ETL 501 Reference Resources activity.

I don’t believe the notion of abandoning reference material, the library at the school I currently work in has two reference sections, resources available for students and a ‘Teacher Reference’ section only available for teachers. Although these sections are diminishing in their physical form some digital resources are being added to these section on the library cataloguing system such as Online Britannica. Perhaps this term should be kept for non-borrowable resources as this also provides security for rare resources such as ‘The Abo Call’ located in library ‘Teacher Reference’ section at my school.

My definition

Digital and print resources used as an initial point of investigation providing users with specific points of interest, enabling further analysis.

Additional:

I spoke to the teacher librarian at my school today about reference material in the library. Our discussion focused more on the ability or inability of students and teachers borrowing reference resources. The TL provided the reason for reference resources not being borrowed, “not allowing reference resource to be borrowed and their location in the library allows for readily accessible and easily available resources”. Interesting.