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Volume 30, Number 2, December 2002

You Blog, We Blog: A Guide to How Teacher-Librarians Can Use Weblogs to Build Communication and Research Skills
Theresa Ross Embrey examines the growing popularity of weblogs, or blogs, and provides suggestions for teacher-librarians to incorporate these into the school library program. FULL TEXT ARTICLE

“I Wish Someone had Taught Me”: Information Literacy in a Teacher Education Program
Teacher educators Marlene Asselin and Elizabeth Lee describe a program in which preservice teachers are guided through the process of collaborating with a teacher-librarian on an information literacy project for students.

Feasting on Forbidden Fruit
Alison Kastner and Ruth Allen describe a public library outreach program that is presented to middle and high school students in Portland, OR.

Libraries in Charter Schools: A Content Analysis
Barbara Wales examines the literature on charter schools to see what treatment the authors give on libraries and library service.

Commercialism in Schools
An ERIC Digest by Kristin Larson

Poetry: Not Just for April!
Anne Parker examines some poetry books that work well in elementary schools.

The Poster
L.I.B.R.A.R.Y

Best Buys

Web Wonders
Joanne Troutner
Timesaver web sites.

Professional Reading
Ken Haycock
Includes new titles worth a look

Bookmark It!

• Bravery
  Rosemary Chance
• Teens With Special Talents
  Rosemary Chance
• Country Christmas
  Ruth Cox
• Signs of Santa
  Ruth Cox
• Best New Software
  Joanne Troutner
• Bullying
  Vancouver Public Library
• Native Americans
  Kate Houston Mitchoff
• Colonial America
  Kate Houston Mitchoff

PLUS: new Web Links added!

From the TL Toolkit

Bestsellers: Fiction; Nonfiction; Picture books
Susan Faust and Helen Wiley

ProD Grant
You could be next!

New Product News
News from vendors.

ProD Calendar
Upcoming conferences.

Advertiser Index

Departments

Notebook
Ken Haycock
Laura Bush Papers encourage dialogue

Profiles: Cynthia Anderson, Katherine Bassett

What Works
Ken Haycock
Effective support for student learning

Strategy
Barbara Braxton
Librarians in leopard-skins: Promote your product

NEW! Video Notebook
Robert D. Wilson
Reviews of educational videos and DVDs

Personal Computing
Reid Goldsborough
Easing the move from old computer to new.

InfoTech
Anne Clyde
Metadata

Portrait
Teri Lesesne
The long and the short of it: An interview with Don Gallo.

Searching the Web
Holly Gunn
Field searching in web pages

Literacy Links
Marlene Asselin
Teaching and learning with standards.

And Furthermore…
News and notes.
Includes Resources From ERIC.