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ABC Canada Literacy Foundation: Family Literacy Day (27 January) contains tools to help literacy groups celebrate the day. ALA: ICONnect: Connecting Learners to Information contains a variety of resources to help support school library media specialists in their "leadership roles in using the Internet." About.com: Library Internet Filtering Software contains links to product descriptions as well as discussions on filtering. All About Romance: Cover Contest 2001 gives you the top ten worst romance novel covers for 2001 and a link to the entry forms for next year's nominees. Fun to look at even if you're not a romance reader, and if you are this page could offer a wonderful place to vent about the truly awful and embarassing covers you run across. The Consortium for School Networking: Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse contains some useful information on dealing with issues related to wired schools. Sections on the site include: Publications & Tools, Checklist for Decision Making, and links to Other Resources. There is a downloadable PowerPoint presentation on Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse, but I did not take a look at that myself. Family Connections:
The Directory
of Family Literacy Projects Across Canada contains links
and contact information for projects. Gardiner Public Library: Who Reads What?: Annual Celebrity Reading List I am the Very Model of Computerized Librarian uses the tune from The Pirates of Penzance song to tell you all the things the computerized librarian does. IFLA: Quotations About Libraries and Librarians contains quotations on books, borrowing, censorship, children, humour, vanity, and more. ISMLC: Storytelling, Drama, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry & Readers Theater for Children & Young Adults contains a great selection of links on all these topics. Joan Irvine: How to Make a Pop-Up is an excerpt from her book that contains instructions and drawings on how to make a talking mouth pop-up card. Library HQ: Screen Savers for Librarians contains links to a variety of screen savers including Harry Potter, Flying Darwins, Dewey Decimal, Tolkien, Penguin Classics, Quotations, and more. Library and Information Science News: School Libraries contains news stories on school libraries. Media Awareness
Network: Copyright
in Canada (revised 2001) contains amendments to the Copyright
Act which are of interest to educators. The New York Public Library: On-Lion for Kids contains links in Arts & Games, People & Places, Holidays & Celebrations, Reading & Books, Science & Technology, Search the Internet, Sports, and Parents and Teachers. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science PowerPoint in the Classroom is a nice little site that teaches you how to use PowerPoint. The Researching Librarian: Web resources helpful for librarians doing research. Contains the following sections: Databases, Funding, Journals, Statistics, Tools, and Awareness. Scholastic Teacher Radio is a daily audio magazine for teachers. (RealPlayer required) Stop Falling is a store that sells library-related clothing, pins, etc. (US) Story Arts: Storytelling Resources is a nice storytelling site that discusses storytelling in the classrooms, and contains lesson plans and activities, as well as articles, links, and more. Taft Library Media Center: Quotations about Libraries, Books and Reading If you're looking for some type of volunteer work, why don't you consider Virtual Reference Desk an Internet-based question-answering and referral service for K-12 patrons. You volunteer on an alternating schedule (one month on, one month off), and have an average of 3 questions a week. Just contact the coordinator whose name is at the bottom of the VRD webpage.
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