Librarian Resources

Library Book Review Database

Technology Helps

• Adding a Brief Title
• Billing a User
• Call Number and Item Maintenance
• Changing an Item ID
• Check In
• Check Out
• Custom Labels
• Display User
• Finding the Price of an Item
• Fonts in Workflows
• Item Search and Display
• Mark Item Lost
• Mark Item Missing
• Paying Bills
• Printing Reports
• Register New User
• Toolbar Management
• Workflows Themes

Organizations

• American Library Association
• American Association of School Librarians
• Texas Library Association
• Texas Computer Education Association
• Association for Educational Communications and Technology

Vendors

• Follett (Titlewave)
• Permabound
• Approved Vendor List

Bibliographic Resources

• AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
• Amazon.com
• Book Browser
• BookWire
• Barnes & Noble
• Alibris - out of print and hard to find books

Information Literacy

• The Research Cycle
• Texshare Cookbook of Instructional Recipes
• Pathways to Knowledge: Follett's Information Skills Model
• Information Power
• TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial

Library Management Resources

• SUNLINK Weed of the Month

State and Federal Agencies

• Texas Education Agency
• Texas School Libraries
• TEKS
• TENET
• U.S. Department of Education
• Library of Congress

Library Schools

• Texas Woman's University
• University of North Texas
• University of Texas
• Texas A&M University at Commerce/Region 10

Literature Resources

• Scholastic
• Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
• Children's Literature
• Children's Book Council
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
• Kay Vandergrift's Young Adult Literature Page
• National Center for the Book
• Teaching Books (create username and password)
• Texas Children's Authors and Illustrators

Online Journals

• Booklist
• School Library Journal
• From Now On
• International Society for Technology in Education
• Media & Methods
• Tech Learning
• School Library Media Research Online

Miscellaneous

• Google for Librarians- Librarians and Google have a similar mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This site is a first step toward improving and expanding that support.
• LION: Librarians Information Online Network
• Peter Milbury's Network of School Librarian Web Pages
• School Library.org
• School Library Impact Studies
• Texas School Libraries- Presentation on "Texas School Libraries: Standards, Resources, Services, and Students' Performance"
• Top Tech Trends-Walter Betts presentation

Reading Encouragement Programs

• Sagebrush Booktalk-
• El día de los niños/El día de los libros
• Read Across America
• Book It!
• Read to Succeed
• Texas Lone Star Reading Program