Reading through all of the articles listed about this concept, I like this thought best:
"We need to focus our efforts not on teaching research skills but on eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and the information they need, so they can spend as little time as possible wrestling with lousy search interfaces and as much time as possible actually reading and learning." (Away from "Iceburgs", Rick Anderson)
Working with the teens at our library branch, I find them reluctant to use books to find the information they need. All I have to do it show them the databases from our website and they take off! Using computers is their preferred way of learning and we will have to continue to meet that need. There will always be patrons that neither use nor want to learn to use computers. Our challenge is to meet the needs of both types of patrons. That's why I love the above quote! We are here to eliminate barriers!
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