Blog Post 3: Reference Materials
This section of the course emphasized the idea that teacher-librarians must have an extensive knowledge of reference resources in both print and online formats. They must also be proficient at navigating the World Wide Web. Furthermore, they must be able to "effectively and efficiently use the Web, create a culture of information inquiry, and create information fluent students (those who can access, evaluate, organize, and use electronic information) for tomorrow's world." (Riedling, 2014, p.105) This is no easy task! Layers of the World Wide Web In this section of this course, we discussed the components of the World Wide Web. There are three primary components. The first is the Surface Web. This is the section of the internet that is readily available to the general public with standard search engines. It accounts for only ten percent of the information that is on the internet! (Wikipedia, 2022) The other 90 percent contains any website that cannot be indexed by a sear...
