Cayuga Onondaga BOCES SLS
Week of June 18
Retirement Party
School Librarians Research Opportunity
Google Like a Pro
If you’ve been using Google since it had an “!” at the end of its logo, you might think you know all the tricks for efficient and effective searches. But the internet has become increasingly vast and complex, and finding exactly what you want gets harder all the time.
That’s why we’ve partnered with disinformation research expert Cindy Otis — author of True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News — to create the infographic Eight Tips To Google Like a Pro. The guidance will help you improve your search results and zero in on what you’re looking for more quickly. These advanced searching skills can also help you work your way back to the original source of specific claims, quotes, photos and videos — a critical step in fact-checking.
Some of the tips are as simple as narrowing your search time frame or putting key phrases in quotation marks, but all are designed to help you quickly unearth the specific and reliable information you are looking for. And with each tip featured, you’ll find a hyperlink that shows you what the search results look like when you use it.
Check out this new infographic, and share it with friends and family so they, too, can search like an expert.
For a future founded on facts,
The News Literacy Project
eva efron Memorial AASL Conference Grant
The 2021 eva efron Memorial American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Conference Grant (“the Grant”) is offered in honor of our friend and colleague eva efron, a dedicated member of her local, regional, and national school library community, who was just as special as the unique spelling of her name. eva served as a High School Librarian and School Library System Director (Nassau BOCES). She was an active member of both ALA and AASL. Rosen Publishing and the members of the School Library Systems Association of New York State (SLSA) are pleased to offer this grant opportunity to foster the growth of an emerging leader as an active member of ALA/AASL and in the hope that he or she will follow in eva’s footsteps as a leader of and mentor to future school librarians.
APPLICATION IN LINK BELOW
Cayuga Onondaga BOCES SLS
Email: psweeney@cayboces.org
Website: https://www.cayboces.org/domain/28
Location: 1879 West Genesee Street Road, Auburn, NY, USA
Phone: (315) 355-7609
Twitter: @plsweeney1