K-12Librarians

Monthly newsletters with varying topics including book lists, monthly activities, and school library websites.

Over 1 Million Digital Books Now Available Free to the Print-Disabled

Advice about as practical as you can get: how to create a tag and how to check on how unique they are - for your project or event

Educational wikis by discipline links.

Thought Audio is a producer and provider of free audio books featuring classic titles across a variety of genres. Thought Audio audio books are professionally narrated works that you can listen to online or download to play offline. The library of audio books on Thought Audio contains some titles that are hard to find as audio files. For example you'll find titles like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Life of PT Barnum, and The Madman. You'll also find more commonly read titles like Alice in Wonderland, and Poe's The Raven.

Publishing dates for upcoming books listed.

Scavenger hunts, videos, and more

Excellent Prezi on Student Achievement and the School LIbrary.

"Numerous libraries - be they specialty, public, or affiliated with a school - have harnessed its popularity to push education and literacy causes to the digital generation....Some of the best-curated Pinterest accounts out there fuse old and new into a spectacularly informative feast for the mind. "

Site has bibliographies for over 25,000 authors.

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

The great UK children's literature journal - Books for Keeps - is available online and for free.

Teens and their parents can find similar titles to "Mockingjay" in the 2011 nominations for YALSA's Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (PPYA) booklist, particularly the What If… themed list, which highlights titles featuring alternative history and worlds, steampunk, apocalyptic fiction and cyberpunk, among other settings.

As the Internet has evolved into a major source of information for students researching history and social studies, it also has become a place where hidden agendas and false information can trip up both students new to a topic and teachers searching for credible sources of historical data.