I thought this to be an interesting site - it's amazing how much New Zealand Librarians can relate to this. I'd be interested to hear what others think.
standards for the 21st century learner published by the American Association of School Libraries. Full of useful information, questions you can use to check your progress in providing useful skills for future learners in your school.
Liked this as an idea for a library based school poetry day - Poem in Your Pocket Day to share with others throughout the day after researching a poem in the library. A previous site referred to a new book 'Firefly July and Other Very Short Poems' by Paul B Janeczko (Candlewick) coming out soon.
Using the free website builder WIX lots of web 2.0 tools for teachers and guides for working on the web. Includes creative commons and digital citizenship, as well as history sites, world religions, mapping tools, etc.
You may be interested in the attached drawing together of web 2.0 tools -- all websites created using the free website builder WIX. Sorry if already been mentioned before. It does need some navigating around but I have found some real treasures here.
Inspirational site by a fellow school librarian. She shares simple as well as more complex ideas on how to produce a display that will fulfil its purpose - to engage and inspire students to pick up a book that might not have looked at before.
I wasn't sure how to describe or tag this site so copied and pasted a description of it .
"Brain Pickings is a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why, bringing you things you didn't know you were interested in - until you are."
"Individuals who demonstrate the knowledge and skills laid out in this document will be able to provide quality library service for and with teenagers."
The author of the Murder Most Unladylike series picks her favourite sleuthing stories, from Sherlock Holmes to Sally Lockhart.
Detective books are really popular in our library and I love this list of great crime novels. It also makes me want to check out a few BBC programs too..
We purchased The Recruit by Robert Muchamore. I read it and thought it was a good book. We purchased more of the Cherub series but now only have two in our Library. They became very violent and too graphic. What do other Primary Librarians do at your school with his books please?