USEFUL LIBRARY WEBSITES

Information on what is the web? Searching, sleuthing and sifting: http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/searching/lesson1.html

A meta search engine (searches search engines) http://ez2www.com/

The Google search engine:

Searching basics: http://www.google.com/help/basics.html

Advanced search: this shows you how to refine a search using symbols e.g. + http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

Free online tutorials to help students improve their Internet information literacy and IT skills.http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/

How to research (Information literature) http://www.Itscotland.org.uk/informationlitracy/index.asp

Australian site tutorial on searching, evaluating etc. http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/lili/index.html

Evaluating websites: http://www.quick.org.uk/

For a slightly older version: http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/index.html

A subscription site for teacher related and reviewed links: http://www.study-links.com

British library online; http://blpc.bl.uk/

About the Dewey decimal system: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/tour/

Reference search ; dictionaries, thesaurus, encyclopaedia, rhyming, quotations, atlas, world facts, artists all from one site! http://www.kplay.cc/reference.html

Book Aid International: http://www.bookaid.org/cms.cgi/site/index.htm

Encyclopaedias:
http://www.britannica.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.dke-encyc.com/

News: http://www.reuters.com/

There are many reader development sites to encourage reading for pleasure, author profiles and review sites, which we occasionally look at in the STAR group (an after school reading group).
http://www.achuka.co.uk/index2.php

http://www.cool-reads.co.uk/

http://www.teenreads.com/

http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/B/bookbox/home.htm

Choosing books for babies and toddlers: http://www.wordpool.co.uk/ccb/babies.htm