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The Library Technology Guides website aims to provide comprehensive and objective information related to the field of library automation. This site has no affiliation with any library automation company. Whether you are in the process of selecting a libra

Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre uploaded by Archive users. Many of these movies are available for download. Same problem - innapropriate material - BUT available for download

alternative to YouTube!

Inapropriate content included - always preview

online Media Library, built on the open source DSpace repository platform, provides a growing list of about 6,000 total resources, including 3,000 open educational resources, 1,300 videos, 124 full-length textbooks, and 2,500 articles. Resources cover the arts, sciences, humanities, social sciences, engineering, business, and test prep. Materials include primary texts (such as Beowulf and Hamlet), references (such as the Catholic Encyclopedia), textbooks (such as The Electronic Introduction to Old English), maps, presentations, audio recordings, assessments, assignments, data sets, and others.

The mission is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Universal Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one m

suite of scholarly literature tools with a new release of the free ReadCube desktop application; ReadCube Pro, a premium add-on to the desktop version; ReadCube iOS apps; and SmartCite, a Word-compatible citation tool. Available free for both Mac and PC, ReadCube's desktop application allows researchers to organize and manage their scholarly article libraries, and discover new literature through searches and daily personalized recommendations.

An expansive collection of resources, including photos, video, and audio files from federal organizations like NASA, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives, will now be easier to find, access and integrate into educational environments.

Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies. This MIT initiative features a courseware library with about 50 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers in multiple formats: as streaming video, Internet downloads, DVDs, and videotapes. Each 50-minute lesson is a complete resource with video segments, a teacher's guide, downloadable hand-outs, and a list of online resources about the topic. The lessons mix short videos--all less than five minutes--with in-classroom exercises designed to engage students in problem solving and critical thinking.

It's not hard to fathom; if we knew more about the brain, we could do a better job of educating our children. How can we bring the brain and education together?

Many students in this country speak more than one language well, but some of their classmates struggle to learn English. How can brain science help the English language learner?

Use this list to access the major databases for science and engineering subjects. You can also find additional databases for each subject in our comprehensive database list.

Beacon Lesson Plan Library Lesson Plans - Learner Level 4: Science

INTRODUCTION So, you're still getting those 1,670,000+ responses to your search queries on the Web, and you're still too busy to do anything about it, like reading the lengthy, and sometimes confusing, "help" screens to find out how to improve your searching techniques. Look no further! Real help is here, in the USCB Library's BARE BONES Tutorial. You can zip through these lessons in no time, any time. They are very short and succinct; each can be read in a few minutes. Feel free to jump in wherever you like, skip what you don't want to read, and come back whenever you need to. The information contained in the following lessons is truly "bare bones," designed to get you started in the right direction with a minimum of time and effort. For more comprehensive and detailed help on searching the Web, consult our recommended list of sites in Lesson 20 at the end of this tutorial.

mathcasts library GeoGebra includes a teacher forum

"Research any topic with an interactive concept map, that you can customize and share"

"Bogus or hoax websites are a wonderful resource to use with students to develop their critical evaluation skills. However, many are only suitable for more mature students and it is essential that students have a good understanding of the topic before they are asked to pick the deliberate falsehoods and exaggerations. "

PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

"Russell Conwell Educational Services Center Learning Research and Study Resources "

It's important to match the tools used to teach information literacy with the level of the students. Developed by educators, the Big6 includes many tools and lessons for the teacher. Written by librarians at Cardiff University, the Handbook of Information Literacy Teaching or HILT has many helpful tips, handouts and lesson plans. The 21st Century Information Fluency portal has created online games and tutorials for many different level of student.

One of the largest and best Directory of Catholic websites is, without a doubt, Gerald Darring's Theology Library. With over 5000 links, more than 1000 of which focus on social justice issues, this mega site is definitely worth investigating. One of the 1