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ALA—American Library Association
The American Library Association
provides opportunities for the professional development and education of librarians, library staff, and trustees and advocates funding and policies that support libraries as a great democratic institution, serving people of all ages, income level, location, or ethnicity. The American Library Association actively defends the right of library users to read, seek information, and speak freely as guaranteed by the First Amendment. The American Library Association assists and promotes libraries in helping children and adults develop the skills they understanding that the ability to seek and effectively utilize information resources (information literacy) is essential in a global information society.
AASL—American Association of School Librarians
The mission of the American Association of School Librarians is to advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the school library media field. AASL works to ensure that all members of the school library media field collaborate to provide leadership in the total education program, participate as active partners in the teaching/learning process, connect learners with ideas and information, and prepare students for life-long learning, informed decision-making, a love of reading, and the use of information technologies.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
Big 6—Information Literacy for the Information Age
Everyone goes through the Big6 stages—consciously or not—when they seek or apply information to solve a problem or make a decision. It’s not necessary to complete these stages in a linear order, and a given stage does not have to take a lot of time. We have found that in almost all successful problem-solving situations, all stages are addressed.
The Big6 Skills are applicable to all subject areas across the full range of grade levels. Students use the Big6 Skills whenever they need information to solve a problem, make a decision, or complete a task.
Blue Web'N
Blue Web'n is a searchable database of about 1,000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). Blue Web'n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites, but only the most useful sites—especially online activities targeted at learners.
California Department of Education Library Resources
Resources and information about libraries and library services provided by the California Department of Education.
California State Library
The Library of California is a statewide program, established in 1999, to provide equitable access to library materials and information resources for all Californians. Administered by the California State Library, under the policy direction of the Library of California Board, this program has both a statewide component for infrastructure support and development, and a regional component for direct service delivery to and through libraries. Seven regional library networks provide the regional services specified in the Library of California Act.
Chico High School Library Page
The Mission of the Chico High School Library Media Program is to support the curriculum of Chico High School, and as part of that mission provide access to current, adequate, and appropriate information resources, and to ensure that all students, teachers, and staff are effective users of ideas and information.
CRA—California Reading Association
The California Reading Association is an independent, self-governing organization dedicated to increasing literacy and instilling a love for reading in children and adults alike, with special attention to California residents.
CSLA—California School Library Association
The California School Library Association (CSLA) is an organization of library media teachers, classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, district and county coordinators of curriculum, media and technology, and others committed to enriching student learning by building a better future for school libraries.
The association encourages professional growth, provides avenues for sharing common concerns, represents the interests of school libraries to the Legislature and the California Department of Education, and enables members to serve the educational needs of the multiculturally diverse students of California.
READ California
Reading is a skill that is fundamental to critical thinking and reasoning. A child cannot learn math or science, English or history without the ability to read. Reading is everyone's responsibility. All Californians, including parents, teachers, employers, neighbors, workers, veterans, doctors, lawyers, and students, have a responsibility to ensure that our students are reading. Recognizing this, California Governor's Office and the Legislature have made improving education skills a top priority. READ California combines a multi-media approach using advertising, special events and publicity to promote the good works of reading programs and the people behind them.
Sunlink
Funded by the Florida Department of Education, SUNLINK is Florida's K-12 public school union catalog, a shared database of materials in Florida K-12 library media centers. Imagine a giant card catalog or electronic catalog that contains the records of all school library media centers in Florida! And you can ask to borrow any of them! That's SUNLINK!
TILT—Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
Libraries, in Texas and around the world, provide access to a variety of resources including the Internet. By increasing information literacy skills, educators and students can more effectively select, search and evaluate those resources. This interactive library tutorial will prepare you to explore and research in the online world.
UC Berkeley Library Tips for Effective Library Assignments
Two ways in which the Library staff serve faculty, staff, and students are in individual consultations in the library and with bibliographic instruction sessions presented to groups of people that describe how to effectively use the paper and electronic resources of the library. To help faculty initiate the best library assignments, the UC Berkeley Library gives suggestions about feasibility, variety, critical thinking, copyright, and more.
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