Sites of interest to Tucolib folks

General Information

• Kathy Schrock’s web guide for educators:  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/  Links, lesson plans, and much more for all educational subjects

• California School library Association http://www.schoolibrary.org/

• California Library Association http://www.cla-net.org/

• Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) http://www.ala.org/alsc/  

• American Association of School Librarians http://www.ala.org/aasl 

• Also see other ALA sites, such as 700+ Great sites for kids: http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/

• California Department of Education, School Libraries in California: http://www.cde.ca.gov/library

• Links to publishers and vendors home pages: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/pubr.html  

Online library catalogs

• San Joaquin Valley Library System: http://www.sjvls.lib.ca.us/webpacj/valleycat.html  

• Library of Congress www.loc.gov

• Library Spot: http://www.libraryspot.com/   All types of libraries, lots of lists, etc.

Recommended materials lists

• Science and Children list of outstanding trade books for children: http://www.nsta.org/ostbc

• Notable Social Studies Trade Books for children: http://www.ncss.org/resources/notable/

• Science Books and Films best Science Books for children: http://ehrweb.aaas.org/~sbf/15.htm

• Caldecott and Newbery books (and other children's notables: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awards.html

• Booklist Editor's Choice : http://www.ala.org/booklist/

• Children's Book Council Choices:  http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/childrenschoices.html

• California Young Reader Medal: http://cateweb.org/cyrm.html

Ratings of software, videos, etc

• California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse: http://www.clrn.org Note: C-LRN does not critically review items.  Notice there are no ratings.  Use this site to find things, but view them yourself before purchase.

School library links

• Visalia Learning Center: http://visalia.k12.ca.us/library

• Tulare County Office of Education media collection: http://www.erslibrary.org

• Heritage Middle School, Livingston, NJ  http://members.home.net/hmslibrary/  contains bibliographies and links to recommended booklists at http://members.home.net/hmslibrary/rdglists.html

• Nueva School http://nuevaschool.org/ Click on Library for some great stuff.

• Chico High School http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/

Public Library links

• San Joaquin Valley Library System http://www.sjvls.org/PACinfo.html  

• Multnomah County Homework Hotline: http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/index.html

Commercial sites

• Explore-A-Source  http://www.explorasource.com Commercial site.  Search for subjects and receive lists of books, videos, software, and other items.  Links to Content Standards.  Annotations given, but no reviews.

• Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com   look for reviews by library review sources rather than personal reviews.  

• Borders:  http://www.borders.com/

• Barnes and Noble:  http://www.bn.com/  

• Powell's Used Books http://www.powells.com  

• School Library Journal online: http://www.slj.com/index.asp    

Reference sites for school librarians

• List of resources from the American Association of school librarians
• Purdue writing lab formats for research papers
• Citation styles for research papers
• Biographies online
• Biographical dictionary
• English Grammar online

Encyclopedias

• Encyberpedia
• Encarta
• Encyclopedia Britannica

Portal sites for children

• Great Sites
• ALA cool sites
• Kidsvista
• Dragonfly
• Kids Space

Others coming!! Suggestions welcome. George Pilling This site last updated 03/29/2008

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