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As electronic books and other digital media become more popular, libraries are going through an identity crisis. Their role as repositories of bound books is uncertain in the long-term future, and nobody knows what the next iteration looks like. YOUmedia, a two-year-old teen learning experiment that incorporates digital media into a wider educational experience, could be a model for what neighborhood libraries across the country might become.

"Miami Ad School Student Project: A Simple Solution to help New York's Empty Libraries Now that the internet is available almost anywhere, people are able to do "instant research" to learn about anything on their smartphones. The New York Public Library wants to remind New Yorkers that they are still a valuable resource, and a free service. NYPL wants to take your usual subway ads and make them into something fun and entertaining. They want to give New Yorkers something productive to do on the subway instead of their everyday people watching."

The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project is a two-year study of the student research process.  The project is funded by an LSTA grant awarded to Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) by the Illinois State Library.  The goal of the project is to understand how students do research, and how relationships between students, teaching faculty and librarians shape that process.  ERIAL is also an applied study-that is, research pursued with the purpose of uncovering, understanding and addressing social problems.  As such, its goal is to use the results to develop more user-centered library services.

Wiki that is used to gather ideas regarding the redesign of a library space, and links to the steps involved.

CHICAGO -- For a stranger, the main library at the University of Illinois at Chicago can be hard to find. The directions I got from a pair of clerks at the credit union in the student center have proven unreliable. I now find myself adrift among ash trees and drab geometric buildings.

TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. A new site, which will launch in early April 2012, will feature these new TED-Ed Originals as well as some powerful new learning tools.

When I was in school during the 90s, watching videos in the classroom was a highlight of any week. The teacher would roll in a television on a cart, pop in a VHS tape, and then we'd enjoy whatever scratchy science video my teacher had checked out from the school video library that week. Sight, sound and motion have always had the power to engage students and complement classroom instruction by bringing educational topics to life.

Now an essential online medium, video is a useful way for teachers to supplement classroom learning and engage students in content they can't access on field trips or through books alone. However, finding and sharing videos can be a challenge due to safety and compliance concerns. That's why M86 Security created VuSafe-the secure, simple way to share Internet videos.

There is also the Lightspeed Resource Library allowing for the same feature set. The great thing about it is videos can be submitted, organized by content area, and presented in a pretty nice interface. You can find more information about it here: http://www.lightspeedsystems.com/resources/Educational-Resource-Library.aspx

Links to many Social Studies websites- Ancient Egypt, Middle Ages, Ancient Rome, Mesopotamia

Links to explorers from the 1st century until 1682

Millions of students use EasyBib monthly to cite and document the best sources used in their research. We've now made these sources searchable. What you cite, others can search. It's a virtuous cycle that improves research for all. That's right: Welcome to Social Research.