Librarian Resources

Book Repair The pages offered on this web site contain descriptions of the procedures the University of Illinois Library uses on a daily basis. They have illustrated these pages with over 400 color photos. This instructions are intended to show both the complexity of some treatments and the range of preservation decisions one must make for each individual item. URL:http://www.library.uiuc.edu/preserve/procedures.html top

Collection Maintenance & Weeding This site offers an excellent explanation as to why a librarian needs to weed. Great for new librarians and to help other understand the process. This site is sponsored by the School Library Media journal. URL:http://eduscapes.com/sms/weeding.html top

Library Instruction This site contains library instruction lesson plans, articles about library instruction, a large library instruction bibliography, and links to library instruction resources. This site also includes material relating to information literacy. URL:http://www.libraryinstruction.com/lessons.html top

Online Lessons & Activities This is a great resources for Secondary librarians in search of interactive lessons for students . URL:http://mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/jvles.html top

Preservation Need advice on the care of books, photos, videos, and other media in your collections? The Library of Congress offers publications from the Preservation Directorate that answers many questions about the care, handling and storage of your valuable library collection. URL:http://www.loc.gov/preserv/careothr.html top

Resources for Librarians School Library Programs: Standards and Guidelines for Texas became effective on July 17, 1997. The goal of this revision is to align the School Library Programs: Standards and Guidelines for Texas with additional provisions of the Texas Education Code, the Texas Administrative Code, and national standards for school library programs, and to provide a current tool for evaluating and improving school library programs. URL:http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/schoollibs/sls/introduction.html top

Resources for School Librarians The Information Literacy Movement of the School Library Media Field has created this virtual web page filled with excellent sites for school librarians to integrate Literacy Standards in their library lessons. URL:http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/infoskill.html top

Sunlink weed-of-the month SUNLINK is an initiative of the Florida Department of Education, School Library Media Services Offices. The SUNLINK Weed of the Month program introduces a new weeding subject area each month URL:http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/ top

Teaching Library Research Skills Teaching Library Research Skills - Resource Links. URL:http://www.libraryhq.com/libresearch.html top

TEKS and the Librarian Direct link to TEKS and the Librarian web page. URL:http://library.episd.org/TEKS.html top

Using the Internet to teach Library Skills The future is upon us. The Information Age is here. Reading, writing and arithmetic are essential basic skills. There is a fourth basic skill--information literacy. Students must learn how to learn. Students must have the ability to locate and use information. Teachers, library media specialists, and administrators must understand information literacy before they can successfully support the concept. URL:http://academic.wsc.edu/redl/classes/tami/infolit.html top