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AASL Advocacy Toolkit : The School The brief article at this site makes a convincing case for the school library media center. Part of the American Association of School Librarians' Advocacy Toolkit, the article consists of 10 documented facts that, taken as a group, argue strongly for the establishment and continuing support of media centers at all school libraries. Any or all of these quotable facts would make a lasting impression on your audience. Among the most convincing points is this: "The highest achieving students come from schools with good library media centers.". |
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AASL Advocacy Toolkit:The School Library Media Center:What Parents Should Know Library advocates who are preparing a presentation for parents about the important role of school library media centers will find excellent points at this site. Drawn from the Advocacy Toolkit of the American Association of School Librarians, the article helps parents to evaluate their children's school library and offers suggestions for ways t hey can support the library. |
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AASL: Information Power: Basic This site, maintained by the American Association of School Librarians, offers an excellent slide presentation on the American Library Association's (ALA) guidelines for school library media programs and information literacy standards for student learning. The presentation is based on ALA's Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. To view the presentation, which can be downloaded directly from this site, you'll need Microsoft PowerPoint |
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ALA: Fact Sheet: School Library Media For the nearly 39 million students in elementary, middle, and high schools with library media centers. the library is at the heart of the learning experience, according to the American Library Association (ALA). The ALA has gathered fascinating statistics at this site about school and other libraries, their expenditures, and staffing. Nearly 85 percent of the co untry's 111,000 public and private schools have library media centers, according to the ALA. This site will acquaint you with the resources these centers offer as well as information on other library statistics. |
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American Libraries: 10 Great Reasons Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library As expansive as the Internet is, it's no substitute for the breath of resources found in most libraries, according Mark Y. Herring, Dean of Library Services at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. In this article, which originally appeared in the journal American Libraries, published by the American Library A ssociation. Herring offers 10 reasons, including the Internet's lack of quality control, as to why we still need libraries despite the wealth of information available on the Internet. |
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Animated Tour of the DDC If it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then there's a prodigious amount of information packed into this interactive introducation to the Duewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Created by the Online Computer Library Center, this graphics-rich tour procides an excellent introduction to DDC, covering its origins, how it works, and how it's used. The hierarchical nature of DDC is examined in detail. The tour concludes with a brief test to see how well you have grasped the basics of the system. |
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Biblia's Warrior Librarian http://www.warriorlibrarian.com/ A monthly online journal of original library humor, misinformation, quotes and more. Good for a laugh after one of "those" days with impossible teachers, squirrelly kids, demanding parents, and absent administrators. |
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Booklist The digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine. For more than 90 years, Booklist has been the librarian's leading choice for reviews of the latest books and (more recently) electronic media. Every year they review nearly 4,000 books for adults, more than 2,500 titles for children, more than 500 reference books and electronic reference tools, and 1,000 other audiovisual materials. Booklist also publishes a wide variety of feature articles including author interviews, bibliographies, book-related essays by well-known writers, and a selection of columns. |
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California Department of Education All the information you need to know about the state educational program. |
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Cary Memorial Library: High Interest-Low Reading Level Books for Children in Grades 6-12 Educators looking for books likely to engage the interest of reluctant readers in grades 6 to 12 will find plenty of selections in this reading list, compiled by Cary Memorial Library in Lexington, Massachusetts. The titles have been organized by reading level (grades 2 to 4), interest level (grades 3 to 12), and type< (fiction and information/ biography). To access the reading list in PDF format, you'll need a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
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Building Skills for Tomorrow: Minnesota School Library Media Programs Make a Difference You can download a film about the changing role of libraries at this site. Produced by the Minnesota Educational Media Organization, the film explores the qualities that make a good library and explains why some libraries fail to make the mark. Although the film is specific to Minnesota, it may be adapted by groups in other states to show parents or administrators how to support their libraries. Note that the film file is extremely large; a script also is offered. |
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High Interest Low Vocabulary Books http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ ieo/bibs/hilo.html Teaching professionals and librarians who'd like to learn more about high- interest, low- vocabulary reading will find useful online and print resources here. Although this site is hosted by Indiana University, the bibliography itself was compiled by Sibel Tatar, reference specialist for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. A couple of the links to online resources are no longer active, but the citations form the ERIC database are excellent. |
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Help, I'm the New Media Specialist: Survival Tips for the New Librarian http://www.delsea.k12.nj.us/Academic/ MediaCenter/hs/mentoring/ mentoring.html Media specialist Mary Moyer of Delsea Regional High School in Franklinville, New Jersey, has created this Web page to offer new librarians easy access to a broad array of useful resources. Moyer's gateway features several media specialists' experiences and tip sheets on such topics as professional materials, reference sources, and lesson plans. Also included are links to online library resources, professional organizations, and journal articles that explore challenges facing new school librarians. |
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The Lexile Framework for Reading The Lexile Framework for Reading is a scientific approach to reading measurement that matches readers to text. The Lexile Framework measures both reader ability and text difficulty on the same scale, called the Lexile scale. This approach allows educators to manage reading comprehension and encourage reader progress using Lexile measures and a broad range of Lexile products, tools and services. This site offers resource kits, Lexile book databases, Lexile analyzers, and a Lexile calculator for books in your library. |
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LION: Librarians Information Online Network Sponsored by Library Services of the School District of Philadelphia, this gateway site offers school librarians and media specialists--novices and veterans alike--easy access to some of the most useful resources the Internet has to offer. The site provides links to sites that cover a wide variety of subjects, including children's literature, school library automation, scheduling and staffing issues, and school library organizations. LION also provides an online forum where you can express your views and post questions on topics of interest to librarians |
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Monroe County Public Library: High Interest/Low Reading Level Books http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/ hilobib.html This annotated list of reading selections spotlights books that offer high interest levels and lower reading levels for use in a reading program tailored to the needs of reluctant readers. All of the books in the list are fiction, many of them by well know writers, including Judy Blume and Jon Scieszka. Each section has been graded for both interest and reading level by children's services librarian Sarah S. Wright, who compiled the reading list for the Monroe County Public Library in Indiana. |
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Orange County Department of Education Find out the latest from the county. |
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Orange County Department of Education: Professional Library The County Librarian, Richard Moore, is responsible for this page. He will post information concerning school libraries on this site. |
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PSLA: The Pennsylvania School Librarians Association This site by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association offers a number of presentation resources that address key issues facing school librarians, teachers, and administrators. Subjects covered include Preemptive Action: The Busy Librarian's Guide to Program Evaluation and Collaboration: The Key to Building Partnerships for Learning. You can download the Microsoft Power Point slide presentations and accompanying scripts in Microsoft Word directly from the site. |
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Resource Room: Hi-Low Books http://www.resourceroom.net/ comprehension/ This collection of links, created by reading and learning disabilities specialist Sue Jones, will guide educators to many useful online resources that cover motivating and empowering reluctant readers. Most of the sites referenced in this category feature lists of books recommended by librarians or publishers for use with reluctant readers. You'll also find sites that offer books written specifically for hi-low readers. |
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School Library Journal The one place for librarians to find indispensable information needed to integrate libraries into the school curriculum, become leaders in the areas of technology, reading, and information literacy, and create high-quality collections for children and young adults. |
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School of Library and Information Services:The School Library Media Specialist A web site by Gary Hartzell, Ph.D, an administrator at University of Nebraska, Omaha, with information pertinent to the school library media specialist. Links to articles on school libraries and library media specialists are included. |
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Starter Tutorial on Library Skills Researchers will find the challenge of locating the information they need much less daunting after taking this tutorial, hosted by the City University of Hong Kong's Run Run Shaw Library. Log-on as guest to access the tutorial, which will take about 30 minutes to complete. You'll learn how to search online library catalogs by author, title, keyword, subject, or ISBN. Test your research skills by completing the practice exercises. |
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Sunlink The Sunlink database is the Union Catalog of the K-12 schools in Florida. It has links to over 20,000 curriculum or staff development web sites as well as book jacket images. For librarians, of particular interest is the "Weed of the Month" section with suggested library collection weeds along with replacement titles. |
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Teacher Librarian: "What Works" : Research You Can Use From Teacher Librarian, a magazine for library professionals, comes this archive of the magazine's popular column, "What Works." Written by Ken Haycock, editor of Teacher Librarian and executive director of the International Association of School Librarianship, each column focuses on a recent library study. Haycock summarizes its findings and offers a brief comment on its relevance to readers, as well as information on where the study can be found. The columns are listed in reverse chronological order with their titles and a short description |
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Teaching Today: Education Up Close: Helping Remedial and Reluctant Readers As any teacher can tell you, capturing and holding the attention of reluctant student readers is no easy task. This site offers a broad overview of the problem, including the importance of distinguishing between students who are unable to read and those who simply won't read. Although reluctant readers are generally able to read any material they find interesting, remedial readers usually have a limited vocabulary and stunted reading skills. The site also reviews various techniques to help struggling readers, including the use of large-type materials, broader reading selections, and pre-reading. |
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VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates This is a bimonthly journal addressing librarians, educators, and other professionals who work with young adults. Designed for the informational needs of teenagers. Each issue offers more than 150 reviews of new books and at least one annotated booklist for teen readers. |
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YALSA: Young Adult Library Services Association: Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Each year the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) issues a list of books recommended for recreational reading by reluctant teen readers. Each list contains titles published during the previous 12 months that show an ability to capture the interest of young adults who are reluctant to read. This site showcases YALSA Quick Picks for every year since 1996, as well as the top 10 Quick Picks for 1997 and 1999 through 2003. A truly useful tool, the Quick Pick s elections include both fiction and nonfiction titles. |
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From: Web Feet©: Guide to Search Tools, Search Engines, Directories, and Tutorials, Thomson Gale, 2004.
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