safeway Inc. and ALA plan to work together to put important information about libraries on the back of Safeway Inc. cereal boxes. The cereal boxes will give people information on libraries’ value and fun and exciting ways to enjoy libraries. The boxes were planned to be released in October to over 1,500 stores across the country. People are bringing this information into their homes, before they even notice it.
I think that putting this information on the back of cereal boxes is a great idea. If you are trying to reach a kid, the back of the cereal box is a smart, unique way to do it. I know even now, when I eat a bowl of cereal I look at the back of the box and read it. Besides a television add or something like that, this is a sure way to get kids to notice the information about libraries. It seems that Safeway Inc. is really devoted to their causes that they support. People are bringing in this information into their homes without knowing it. This is cool, but also a little scary if you think of it another way. What if something crazy or bad was on the back of a cereal box? You wouldn’t even know until your child had already read the box. I know that is a little out there, but it is something to think about.
11/12/09
NEWSFor Immediate ReleaseOctober 27, 2009
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/october2009/safeway_ola.cfm
“ALA partners with Safeway Inc. to launch cereal box initiative”
The company Safeway Inc. is a fortune 50 company that has donated $248 million dollars to important causes. They are one of the biggest food and drug retailers in the country. They have now partnered with the American Library Association to bring education about libraries and librarians to consumers. Safeway Inc. and ALA plan to work together to put important information about libraries on the back of Safeway Inc. cereal boxes. The cereal boxes will give people information on libraries’ value and fun and exciting ways to enjoy libraries. The boxes were planned to be released in October to over 1,500 stores across the country. People are bringing this information into their homes, before they even notice it.
I think that putting this information on the back of cereal boxes is a great idea. If you are trying to reach a kid, the back of the cereal box is a smart, unique way to do it. I know even now, when I eat a bowl of cereal I look at the back of the box and read it. Besides a television add or something like that, this is a sure way to get kids to notice the information about libraries. It seems that Safeway Inc. is really devoted to their causes that they support. People are bringing in this information into their homes without knowing it. This is cool, but also a little scary if you think of it another way. What if something crazy or bad was on the back of a cereal box? You wouldn’t even know until your child had already read the box. I know that is a little out there, but it is something to think about.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Reading Report 11/3
Megan Beverly
Reading Report
11/3/09
"Information Navigation 101" by Andrea L. Foster.
Chronicle of Higher Education (3/9/2007).
As a college student, one uses technology all the time in everyday life. But, many college students do not know how to do academic research using scholarly sources. Many things have changed students today into people who rely on such sources as Google and Wikipedia, because of the ease a familiarity of these engines. But, it was not always this way, in the past you were almost forced to go to the library to find information. This was before the time of Google and other quick and easy search engines. There is so much information out there, that it is easy to get confused by what information to use, unless you have been formally taught how to do so.
There is a push to make the new generation more information savvy, in a movement called “information literacy”. This is an effort led by librarians to help students become more able to find and review the proper information without being so overly confused and overwhelmed. Now, business people and teachers are jumping on board with this “information literacy”, so that it will reach broader audiences. This program is now instituted at many campuses around the country, to teach students how to find, sort and analyze all the information they are bombarded with. Many campuses interpret information literacy on campus as many different things including research, plagiarism, and understanding things within the research such as footnotes. Some people are also against this movement, because it’s almost like more laws that one must follow, but others strongly oppose saying that it is necessary for this generation to learn this information literacy. There have also been tests developed to see how students do when accessing information, what level they are at, and what level they should be at. Many students were found to be unprepared for college, and these information literacy programs would greatly help them.
I think that as a college student, we do rely way too much on things like Google and Wikipedia. We need programs and classes, such as this one to help us learn the right way to access, interpret and use scholarly information. I think that many people are unprepared for the research that they will be required to do. Even just taking this library class and learning about ways to research has helped me greatly, too bad I took it my last semester it would have helped me in my academic career.
Reading Report
11/3/09
"Information Navigation 101" by Andrea L. Foster.
Chronicle of Higher Education (3/9/2007).
As a college student, one uses technology all the time in everyday life. But, many college students do not know how to do academic research using scholarly sources. Many things have changed students today into people who rely on such sources as Google and Wikipedia, because of the ease a familiarity of these engines. But, it was not always this way, in the past you were almost forced to go to the library to find information. This was before the time of Google and other quick and easy search engines. There is so much information out there, that it is easy to get confused by what information to use, unless you have been formally taught how to do so.
There is a push to make the new generation more information savvy, in a movement called “information literacy”. This is an effort led by librarians to help students become more able to find and review the proper information without being so overly confused and overwhelmed. Now, business people and teachers are jumping on board with this “information literacy”, so that it will reach broader audiences. This program is now instituted at many campuses around the country, to teach students how to find, sort and analyze all the information they are bombarded with. Many campuses interpret information literacy on campus as many different things including research, plagiarism, and understanding things within the research such as footnotes. Some people are also against this movement, because it’s almost like more laws that one must follow, but others strongly oppose saying that it is necessary for this generation to learn this information literacy. There have also been tests developed to see how students do when accessing information, what level they are at, and what level they should be at. Many students were found to be unprepared for college, and these information literacy programs would greatly help them.
I think that as a college student, we do rely way too much on things like Google and Wikipedia. We need programs and classes, such as this one to help us learn the right way to access, interpret and use scholarly information. I think that many people are unprepared for the research that they will be required to do. Even just taking this library class and learning about ways to research has helped me greatly, too bad I took it my last semester it would have helped me in my academic career.
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