Teacher librarians may find tips to help with design of library web pages as well as guidelines to help with the selection of web resources to offer students.

Might be a good video to pass along with summer reading lists. I'm sharing it now with teachers and students.

A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project looks at the future of libraries. The study, titled "Library services in the digital age," doesn't include anything particularly shocking or revelatory, but it suggests that many people still value the role of libraries, and that librarians are thinking about how their services can evolve.

A collection of links to audio, downloadable, and interactive books, cartoons, podcasts, newsletters, and reading strategies for teachers.

"Almost every adult who cares for young children knows that sharing books with them is an important way to promote their reading skills. But research shows that subtle features of the way adults act during story-time make a big difference in children's literacy-and that most grownups aren't using these simple but effective techniques."

"The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Hundreds of free and inexpensive web tools are available for school library media specialists to use that can make us more productive, valued, and, perhaps, more competitive."

This article gives an in-depth description of Small Demons, "a web-based literary database that visually indexes, annotates, and connects the people, places, and things in books we read and love to the world beyond their pages." Beyond that are many great ideas for how schools and libraries can use this site with the world of young adult literature.

Free fortnightly newsletter delivered direct to your inbox. Wonderful primary source materials in many subject areas.

Similar to how Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music, BookLamp helps you find books through a computer-based analysis of written DNA.

There are professional development tools that are sorted by grade level, ease of use, and written in plain English. The classroom materials, created by teachers for teachers, are ready-to-use materials that provide easy ways to incorporate the Library's unparalleled primary sources into instruction.

In its final form Mysteries of Vernacular will contain 26 entries or "etymological installments," one for each letter of the alphabet. Includes links to other projects.

Free online collection of stories and poems in MP3 format.

INFOGRAPHIC To what extent should social media play a role in the workplace and the classroom?

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Great video resources

Connects books to people, places, movies, music and things. Many nice features in the works and opportunities to contribute and curate are forthcoming.

Six children's authors who also teach writing

A definitive guide to conducting Internet research

There is a lot to do before your kid's school year gets started. Hopefully, having a talk about cyberbullying will be on your to-do list. According to a recent study by internet security company McAfee, kids are witnessing and sometimes engaging in cyber bullying.