Interesting Sites to Explore
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The Internet School
Library Media Center Description: A
library website containing information essential to school library media
centers. Including information on standards/assessment, cataloging,
selection/acquisition, collection development, classification, management,
libary policy, listservs, professional publications, and organizations.
Links to AASL, ALA, IPL, and Internet Library for Librarians. |
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Kidon Media-Link (media
directory) Description: "Kidon
Media-Link is an independent site on the internet. It tries to give a
complete directory of newspapers and other news sources on the
internet." This is a well-designed directory with links by
country/continent/language to newspapers, radio, TV stations, and other
news sources around the world. |
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Description: For
the public librarian who hears "where are the dinosaur books?"
on a weekly basis, try this site. Sponsored by Enchanted Learning, a
software/educational company, it gives great thumbnails on dinos, coloring
sheet masters, activities, etc. Everything you never wanted to know about
dinosaurs! You might also peruse wwww.enchantedlearning.com to see what
else might fit your children's programming schedules. |
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Description: Links
to a ton of great internet reference sources, nicely organized. Answered a
lot of reference questions with this when I couldn't get to the library. |
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Michigan Electronic Library
Reference Desk Description: This
collection is comprised of a variety of general ready-reference tools
selected specifically for public librarians. Resources cover most subject
areas -- everything from acronyms to ZIP codes. Links to references are
presented in an alphabetic menu. A "quick search" option offers
access to more than 50 dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotation books, and
other ready-reference sources. |
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Electronic
Elementary Library Description: The
Electronic Elementary Library is a wonderful source for conducting a
search using a deep database. The Electronic Elementary Library is driven
by a natural-language search engine that is tailored for children. Users
may enter a question, phrase, or keyword to search newspapers, magazines,
books, picture collections, maps, and television and radio transcripts.
Content seems very current and "safe" for children. Searches may
be limited by source type, publication, date, title, and author. Users may
select "go to the best part" to access the most relevant
sections of documents immediately. Really, this is not just for kids! |
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American Memory: Historical
Collections for the National Digital Library Description: Provides access to primary-source material from more than 100 collections relevant to American history and culture. Comprised of seven million manuscripts, photographs, rare books, maps, sound recordings, and movies. National Digital Library prepared these selections for dissemination electronically. |
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Internet Biography
Resources/ ACRL News Jan.2002 Description: A
descriptive listing by subject of Internet sites devoted to biographical
material. From the ALA web site, Association of College and Research
Libraries division. |
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Description: Really
good website especially for those of us in schools. Especially check out
the Kidsites and Education Links |
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Description: Discussions
of a multitude of Library Reference Issues. Ability to search issues by
date or by subject |
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Ready Reference
Winsor School Description: Selected
Internet Sites thoroughly prepared for students to work on their school
projects. A variety of links is alphabetically organized. Each link is a
set of sources. It thought to be used for further investigation. |
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Description: This
new search engine is reportedly "better than www.google.com".
The www.teoma.com website describes the engine as "provid(ing) better
results because it goes beyond traditional page ranking methods to
determine authority, in addition to relevancy. To determine the authority
or quality of a site's content, Teoma uses Subject-Specific PopularitySM.
Subject-Specific Popularity ranks a site based on the number of
same-subject pages that reference it, not just general popularity, to
determine a site's level of authority. To better understand why going to
this next step is important, picture yourself as a participant in a
popular game show. The final question arises and you need help with the
answer. For one million dollars, you could ask the audience their opinion
(similar to using other leading search technologies) or you could turn to
an expert on the subject (similar to Subject-Specific Popularity)." |
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The Internet Public Library:
General/Reference Collection Description: The
IPL General/Reference Collection is a collection of Internet resources
gathered together with the needs of the Internet community in mind. It is
not intended to be a comprehensive hotlist to all sites on every subject,
but rather an annotated collection, chosen to help answer specific
questions quickly and efficiently. Sources are selected according to ease
of use, quality and quantity of information, frequency of updating, and
authoritativeness. |
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Description: Another helpful site especially for schools and students doing research, is "are search guide". Especially,check out the Virtual Library section, arranged by Dewey number, it offers many links to various topics (Even helpful for our assign. no 11- geography area)Great for browsing too. |
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Fact Monster: Online Almanac,
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help Description: Fact
Monster is a tool for kids designed by Information Please. It has an
Atlas, Almanac, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia. It has daily features such
as Today's Birthday, Today in History, Word Quiz, Analogy of the Day,
Weather Fact and more. It also features news, information on people,
words, science, math, sports, and a homework center. This seems like a
wonderful reference and learning resource for kids. |
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Description: For
school library media specialists, this is a great site to know about. It
provides standards-based lesson plans and content for integrating the
Internet into classroom curriculum. It features a search engine for access
by topic, grade level and subject area. The audience is the K-12 teacher. |
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Description: This
a fabulous site for children grades K-7. They will find it entertaining
and educational. It has links to 600 sites selected based on specific
criteria by the Ramapo Catskill Library System. Sites included must be no
fee, no commercial porduct ordering, no evil violent or hateful content.
It includes "Worlds of Web Searching" a self-guided tutorial for
kids. This would be a great site to have bookmarked. |
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Description: This
a fabulous site for children grades K-7. They will find it entertaining
and educational. It has links to 600 sites selected based on specific
criteria by the Ramapo Catskill Library System. Sites included must be no
fee, no commercial porduct ordering, no evil violent or hateful content.
It includes "Worlds of Web Searching" a self-guided tutorial for
kids. This would be a great site to have bookmarked. |
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Tool Kit
for the Expert Web Searcher Description: The
Top Technology Trends Committee of LITA offers this collection of links
accompanied by brief descriptions. Includes the following sections:
Subject Guides, Search Engines, News Searching, Metasearch Engines and
Search Engine Collections, Global Searching, Multimedia Searching, The
Invisible Web, Search Engine News. Notable for its concise format and
emphasis on quality not quantity. |
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Description: The
increasing number of electronic databases, each with its own command
structure, offers opportunity as well as challenge. The guides on this
site have been created to help develop useful searches. |
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My Virtual Reference Desk site Description: current
weather, news and sports, and subject categories. Additional lists of
links are added under help and advice, top reference tools, headline news,
and facts at a glance. There is a facts resource search section which
includes Reuters, AP Headlines, law and medical dictionaries, English to
French, Italian, German, and Spanish translations and more. Most of the
links deserve listing on their own but they have them all organized for
you. |
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"Reference
Coast to Coast" site Description: This
site is a directory of articles that have been written for the e-column
"Reference Coast to Coast". Each column provides a listing of
good Web sources for information on different types of reference needs. |
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Internet Bibliography Source
Description: The
Infomine "Scholarly Internet Resource Collection" - Search
20,000+ Academically Valuable Resources |
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Subject
Guide to Handy Sites for Libarians Description: Tutorials,
reference, Fun Things etc. |
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Description: Exactly
what it says plus a lot more links to sites for national library
collections etc. |
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Internet
Searches and Sources Description: A good site to check out for Internet Searches, Internet site evaluation and Internet resources |
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Internet
Resource Development Description: The
process of creating an Internet resource |
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Description: More
steps to take in evaluating Internet-based sources |
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Behavioral
Guidelines for Reference Professionals Description: Guidelines
for Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information Services
Professionals |
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Description: Here
is one site for Reference on the Internet |
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The
Book of the Library and Its Ways Description: A
Librarians translation of the Tao te Ching. Please be sure to read section
fifty-six. |
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The Legal
Reference Interview Description: Lists
important questions to ask during a legal reference interview. Includes
tips and techniques. |
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The
Distributed Librarian: Online, Real-Time Reference Description: From
American Libraries, November, 2000. Karen G. Schneider writes about
digital reference. |