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Libraries are changing, despite their facades. And they're changing to high-tech service companies with embedded librarians, according to some library professionals. Of course, that assumes they aren't defunded out of existence.

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Learning online can be an incredible journey but at some point you may feel overwhelmed with the surplus of information and resources.

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Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners.

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Collection and resources for fiction reading - including a Kids Read section

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Pinterest is taking the social media world by storm, and it isn’t just popular with individual users. Businesses, nonprofits, and even libraries are sharing ideas and information through the site as well, connecting with people from around the country and around the globe.

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Digital media labs, hackerspaces, and coworking spaces put tools in customers’ hands




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We librarians are experts at collecting. Our jobs, our departments, our very buildings have been designed to acquire content. There is, however, another side to content that many libraries haven’t yet fully explored, and that is content creation.

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Use images for your projects that are not copyright-protected. (You should take your own photos or create your own original drawings and diagrams too). Sites below are sources of Creative Commons and public domain images. Be sure to cite all images! See the Citation Machine for guidelines.

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Teaching Students to Effectively Use the Internet

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What it is: Book Source has a pretty incredible tool called the Classroom Library Organizer.  A FREE account on Classroom Organizer let’s you digitally build and keep track of your classroom library, import BookSource orders, import student rosters, track book conditions, generate reports, and more. 

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The Library as a Digital Learning Space

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Here you will find a list of authors and illustrators who are celebrating their birthday this month. Please use the search feature to find titles created by these authors and illustrators.

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Welcome to ABookandaHug where young readers can now write their own reviews of their favorite books.

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Wanting to develop a media center/library that would go beyond stacks of unused books, dark study corners, and low lighting, the staff at Simsbury High School in Simsbury, CT, worked with its district superintendent to determine a new direction for the facility. Some of the key questions discussed concerned the need for a physical library in the information age, the role that books would play in the new facility, and how media literacy would be taught to students.

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More than 20,000 full-text free books.

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Create your article library instantly — import your PDFs in a single step.
One-click download of related articles.

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Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg

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The Library as Incubator Project team was so pleased when the National Endowment for the Arts sent information about The Big Read program our way. The Big Read is a program that unites communities with arts and literature – often with public, school, or academic libraries as the program focal point. The 30+ titles (which...

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As School Library Media Specialists, it is expected that we connect our students and staff with the information and resources that they need for everyday learning. In today's digital world of social media and Web 2.0 tools, it is vital that we are not only sharing these new tools with our school community, but modeling their use for communication, collaboration and professional development.
The articles and websites below reinforce the importance of Library Media Specialists being experts on the use of Web 2.0 tools.

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Welcome, wonderful web wanderer. Explore knowledge via the Dewey Decimal Classification; just clickety-click.

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