Review Sources

The ALAN Review
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/alan-review.html
Published by the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, National Council of Teachers of English

Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/

Booklist
http://www.ala.org/booklist/index.html

School Library Journal Online
http://www.slj.com/

AASL Position Statements

AASL Position Statements
http://www.ala.org/aasl/positions/index.html

Evaluating Web Sites

Evaluating Websites
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/find/eval.htm
Criteria for evaluation plus a good list of related links.

QUICK: Quality Information Checklist
http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
An online tutorial for younger students.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html
Examples of bogus web sites are included.

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html

Citing Sources

MLA Style
http://www.mla.org/

MLA Style Guide
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/mlamaster.html
A great resource from Joyce Valenza at Springfield Township High School.

Debbie Abilock's Nueva School Research Page
http://www.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~debbie/library/research/research.html

Karla's Guide to Citation Styles
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html
From the University of Iowa, contains links to Chicago, APA and MLA styles.

Electronic Citation Styles
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

Copyright

Copyright and Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Copyright and Intellectual Property
http://www.ala.org/washoff/property.html
From the ALA Washington Office.

Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
http://www.indiana.edu/~mediares/mmfairuse.htm

A Visit to Copyright Bay
http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/coprbay/coprbay.htm
Thorny, legal issues are presented in a fun tutorial.

The United States Copyright Law
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
The definitive legal site.

Miscellaneous

SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/
Guidelines and suggestions for weeding your collection and adding quality material.

Dewey Browse
http://www.sau29.k12.nh.us/library/Dewey/dewey_browse_2.html
Web sites classified by the Dewey Decimal system

From Now On
http://www.fno.org/
Jamie McKenzie's online Journal of Educational Technology