Virtual School Library Media Specialist Resource Center
This resource list is always being revised--if you have recommendations to add or broken links to report,
please email with your suggestions.
 

Basic Tools
Collecting the Data: Templates and Resources for the School Library Media Specialist
Librarians' Internet Index: Websites You Can Trust
Liszen: Library and Information Science Search Engine
Parsing the Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress

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Data Collection
Collecting the Data: Templates and Resources for the School Library Media Specialist
Parsing the Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress

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Facilities
Eduscapes - Program Administration: Facilities Management

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Just for Fun
Friends & Foundations of California Libraries: Library Lovers' Month
Library Quotes

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Just for Indiana
Association for Indiana Media Educators, an association of the Indiana Library Federation
CIESC - Central Indiana Education Service Center
INCOLSA - Indiana Cooperative Library Service Authority
Indiana Library Regulations and Standards

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Library Clip Art
Kansas City Metropolitan Library & Information Network: Eclipse
Library Media & PR: Tool Box
Thompson Gale - Market Your Library: Find Yourself in the Library

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Marketing and Promotion
@ your library^R
AASL Advocacy
ALA Media Relations Tools
DOE Tasmania: Library Promotion Ideas
Library Media & PR
Marketing Our Libraries On and Off the Internet
School Library Media Day (tools, ideas, helpful hints)
"Shout It Out! The Power of PR: Reaching New Teachers"
3M Strategic Marketing for School Library Media Centers

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Networking
AASL:  American Association of School Librarians
International Reading Association
LM_NET: Where School Librarians Connect
NBPTS: Board for Professional Teaching Standards
School-Libraries.net: Web Pages Created by School Librarians

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Professional Development
AASL Online Continuing Education
Indiana Department of Education - Office of Learning Resources
Indiana Learns
IUPUI: Online Blue Ribbon Certification
Joyce Valenza: A Webquest About School Library Websites
NoodleTools NoodleTeach: Teaching Intelligently - Curriculum Collaboration Toolkit
SUNLINK Weed of the Month

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Professional Journals
AASL: School Library Media Research
ALAN Review
American Libraries
BookLinks
Booklist
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Book
Cable in the Classroom
eSchool News Online
FromNowOn
Horn Book
IASL (International Association of School Librarianship) Newsletter
IASL (International Association of School Librarianship) Journal
Library Journal
LMC: Library Media Connection
MultiMedia & Internet @ Schools
Publisher's Weekly
School Library Journal
Teacher Librarian
Teaching Pre K-8: The Magazine for Professional Development
Tech Learning
T.H.E. Journal Online
YALSA (Young Adult Service Association) Publications

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Publishers & Vendors
Librarian's Yellow Pages
Random House Children's Books: Librarians@Random
Scholastic: Librarians

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Reading

Research & Readings: the Importance of School Libraries and Library Media Specialists
Baltimore County Public Schools - School Library FACTS
Education World: "Strong Libraries Improve Student Achievement"
ERIC Digest "Why Should Principals Support School Libraries?" by Gary Hartzell
Indiana School Library Media Data Projects
"The Importance of the School Library"
NCES:  School Library Media Centers: Selected Results From the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002
Research on Indiana School Libraries  Indiana Principal Leadership Academy Special Edition, vol. 18, no.3.
Scholastic Research Foundation Paper: "School Libraries Work" (2006 edition)
"Why do we need a teacher librarian or a school library when we have the Internet?"
2003 study: Student Learning Through Ohio School Libraries

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Standards (21st Century)
Barbara Jansen's Wiki Discussion
Doug Johnson - Alignment of ISTE's NETS for Students to AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners
Gail Dickinson - comments on AASL Blog
ISTE's NETS for Students (2007 revision)
Route 21 - The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
SLMAM - Standards for the 21st Century Learner-Information Power 2 Standards connections
Standards for the 21st Century Learner (AASL)

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