Book Repair How-to's

• Simple Book Repair Manual

Calendars of Library/Book or Activity related events  

• Monthly Activity Calendar from Enchanted Learning
• ReadWriteThink Calendars
• Surfing the Calendar

• ALA Censorship in the Schools - What is it? How do you cope?
• ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom
• What to do when a book is challenged in your library

Children's Book Awards and Notable Books

• Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
• Caldecott Award
• Teaching with the Caldecott Award Books
• Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
• Great Stone Face Book Award - New Hampshire's Children's Book Award!
• Great Stone Face Book Award 2011-12 booktalks and podcasts! 
• Great Stone Face Nominees with author information 
• 2011-12 GSF Brochure
• Great Stone Face Materials
• Great Stone Face powerpoint 11-12
• Ladybug Award - NH new picture book award
• Ladybug 2011 award ppt
• Ladybug 2011 award with NH symbols ppt
• Ladybug Voting 2011 Excel Spreadsheet - located at the bottom of this page
• Newbery Award
• Newbery reviews and searchable index
• New Hampshire Literary Awards
• Notable Children's Books from ALA
• Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children
• Notable Social Studies Books for children
• State Book Awards

• American Folklore - includes links to state specific folklore
• Author's Pseudonyms
• Based on the book - movies made from books
• Best Kids Book Site - amazing resources including holidays, crafts, ABC's and more!
• Book leveling & Reading levels - includes links to a variety of ways to determine the "level" of a children's book
• Bookleveling - Approximate Text, Spelling, and Writing Level Conversion/Comparison Table
• Booklists - lots of links to recommended kids books!
• Books in Series
• Juvenile series
• Book Talks - Quick & Simple - brought to you by Nancy Keane, a NH librarian
• Cooking Up reading - hundreds of recipes that correspond to books!
• Cooperative Children's Book Center - bibliographies - scroll down to bibliographies & booklists
• Children's Picture Book Database - searchable by authors, titles, keywords
• Children's Book Council - sponsors of Children's Book Week
• Childe - Children's Historical Literature disseminated through Europe
• Compassion Books - Over 400 resources to help children and adults through serious illness, death, loss, grief and bereavement. Reviewed and selected by knowledgeable professionals
• Genres in Children's Literature
• Guys Read - a literacy initiative for boys
• Harry Potter
• Healing Story's Searchable Database - The database can be searched by listing all the resources, search by a title (partial spelling ok), author, resource type (i.e. books, personal stories, story collections, articles...) or by category
• Media used in the Caldecotts
• Art Medium used in the Caldecotts
• New Hampshire Authors 
• Pronouncing Dictionary of Author's Names - just how do you pronounce Scieszka?
• New England Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
• Read-aloud excerpts from Children's Books
• Science & Mathematics Literature - a K-12 searchable database of excellent literature
• Series FictFact - lists books in series by author, title, series title - includes children's and adult books

• Collection Development Links
• CREW Guidelines for Weeding your collection - includes Dewey class guidelines  
• Weeding library media center collections

• Copyright Brochure - created by Elementary Library Services, MRSD
• Complete Copyright from ALA & AASL
• Copyright - lesson plans
• Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom...
• Is it protected by Copyright? A digital copyright slider
• Plagarism & Copyright Links
• Section 108 - Reproductions by libraries
• Taking the mystery out of copyright - from the Library of Congress, for elem. students

• The Book Disaster or Dewey "Swat" team to the rescue
• Cafe Dewey
• Can you Do the Dewey?
• Dewey and the Alien
• Dewey Browse  
• Dewey Resources - links to other Dewey sites
• Dewey to the Rescue - a tour of the DDC
• Do we really know Dewey?
• Flood in the Library! - an introduction to grouping books
• Let's do Dewey
• Order in the library - includes 3 games: sorting, alphabetizing & Dewey order

• AASL's Resource Guides for School Librarians
• Resources for School Librarians
• Shambles Librarian & Library Links page - amazing resource - check out the "online tools" section!

• Internet Library for Librarians
• The Internet Public Library
• Library Stuff - updated every day, this is one librarian's attempt to offer current library tidbits.
• LM_NET - a daily list-serv for school librarians
• LM_NET archives  - searchable archives by topics and "threads"
• NH resources for librarians
• Librarians Yellow Pages - publishers, library supplies & furnishings & more

• Booklist
• Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
• Horn Book, Inc
• Library Sparks
• School Library Journal

• AskERIC Lesson Plans
• Best Websites for Teaching and Learning - American Association of School Librarians
• Bingo Software - for PC's only - make your own book bingo games - type "BingoMaker" in search box  
• Bulletin Board ideas
• Certificate Creator
• Printables Heaven - lots of links here! create and/or print word puzzles, worksheets, coloring sheets, ETC!
• Graphic Organizers
• It's Storytime - themes with suggested books, poetry, crafts, etc.
• Jeopardy games - powerpoint
• Learn the library
• Learn NC - lesson plans, webquests & more
• Lesson plans from Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• LibraryInstruction.com
• Library Lesson Plan book - library lesson plans for grades K-8
• Links to Learn - tons of book based lessons!
• MI-Kids Lesson Plans
• Parts of a book - an online lesson
• PBS Teachersource
• Role of the library in Phonics Programs ideas for reinforcing phonics in the library
• Pratt's Educational Resources - theme based
• Read Write Think Lesson Plans - Lots of lesson plans using popular books
• Storyarts - lesson plans and activities for storytelling in the classroom
• Surfnetkids Games - educational games, to play on-line or print out
• Teacher Created Lesson Plans & Activities - includes activities by month/season & brain teasers
• Teaching tools - make your own word puzzles, quizzes, worksheets, etc!
• Timelines - how to make & links to social studies timelines

• The Lipstick Librarian

  

• The Shifted Librarian

• Free Marc Records - from the Library of Congress
• OCLC Classify - search by author, title, ISBN, LCCN and it will give you a Dewey Number

• American Association of School Librarians
• American Library Association
• Chilis - Children's Librarians of NH
• Granite State Libraries NH Libraries newsletter
• The Library of Congress - has great pages with teacher resources & for librarians
• NH School Library Media Association
• The Once and Future Librarian - NH State library newsletter

• AASL's Standards & Guidelines Links
• North Carolina Information Skills Curriculum
• Ohio Guidelines to effective school library media programs
• Pennsylvania Toolkit for Implementing Information Literacy in School Libraries - a pdf download

• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• Homework Spot  

• New Hampshire's ICT Standards
• Blackwell's Best - Technology integration ideas across the curriculum - lots of literature ideas
• Document cameras - ideas for using to teach
• How to sheets - information on a variety of applications including Word, Inspiration, and Excel
• Literature Learning Ladders - reading through book/technology connections
• Scholastic Cyberhunt Kids library
• Tech Coaches - Visalia School District - click on Teacher resources
• Technology Rich Learning - eight different approaches
• Transforming teaching through technology