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Find research resources to aid in creating citations, website evaluation, plagiarism prevention, etc. There are also infographics, bookmarks and useful signs to use in your library.

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy.

AdLit offers information and resources for parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers in fourth through 12th grade. Its content is free and provided by a nationwide multimedia project from WETA, Washington D.C.'s public radio and TV station. From book suggestions to classroom strategies and college-readiness advice, everything here is available to the public. There's no sign-in required; the site is easy to browse and broken down into sections such as Common Core Classroom, Hot Topics, and Research and Reports, among many others. Rotating features on the home page include segments like "Choosing a Book in the Comfort Zone" and "Thinking About Assessment and Evaluation." The site also hosts videos and webcasts featuring professional development and discussions related to adolescent literacy. Read More

Great resource to help students who need to write a persuasive or argumentative essay. 

Creating a Mission Statement Reasons, Tips, Examples & Resources to Write Your Vision & Values

Resources from the classroom 2.0 Diigo session

Great information literacy resource.  It is a collaborative project of the libraries from community colleges and universities.  It includes tutorials to help students with their research papers.

A student shared this resource with me. This is what she told me, " The thing that attracted me to it was their feature that allows you to type in a book title and it gives you recommendations based on that book. Plus, if you really want to narrow down your search you can add up to four books for more personalized results. I thought over the website was awesome, so I thought I just had to share it with you.." I think it looks like fun. This link is for the section on young adults and teens. 

Basic article on libraries using ereaders. Some insight into managing multiple ebooks across devices. Wish there was a good resource to explain the how-to aspects of management.

Great blog post (April 2, 2008) on how one educator is using Twitter. Wonderful ideas and resources!

This chart was designed to inform teachers of what they may do under the law. Feel free to make copies for teachers in your school or district, or download a PDF version at www.techlearning.com. More detailed information about fair use guidelines and copyright resources is available at www.halldavidson.net.

Resources for librarians at NECC 2008! Be sure to check out the Library Remix 2.5 materials.

Another great poetry idea....have a channel for your poetry club at You Tube!

The Rooftop Poetry Club is based at E. H. Butler Library, at Buffalo State College, in Buffalo, NY. Named after our first meeting place--the library's rooftop garden--we provide a venue for local writers to perform their work, and promote library resources.

SweetSearch (http://www.sweetsearch.com/), A Search Engine for Students, is a free custom search engine that searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by our team of Web research experts. It excludes unreliable sites that often rank high in other search engines and waste students' time. \n\nWith only credible results to evaluate, students can focus their energy on determining which results are most relevant to their research. \n\nHere are but two examples where SweetSearch's results are far superior to those of Google or Bing:\n\n"Shakespeare" http://bit.ly/7Reg7p vs. http://bit.ly/6lUphg vs. http://bit.ly/6ycRcZ\n\n"War of 1812" http://bit.ly/87HMYn vs. http://bit.ly/57hoOO vs. http://bit.ly/5L7xiz\n\nIt's not just that we exclude obvious spam sites; we also usually exclude marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor, and thus are not citable.\n\nAs importantly, many of the best academic resources on the Web, such as university or other .edu web sites, make little effort to optimize their search rankings and thus often don't appear till the 3rd or 4th page of Google results. Because SweetSearch searches a smaller, more qualified pool of sites, these academic sites often appear on the 1st page of SweetSearch results. And to most students, the 1st page is the only one that exists.\n\nTo place a SweetSearch search box on your own Web site, copy the code for our widget onto your site: http://www.sweetsearch.com/widget.html\n

A cool interactive resource