This resource is hosted by the Science and Technology Research Center of the Library of Congress. You are able to search the site to find answers to your science questions. The database of answers is composed of all questions asked of...

The life of Sacagawea is profiled in this television show. It includes transcripts of interviews with historians, librarians, etc., and videos from the show.

A Texas librarian shares his strategy of using nonfiction picture books to introduce new concepts to struggling adolescent readers and to build their background knowledge. Once students have been exposed to academic content in easy...

Fifty years after Captain Twig severed the anchor chain securing the floating rock of Sanctaphrax to Undertown, all is not well in the great floating city or the urban sprawl of Undertown. Rook Barkwater is selected as a Librarian Knight...

You work at the college library. You're in the middle of a quiet afternoon when suddenly, a shipment of 1,280 books arrives. The books are in a straight line, but they're all out of order, and the automatic sorting system is broken. How...

A booktalk, sample vocabulary activity and a writing activities are the features of this brief literature guide by author and former librarian Nancy Polette.

The University of New Brunswick's Harriet Irving Library has a website devoted to Loyalist resources. This website will be useful to students who want depictions of military uniforms and a bibliographic list of resources. Serious...

This lesson plan designed around Heller's novel includes a research component for collaborative work with a librarian, comprehension questions, extension activities, vocabulary, some suggested reading, a few web links, and correlation to...

This is a first or second grade library skills unit, conducted by the librarian with help from the art, computer, and homeroom teachers. Students will create: their own book cover and title page containing title, author & slideshow...

This instructional activity combines information literacy and technology skills with subject area skills. It is designed to be a collaborative effort between the classroom teacher and the school librarian. The topic of conestoga wagons...

Demonstrate your expertise in teaching PreK-12 students to think critically about their roles as media consumers and creators -- or in training teachers to do so. Competency-based validation of media literacy skills for educators of all...

A description of what the Association of Moving Image Archivists is, and what they do. Links to information about scholarships available to students intending to pursue careers in film archives.

This vast collection provides information on careers for those with training and interest in art history, outside of the world of universities.

These forms and suggestions form the foundation for a strategic planning session for an individual library or an entire school system. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]

At this site from the Bureau of Labor Statistics find out about possible careers in your future by selecting a job based on what school subject you like.

The American Library Association offers these suggestions for reading in history, humanities, literature, science, and social studies. RI.11-12.10b Text Complexity

Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Nikki Giovanni including information on her life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Giovanni is also provided.

What do you know about the life and work of Theodore Taylor? Use this online resource to discover information about this famous author.

Canadian educator Donald Hamilton offers this refreshing look at school library budgets. This is not the nuts and bolts of your budget, but ideas about what ought to be at the heart of the budgeting process.

This tells the history of the Library of Congress during a particularly important period, from 1939 to 1953.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Campanile, the bell tower at the University of California. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...

Contains information and a description of the holdings at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, one of the largest and most extensive film library collections in the world.

Beyond the instructional goals of the school library media program, this document addresses the principles and beliefs that form the basis for valuing a school library program in a democratic society.