teacher-librarians

A definitive guide to conducting Internet research

This site is wonderful for teacher librarians to find out more about integrating information literacy skills into the curriculum and thus facilitate and encourage the development of information literate students.

I got this idea from another librarian in my district, and these signs are now on all my library shelves. She told me she found it in a book about library display ideas, but I do not know the title of that book. Where ever it came from originally, I cannot take credit for its simple brilliance; I am merely passing it along here.

Great comic poster about what school librarians do, created by Jennifer LaGarde, and enhanced with Thinglink by Donna Baumbach.

New website offering book recommendations by genre and age level.

Pinterest is a digital pinboard application which started just last year but has quickly become one of the top 10 most trafficked social networking websites according to Hitwise. During the second week in December the website had over 11 million visitors. This is pretty impressive considering that the site is still in the invite-only stage.

fascinating infographic profiles members of the profession. The author welcomes your opinions. (Source: Masters Degree

Guidelines and policies to implement a circulating iPad collection. Good info on settings, management and iTunes.

Library Curriculum for grades K-12.

Simply put participatory librarianship recasts library and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created through conversation. Libraries are in the knowledge business, therefore libraries are in the conversation business. Participatory librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation. Be it in practice, policies, programs and/or tools, participatory librarians seek to enrich, capture, store and disseminate the conversations of their communities. Explore the information below, and throughout this site to learn more.

Tells how to import digital content into Destiny

Diagram of research process with links to resources/tutorials about each step

The Common Core Standards (CCS) are at hand! They are often referred to as National Standards and they carry impact for student learning, teaching, and school librarians. But how? What is the real story?

great list of links

With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.

I cannot wait to look through these in depth. I was just thinking my lessons needed a bit more umph! Thanks for sharing!