Free Government e-Resources for Youth: Inform, Inspire, and Activate

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Specifically focusing on the resources on federal government available online, this book supports the education of young citizens and supplies directions for conducting programs for youth on the government. Government documents offer a wealth of useful information that is often ignored or misinterpretedeven by librarians. And while improved search engines have improved access to online documents in recent years, patronsespecially young peopletypically need help navigating and understanding the sites. Free Government e-Resources for Youth helps librarians promote online government information to youth and to assist youth in using it to become informed and educated about our federal government and how it works. Author Dorothy Ormesa Federal Depository Library Program librarian at the university levelhas created a guide to government resources that public and school librarians can use to support the education of young citizens. The book covers various areas of K12 curriculum, highlighting activities and lesson plans based on national and state standards, and gives helpful directions for creating displays and conducting programs for youth on the government. The book also provides a brief explanation of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and describes how a public library can work with FDLP librarians or take advantage of an unprecedented opportunity to join the FDLP as active participants and benefit the community.

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The entirety of the book can be used by librarians helping youth, and the vast majority of the book can be used independently by youth who want to research on their own. In the age of cutbacks and limited funding for education, books like Free Government e-Resources for Youth can be quite handy for librarians and researchers alike. * VOYA *
Free Government e-Resources for Youth: Inform, Inspire, and Activate offers an avenue for librarians to teach youth about the basics of democracy and how government works. . . . Ormes [offers] a thorough primer on available online resources and takes a lot of the guesswork out of where to start looking for educational materials related to government information. Free Government e-Resources for Youth serves as a convenient handbook that is easy to mine for ideas and to put into use as needed. * The Library Quarterly *

Author Bio

Dorothy Ormes, MLS, MEd, is associate professor and government information/instruction librarian at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR.