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Book Search works just like web search: Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. Google will then search and attempt to find content that contains a match for your search terms. You can see everything from a few short excerpts to the entire book,in some cases.

An excellent PDF explaining how to get the most out of Google Search. A good idea might be to print out a few copies of this and put it on the wall near your desktop computers? Similar posters relating to other google tools can be found here: http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

This is a google custom search that finds all the best notebook files from some of the best interactive websites around. 

Want a fun way to help students practice and enhance their web research skills while discovering answers to trivia questions? Then check out "A Google A Day!"

Check out this page with lots of other google search options & also great tools to assist learning. I especially like the 'Wonder Wheel' to help mindmap your search.

a blog post explaining a new feature within the Google search engine - the ability to filter results by reading level! This post defines how to do this and gives lots of examples.

Google tips, news and updates

This is a great search engine for when you want to compare and contrast in table like format.

A slideshare presentation focussed on web research which is well worth viewing for any TL. Has some great information and statistics on search, and how search-englines work. Also shares tools you can use for optimizing your search and saving your sources for later viewing. 

The importance of teaching our students Information Literacy Skills