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AcqWeb is the most comprehensive source for acquisition links on the web. ALA has a variety of pages that support collection development: Acquisitions, BookLinks, Booklist, and Young Adult Library Services Association: Booklists. Canadian
Children's Book Centre has
links to awards, publishers, authors, and more.
Canadian
Children's Illustrated Books in English sites its purpose
as to "examine systematically the historical context and
development of Canadian children's illustrated books and the contemporary
state of writing, illustrating, and publishing of children's illustrated
books in Canada." The site contains resources in Print, Video,
Internet, and Awards. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site, in its own words, "is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collection of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics." They even have an e-mail newsletter which you can sign up for. Children's
Writers and Illustrators of British Columbia
is a handy site that includes contact information. CSLA:
Publications
has 6 posters
available for purchase: 5 that promote reading (Bare Naked Ladies,
Silken Laumann, Ted Harrison, Elvis Stojko, and Kurt Browning)
and one promoting Teacher Librarians. Free
Stuff for Canadian Teachers contains
links to a variety of free resources including lesson plans, software,
and more.
Government
of Canada actually gives quite a lot of free stuff so I'll
try to create as complete a list as possible for libraries.
Imaginary
Lands actually contains two sites: Picturing
Books which contains a lot of information on picture books,
and Children's
Literature Navigator which contains links to resources.
The site is actually pretty easy to navigate and there's a lot of
good information here.
 Internet School Library Media Center is a great website that has a number of pages to support collection development, including Administration, Selection, and Acquisition, a page on Children's Book Awards and Other Literary Prizes with links in 21 categories. Miami University:
Children's
Picture Book Database
contains over 4500 abstracts for children's book from preschool
to grade 3. It is designed to support literature-based thematic
units in all subjects. You can search the database with 900+ keywords
(topics, concepts, and skills), browse keywords, and more. Morton Grove Public Library Webrary: Web Sites for Book Lovers contains links for online publications, booksellers & publishers, genre sites, bibliographies & booklists, reader's advisory pages, book discussion guides, online book discussion groups, fiction mailing lists, and more. UBC Education
Library:
Children's
Literature page contains
links to a number of sites, many of which are Canadian.
ALA: ALSC: Awards Page (books, recordings, software, etc.) OEMA: Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature 2002 Children's
Literature Web Guide: Children's Book Awards
Chocolate
Lily Book Awards (BC)
is a program for BC students with books in two categories : Picture
Books, and Chapter Book & Novels. There is $20 registration
fee and they will provide you with an education kit and promotional
material.
Database
of Award-Winning Children's Literature lets you choose
the criteria and it will create a reading list of award-winning
books. The sites uses about 25 awards to create lists with 3 Canadian
awards, 2 Australian, and the rest American. The search page gives
you following search options: age, setting, historical period,
ethnicity/nationality, language, format, genre, multicultural,
gender of protagonist, publication years, keyword, and awards.
The
Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
(grades 4-8; Canadian books) National Library
of Canada:
Canada's Major National Literary Awards and Canadian
Children's Literature: Award-Winning Books
Nobel Prize for Literature Winners Ontario Library
Association: Silver
Birch Awards (grades 4-6) and Red
Maple Awards (grades 7-9) (students choice; Canadian books)
Orbis Picture Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children PNLA: Young Reader's Choice Award (includes BC students) Random House
of Canada: Award
Winners
Red
Cedar Book Awards is an award from British Columbia
that has students from grades 4 to 7 vote on their favourite Canadian
non-fiction and fiction titles from a nominated list. The awards
are launched in November and presented in May.
Scholastic
Canada: Book
Awards lists their award-winning titles.
School Library Journal Online: Awards Index State Library of Ohio: Children's Book Awards
Burnaby Public
Library: Book
Lists and Reviews (PDF) Children's Book Council: Showcase is a bimonthly feature which showcases books by theme. The theme for May-June is Heroes, Dragons, and Wizards. Their Archive contains previous showcases such as Children's Poetry, Holidays Around the World, Gothic Tales, Math and Counting, Multicultural, Friendship, and more. English Online: Picture Books for Older Readers Suitable for Shared Reading Guys Read: A Literacy Initiative for Boys by Jon Scieszka does not have a great deal there right now but it still nice to see because it addesses the lower levels of reading for boys. The site contains recommended titles for guys on the Favorite Books page and the Guys Vote page. Jacqueline Briggs Martin's is a children's book author who has developed the following lists: Models for Writing About Family and Era: Picture Books Based on Family Memories or Stories, Resources for Journaling Projects with Students (journals and letter-writing), Books about Snow/Winter, and Books about Trees. National Council for the Social Studies: Notable Social Studies Books for Young People (K-8) National Education Association (NEA) has 2 interesting booklists: the Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children (1999 survey) and Kids' Top 100 Books (1999/2000 survey) New York Public Library: 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know Olivier Charbonneau's
Graphic
Novles List is a list of 100 graphic novels (PDF)
by author and publisher that was created for the Bibliotheque
Nationale du Quebec. The list is of English graphic novels and
there also several award-winning lists. This list is free for
use and download by nonprofit libraries and if you send a thank-you
later (the address is on the site). Ontario Library
Association: Canadian
Best Bets 1998 contains a list of Canadian titles in the
categories of Picture Books, Fictions, and Non-Fiction. Picture
Books for Secondary Libraries (2001) contains references,
resources, and a booklist that I developed for an assignment in
a Selection of Resources course.
Read
Up On It
are Canadian
booklists from the National Library of Canada. The have
had the following themes: Nature and the Environment, Music, Humour,
Mystery and Adventure, Sports, History, Science Fiction and Fantasy,
The Family, and Aboriginal Legends. They have a new theme each
year, and they will even send you a kit which includes an annotated
reading list in English and French, colour poster, and a class
set of bookmarks. Selection
of Resources for a Renaissance Unit of Study (2001) contains
summaries and purchase information on a variety of resources that
I developed for a Selection of Resources course.
Teacher Librarian Toolkit: Best Sellers contains a list of the latest bestsellers and Bookmark It! Themes contains books in themes such as adolescent girls, desperation, fairy tales, Renaissance, and young women with backbone. University of Iowa: Curriculum Resources Laboratory: Picture Books for Secondary Students contains bibiographies for picture books, fiction and nonfiction titles in a number of different subject areas including Science, Social Science, History, Multicultural, Books for Young Children, and Literature. Picture Books for Secondary Students was one I found particularly helpful in my own research. Worth a Thousand Words: Picture Books for Older Readers (1997) is an article by Gale Sherman and Bette Ammon which originally appeared in Booklist. The article provides abstracts of books in the following curricular areas: Art, Language and Literature, Government, History, Social Issues, and Music, Speech, Drama. There is also a Selected Bibliography handout available that lists books on the following topics Social Concerns, Social Studies/Geography, War, History, Biographies, Math, Drama - Speech - Debate, Science, Language Arts, Music, Architecture, and Art.
BCTLA:
Database
of Book Reviews
from BCTLA's
"Bookmark" has over 350 book reviews from 1997 to the
present. You can search by title, author, text, grade, issue,
and fiction or nonfiction
Bookhive: Your Guide to Children's Literature & Books is a site from North Carolina which contains book reviews for children from birth to twelve years old. You can search by author, title, reading level, interest area, number of pages, and illustrator. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books is a review journal for children's books, and this is the online version of the print bulletin. CM:
Canadian Review of Materials is a free bi-weekly magazine
from the Manitoba Library Association which publishes from September
to June. They review books, video, audio, and CD-ROMs of interest
to Canadian children and young adults. The site also has news
and author profiles.
Canadian
Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review is the
online companion to the print journal. The site contains the table
of contents to every issue, resource links, and selected reviews
and editorials.
Horn Book Magazine is a bi-monthly children's literature magazine which contains book reviews, articles, and columns. IASL: Reviews Section contains reviews of professional books and other materials of interest to teacher-librarians.
Baltimore Country Public Schools: Selection Criteria for School Library Media Center Collections is a policy document that contains selection criteria, implementing the policy, links to review resources, as well as considerations for selecting print and nonprint materials, collection development, access, assessment and inventory, consideration file, and reconsideration of materials (challenges). This document does not contain a detailed analysis of each area but is rather a good overview of collection development criteria. Bellingham Public Schools: Library Media Collection Management Notebook (2000) is a 63-page notebook that provides procedural guidelines for collection management that focus on assessing the collection and its needs, acquisitions, maximizing access, and maintaining the collection. There are a number of forms included which you can print out and use. (doc) State of Iowa: Department of Education: Weeding the Library Media Center Collection (1994) gives you advice on weeding, and also a list of resources on weeding. School District of Philadelphia: Selection Policy for School Library Materials (2001) School Libraries
in California: Weeding
the School Library (PDF) is a handy little brochure that
provides you with a definition and rationale for weeding as well
as practical information such as suggested copyright dates to
consider for Dewey Classifications, and procedures.
SUNLINK: Weed of the Month Club comes from Florida, and it is an effort to help teacher-librarians with guidelines and suggestions for weeding their collections over time. Each month has a new weed, and you can even go back through the previous weeds back to 1997.
Dartmouth College: A Simple Book Repair Manual (1996)
ALA: Online Store (professional books and other library-related items) Canadian
Magazine Publishers Association
CanLit
for Kids: Outstanding
Recently Published Canadian Children's Books (K-7; BC-based)
Crown
Publications Inc. (Online
bookstore based in Victoria, BC that features BC authors, government
documents, maps, etc.)
Harbour
Publishing is an independent book publisher in BC. Their
catalogue is available at this site as well as other useful information,
and you can order directly from them. LION: Publishers and Library-Related Vendors Publishers' Catalogue Home Page
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