Before my younger daughter headed off to college, I put her through a mini library studies class. It was designed to teach her how to identify authors with diff

Before my younger daughter headed off to college, I put her through a mini library studies class. It was designed to teach her how to identify authors with different positions on a topic, write summaries, and write brief analyses. It was very loosely based on a required prep school class I took in the early 1980s. She absolutely hated it. Not sure how much good it did her given her lack of interest in the lessons. To this day I am grateful I had to take the library studies class. And while I was not the biggest fan of Mr. Hickock, he helped prepare me to learn better. We spent a ton o' time using encyclopedias and the card catalogue. I am a huge fan of printed books. There's nothing quite like them and they almost magical way they work.