Saturday, September 4, 2004

Collection Development Tool for Secondary Libraries I have long been a fan of an excellent tool that has come across my desk every year, University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries. Published by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), this free volume contains hundreds of books that have been reviewed and selected by representatives from the AASL and PLA divisions of ALA. I have always found material in these lists that would be valuable for high school students, especially those doing AP and IB level research, but they also give grade ranges from elementary on up.. I was thrilled, therefore, to see that this publication is now offered online at http://www.aaupnet.org/librarybooks. A joint project of AAUP, AASL and PLA, this bibliography is a popular and trusted acquisitions resource. The almost 500 books listed in the 2004 edition include works on a wide variety of subjects -- Eskimo architecture, zinfandel, camembert, Spanish-language science fiction, The Simpsons, dragons, mummies and the American presidency to name only a few. The selection committee was chaired by Ken W. Stewart of Blue Valley High School, Stilwell, Kan., for AASL and Rex Miller of the Petoskey (Mich.) Public Library for PLA. [AASL Hotlinks, Sept. 2004] 8:30:04 AM    comment []

	Sunday, August 29, 2004

Links to global resources. "Gumshoe Librarian: "Where in the World Is..."This bibliography by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici includes business and corporate data, global news, search engines, guides to international and comparative law, country profiles and statistics, locating people, businesses, places and useful services around the world, banking resources, and data on terrorism and security issues. Available at http://www.llrx.com/features/gumshoe.htm," [LISNews.com] 10:33:17 AM    comment []

	Thursday, July 1, 2004

Country Resource Worlds Biggest Statistics Site. Anonymous Patron writes "NationMaster.com has just become the world's largest website for inter-country statistical comparisons - with its last update, it claims to have become over 40 times the size of the CIA World Factbook. Amazing." [LISNews.com] This is a great resource for students. The charts and graphs are especially good. Unfortunately, it does have ads, but they seem to be fairly sensible ones, if one can say that about ads. 8:17:00 AM    comment []

	Saturday, April 17, 2004

SACO resources great for reference. rteeter writes "If you're not a cataloger (and maybe even if you are), you might not have heard of SACO. Even if you knew that SACO is a cooperative system for proposing new Library of Congress Subject Headings, you'd probably think Web Resources for SACO Proposals would be really dull. But consider this: catalogers proposing new subject headings have to have be sure of their terms. They call it authority work; you might call it reference work. "So Web Resources for SACO Proposals turns out to be a great place to find all kinds of online topical dictionaries, encyclopedias, and gazetteers." [LISNews.com] 5:24:28 PM    comment []

	Friday, March 19, 2004

What the pros choose. nbruce writes " News Library News is the quarterly bulletin of the Special Libraries Association News Division. The March 2004 issue has an article about what the pros choose when needing information, the books they consider indispensable, and which web sites are the most reliable and accurate, to which they would go to first." [LISNews.com] 6:58:25 AM    comment []

	Friday, February 27, 2004

Museum Without Walls. An article in The Globe and Mail discusses the new Eternal Egypt Project, which officially opened yesterday. This is a interactive web site that allows users to view many Egyptian cultural artifacts housed in the Egyptian Museum. It also features webcam footage of other key landmarks and tourist attractions within Egypt and multimedia features. The funding for the project was provided by IBM. [LISNews.com]This is a beautiful resource! It makes me homesick for Egypt, where I lived for several years. 10:32:40 AM    comment []

	Thursday, February 12, 2004

Encouraging International Education Just Launched, Global Gateway for Educators From the site, "The Global Gateway is a new international website, enabling those involved in education across the world to engage in creative partnerships. It is a one-stop shop, providing quick access to comprehensive information on how to develop an international dimension to education." A bit more in this article. [ResourceShelf] This is a site with lots of possiblities, and a good effort by the UK government. 1:45:52 PM    comment []

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