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Naomi Bates' site for book trailer resources. It offers information about creating good book trailers as well as where you can find resources for creating your own.

Policy Statement - School Library Bill of Rights. School libraries are concerned with generating understanding of freedom and with the preservation of this freedom through the development of informed and responsible citizens. The responsibility of the school library is .....

The students at the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Women's University have created for many trailers for the Printz Award winners and Honor Books dating back to 2000.

It is an interesting programme which is trying to investigate how children actually use digital books. It is hoped that the research will help school librarians and teachers to adjust to the way in which pupils use E-books.With lots of resources, information, tips and news, this is an interesting site to peruse.

Michael Stephen's "Welcome to the 2009" version of TTW's annual look at the trends and technologies that I believe will impact what we do in libraries and information centers.

This search engine can help you to find the most trustworthy sites so you can draw your information from those.

Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, the nation, and the world. Every Thursday morning we send out our free newsletter, New This Week, which features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by our team of librarians. Topics include current events and issues, holidays and seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more.

Each month, the site presents a list of significant literary events that have occurred in that month through out history. Check-in on a monthly basis to find out new information

One teacher's students worked together in small groups to research, edit and improve the quality of "Wikipedia articles that were either overly brief or lacking in credible information, with the aim of increasing the quality of Wikipedia's coverage of East Asian religions." Once the improved articles were completed and graded, Chris added the articles back into Wikipedia

Featured Digital Collections & Services: American Memory American History & Culture - A digital library of historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video from American Memory. Historic Newspapers - Enhanced access to America's historic newspapers through the Chronicling America project. International Collections - International materials and bilingual presentations from overseas libraries from Global Gateway. Legislative Information - THOMAS provides searchable full text of bills, Congressional Record and more. Performing Arts - Collections, articles and special presentations on music, theater and dance materials. Prints and Photographs - Catalog of about half of the Library's pictorial holdings with over 1 million digital images. Veterans History - Experience first-person stories of wartime service through personal artifacts. Web Site Archiving - Searchable archives of historic Web pages including national elections, 9/11 and more.

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Presented as a service by: The National Association For Music Education (MENC)
Music Publishers' Association of The United States
Music Teachers National Association
National Association of Schools of Music
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Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, the nation, and the world. Every Thursday morning we send out our free newsletter, New This Week, which features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by our team of librarians. Topics include current events and issues, holidays and seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more

Search and browse this website for the best of the Web. It contains over 20,000 entries, maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics. You can also subscribe to a weekly newsletter which features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by a team of librarians. Topics include current events and issues, holidays and seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more.

"New Report: "'If It Is Too Inconvenient, I'm Not Going After It:' Convenience as a Critical Factor in Information-seeking Behaviors""

This is a photostream of favourite library displays and layouts from Fran Hughes, Education Officer: Library & Information Services, Catholic Education Services Cairns Diocese