Information is the currency of democracy.
~ Thomas JEFFERSON (1743-1826)
Professional resources for school library media specialists...
VEMA (Virginia Educational Media Association)
The mission of the Virginia Educational Media Association is to be the recognized voice for excellence in Virginia's school libraries. Our aim is to promote: literacy, information access and evaluation, love of literature, effective use of technology, collaboration in the teaching/learning process, intellectual freedom, professional growth, instructional leadership, and lifelong learning.
VSTE (Virginia Society for Technology in Education) VSTE embodies the community of those passionate about Technology's role in Education.
Virginia Library Association
Library Sparks web resources
American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
ALA AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
Standards for the 21st-Century Learner offer vision for teaching and learning. They will shape the library program and serve as a tool for library media specialists to shape the learning of students in the school.
Connections ...Connecting Books to the Virginia SOLs
A database of over two thousand works of children's literature and their connection to the Virginia Standards of Learning. Connections also includes links to primary sources in the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.
Instructional Resource Center, Virginia Beach Schools The mission of the Instructional Resource Center is to provide a variety of quality instructional materials and to support the effective use of these materials. We take pride in providing the best instructional resources available to support diverse teaching strategies and learning styles…connecting the curriculum to improve student achievement.
Discovery Education streaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores; it is aligned to U.S. state and provincial standards.
Role of Library Media Specialist Describes the role and responsibilities of the Library Media Specialist as a teacher, instructional partner, information specialist, and program administrator.
Linking Libraries and Academic Achievement - Instructional Materials
VDOE Standards of Learning correlated to literacy and technology objectives.
Dewey Decimal Classification
Dewey Browse
Web Sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12
Web Searching Internet tools and tutorials for searching and evaluating websites.
Citation Machine - The Landmark Project Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.
Information Skills Lesson Plans Resources for school librarians. Lists websites and books.
THE UT SYSTEM CRASH COURSE IN COPYRIGHT The Crash Course Tutorial is available for faculty to use to learn Copyright basics, especially in the distance learning context.
Welcome to TeachingBooks Author Name Pronunciation Guide A collection of brief recordings of authors & illustrators saying their names. Hello, my name is . . . Have authors and illustrators introduce themselves. Learn correct pronunciations of hard-to-pronounce names. Reveal stories behind the names.
VDOE Office of Educational Technology(Internet Safety)
Famous Library Quotes and Quotations
Big Chalk Offers 9000+ ebooks (online books) organized by category.
Bartleby.com—after the humble character of its namesake scrivener, or copyist—publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant.
DigitalBookIndex World's Virtual Library (89,000+ FREE eBooks, eTexts, On-Line Books, eDocument Digital Book Index provides links to more than 142,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites.
Website Evaluation
Librarian's Internet Index (websites you can trust)
Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
LibrarySpot
Best Internet tools
Awesome Library organizes the Web with 35,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
Book Talks - Nancy Keane
Internet Public Library
Library Humor
Resources for School Librarians (humor)
Recipes4Success is "your best resource for supporting project work with students. Recipes4Success includes software tutorials and reference guides, online tools, and a step-by-step process for implementing project-building with students."
Library of Congress
Photo storage/editing: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
Taking Care of Library Books http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=121765
Library lessons http://www.hisdlibraryservices.org/Scope_and_Sequence/scope_and_sequence.htm