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General Resources
- LibDex: A searchable index of public
library homepages, web-based OPACs, and Friends of the Library webpages
throughout the U.S. and around
the world.
- National Library Service for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped
- PUBLIB: A listserv
concerned with public libraries, covering "collection development, acquisitions,
management and weeding, including traditional and new media, reference
services, issues related to library facilities, policy and guidance, trustee
relationships, internet access for staff and public, intellectual freedom,
library administration, sundry library "how-tos" and queries
for equipment, personnel issues, public library jobs and related conferences."
- Spanish in Our Libraries (Bruce
Jensen) "a searchable resource bank that includes Spanish-language versions
of common library forms, flyers, and signs as well as the Dewey Decimal
classification system; book summaries; guides to the language and to library
Spanish; programming ideas;" and more.
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Book Awards - Adult
- National Book Awards (National
Book Foundation) "Awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres:
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature"
- Pulitzer Prize (Columbia University)
Annual literary awards in 22 categories, including journalism and drama.
- Nobel Prize for Literature:
(Nobel Foundation) Awarded for an outstanding body of work, including poetry,
novels, short stories, plays, essays and speeches.
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Book Awards - Youth
- ALSC
Award Winners ALA's ALSC sponsored awards, including the Newbery
and Caldecott Awards.
- Database of Award-Winning Children's
Literature (Lisa R. Bartle, Reference Librarian at the California
State University, San Berbadino) Search over 4,000 records of 50 awards
from five English-speaking countries.
- Coretta
Scott King Award Given by ALA's Ethnic Multicultural Information
Exchange Round Table (EMIERT). "The award (or awards) is given to an
African American author and an African American illustrator for an outstandingly
inspirational and educational contribution."
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Children's Literature
- Imaginary Lands (Denise
I. Matulka) Includes links to international children's publishing, picture
books, series titles, authors, special collections, journals, booksellers,
book characters, awards, teen literature and more.
- Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's
Literature (Roxanne Hsu Feldman) Offers bibliographies, reviews,
links, and discussion.
- Kay Vandergrift's
YA Literature Web Site (Kay Vandergrift) "a means of sharing ideas
and information with all those interested in literature for children
and young adults"
- International Children's Digital
Library (University of Maryland) Online stories in 32 different languages.
Book Groups
- BookBrowse.com Reading
guides, discussion starters, and strategies for starting and maintaining
a book group. Includes titles for children and adults.
- Oprah's Book
Group (Oprah Winfrey)
- Reading Group Guide (Book
Report Network) Publisher's reading guides, advice, and recipes.
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Graphic Novels
- Graphic Novels in Libraries (GNLIB)
A listserv dedicated to the discussion of graphic novels in libraries.
- Comics
Books for Young Adults (Michael Lavin, Lockwood Memorial Library,
SUNY at Buffalo) A guide to graphic novels in libraries, including a
synopsis of formats, collection development and use issues.
- No Flying, No Tights (Robin
Brenner) Reviews of graphic novels in many genres for children, "tweens," teens,
and adults.
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Information Literacy
Online Booklists - Youth
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New Directions in Library Service
- Blogs, Wikis, and
Other Animals (University of Oregon) Don't know what these terms
mean? Here is an excellent place to start.
- Tech
Notes (PLA - ALA) "Short, Web-based papers introducing specific technologies
for public librarians."
- 2003 OCLC
Environmental Scan (OCLC) Examines "the significant issues and trends
impacting OCLC, libraries, museums, archives and other allied organizations,
both now and in the future." Includes online presentations on "An examination
of how young people's social interaction and technology skills have created
a seamless sphere fusing work, play and information" and more.
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Reader's Advisory - Adults
- Book Lust (Nancy Pearl) Browse
or search the picks of this veracious reader/librarian.
- Fiction-L (Morton
Grove Public Library, IL) A listserv "devoted to reader's advisory topics
such as book discussions, booktalks, collection development issues, booklists
and bibliographies, and a wide variety of other topics of interest to librarians,
book discussion leaders, and others with an interest in reader's advisory."
- If You
Like. (Hennepin County Library, MN) Read-alikes for a variety
of genres.
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Reader's Advisory - Youth
- .Genrefluent (Diana Trixier
Herald) Recommendations for genre fiction from the author of Teen Genreflecting.
- .Books
in a Series (Monroe County Public Library, IN) Titles in children's
series, in order, from A-Z.
- .BookHive (Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg
County, NC) "Providing reader's advisory service, this site contains hundreds
of recommended book reviews in a variety of reading levels and interest
areas." Suggestions for ages birth through twelve.
- .Guys Read (Jon Scieszka) An online
literacy program for boys that includes advice, book lists, and resources
on connecting boys to books and reading.
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Reference
- Project Wombat (hosted by Project Gutenberg) “an e-mail discussion list for difficult reference questions…continues the many fine traditions started by the Stumpers list once offered by Dominican University...”
- Internet Public Library (University
of Michigan) A large searchable directory of websites; designed to be "first
public library of and for the Internet community."
- Answers.com (Answers Corporation)
A step more authoritative than Google, this searchable site offers "delivers
snapshot, multi-faceted definitions and explanations from credible, attributable
reference sources on over one million topics in our database."
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Teen Services
- ALA's Young Adult Library
Services Association (ALA - YALSA)
- YA Librarians' Homepage (Tracey
Firestone, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, NY) A site "designed to
gather resources on and off the Web to help librarians serving teens. a
micro index to the vast amount of resources available on the World Wide
Web. It is not a review, recommendation or endorsement of these links/pages,
but only a finding tool to be used by librarians for professional development
and/or used by those putting together pages for young adults in their libraries."
- Reading Rants (Jennifer Hubert, Middle School Librarian at the Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.) “A group of booklists for those of you teens out there who need a good read, but are wondering if there's life after Judy Blume and Brian Jacques.”
- Favorite
YA Author Homepages A directory of websites for popular authors of
books for teens.
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Youth Services
- PUBYAC "An Internet discussion list
concerned with the practical aspects of Children and Young Adult Services
in Public Libraries, focusing on programming ideas, outreach and literacy
programs for children and caregivers, censorship and policy issues, collection
development, administrative considerations, puppetry, job openings, professional
development and other pertinent services and issues."
- ALSC "The Association
for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is a network of
over 3,700 children's and youth librarians, children's literature experts,
and publishers committed to improving and ensuring the future of the
nation through exemplary library service to children, their families,
and others who work with children."
- Birth to 6 (Hennepin Library):
- New York State Curriculum (New
York Department of Education) Do third graders study the solar system?
Find out what's covered when in the learning standards for grades K-12.
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