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The Classroom Bookshelf
by Erika Thulin Dawes
Teen Librarian Toolbox
by Amanda MacGregor
Good Comics for Kids
by Brigid Alverson
A Fuse #8 Production
by Betsy Bird
April 23, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Documentaries are a big deal in our library. I don’t think a day goes by when one doesn’t cross the circ desk, get used on one of our streaming services, or get requested by a student or teacher. SnagFilms is an amazing source of full-length documentaries (like the one above), offering yet another way to […]
April 23, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
The University of Nottingham has proven itself worthy in the face of an enormous scientific challenge–making the Periodic Table engaging and fun, as well as useful and informative. Confession, I was a good chemistry student, but I cannot say I loved the subject. So it is strange that when I discovered the Periodic Table of […]
April 22, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
On Monday, Google Labs announced the launch of Google News Timeline, a new feature that organizes many different types of search results on a zoomable, graphical timeline. Visual results come from a variety of sources including Time Magazine. By clicking on Add More Queries, users searchers may include their customized choices of newspapers and magazines […]
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April 21, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
The American Memory Collection is a rich portal containing so many of the primary sources that define our nation. Till now, no such portal existed to share such sources globally. In a flat world, this is sharing is critical. Today is the birthday of the World Digital Library. First proposed by Librarian of Congress James […]
April 19, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
I started noticing it a few months back. The headphones I keep in the office cabinet moved off the shelf each block at an ever-increasing pace. Nope, it wasn’t that the kids were listening to music. It wasn’t that they were viewing/listening to off-task video. They were absolutely on task. It’s always been clear to […]
April 17, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
In my early library days, I’d get the "Where are the dictionaries?" question a lot. Dictionaries were less fun in those days. Dictionaries have become living, growing organisms. We have a new crop of wonderful tools for better understanding words and building vocabulary. Perhaps they are less reliable. Perhaps they are sometimes surprising. Our new […]
April 14, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Here’s another post relating to tight times and the happy fact that the open source/open access movement continues to simultaneously flourish. High school librarians will want to share the Directory of Open Access Journals with students and teachers. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all […]
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