School Media Librarianship

Locator for US public elementary and secondary schools data includes number of classroom teachers, total students, student/teacher ratio, and school population by grade and race/ethnicity.

U.S. Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. Technology Innovation Challenge Grants.

U.S. Department of Education, Corporation for National Service, Los Angeles Times, and Little Planet Learning. Compact for reading & school-home links.

USJOBNET.

Aims to centralizes job announcements from all U.S. School districts.

University of Alabama School of library science students. Cool School Tools.

University of Michigan School of Information. So You want to be a school media specialist.

Washington County [MD] Free Library. Links of interest to library media specialists.

Yahooligans.

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Children's Literature Awards and Recommended Reading Lists

Bartle, Lisa M. Database of award-winning children's literature.

Caldecott Award.

CHILDE - Children's historical literature disseminated throughout Europe.

National Education Association (NEA). Top 100 children's books.

Newbery Award.

Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC). The Bookhive.

A "reader's club for kids" contains approximately 100 suggestions for summer reading at a variety of reading levels.

Young Adult Library Services Association. YALSA Annual Lists.

Young Adult Reading List.

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Child and Young Adult Literature

Anderson, Margaret Vail. Digital Librarian: Children's Literature.

BookHive: Your guide to children's literature.

Brown, David K. Children's Literature Web Guide. University of Calgary.

Includes awards lists from Canada, the U.S., and beyond, and lists of recommended reading such as the "Recommended Books for the Reluctant Young Reader - 1995 Nominations" from the American Library Association Gopher. Other links lead to information about authors and fictional characters, electronic children's books, children's literature discussion groups, and resources for parents and teachers.

Brown, Jenna. Children's literature authors and illustrators.

="http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/">Center for Children's Books

="http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/">Children's picture book database

Duke University. Special Collections Library. Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. ="http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/beyond-nancy-drew.html">Beyond Nancy Drew.

Feldman, Roxanne Hsu. Fairrosa's Cyber Library of Children's Literature.

Hendrickson, Linnea. Children's literature: A guide to the criticism.

Hurst, Carol. Children's Literature Site.

National Storytelling Association. ="http://www.storynet.org/">Storynet

The Shy Librarian. Children's author and illustrator links.

University of Miami. ="http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/">Children's picture book database

Indexes abstracts of over 4,000 picture books for children.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville. School of Information Science. Children's Literature Sampler.

Vandergrift, Kay. Young adult, adult, and children's literature pages. Rutgers School of Information and Library Science.

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Curriculum

Aaron, Shirley L. (1995). Bridges, windows, and frameworks: A twenty-first century school library media education curriculum. School Library Media Annual, 13, 24-30.

Baltimore County Public Library. On librarians information network for essential curriculum.

="http://edweb.sdsu.edu/edfirst/bigsix/bigsix.html ">Big Six Homepage.

California State Board of Education. Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission. ="http://www.cde.ca.gov/cilbranch/eltdiv/cdsmc.htm ">California curriculum frameworks and instructional resources.

Co-nect Top Ten: Educatoršs guide to the Internet

Utah State Office of Education. Library Media Curriculum.

Directories

Bertland, Linda. School Libraries on the Web: A Directory. Stetson Middle School, Philadelphia, PA.

Pitsco Innovative Education. Organizations.

Ryan, Joe. Directory of state departments of education.

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Education Technology

American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Technology news and resources.

Anderson, Larry. National Center for Technology Planning. Mississippi State University.

AT&T. Ask LN (Learning Network): Helping educators use technology in the classroom.

CISCO. Sources of federal support for educational technology.

CISCO. Education archive and resource catalog.

Education Week. (1998, October 1). Technology Counts '98: Putting school technology to the test.

Educational Technology Network.

Education Commission of the States (ECS). (1998). Harnessing technology for teaching and learning in schools.

Eisenberg, Mike and Johnson, Douglas (1995). Computer skills for problem solving:...Teaching technology in context. ERIC Digest.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology Digests .

Florida Center for Instructional Technology. Solving the network puzzle: An educators guide to school networks.

Information Network of the society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (InSITE.

International Technology Education Association.

K-12 Technology Coordinator's Resource Center.

Komoski, P. Kenneth and Priest, W. Curtiss. (1996, February). Creating learning communities: Practical, universal networking for learning in schools and homes. Hampton Bays, NY: Educational Products Information Exchange (EPIE) Institute and MacArthur Foundation.

Report contains 100's of school networking tips gleaned from 670 references, contains over 100 URL's relevant to school networking, and provides ways to strength home/school connectivity.

Massachusetts Software Council. (1994). The switched-on classroom: A technology planning guide for public schools in Massachusetts.

North Central Regional Educational Development Laboratory: Critical Issue: Developing a school or district technology plan

Pitsco Innovative Education. Technology Plans .

Planning an Electronic library classroom: An annotated bibliography.

Podolsky, Joni. (Project Director). (1998). District administrator's guide to planning for technology. Smart Valley, Inc.

San Francisco State University. Department of Instructional Technologies. Webdog Ed Tech.

Software Publisher's Association. Government Affairs. Education and technology policy page

Technology 'Nformation for Teachers.

University of Colorado, Denver. Instructional Technology Department. Instructional Technology Connections.

University of Geneva. School of Psychology and Education. Technologies de Formation et Apprentissage (TECFA). World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology.

Valdez, Gilbert and McNabb, Mary. Learning through technology: A planning and implementation guide. Oak Brook, Il: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL).

Washington Library Media Association Online.

Well Connected Educator.

Yahoo. Education: Instructional Technology section.

Yahoo. Index of organizations who recycle computers

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Education Technology Funding

Edtech-ALERT.

Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory. Funding for technology.

Resource guide to Federal funding for technology in education.

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Policies

Guides

California Department of Education. School library policies.

Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC). Policy manuals for school libraries.

Library Research Service. (1997, August 23). Selected policies and practices of school library media programs in Colorado. Fast Facts 130.

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Policy Development

Adams, Helen R. (1986). School media policy development: A practical process for small districts. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc.

American Library Association. School media specialist workbook for writing selection policies.

Biagini, Mary K. (1988). A model for problem solving and decision making: Managing school library media programs. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc.

Hartzell, Gary N. (1994). Building influence for the school librarian. Worthington, OH: Linworth Publishing.

Karpisek, M. (1989). Policymaking for school library media programs. Chicago:ALA.

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>Information Power

American Library Association and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (1997). Information power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago: ALA.

Revision published in 6/98.

American Library Association and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (1988). Information power: Guidelines for school media library programs. Chicago: ALA.

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Position Statements

American Association of School Librarians. AASL position statements.

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions: Section of School Libraries and Resource Centres. IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto.

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Specific Policies

Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC). Copyright page for educators, K-12.

Magid, Lawrence J. (1998). Child safety on the information highway, alternate site and Teen safety on the information highway. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The benefits of the information highway, putting the issue in perspective, what are the risks? how parents can reduce the risks, guidelines for parents, and my rules for online safety.

Montana State Library. Collection management policy guidelines for school library media programs.

Montgomery County (VA) Public School System. Appropriate usage agreements.

Payton, Tammy. (1997). Student permission to publish.

Pennock, Robin. (1991, June). Read my lips: Copyright. School Library Journal. 50.

Pitsco Innovative Education. Acceptable Use policies.

Protecting Our Children From the Internet (and the World). (1995, Fall). From Now On 4 (10).

Scholtz, James C. (1991). Video policies and procedures for libraries. Santa Barbara,CA: ABC-CLIO.

Simpson, Carol Mann. (1994). Copyright for school libraries: A practical guide. Worthington, OH: Linworth.

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Space Utilization & Building

Erickson, Rolf; Markuson, Carolyn & Erikson, Rolf. (2000). Designing a school library media center for the future. Chicago: ALA.

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Standards

Achieve standards database.

Adcock, Donald C. (1999). A planning guide for Information Power: Building partnerships for learning with school library media program assessment rubric for the 21st century. Chicago, American Library Association.

Bradburn, Frances Bryant. (1999). Output measures for school library media programs. NY: Neal Schuman.

Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools. 1999-2000 standards and quality in education: The annual report of Her Majesty's chief inspector of schools.

Hill, Charles. Developing educational standards - Library media .

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. School library media standards handbook.

Texas State Library. School library programs: Standards and guidelines for Texas.

Walter, Virginia A. (1995).Output measures for public library service to young adults: A manual of standardized procedures. Chicago: American Library Association.

Walter, Virginia A. (1992). Output measures for public library service to children: A manual of standardized procedures. Chicago: American Library Association.

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