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This article discussed the continued relevance of libraries and focuses on how libraries evolve to achieve their mission. It identifies three important services libraries provide: access, motivation, and guidance.

Someone's curated list of YouTube videos relevant to the Library profession- includes a wide range of videos to explain things that librarians should know, functions and services libraries should provide, the value and importance of libraries today, and more...

By Michael Robinson Chair, ALA-IFC Privacy Subcommittee Associate Professor at the Consortium Library, University of Alaska - Anchorage Crossposted from ChoosePrivacyWeek.org The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom demonstrated its foresight when it started the Choose Privacy Week program in 2010, launching an ongoing program to raise awareness among libraries and library users about the dangers of government surveillance and demonstrating why privacy is important, especially in light of the growing use of online resources and services.

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning Filed by on The American Association of School Libraries (AASL) is a division of the American Library Association. This is the sixth annual Best Websites for Teaching & Learning list. Sites named as Best Websites for Teaching & Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and collaboration.

virtual library PDF from ALA

This page invites school media specialists to try 23 explorations and activities online. It looks like a good way for those feeling a little behind the times to get familiar with a nice variety of online tools.

Check out the "Technology-What's Hot and What's Not" chart at bottom of article.

Public library Scratch workshops

There's a quiet-or not so quiet-shift happening in school libraries across America. The social media revolution-reflected in all manner of shiny iPhone apps, blogs, Nings, Facebook pages, and other social networking tools, sites, and platforms-is real, and it's running like a loud line of students straight through the stacks, into the common areas, taking a sharp turn, and heading right on up to the teacher librarian/media specialist's desk.

Awesome collection of tools, organized into categories for easy use: Organization & Collaboration, Search Engines & Directories, Google, Templates & Lesson Plans, Research & Reference, Games, Reading & Writing, Math & Science, Arts, History & Social Studies, Online Libraries, Activities.  Share with staff for use in classrooms

Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling. You can set up classrooms and manage what your students are doing by creating assignments. You can make a classroom library where they make their own stories and can be read by other students. On checkout days my students have a hard time sitting there and reading, I don't mind because I know they have to do things like this in class all day long! I let them go on their storybird account if they would like, they can read what their classmates have wrote or they can make a new story.

A set of lessons that I could use with my K-1 students in the library as we do certain library lessons. I know it seems rather basic but I always need ideas to show my paraprofessional as well because there are times I just cannot be in the library.

For Backpackers | The Jess-Setters Guide

A lesson in research skills for second and third graders designed for collaboration between classroom teacher and library media specialist.

A lesson in research skills for second and third graders designed for collaboration between classroom teacher and library media specialist.