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21st Century Learner Blog for Librarians

Book Adventure "is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning."

Bulletin Board Ideas from a Georgia elementary school district

Destiny Resource Management System - questions and answers from a school system that is using it

Do We Really Know Dewey? A site for kids to learn about the Dewey Decimal System with quizzes and puzzles for teachers to print off for student use.

Famous Birthdays Find famous birthdays by year, date, last name, or first name.

Internet Library for Librarians "A Portal Designed for Librarians to Locate Internet Resources Related to Their Profession."

Libraries on the Web HUGE list of school libraries who have websites

Library Songs songs for use with elementary classes

Lightning Librarian an arcade game where the gamer is a librarian who must remember where books are in the "library" and then get them to patrons before they walk away mad!

LM_NET is a discussion group open to school library media specialists worldwide, and to people involved with the school library media field. It is not for general librarians or educators. Librarians can "ask for input, share ideas and information, link programs that are geographically remote, make contacts, etc."  You can also search the archives of past postings.

Middle Grades Reading Network from the State of Indiana funded by a grant from Lily comes a site with information for the librarian and the teacher on middle grade reading

School Library Media Centers: Selected Results from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 pdf file

Space Planning for Libraries for building or renovation projects

Web Junction "an online community for library staff"

Holidays:

Every Month Is a Holiday Notables includes US historical dates, famous birthdays, and month long celebrations.

Holiday Insights "where you will find fun, information, and lots more about every holiday you can imagine. We've got you covered on the big ones, the small ones, and all of 'em in between."

Official Holidays Daily, Monthly, Weekly, Bizarre, Crazy, Unknown, Silly, Wacky, Weird, Respected and Traditional Holidays and Observances in the United States.

SusanGrisby's Weblog Holidays from around the world- well-known and hardly-known celebrations.  Susan adds her own comments and thoughts to the holidays!

Today in Literary History

Web-Holidays includes fun facts and holidays from around the world.

Literature Related (Non-Book):

American Poetry to 1900 includes 1,288 works by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry

Children's Short Stories Collection of short stories that includes fairy tales, fables, modern short stories and classic short stories. Stories are also searchable by length

Censorship and Challenges banned book information from the American Library Association.

Classic Short Stories search by author or title

Encyclopedia Mythica The mythology section is divided to six geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Oceania. The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, and folktales from many lands.

EServer Poetry Collection find poems from Maya Angelou to Robert Browning to Ezra Pound and to Walt Whitman

Hans Christian Andersen Fairy tales and stories includes information on Hans Christian Andersen, a chronological listing of his 168 fairy tales, links to the majority of his tales, plus links to further information

Mother Goose Rhymes search for rhymes by first line or for links about Mother Goose

Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tales Theme Page an annotated listing of sites for short stories, folklore and fairy tales on the Net

SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 47 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations.