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Lesson plans, articles, links and more - LibraryInstruction.Com
Library policies and policy making, especially for schools
Trinity College, Western Australia
Get
that grant (Thomson Gale Report)
Karen Glaser
False
claims about reading (Educational Leadership)
Stephen Krashen
Threshold
Magazines: Libraries, Learning & the Future
Resources for School Librarians
From Current Issues in Education
The Continuing Trouble with Collaboration: Teachers Talk
On reading
programs & materials, from the International Reading
Association
Library
grant money on the Web: A resource primer [Searcher Magazine]
No
Librarians Left Behind: Preparing for Next Generation Libraries (Part
1)
No
Librarians Left Behind: Preparing for Next Generation Libraries (Part 2)
Advocacy
Philip Pullman's Isis Speech
How school library programs equal success for your child
School libraries: Making a difference, from the UK
Educational
Resources
Children's
Literature Web Guide - A wealth of useful links.
Defining
the Landscape - A report from the Institute for the Study
of Knowledge Management in Education (free download)
Evaluating
Web Site Quality
No Child Left -
Jamie McKenzie's new web site in opposition to the "No Child
Left Behind" program in US schools.
Online
Resources for Teachers - From eThemes, organized alphabetically
and by grade level, or keyword-searchable
Resources
For Teaching Information Technology Ethics to Children and Young
Adults.
Research
and Statistics
Result
of the Ohio Reseach Study by Drs. Ross Todd and Carol Kulthau
and OELMA
School
Libraries and Their Impact on Student Performance - From
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
online journal, Research Brief, Vol. 1 No 20 (September 30, 2003)
Colorado Library
Research Service - Library research studies and statistics
Online
Surveys - TL's own Holly Gunn addresses the issue of online
surveys, a tool often used by libraries, in her article, "Web-based
surveys: Changing the survey process."
TL Resources
Informed
Librarian Online - Updated monthly, this site provides links
to tables of contents and full-text (where available) of more than
275 journals journals, magazines,
newsletters and electronic publications that came out during the
month, addressing all aspects of librarianship and information science.
Campaign
to Save America's Libraries Toolkit - From the ALA
Internet
Resources for Library Media Specialists and Children's Librarians,
by Blyth Bennett, ERIC Clearinghouse.
Maine
School Libraries Facilities Handbook with appendices on accessibility
and calculating shelving requirement.
Canadian Resources
SLiP School
Library Information Portal: The Canadian connection to School
Library documents - Come and explore Canada's gateway portal
to documents for school libraries originating in Canada and not
widely available in published form. SLiP is a
directory to links in provincial and territorial schools, boards and districts
as well as national school library organizations.

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