ALA--Best Books for Young Adults --see also their other awards links
Books and Reading --from Concord, NH.--links to a variety of resources
Book Reviews--by Frederick Muller....book reviews intended for middle school.
Book Page --"America's Book Review"--a good place to browse the reviews
Education Book Reviews --from Michigan State University Libraries
Hollingsworth Books ... Search for Out of Print, Rare, Used, Antiquarian & Hard to find Books
Juvenile Series and Sequels --handy for the "what comes next" reader
Nancy Keane's Booktalks Quick and Simple
Reader's Advisory Council's Genre Index
What's Next? --from Kent District Library database
American Library Association"s Censorship Basics--links to lots of information including censorship issues
The File Room--"illustrated archive on censorship"
Duke University's Citation Pages--VERY useful site providing comparisons and actual bibliographic citations in MLA, APA, Turabian and Chicago styles
Writing Guide--from the University of Wisconsin, links to all the formats on the web.
Columbia's Guide to
Citing Internet Resources
Copyright and Fair Use --from Stanford University Libraries
American Association of School Librarians Home Page
Collection Development --from the Resources for School Librarians' web site
CyberDewey --"A Hotlist of Internet Sites organized using Dewey Decimal Classification codes"
Cyberlibrarians' Rest Stop --links for lessons on searching and researching.
DeskRef: Quick Reference Links--Best Online Reference Sites--an excellent set of links for a wide variety of topics
"Do We" Really Know Dewey?--a fun page all about Melville from ThinkQuest
ERIC Clearinghouse Resources --compiled by Gary Price.
Information Power: Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning--from AASL the 9 standards in .pdf format
L-Soft CataList --"official catalog of listservs"
Landmarks for Schools --library of links to some valuable tools
Library Programming --from MHLS
LibrarySpot - The best of libraries, newspapers, encyclopedias, maps and more in one Spot.
Maine Association of School Libraries (MASL)--lots of info here about librarian evaluations, construction advice and many other useful items
MARVEL Maine's Virtual Library
OZTL_NET Home Page--the listserv for Australian librarians
Search LM_NET Archives--New home of the ERIC documents
VOYA --Voices of Youth Advocacy "The library magazine serving those who serve young adults.
Big6 An Information Problem-Solving Process
Big6--Lesson plans using Big 6
California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge--a great example of a bogus web site!
Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need--from Debbie Abilock at Noodletools
Colorado Information Literacy Standards
Comparison of Information Skills Process Models --from UNC's School of Library and Information Science
Comparison of Research Process Models--courtesy of the Big 6 web site
Content Standards from the Portland Public Schools--links here to Information Literacy Curriculum directly tied to the Maine Learning Results--very useful for us Maine school librarians!
Developing Educational Standards--this site is in the process of update but is interesting to see what states are doing in a variety of topics. Click on your state to find out!
ICYouSee: T is for Thinking "A guide to critical thinking about what you see on the web."
Information Literacy: An Overview of Design, Process and Outcomes--From Noodletools
Information Skills Curriculum - Table of Contents Valuable information from North Carolina
Information Literacy--from the Washington Library Media Association
Information Literacy 101 eText
"The Impact of School Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement" © 1999 ALA--study by Keith Curry Lance and published in School Library Media Research
Information Literacy Primer--Article by Kathy Schrock
Information Skills - Introduction
Learning and Teaching with Web Resources--Peter's valuable links
Learning Results - Content Standards--from the Portland Public Schools here in Maine (Go to Information Skills link.)
Learning Resources Information Literacy Project Pages - Rubric
Librarians' Information Network for Essential Curriculum --a valuable contribution from the Baltimore Public Schools with much useful information for librarians.
Maine Association of School Libraries (MASL)--lots of info here about librarian evaluations, construction advice and many other useful items
Mankato Schools Information Literacy Curriculum Guideline
Partner in Learning: The School Library Media Center --an Advocacy Toolkit from AASL
Process Models for Information Literacy
Rubric for Evaluating a Research Project
School-Libraries.Org: Information Literacy and Library Skills Online Resources for School Librarians
SearchDay - Seven Stupid Searching Mistakes, Part 1 - 27 March 2002--from Searchenginewatch, an article by Chris Sherman
SearchDay - Seven Stupid Searching Mistakes, Concluded - 28 March 2002
Standards, Performance Indicators, and Outcomes--from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) links to all sorts of guidelines
Teaching Internet Information Literacy: A Critical Evaluation
The Teaching Librarian--includes an Index of Chat Reference Services, Digital Reference Services, and Evaluating Reference Services are among the many topics discussed here
Texas School Libraries' Standards Main Page - Texas State Library and Archives
TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
WJHS Research Pathfinders--guides for a variety of topics from Walter Johnson Media Center in Maryland
Awesome Library's Lesson Plan Links
The Big List on Project Based Learning --from Edutopia
Christmas Games --ideas for lessons
From the Library at Mt. Erie Elementary School--a year's worth of lessons from librarian Carl Dellutri in Washington state.
Hanover Country Public School Library Media Center
(click on the red book for lesson plans)
IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Portal--click on the 21CIF Lesson Plan and Action Research, then lesson plans to browse for lessons by grade level, subject area and learning standards.
Information Skills Instruction from Resources for School Librarians' site
Innovation Curriculum Online Network --worth registering!
LEARN NC: Instructional Resources Home Page--
(lessons under the heading information skills)
Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Teacher Resources, and Rubrics from TeAch-nology.com
Library Instruction.com --"The librarian's weapon of mass instruction."
Library Lesson Plans--(one elementary
librarian's year-long plan)
COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE LINKS
INFORMATION LITERACY AND THE RESEARCH PROCESS TEACHING LINKS
LESSON PLAN LINKS FOR LIBRARY
NickNacks Telecollaborate!--A sight designed to foster telecollaborative projects.
Merlot --Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Read, Write, Think: Lesson Plan --from the International Reading Association
A Suggested Unit Plan Format --links from University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point
AcqWEB's Directory of Publishers & Vendors--a _very_ useful site for all the addresses and links we all need at order time!
Libraries Links --from the Internet Public Library
BookWire --publisher information, book reviews and more.
Internet Library for Librarians --terrific set of library links to all things library.
The Internet Public Library--if you haven't found this one you ought to "check it out"!
Learning and Teaching with Web Resources --another useful page from Peter Milbury
Librarians' Internet Index --one of the best subject directories around today.
The Library of Congress Call Number System --a tutorial for ordering of books on the shelf.
Library Preservation Services--from Dartmouth College
Library Web Manager's Resource Center --how to manage a site for librarians from Web4Lib
Needle in a Cyberstack --lots of form based links here to find it fast!
On Effective, Meaningful Library Assignments --Annotated webliography of interesting articles.
Resources for School Librarians
Retrievable MARC Records --from the Library of Congress. It takes a little study to figure it out, but worth it!
School Library Hotspots --a great set of links for the school librarian
School Library Media Impact Studies --links to many of the studies
SLiP--a directory to Canada's School Library Information Portal (SLiP)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly--a faculty workshop on plagiarism
Plagiarism.org"the online resource for educators concerned with the growing problem of Internet plagiarism."
LOBO on Plagiarism --just one of the excellent tutorials involving the research process from North Carolina State University
Hotlist of K12 Internet School Sites --from Gleason Sackman, listed state by state. Gleason's list is found!
Peter Milbury's School Library and School Librarian Web Pages--so we can see what all of us are doing.
21st Century Information Fluency Project --from IMSA, a set of links browsable for lessons
Big Six.com --popular plan for teaching information skills
The Great Library Scavenger Hunt
Information Skills Lesson Plans and Thematic Units --from Resources for School Librarians.
LearnNC --Searchable lesson plans database from North Carolina (lessons under the heading information skills)
LibraryInstruction.com --"The library weapon of mass instruction."
NickNacks: Collaborative Education on the Internet
Using Your Web Site to Teach-- Useful teaching links used for demonstration purposes at the MASL Spring Fling, May 6, 2006. Many and varied sites of use for teaching.
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask --from Berkeley
Evaluating Web Resources --a valuable set of tools from Wolfgram Memorial Library written by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate.
Evaluating Web Sites --from the library at Cornell
Evaluation of Information Sources --a whole list of links from the World Wide Web Virtual Library.
Great Web Sites for Kids Evaluation Criteria--from ALA
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators--Critical Evaluation Surveys and Resources --check here for all grade levels
Web Evaluation: Criteria--from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly web site
