Digital
Library Federation - a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are
pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections
and services
LibDoc
- A growing database of documents on the Internet of interest to librarians.
LibWeb
- Search for a library somewhere in the world. Libweb currently lists over 6600
pages from libraries in over 115 countries.
The
Children's Museum of Indianapolis - the
world's largest children's museum with a history that dates back to 1925. The
museum offers nontraditional learning opportunities for children and their families.
Explore some of their on-line exhibits.
Exploratorium - the museum of science, art, and human perception
Bibliotherapy
- the use of books to help children experiencing difficult times.
Book Hooks - "The
web site encourages both editorial (review/report) and generative (story,
poem, drawing, photograph) responses to books. Book hooks motivates students
by giving them the opportunity to publish their writing and illustrations
to the world. They can email reports to their friends, family and teacher.
They can spell check reports online. Students can browse other student reports
by keyword, author, reporter, title or genre."
Book Lists - Ever had someone
come and ask you for a specific type of book? By author, read-alikes, read-alouds,
targeted lists and more! Here is a helpful guide.
Current Cites -
"A team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology
literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the
best items to annotate for this free publication. The resulting issue of 8-12
annotated citations of current literature"
Developing Library
Skills - Genres and Library Skills: A Topical Approach - an article by
Susan E. Russell, University of Oklahoma. Example unit ideas for teaching
in the library with elementary students. "Through the use of topical
units, the library media specialist is able to introduce, in an interesting
yet informative manner, the variety of materials that are available to students
and how a particular topic is depicted across a variety of genres."
DeweyBrowse - Web Sites Classified
by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12
Educational Media
Reviews Online - A database of video, DVD, and CD-ROM reviews on materials
from major educational and documentary distributors. The reviews are written
primarily by librarians and teaching faculty in institutions across the United
States and Canada.
Electronic Texts for
Schools and Libraries - This page contains links to online books in American
literature, English literature, church history, history and government documents.
Family Literacy
Backpack - a project to promote collaboration between teachers and library/media
specialists in furthering family literacy.
Google Librarian Center
- a newsletter that will go out four times a year - just for librarians
Homemaker for Libraries
- A free web page maker just for librarians! Step by step directions on
how to create a homepage for your library.
Internet Library for Librarians
- A Portal Designed for Librarians to Locate Internet Resources Related to
Their Profession.
Lessons
From the Library - 5 lesson plans on navigating around the Library to
find materials. Dewey, Alphabetizing, Scavenger Hunt, Mapping out the Library
Literactive - Literactive
is committed to providing the best educational resources for teachers and
parents to help teach children to read. To download stories, you must complete
the free registration, but online usage does not require registration.
Picture Books
- "Learn about children's picture books of all types, including some
recommended for their positive portrayals of people from different cultures".
Power
of Picture Books - "Books That You and Your Children Will Learn From
And Love ; Picture Books that positively impact parenting, promote literacy,
increase emotional vocabulary and teach caregivers the value of positive reinforcement"
Pratt's
Story and Theme Bag Ideas - ideas you can place in a the bags, boxes,
etc. You can these stories into flannel board stories (warning-
this site may be blocked by some school filters)
ReadPrint - free online library,
thousands of free books.
The Reading Village
- many links for librarians, educators; special needs students, K-3 and 4-12
resources and more. [select Library/References from the index on the left]
Storytelling
Activities & Lesson Ideas - collection of storytelling activities-developed
by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students,
teachers, and librarians.
Through the Looking
Glass - [this link opens on a new page] The Online Children's Book Review Magazine;reviews of chapter
books, early readers, novels, nonfiction, picture books, and novelty books,
features, a Bookish Calendar, author profiles and more.