Robinson+-+Media+Specialist+Resources

**Virtual Libraries** **Presidential Libraries**
 * Libraries and Media Specialists**
 * 1) [|Ask A Librarian] - online reference service from the Library of Congress
 * 2) [|The American Library Association] - The voice of America's Libraries
 * 3) [|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
 * 4) [|LibDoc] - A growing database of documents on the Internet of interest to librarians.
 * 5) [|LibWeb] - Search for a library somewhere in the world. Libweb currently lists over 6600 pages from libraries in over 115 countries.
 * 6) [|Tennessee Library Association]
 * 7) [|Virtual Learning Resource Center] -well organized site that helps students search for quality information for school and college academic projects.
 * Physical Libraries**
 * 1) [|The British Library] - the world's knowledge
 * 2) [|The Library of Congress] - Get it online; words, pictures, and sound. The library provides an [|online catalog].
 * 3) [|Memphis Shelby County Public Library and Information Center]
 * 4) [|National Agricultural Library] - One of four national libraries in the US, this institution is a major source for agricultural and related information.
 * 5) [|National Library of Medicine] - The world's largest medical library
 * 6) [|New York Public Library] - Online resources include catalogs, digital collections, and a kids section
 * 7) [|University of Pennsylvania] - Library
 * 8) [|Rhodes College] - Paul Barret, Jr. Library
 * 9) [|Yale University] - Library
 * Museums**
 * 1) [|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.
 * 2) [|The Franklin Institute Science Museum] in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania
 * 3) [|MuseumStuff] - this website can help you find museums online, educational links, virtual exhibits and more (thanks John)
 * 4) [|Museums] - an eclectic collection of Web services connected with museums around the world (organized by country)
 * 5) [|The National Museum of Natural History] - A Smithsonian Institution
 * 6) [|National Museum of the American Indian] posted by the Smithsonian Institution.
 * 7) [|Online Exhibits from the Exploratorium] - Identify the human embryo, find out why that dot disappears and much more.
 * 8) [|Science Learning Network's] list of museums
 * 9) [|Science Museum] - this London museum has lots of "online stuff"
 * 1) [|Awesome Library] - organizes the Web with 23,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
 * 2) [|Bartelby]: Great Books Online - unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge
 * 3) [|CyberDewey] - A Hotlist of Internet Sites organized using Dewey Decimal Classification codes.
 * 4) [|Galen]: The digital library of the University of California, San Francisco
 * 5) [|Internet Public Library] - directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth
 * 6) [|Library Spot] - links to libraries, a reference room, and a variety of interesting articles
 * 7) [|Los Alamos National Laboratory] - research library
 * 8) [|Middle School Library]
 * 9) [|Online Library of Literature]
 * 10) [|Tennessee State Library & Archives]
 * 11) [|Thomas]; Legislative information on the web - In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, this page is offered as a service of the U. S. Library of Congress.
 * 12) [|The WWW Virtual Library]
 * 1) [|Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress]
 * 2) [|Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum]
 * 3) [|The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center]
 * 4) [|McKinley Memorial Library & Museum]
 * 5) [|Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum]
 * 6) [|Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum]
 * 7) [|Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum]
 * 8) [|Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum & Library]
 * 9) [|Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum]
 * 10) [|Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum]
 * 11) [|Nixon Presidential Materials]
 * 12) [|Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum]
 * 13) [|Jimmy Carter Library and Museum]
 * 14) [|Ronald Reagan Library and Museum]
 * 15) [|George Bush Presidential Library and Museum]
 * 16) [|Clinton Presidential Materials Project]
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 * Media Specialist Resources**
 * 1) [|AASL Awards, Grants and Scholarships] -
 * 2) [|America Writes for Kids] - Search for information about authors and their books alphabetically or by state.
 * 3) [|AuthorTracker] - a unique tool that notifies you whenever your favorite authors come out with new books, go on tour, and more
 * 4) [|The Biography Maker]- Step by step directions on how to create a biographical story.
 * 5) [|The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation] - Grammar Rules, interactive tests - this is a book but there are free resources online. Check out the Helpful links.
 * 6) [|Bibliotherapy] - the use of books to help children experiencing difficult times.
 * 7) [|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."
 * 8) [|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.
 * 9) [|Books to Support Reading Lessons] - Lists of books that would enhance Lang Arts lessons.
 * 10) [|Book Repair Manual] - How to make simple repairs on books.
 * 11) [|Book Report Template] - 4th grade, word document.
 * 12) [|Booktalks] - Majority of the booktalks that are included here are written for books that appeal to middle school age children
 * 13) [|Center for Children's Books] - Many resources, audio stories available, literature databases
 * 14) [|The Cooperative Children's Book Center] (CCBC) - Book of the Week reviews, Assistance with Book Challenges,Author/Illustrator info and more.
 * 15) [|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"
 * 16) [|Database of Award-winning Children's Literature] - Make use of this to find the best in children's literature.
 * 17) [|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."
 * 18) [|DeweyBrowse]- Web Sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12
 * 19) [|Dewey Decimal Classification System] - Take an animated tour
 * 20) [|Dewey Decimal System - Where Can I find...] Learn about the Dewey System. Study hard then [|take the quiz!]
 * 21) [|Dewey Lesson Ideas] - Ideas from other Librarians
 * 22) [|Do We Really Know Dewey?] - A Thinkquest entry
 * 23) [|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.
 * 24) [|Eldrbarry's Story Telling Page] - The Art of Telling Stories
 * 25) [|Electronic Reading Portfolio] - Many books that can be useful in a classroom with ideas for classroom use.
 * 26) [|Electronic Texts for Schools and Libraries] - This page contains links to online books in American literature, English literature, church history, history and government documents.
 * 27) [|Family Literacy Backpack] - a project to promote collaboration between teachers and library/media specialists in furthering family literacy.
 * 28) [|Google Librarian Center] - a newsletter that will go out four times a year - just for librarians
 * 29) [|Homemaker for Libraries]- A free web page maker just for librarians! Step by step directions on how to create a homepage for your library.
 * 30) [|Information Technology for School Libraries] - Many links and resources; IASL
 * 31) [|Internet Library for Librarians] - A Portal Designed for Librarians to Locate Internet Resources Related to Their Profession.
 * 32) [|Internet Resources for School Librarians] - from School Librarians Online.
 * 33) [|Lessons From the Library]- 5 lesson plans on navigating around the Library to find materials. Dewey, Alphabetizing, Scavenger Hunt, Mapping out the Library
 * 34) [|Lessons and Activities] - General and specific book lessons.
 * 35) [|LibraryHQ] - A wide range of information for library professionals, including library-oriented organizations, the latest conferences and seminars.
 * 36) [|A Librarian's alphabet] - The lighter side of being a Librarian.
 * 37) [|Library Quizzes] - Vocabulary, library terms and more.
 * 38) [|Library Resources]- many links
 * 39) [|Librarian Lesson Plans] - Lesson plans for using the library and Internet - middle school/ high school.
 * 40) [|Links for Librarians] - from TASL
 * 41) [|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.
 * 42) [|Online resources for School Librarians] - Multi link site containing Information Literacy and Library Skills Resources.
 * 43) [|Page by Page - Creating a Picture Book] - Learn all about how books are created!
 * 44) [|Parts of a Book] - A librarian's guide to all the parts of a book. Click here to go to a [|quiz for your students]about the parts of a book
 * 45) [|Parts of a Book Quiz] - Matching game quiz from Quia
 * 46) [|Picturing Books] - A web site about Picture books. Learn about all the many parts and elements of storybooks made with pictures!
 * 47) [|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)
 * 48) [|Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers]-
 * 49) [|ReadPrint] - free online library, thousands of free books.
 * 50) [|The Reading Village] - many links for librarians, educators; special needs students, K-3 and 4-12 resources and more.
 * 51) [|Reading Rainbow Lesson Plans] - Lesson plans for books in your library.
 * 52) [|Ready Reference and Library Related Resources] - Kathy Schrock's list for librarians.
 * 53) [|Resources for School Librarians] - Multi link site on Learning and Teaching and Information Access.
 * 54) [|Resources for Librarians] - Multi link of numerous topics for School Librarians.
 * 55) [|School Libraries] - Find librarian web pages throughout the United States and countries abroad.
 * 56) [|State Award Books] - "Each year, children in many states read titles from selected reading lists and vote for their favorite books"
 * 57) [|StoryArt] - a great site by Heather Forest
 * 58) [|Storytelling Activities & Lesson Ideas] - collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians.
 * 59) [|Storytelling web sites and resources] - Many ideas for storytellers.
 * 60) [|Storyteller.net] - Nice collection of audio stories Check [|this link for Text stories] without audio
 * 61) [|Study Guides and Strategies] - Many strategies for studying and writing. This comes in a variety of languages
 * 62) [|Taking Care of Books] - Great for younger students.
 * 63) [|Taking Care of Books - Animals Should Definitely Not Borrow Library Books]
 * 64) [|Things have changed!] - The paradigm shift; a chart looking at the new look of libraries.
 * 65) [|Thomas Parry Library] - Electronic Journals in Librarianship and Information Science
 * 66) [|Teacher Librarian] - The Journal for School Library Professionals! There are articles and features here that are free.
 * 67) [|TeenReads] - site for middle/high school student resources; book review and more.
 * 68) [|Telling Tales] - Group ideas for sharing stories.
 * 69) [|Through the Looking Glass] - 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.
 * 70) [|Virtual Library - Springfield Township High School] - Many resources for Librarians. Online lessons and activities.
 * 71) [|World Almanac for Kids] - Companion on-line site for World Almanac