Websites discussed in Library Skills Class
Helpful Online Resources
Acronym Finder
The Free Dictionary
Wikipedia
Be a better test-taker - Grade 6
Write a letter using this letter generator!
Create a brochure, newspaper, booklet, flyer
Mattie Stepanek - A 13 yr. old boy who struggled with muscular dystrophy. We have some of his books of poetry in the library. His website is www.mattieonline.com.
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Vatican Library
Vatican Library
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School Libraries
System: Capital Region BOCES School Library System - CRBSLS
Links to other school libraries
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Public Libraries
Systems:
Albany Public Library
Boston Public Library
New York Public Library
Schenectady County Public Library
Town of Ballston Community Library
Town of Woodbury -Woodbury Public Library - (Highland Mills / Central Valley, New York)
Troy Public Library
William F. Sanford Public Library (Colonie)
Other Public Libraries
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Academic Libraries
System: Capital District Library Council (CDLC)
Adelphi University Libraries - University archives and special collections
College of St. Rose - Neil Hellman Library
SUNY Delhi - Resnick Library
Harvard University Libraries
Stanford University Libraries
University of Florida - George A. Smathers Libraries
Union College - Schaffer Library
University of Pittsburgh - Darlington Memorial Library
Yale University
Other Academic Libraries
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Special Libraries
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Huntington Library
The Morgan Library
New York State Talking Book and Braille Library
The Newberry Library
Vatican Library
Other Special Libraries (LIBWEB)
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Presidential libraries
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) - Presidential Libraries
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State Libraries
New York State Library
-New York State Talking Book and Braille Library
Other State Libraries
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National Libraries - United States
Library of Congress (United States)
National Library of Medicine
National Agricultural Library
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Other National Libraries
Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional (Chile)
Biblioteca Nacionale (Mexico)
Biblioteca Nacionale (Spain)
Biblioteca Nacionale de la Republica Argentina
Bibliotheque Nationale (France)
British Library (England)
Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
Library and Archives Canada
National Diet Library (Japan)
National Library of China
National Library of Ireland
National Library of Russia
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Let's learn the Internet - Part I - the Broad View
First World Wide Web page - written on November 13, 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee.
Halloween ASCII art
Netscape browser
Mozilla/Firefox web browser
World Wide Web Consortium - W3C
Let's learn the Internet - Part II - the Narrow View
Egypt's Golden Empire - www.pbs.org/empires/egypt
Yahoo Kids (directory) - http://kids.yahoo.com/learn
Yahoo Directory - http://dir.yahoo.com
Google Directory - http://directory.google.com
FirstGov for kids - http://www.kids.gov
KidsClick - http://www.kidsclick.org
BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Help
Internet Public Library - Kidspace
AskJeeves for Kids - http://www.askforkids.com
Kid's Search Tools - http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Awesome Library - http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
For these subscription databases see the Library's home page and get the user names and passwords from Mrs. Sozek:
- ProQuest
- Infotrac - Junior Edition
- Searchasaurus (EBSCOhost)
- Kids Search (EBSCOhost)
Dewey Decimal System
Do We Really Know Dewey
Dewey Decimal Classification System
Book Industry Bar Codes - Find out why 978 signifies Bookland