Urbana school board to hear about library responsibilities

URBANA – Remember when school libraries were about books and not much else? Well, that's ancient history (section 930 at Prairie Elementary School).

While librarians in Urbana schools once may have had to teach children how to find information only in books, their responsibilities have expanded as media have. Students need to understand how to find and use information from "books, the Internet, the software, video, DVDs, anywhere," said Deb Newell, the Urbana school district library coordinator.

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