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Support your local library!

Every time I visit Yahoo Answers to do unpaid homework help (honestly Yahoo surely could at least offer top level users free web space or something?) I see young users posting questions that could be answered at the reference section in the library.

It seems that parents would rather let their kids loose online then drive them to the library? Or kids use the library and use the net BEFORE they check reference shelves!

A note to parents and younger teachers please please please explain and encourage kids ot read hard copy and use the library.

All too frequently I see kids trying to answer essay types online who dont seem to understand the question requires them to read broadly to get background on say Mycenaean culture.

So teachers please check your school or local library has books in that are and have your kids a hardcopy reading list so well as URLs ?

Do not presume all kids have decent internet access either!

Or know how to use Google or Wikeipedia properly!

Many of them seem to think research skills are social networking skills and that copying answers some one else gave them is valid research cos they "found" it. This means they do not think about or understand their answers.

They go online and seek out some one they would not give the time of day to after class to get them to get their work for them.

Reading is part of research.

Maybe we need to go back to getting students to do book reports or logs of which books they read for an assignment.

Extra points or credits for extra reading?

Even if libraries do end up being places wher epeople go to get free downloads of ebooks there will always be a need for hardcopy as backups!

Or perhaps you should tell your kids if they go out clothes or dvd shopping no more allowance unless they bring back a bag of library books to counter balance the other shopping?

Now that I would like to see. Kids in the mall boasting about what great books they found in the library as well as what great bargains they found!

Support your locla library and reading.

Go and join your library today and take the kids with you!

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