Canadian Teacher Librarian Associations

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CHECK
IT OUT!
In this issue:
SOURCES
A compilation of useful
information for
Teacher-Librarians
Plus:
FREE POSTER INSIDE!
- 1998 -
Volume 18, Number 2
Editors
Lillian Carefoot
Director of Instruction, Learning Resources,
School District #68, Nanaimo, BC
Email: [email protected]
John Caldwell
Coordinator of Library Services
School District #79, Cowichan, BC
Managing Editor
Don Hamilton
CSLA President
Anne M. Galler
Education Librarian & Adjunct Professor
University of Victoria, BC
Montreal, PQ
Editorial Committee CSLA Executive
Judy Davies - LOPAC Correspondent
Resource Based Learning Consultant
Dept. of Education, PEI
Book Review Editor Judy Sykes
Calgary Board of Education, AB
Advertising
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Canadian Library Association
(613) 232-9625 Ext. 320
Prepress Production Pia Graphics, Nanaimo, BC
Printing
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The Journal of the Canadian School Library Association
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1998 -
Volume 18, Number 2
From the Editors. ............................................... 2
Sources
· CSLA & ATLC Executive Contact List. ........................ 3
· Provincial Teacher Librarian Association Presidents......... 4
· Provincially Developed Documents on School Library
Resource Centres .................................................... 4
· Professional Books That are a “Must Have” ................. 5
· A Bibliography: Brain Compatible Learning ................. 6
· Technology & Change Resources for Leaders in Education ... 6
· Periodicals for Teacher-Librarians............................... 7
· Canadian Library Association Position Statements ......... 8
· When the Censor Comes Forward ............................... 9
· Student’s Bill of Information Rights ........................... 9
· 1998 Basic Resources for Media Literacy .................. 10
· Middle Ages - Facts, Fiction, Legend ................. 12-13
· Checklist for Evaluating Multicultural Materials.......... 14
· Book Award Winners ............................................ 15
· Caldecott Medal Winners 1938-1998 ..................... 16
· Newbery Medal Winners 1922-1998 ...................... 17
· ALSC First Notable Websites for Children .................. 18
· My 7 Best Websites for Teacher-Librarians ................. 19
· Finding a Goldmine: Network Nuggets ..................... 19
· The Ten C’s for Evaluating Internet Resources ............ 20
· Some of the Best CD-ROM Titles, K-12 .................... 21
· Social Studies Web Resources .................................. 21
· Library Automation Software Distributors .................. 22
· E-Zines and News Services ..................................... 22
· Copyright Reminder - Public Performance Rights ......... 23
· Canadian Television Classification Rating System ........ 24
· Criteria for Effective School Library Facilites ............... 24
· Some Canadian Non-Print Distributors/Producers ....... 25
· Cataloguing Resources .......................................... 26
· Indicators of School Quality ................................... 27
· Indicators of Effective Learning Resource Management .... 27
· ALSC Lists Notable Computer Software ..................... 28
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Welcome to SOURCES,
a new venture for “School
Libraries in Canada”.
Welcome to SOURCES, a new venture for
School Libraries in Canada. It is difficult to try to
categorise exactly what SOURCES is....In discussion with teacher librarian colleagues we discovered that there was a need for a “reference” manual
for Canadian teacher librarians, a SOURCE
of current, topical, necessary information
that is often available elsewhere, but that
ideally could be found in one convenient
place. This ideal reference SOURCE would
be part directory, part handbook, part
guide, part almanac, part...
The big question, of course, is what
kind of information should it contain. A quick brain
storming session produced a myriad of ideas. We
culled and argued and sorted and agonised because
we can only publish a document 28 pages long.
What was finally left is the first version of SOURCES.
We need your feedback. Is this a good idea? If it
is, what else should be included? What should be
excluded? Should it be bigger? Smaller? How should
John
Caldwell
&
Lillian
Carefoot
it be arranged? Should the same information in an
updated form appear in each issue? Does it need an
index? What do you have that can be added to it?
Please contact us with your ideas and comments.
Also of interest; CSLA website at:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1333/csla.htm.
The SLIC website is found at: http://
uviclib.uvic.ca/csla/slic.html and is
linked to the CSLA website for easy
reference.
John Caldwell
Coordinator of Library Services,
SD79 Cowichan Valley
2557 Beverly St., Duncan, BC V9L 2X3
Tel. (250) 748-0321 · Fax: (250) 748-3497
Lillian Carefoot, SD68 Nanaimo-Ladysmith
430 Selby St., Nanaimo, BC V9R 2R7
Tel: (250) 755-2111 · Fax: (250) 754-7869
FREE POSTER!
The centre section of this issue is a pull-out poster, entitled:
“Media Awareness Network Internet Site Map”
We hope you will find it useful!
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Canadian Teacher Librarian Associations
CSLA Board
1998-99
PRESIDENT
Anne M. Galler
COUNCILLORS
Judith Dueck, Teacher-Librarian
EDITORS, SLIC
Lilian Carefoot, Director of Instruction
PAST PRESIDENT
Mary Latham, Teacher-Librarian
Holly Gunn, Teacher-Librarian
John Caldwell
VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT ELECT
Ray Doiron, Faculty of Education
WEBSITE COORDINATOR
Alan L. Brown, Teacher-Librarian
Don Hamilton (Managing),
Rm.583-1455 de Maisonneuve W.,
Montreal, PQ H3G 1M8
(514) 848-2543 Fax: (514) 848-4520
Stewart Ave. Public School
145 Stewart Ave., Cambridge, ON N1R 2V5
(519) 621-4171 Fax: (519) 621-5492
Univ. of PEI, 550 University Ave.
Charlottetown, PEI C1A 4P3
(902) 566-0684 Fax: (902) 566-0416
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Rev. Brian Rountree, Rector
PO Box 670, Pine Falls, MB R0E 1M0
(204) 367-8615 Tel/Fax: (204) 367-8347
“SHADOW” SECRETARY-TREASURER
Karen Harrison, Teacher-Librarian
11 Roberta Cres., Nepean, ON K2J 1G5
School: (613) 828-3100 · Email:
[email protected] (school)
Email: [email protected] (home)
Gordon Bell High School
3 Borrowman Pl., Winnipeg, MB R3N 0R9
(204) 774-5401 Fax: (204) 783-9469
Sackville High School, 1 Kingfisher Way,
Lower Sackville, NS B4C 2Y9 · After Feb.’99:
(902) 864-6715 Fax: (902) 864-6710
Havenwood Public School
3255 Havenwood Dr.,
Mississauga, ON L4X 2M2
(905) 625-3220 Fax: (905) 625-9503 anytime
POSTER COORDINATOR
Karin Paul, Teacher-Librarian
St. Andrew’s High School
880 McKenzie Ave., Victoria, BC V8X 3G5
(250) 479-1414 Fax: (250) 479-5356
ADVOCACY CHAIR
Shirley Lewis c/o National Book Services Inc.
25 Kodiak Cres., North York, ON M3J 3M5
1-800-387-3178 or (416) 630-0274
Fax: 1-800-303-6697 or (416) 630-0274
School District 68 Nanaimo-Ladysmith
430 Selby St., Nanaimo, BC V9R 2R7
(250) 755-2111 Fax: (250) 754-7869
Coordinator of Library Services
SD 79 (Cowichan Valley)
2557 Beverly St., Duncan, BC V9L 2X3
(250) 748-0321 Fax: (250) 748-3497
Education Librarian, University of Victoria
PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2
(250) 721-7899 Fax: (250) 721-7767
1999 CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Rose Dotten
St. George Mews, 707 - 284 Bloor St. W.,
Toronto, ON M5S 1V8
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
Judith Kootte
Richmond School Board #38
7811 Granville Ave., Richmond, BC V6Y 3E3
(604) 668-6056 Fax: (604) 668-6191
ATLC Board
1998-99
PRESIDENT
Pat Taylor
405 - 3rd Ave. S., Saskatoon, SK S7K 1M7
Res: (306) 934-4617 Bus: (306) 683-8317
Fax: (306) 683-8207
SECRETARY
Judy Davies
Millery Farm, Flat River, RR 3, Belle River,
PE C0A 1B0 Res: (902) 659-2369
Bus. (902) 368-4633 Fax: (902) 368-4622
TREASURER
Sue Doherty
5 Hernshaw Cres., Etobicoke,
ON M9C 3M3 Res: (416) 622-1027
Bus: (905) 279-6090 Fax: (905) 279-7084
DIRECTOR
Anne Symons
10512 - 13th St., Dawson Creek,
BC V1G 3W6 Res: (250) 782-4668
Bus: (250) 782-6336 Fax: (250) 782-1470
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR
Marlene Turkington
782 Warwick St., Woodstock ON N45 4R1
Res: (519) 539-5177 Bus: (519) 537-6241
Fax: (519) 539-7226
PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR
Vicki Pennell
PO Box 9, Pouch Cove, NF A0A 3L0
Res: (709) 335-2394 Bus: (709) 364-8456
Fax: (709) 364-7744
SENIOR EDITOR, IMPACT
Judith Sykes
56 Sundown Green S.E., Calgary,
AB T2X 2Y2 Res: (403) 256-5394
Bus: (403) 777-8110 Fax: (403) 777-8113
DIRECTOR & WEBMASTER
Jim Holgate
#704 - 950 Jervis St., Vancouver,
BC V6E 2B4 Res: (604) 669-8919
Bus: (604) 588-3415 Fax: (604) 588-7122
DIRECTOR & CONFERENCE
COORDINATOR
Tim Gauntley
155 College St., Toronto, ON M5T 1P6
Res: (416) 604 4705 Bus: (416) 397-3792
Fax: (416) 397-3813
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT &
INFORMATION OFFICER
Angela Thacker
2561 Western Ave., N. Vancouver,
BC V7N 3L2 Res: (604) 987-4734
Fax: (604) 986-3018
ADVERTISING MANAGER
& FUNDRAISING
Anne Letain
251 Fairway Dr, Coaldale AB T1M 1H3
Res: (403) 345-4479 Bus: (403) 223-3352
Fax: (403) 327-9595
EDUCATION LIBRARIAN
Donald Hamilton, University of Victoria,
PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2
250-721-7899 Fax: 250-721-7767
Res: 250-383-5448 Fax: 250-995-1461
Email [email protected]
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Presidents
Provincial Teacher Librarian Associations
BRITISH COLUMBIA
NEWFOUNDLAND
British Columbia TeacherLibrarians’ Association
Newfoundland & Labrador
Teachers’ Assoc. Learning
Resources Council
BCTLA, a specialist organization of the BC
Teachers’ Federation.
Mark Roberts, President
(604) 713-4985 Fax: (604) 713-4987
ALBERTA
Alberta Learning Resources
Council
Nigel Pottle, Vice-President
SASKATCHEWAN
Saskatchewan School Library
Association
Shari Martin, President
Box 897, Davidson, SK S0G 1A0
MANITOBA
Manitoba School Library Assoc.
Margaret Stimson, President
Coordinator Media Services/Gifted Ed.
Assiniboine South SD#3
6691 Rannock Ave.,Winnipeg, MB R3R 0Z3
(204) 897-1027 Fax: (204) 897-1006
ONTARIO
Ontario School Library Assoc.
Mark Kaminski, President. Email:
[email protected]
NOVA SCOTIA
Nova Scotia School Library
Association
Holly Gunn, President
Sackville High School
Halifax Regional School Board
PRINCE EDWARD
ISLAND
Prince Edward Island Teacher
Librarians’ Association
Carol Fitzpatrick, President
NEW BRUNSWICK
As New Brunswick no longer has a teacher-librarians’ association, the following teacher-librarian has
agreed to represent her province:
Catherine Cox
YUKON
Yukon Education
Resource Services Teacher-Librarian
QUEBEC
NORTHWEST
TERRITORIES
Quebec Library Association:
School Library Section
As NWT has no teacher-librarians’ association, the
following teacher-librarian has agreed to represent
her province:
Rennie MacLeod, Past-President
Assoc. du personnel des services
documentaires scolaires
Yvon Joubert, président
127, rue Pilon, St-Eustache,
Québec, PQ J7P 2JS
(514) 472-0657 Fax: (514) 472-0657
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Kathy Rowsell, President-Elect
Lynn Taylor (867) 873-3477
Provincially Developed
Documents on
School Library
Resource Centres
Alberta
Focus on Learning: An Integrated Program
Model for Alberta School Libraries
Alberta Education, 1985.
Focus on Research: A Guide to Developing
Student’s Research Skills
Alberta Education, 1990.
British Columbia
Developing Independent Learners: The Role
of the School Library Resource Centre
BC Ministry of Education, 1991.
Manitoba
Resource-Based Learning: An Educational
Model
Manitoba Education & Training, 1994.
New Brunswick
Standards & Practices for New Brunswick
School Libraries
New Brunswick Teachers Association
Library Council, 1989.
Newfoundland & Labrador
Learning to Learn: Policies & Guidelines for
the Implementation of Resource-Based
Learning in Newfoundland & Labrador
Schools
Newfoundland & Labrador Departments of
Education. 1991.
Northwest Territories
Guidelines for the Development of School
Information Centres
Northwest Territories Education, 1990
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia School Libraries: Standards and
Practices
Nova Scotia Teachers Union, 1987.
Ontario
Partners in Action: The Library Resource
Centre in the School Curriculum
Ontario Ministry of Education, 1982
Information Literacy and Equitable Access:
A Framework for Change
Ontario Ministry of Education, 1995.
Prince Edward Island
School Library Policy for the Province of
Prince Edward Island
PEI Dept. of Education, 1989.
Quebec
Direction Generale de Evaluation es des
Resources Didactiques
Library Resources in the Schools:
Pedagogical & Organizational Aspects
(English translation)
Quebec Ministere de l’Education, 1987.
Saskatchewan
Resource-Based Learning: Policies, Guidelines and Responsibilities for Saskatchewan
Learning Resource Centres
Saskatchewan Education, 1988.
Professional Books That are a “Must Have”
The Canadian Library Handbook: Organizing School, Public & Professional Libraries
Kogan, Marilyn & Lynne Lighthall
2nd ed. 1993. McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
ISBN 0075515520.
Evaluating, Selecting, and Managing
Learning Resources: A Guide
Internet & Instruction - Activities & Ideas
Barron, Ann E. & Ivers, Karen S. (2nd ed.)
Internet Roadmap for Educators
Wilson, Elizabeth
Multimedia Projects in Education
Barron, Ann E. & Ivers, Karen S.
Winners: Resource-Based Units
Cooperatively Planned by Teacher-Librarians
and Teachers
1998. Englewood, CO.: Libraries Unlimited.
1998. Englewood, CO.: Libraries Unlimited.
US$25. Glossary, index.
BC Ministry of Education. 1996.
ISBN 0-7726-2894-7.
I’m a Little Teapot
Cobb, Jane.
1985. Alberta Education.
Every Teacher’s Thematic Booklist
Devers, William J.
Alberta Education. 1990. ISBN 1-55006-246-8.
Mass media and popular culture (Version 2)
Duncan, Barry et al.
Focus on Learning: An Integrated Program
Model For Alberta School Libraries
Focus on Research: A Guide to Developing
Students’ Research Skills
From Library Skills to Information Literacy:
A Handbook for the 21st Century (2nd ed.)
1997. California Media & Library Educators Assn.
Hi Willow Research & Publishing.
ISBN 0-931510-67-8.
Information Power: Guidelines for School
Library Media Programs
1988. American Library Association & the Assoc.
for Educational communications & Technology.
ISBN 0-8389-3352-1.
Information Power: Building Partnerships
for Learning
1998. American Library Association & the Assoc.
for Educational communications & Technology.
Information Problem-Solving: The Big Six
Skills Approach to Library & Information
Skills Instruction
Michael B. Eisenberg & Robert E. Berkowitz
1990. Ablex Publishing Corp.
ISBN 0-89391-757-5.
The Indispensable Librarian: Surviving (and
Thriving) in School Media Centers in the
Information Age
Doug Johnson. 1997. Linworth Publishing.
ISBN 0-938865-64-1.
Literature Connections: The Teacher and
Teacher Librarian Partnership
BC Ministry of Education. 1991.
ISBN 0-7726-1300-1.
The School Library Program: Teacher
Librarian Resource Manual
1991. ISBN 1-55063-019-9
Call 403-294-8576 to order.
Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to
Library and Information Services
Carol Collier Kuhlthau. 1993.
Ablex Publishing Corp. ISBN 1-56750-019-6.
Taxonomies of the School Library
Media Program
David V. Loertscher. 1988.
Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 0-87287-662-4.
Highly Recommended
Professional Materials
Worth a Thousand Words: An Annotated
Guide to Picture Books for Older Readers
Ammon, Bette D. & Gale W. Sherman
1996. Libraries Unlimited. ISBN1-56308-390-6
Best Kept Secrets: Ideas for Promoting Your
School Library Media Program
1996. American Assoc. of School Librarians.
ISBN 0-8389-7846-0.
1996. Educational Research Service.
1996. Assoc. for Teacher Librarianship in Canada.
ISBN 0-896366-02-3.
1996. Black Sheep. ISBN 0-9698666-0-7.
Scholastic, 1993. ISBN 0-590-24385-3.
1996. HarcourtBrace. ISBN1-7747-0170-6.
Hit List: Frequently Challenged Books for
Young Adults
1996. American Library Association.
ISBN 0-8389-3459-5.
Hit List: Frequently Challenged Books for
Children
1996. American Library Association.
ISBN 0-8389-3458-7.
Making the Writing & Research Connection
With the I-Search Process: A How-to-DoIt Manual For Teachers and Librarians
Joyce, Marilyn & Julie Tallman
1997 Neal-Schuman. ISBN1-55570-252-X .
Collection Assessment & Management for
School Libraries: Preparing for Cooperative
Collection Development
Kachel, Debra
1997. Greenwood. ISBN 1-313-29853-X.
Creating a Local Area Network in the School
Library Media Center
Mather, Becky
1997. Greenwood. 0-313-300094-1.
Creative Thinking & Problem Solving for
Young Learners
Meador, Karen S.
1997. Teachers Idea Press/Libraries Unlimited.
Englewood, CO. US$21.50. Part of “Gifted
Treasury Series”.
Power Up Your Library: Creating the New
Elementary School Library Program
1996.Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 1-56308-357-4.
School Librarianship: International Issues
and Perspectives
Edited by Ken Haycock. 1997.
International Assn. for School Librarianship.
LMC source, P.O. Box 720400, San Jose, CA
95172-0400. Email: [email protected]
ISBN 1-890861-22-7.
School Library Journal’s Best: A Reader for
Children’s, Young Adult & School Librarians
1997 Neal-Schuman ISBN1-555570-203-1.
Multimedia Activities for Students
Sorrow, Barbara Head
1996. McFarland & Co. Inc., Jefferson, NC
144p, US$22.50. Appendixes, glossary,
bibliography, index.
Written for Children: An Outline of
English-Language Children’s Literature
Townsend, John. 6th American ed.
1996. Scarecrow. ISBN 0-8108-3117-1.
Trust Your Children: Voices Against
Censorship in Children’s Literature
West, Mark (2nd ed.)
Joining up!
Take up a membership in
several wonderful, enriching
associations that need you!
International Association of
School Librarianship
Personal membership is open to all people who are
interested in the development of school libraries and
school library media programmes. Fees: US$50
Suite 300, Box 34069, Seattle,
WA 98124-1069, USA Fax: 604-925-0566
Website: http://www.hi.is/~anne/
joiniasl.html
American Library Association
and AASL
Basic dues are US$60 for International Librarians.
These are the separate associations within ALA that
relate to Teacher-Librarians: American Association
of School Librarians US$40.
ALA Membership Services
50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611 USA
(312) 944-6780 or 1-800-545-2433
Fax: (312) 944-2641
Website: http://www.ala.org/booklist
Young Adult Library Services
Association
US$40. Website: http://www.ala.org/
Canadian Library Assoc. &
Canadian School Library Assoc.
CSLA Associate Memberships are only open to those
members of the school library community, who are
members of both a provincial school library association and a professional organization affiliated
with the Canadian Teachers’ Federation or other
professional groups as approved by CLA. CSLA Associate members enjoy a number of membership benefits. The fee at present is $60 per year plus an additional charge for School Libraries in Canada.
Information about full membership in CLA/CSLA:
http://www.cla.amlibs.ca/member.htm
200 Elgin Street, Suite 602,
Ottawa, ON K2P 1L5
http://www.cla.amlibs.ca/cslaform.htm
Association for TeacherLibrarianship in Canada
Membership cost is $40 in Canada. Student/retired
memberships: $20 (within Canada). GST exempt.
PO Box 9, Pouch Cove, NF AOA 3LO
Website: http://www.sbe.saskatoon.sk.ca/
~atlc/home.htm#top
1997. Neal Schuman. ISBN 1-555-251-1.
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A Bibliography:
Brain
Compatible
Learning
Making Connections: Teaching &
The Human Brain
Caine, R. & Caine, G.
(I994) Addison Wesley. ISBN 0 201 49088 9
Education on the Edge of Possibility
(1997) ASCD, 1250 N Pitt St., Alexandria, Va
22314 1453 USA. ISBN 0 87120 282 4
Unleashing the Power of Perceptual Change:
The Potential of Brain-Based Teaching
(1997) ASCD. ISBN 0 87120 287 5
Mindshifts: A Brain Based Process For
Reconstructing Schools & Renewing Education
Caine, Geoffrey, Caine, Renate Nummela,
Crowell, Sam
(1994) Zephyr Press. ISBN 1 56976 007 1
How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence,
Then and Now
Calvin, William H.
(1996) BasicBooks. ISBN 0 465 07277 1
Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your
Child’s Intelligence, Creativity & Healthy
Emotions From Birth Through Adolescence
Diamond, Marian & Hopson, Janet
(1998) Dutton. ISBN 0 525 94308 0
Emotional Intelligence
Goleman, Daniel
(1995) Bantam Books. ISBN 0 553 37506 7
The Growth of the Mind & the Endangered
Origins of Intelligence
Greenspan, Stanley I.
(1997) Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0 201 48302 5
The Owner’s Manual for the Brain: Everyday
Applications From Mind-brain Research
Howard, Pierce J.
(1994) Leornian Press. ISBN 0 9636389 0 4
Brain-Based Learning & Teaching
Jensen, Eric
(1995) Turning Point. ISBN 0 9637832 1 1
Brain Compatible Strategies
Jensen, Eric
Completing the Puzzle: The Brain-Based
Approach
Jensen, Eric
(1996) Turning Point. ISBN 9637832 5 4
Super Teaching: Success Strategies That Bring Out
The Best in Both You & Your Students
Jensen, Eric
The Learning Brain
Jensen, Eric
(I994) Turning Point. ISBN 0 9637 832 2 X
Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of
Learnable Intelligence
Perkins, David
(1995) The Free Press. ISBN 0 02 925212 1
Successful Intelligence: How Practical & Creative
Intelligence
Sternberg, Robert J.
(1996) Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0 684 81410 2
A Celebration of Neurons: An Educator’s Guide
to the Human Brain
Sylwester, Robert
(1995) Bantam Books. ISBN 0 553 37506 7
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Technology & Change Resources
for Leaders in Education
From “The Indispensable Librarian” by Doug Johnson
Books
Technology Planning
Baule, S. Linworth. 1997.
CD-ROM for Schools
Berger, P. Online. 1994.
The Writing Space
Bolter, J. Lawrence Erlbaum. 1991.
Educational Technology: Best Practices
Bozeman, W. Eye on Education. 1995.
Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness
& Reality
Crawford, W. ALA. 1995.
Developing a Vision: Strategic Planning and
the Library Media Specialist
Crowley, J. Greenwood. 1994.
Information Problem-Solving
Eisenberg, M. Ablex. 1990.
Smart Schools, Smart Kids
Fiske, E. Touchstone. 1992.
Unschooled Mind
Gardner, H. Basic. 1993.
The Road Ahead
Gates, B. Penguin. 1996.
Digital Literacy
Gilster, P. Wiley. 1977.
Building Influence for the School Librarian
Hartzell, G. Linworth. 1994.
Soul of a New Machine
Kidder, T. Avon. 1995.
Planningfor Technology: A Guidebook for
School Administrators
Lumley, D. Scholastic. 1993.
Visual Literacy
Messaris, P. Westview Press. 1994.
The Internet Resource Directory for K-12
Teachers and Librarians
Miller, E. Libraries Unlimited. 1994.
School Library Media Annual
Morris, B. Libraries Unlimited. Annual Pub.
Global Paradox
Naisbitt, J. Morrow. 1994.
Being Digital
Negroponte, N. Knopf. 1995.
Design (Pyschology) of Everyday Things
Norman, D. Harper. 1988.
Things that Make us Smart
Addison 1994. Office of Teachers and Technology GPO 1995.
Technology Assessment
Searching Electronic Resources
Pappas, M. Linworth. 1996.
A Bibliography of ‘Must Reads”
Geitgey, G & Jefferson, C.
Saber-tooth Curriculum
Peddiwell, J. McGraw-Hill. 1959.
School’s Out
Perelman, L. Avon. 1993.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Postman, N. Viking. 1986.
Disappearance of Childhood
Vintage. 1994.
Technopoly
Vintage. 1993.
Video Kids
Provenzo, E. Harvard U. 1991.
Virtual Community
Rheingold, H. Harperperennial. 1994.
Copyright for Schools, 2nd ed.
Simpson, C. Linworth. 1997.
Internet for Schools, 2nd ed.
Simpson, C. &McElmeel, S. Linworth. 1997.
Digital Economy
Tapscott, D. McGraw-Hill. 1995.
Creating a New Civilization
Toffler, A. Turner. 1995.
Life on the Screen
Turkle, S. Simon & Schuster. 1995.
The Internet for Teachers
Williams, B. IDG. 1996.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Wurman, R. Bantam. 1992.
Information Anxiety
Bantam. 1990.
In the Age of the Smart Machine
Zuboff, S. Basic Books. 1989.
Magazines
Cable in the Classroom
Electronic Learning
Electronic School
Supplement to The Executive Educator
Internet World
Learning and Leading With Technology
(Computer Teacher)
MultiMedia Schools
Technology and Learning
Technology Connection
Studies & Guides
Apple ACOT Research
http:Hed.info.apple.com/education/
Designing Learning & Technology for
Educational Reform
NCREL. 1994.
Educating Jessica’s Generation
Josten Company.
Follett CD-ROM Guide
Guide to Library Automation:
A Step-by-Step Approach
2nd ed. Winnebago Software Company.
Periodicals for Teacher-Librarians
AAAS Science Books & Films
American Assn. for the Advancement of Science
1333 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA.
Chickona Royster (202) 326-6454
Email: [email protected] US$40
Adbusters: Journal of Mental
Environment
The Media Foundation, 1243 W. 7th Ave.,
Vancouver, BC V6H 1B7
(604) 736-9401 Fax: (604) 737-6021.
Website: www.adbusters.org
Appraisal: Science books for
Young People
Presents reviews on science books presented by both
scientist or expert and a librarian. Orders to:
Appraisal/Northwestern University, 403 Richards
Hall, Boston, MA 02115. US$29.95
Big 6 Newsletter: Teaching
Technology & Information Skills
Linworth Publishing Inc.
480 E. Wilson Bridge Rd., Ste. L,
Worthington, OH 43085-2372 USA
(614) 436-7107 Fax: (614) 436-9490
Email: [email protected] · www.linworth.com
6 per annum. US$55.
Book Links - Connecting Books,
Libraries & Classrooms
434 W. Downer, Aurora, IL 60506 USA
http://www.ala.org/BookLinks.
6 per annum. US$24.95.
Book Report: The Journal for Junior
& Senior High School Librarians
(incorporating Technology Connection)
This title has been radically redesigned and now
incorporates TC. Linworth Publishing,
(614) 436-7107 Fax: (614) 436-9490
Bookbird. Vienna. 5 per annum. US$44.
Bookbird
Vienna. International Board on Books for Young
People. International Institute for Children’s,
Juvenile and Popular Literature. US$55.
Booklist (ALA Publication)
434 W. Downer, Aurora, IL 60506 USA
(630) 892-7465 http://www.ala.org/booklist
Twice monthly. US$80
Bookmark, The
(BC Teacher-Librarians Assn.)
BCTF, 100-550 W. 6th Ave., Vancouver, BC
V5Z 4P2. (604) 871-2283. http://www.bctf.bc.ca
4 issues per year. $61.26
Cable in the Classroom
Program guide for free tv programs from
Canadaian cable companies.
M2 Communications, 108 - 93 Lombard Ave.,
Winnipeg, MB R3B 3B1. 3 per annum. $8.50
CMC News: Computers & the
Media Center
515 Oak St. N., Cannon Falls, MN 55009 USA
(507) 263-3711
Quarterly. US$14
Computers in Libraries: Complete
Coverage of Library Information
Technology
Today Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ
08055-8750 USA. (609) 654-6266 Fax: (609)
654-4309. Email: [email protected]
http://www.infotoday.com
10 per annum. US$99.95
Emergency Librarian
(see Teacher Librarian)
Feliciter
Publication of the Canadian Library Assn.
Ottawa, ON (613) 232-9625, Ext.321
Fax: (613) 563-9895
10 per annum. Fee: CLA membership.
From Now On
A free electronic journal produced by Jamie
MacKenzie in Bellingham, WA. Subscribe to the
journal so that it is automatically sent to your
email: http://fromnowon.org/JM/subscribe.html
Website http://fromnowon.org
Horn Book: About Books for
Children & Young Adults
11 Beacon St., Ste. 1000, Boston, MA 2108
1-800-325-1170. ISSN 0018-5078
http://www.hbook.com. 6 Per annum. US$50.
Impact
(Association for Teacher-Librarianship in Canada)
Membership newsletter.
Kliatt Reviews of Selected Books,
Educational Software & Audiobooks
33 Bay Street Rd., Wellesley, MA 2481
(781) 237-7577 6 per annum. US$41.
Knowledge Quest: Journal of the
American Assn. of School Librarians
Chicago, IL: American Library Assn., c1997.
http://www.ala.org/aasl. 5 per annum. US$40.
Library Talk: The Magazine for
Elementary School Librarians
Linworth Publishing, 480 E. Wilson Bridge Rd.,
Ste. L, Worthington, OH 43085-2372
Bimonthly. US$60.
Quill & Quire: Canada’s Magazine
of Book News and Reviews
35 Riviera Dr., Markham, ON L3R 8N4
(905) 946-0406 Fax: (905) 946-0410
Monthly. $59.95 Email: [email protected]
Resource Links: Connecting
Classrooms, Libraries & Canadian
Learning
Publication of the ATLC.
P.O. Box 9, Pouch Cove, NF A0A 3L0
(709) 335-2394 Fax: (709) 335-2394
Email: resourcelinks@nfld
5 per annum. $39 (ATLC members $29.95)
School Librarian
The School Library Association, United Kingdom.
The journal offers an excellent portrait of school
libraries and teacher-librarianship in Britain along
with an excellent reviews section.
SLA, Liden Library, Barrington Close, Linden,
Swindon, SN3 5HF Email: [email protected]
4 per annum. £30.
School Libraries in Canada
Publication of the Canadian School Library Assn.
200 Elgin St., Ste.602, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L5
4 per annum. $25 members; $35 nonmembers.
School Library Journal
1-800-456-9409 Fax: (303) 604-1464
P.O. Box 57559, Boulder, CO 80322-7559
http://www.slj.com
ISSN 0362-8930. 12 per annum. US$120.
School Library Media Quarterly
Publication of the Amercian Assn. of School
Librarians. Only available online.
www.ala.org/aasl/SLMQ
School Library Media Activities
Monthly
17 E. Henrietta St., Baltimore, MD 21230-3910
(410) 685-8621
ISSN 0889-9371. 11 per annum. US$54.
School Library Media Quarterly
www.ala.org/aasl/SLMQ
Teacher-Librarian
(formerly Emergency Librarian)
101-1001 W. Broadway, Ste.343, Vancouver,
BC V6H 4E4. Email: [email protected]
5 issues. $45.00 plus 7% GST
Teacher-Librarian Today
Edmonton, AB: Alberta Teachers Assn. c1995
Technology Connection: The
Magazine for School Media &
Technology
Linworth Publishing Inc.
(614) 436-7107 Fax: (614) 436-9490
Technos: Quarterly for Education
& Technology
Technos Press, Bloomington, IN
(812) 339-2203 Ext.219 Fax: (812) 333-4218
Email: [email protected]. http://www.technos.net
4 per annum. US$32.
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Canadian Library Association
Position Statements
Also see “Qualifications for Library Technicians Working in School Systems”
ii Information as a commodity, which should be
www.cla.amlibs.ca
Information &
Telecommunication
Access Principles
The convergence of computers and high-speed
telecommunication networks provides increased
opportunity for public access to information and
participation in the democratic processes of society. Conversely, access and participation could be
reduced through the imposition of user fees and
centralized control. Librarians, libraries, and library
organizations will work to assure the “public good”
is represented in all government and corporate initiatives for information dissemination and telecommunications policy. Cooperation with other organizations and public interest groups to protect social interests will strengthen the efforts of the library community.
All people have the right to:
1. Literacy
· The opportunity to learn to read and write is
fundamental for all people. Basic literacy includes
numeracy and information literacy. Literacy is
an important requirement for participating in the
economic, social, cultural and political life of the
country.
· Everyone should have the opportunity to acquire
the necessary skills to find and use information.
2. Universal
· Access to information and telecommunication
network services should be available and afford
able to all, regardless of factors such as age,
religion, ability, gender, sexual orientation,
social and political views, national origin,
economic status, location and information
literacy.
· Diverse sources of information should be
developed through encouraging non-profit
organizations and community groups to
provide information and opinions and by
preventing information monopolies.
3. Communicate
· Individuals have the right to create, exchange,
access, and receive the widest range of ideas,
information and, images.
· Individuals should have the right to choose what
information to receive and what not to receive
and what information to give and not give,
including that which others may find
objectionable.
4. Public Space on the
Telecommunications Network
· Government information is fundamental to
participation in the democratic process and
should therefore be accessible in a current,
timely, accurate and comprehensive manner.
· Access to government information should be
guaranteed through active programs of
dissemination.
· Opportunities to communicate electronically
with elected and appointed government
representatives is a vital extension of
democracy.
· Government policy should encourage and
support archiving of information in support of
the collective human memory.
· Government policies should encourage and
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support the development of community
information networks, such as Freenets.
Government policies should provide resources
for libraries and other community organizations
to make electronic access to information
available and to provide training to the public in
the use of such technology.
Individuals have the right to know the positive
and negative personal and social consequences
of the introduction of information technology.
Individuals have the right to a safe ergonomically-sound environment and appropriate
training or re-training when new technologies
are introduced.
Social policies accompanying the introduction
of new andmore efficient information technologies must emphasize benefits to the whole
population, such as greater leisure time and
shorter work weeks, rather than narrow
economic interests.
5. Privacy
· Privacy of personal information should be
carefully protected and extended.
· Personal data collected should be limited to the
minimum necessary and only after the prior
written approval of the individual affected.
· Personal information collected for one purpose
cannot be traded or sold without the express
written permission of the individual affected.
· Individuals should have the right to examine
personal information collected by government
and corporations and have mistakes corrected
at no charge.
Citizenship Access to
Information Data Banks Right to Privacy
Rapid advancements in computer and communications technology, the growth of information use
in data services and the economic utility of information are factors which influence two equally important but opposing public interests. The first is
the fundamental right of individuals to preserve
their privacy by limiting the release of any information which personally concerns them. The second is the necessity for free access to information
in order to ensure an informed citizenry in an information rich country.
Therefore, to protect the personal rights and privacy of users to consult and borrow library materials without prejudice, the Canadian Library Association endorses the following policy:
That names of library users not be released to
any person, institution, association or agency for
any reasons save as may be legally required by Federal or Provincial laws.
In order to ensure that universal access to the
highest level of organized information is not replaced by a restricted user pay process, CLA recognizes that:
All people have the right to:
i In the sophisticated information age in which
Canadians live, the value of information lies not in
the knowing, but in the use of it.
regarded as a public good, is of too great a cost for
the individual to fund personally.
iii CLA has a commitment to the philosophy of
“open availability to information as a tool of economic and social development”.
Statement on Internet Access
This statement is intended to be considered in
tandem with both the CLA Statement on Intellectual Freedom (1985) and the CLA Statement on
Information and Telecommunication Access Principles (1994). The principles enunciated in those
statements apply to issues of intellectual freedom
and public access to the Internet in libraries and
provide guidance in this area.
In addition, CLA encourages libraries:
· to incorporate Internet use principles into overall policies on access to library resources, including time, place, and manner restrictions on Internet use, and user behaviour policies.
· to create library Web pages consistent with resource priorities that point to appropriately reviewed sites both for general use and for use by
children.
· to educate their publics about intellectual freedom principles and the role of libraries in facilitating access to resources in various forms of media
including the Internet.
· to provide Internet information and training consistent with resource priorities.
Intellectual Freedom
All persons in Canada have the fundamental
right, as embodied in the nation’s Bill of Rights and
the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to
have access to all expressions of knowledge, creativity and intellectual activity, and to express their
thoughts publicly. This right to intellectual freedom, under the law, is essential to the health and
development of Canadian society.
Libraries have a basic responsibility for the
development and maintenance of intellectual freedom.
It is the responsibility of libraries to guarantee
and facilitate access to all expressions of knowledge and intellectual activity, including those which
some elements of society may consider to be unconventional, unpopular or unacceptable. To this
end, libraries shall acquire and make available the
widest variety of materials.
It is the responsibility of libraries to guarantee
the right of free expression by making available all
the library’s public facilities and services to all individuals and groups who need them.
Libraries should resist all efforts to limit the
exercise of these responsibilities while recognizing
the right of criticism by individuals and groups.
Both employees and employers in libraries have
a duty, in addition to their institutional responsibilities, to uphold these principles.
With permission, Canadian Library Assocation
When The Censor
Comes Forward
Foreword by June Callwood
The Book and Periodical Council is
proud to present this guide for librarians,
teachers, booksellers and others who face
righteous-minded censors, usually without warning or time to prepare.
In addition to the helpful advice contained in this small volume, it is useful to
remember that the freedom of speech
which most needs protection is the
speech with which you do not agree and
may even abhor. In comparison with that
challenge, defending the freedom of
speech in a literary classic is a snap.
Table of Contents
1. Foreword by June Callwood
2. Introduction
•Definitions
•How to spot a would-be censor
3. Heading them off at the pass
4. When the censor comes
•Canada Customs Detentions & Seizures
•Police Raids/Obscenity Charges
5. Appendices
•A. Canadian Library Association
Intellectual Freedom Position Statement
•B. Sample Wording for Material
Selection Policies
•C. Sample Reconsideration Form
•D. Sample Written Objection Policy
•E. Sample Bookstore Complaint
Procedure
•F. Report the Incident to the BPC
•G. Who Ya Gonna Call?
•H. Other Resources
Student’s Bill of
Information Rights
Our students face an information-rich future in which change will be one of
the few constants of their life experience. Their ability to adapt and fulfil their
individual potentials will require them to be life-long learners and independent
decision-makers.
We believe that all students should have the opportunity to:
Master the skills needed to access information in print, non-print and
electronic sources;
Understand and master effective research processes and reporting skills;
Develop the ability to evaluate, extract, synthesize and utilize information
from
a variety of sources and media;
Utilize data and information to expand their own knowledge base;
Explore the creative use of information;
Develop an understanding of our Canadian cultural heritage and history,
as well as cultures and histories of other societies;
Enhance their own self knowledge through developing a love of reading;
Explore the values and beliefs of others by reading world literature;
Think critically, and make decisions based on personal needs and values
as well as upon factual evidence; and
Actively participate in decisions about their own learning.
Information is a vital component in the development of critical thought and independent decision-making, and, consequently, access to the ever-increasing body of
available information is vital to the development of students’ potentials.
We believe that all students should have the right to:
Access a wide range of print, non-print and electronic learning resources
at an appropriate level;
Explore materials expressing a variety of opinions and perspectives; and
Freely choose reading, viewing and listening materials for recreational
and study purposes.
(From the Association for Teacher-librarianship in Canada document, Students’ Information
Literacy Needs in the 21st Century. A copy of the document can be purchased from ATLC.)
Website:
http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/
chronicle/whattodo.html
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1998 Basic Resources For Media Literacy
Prepared by Barry Duncan & John Pungente SJ, Association for Media Literacy.
Additions to the SLIC Spring 1997 Resource List.
This resource list was originally published in the Spring 1997 issue of
SLIC. Books and videos listed here are
additions to the original list.
Books:
Primary Media Education
Bazalgette, Cary (Editor)
British Film Institute, 1989. BFI, 21 Stephen
St., London, W1P 2LN, England
Periodicals
Adbusters
1243 W. 7th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6H 1B7
Entertainment Weekly
PO Box 60890, Tampa, FL 33660-0890,
USA (1-800-828-6882)
Telemedium
120 E. Wilson St., Madison, WI 53703 USA
TV Networks &
Government Agencies
Responding to Media Violence
Carere, Sharon (Editor)
Starting Points for Classroom Practice. K-6.
Metropolitan Toronto School Board, 1995.
Creating Ever-Cool
Del Vecchio, Gene
Gretna,LA: Pelican, 1997.
Mondo Canuck: Popular Culture
in Canada
Diamond, Greig and Pevere, Geoff
Toronto: Prentice Hall,1996.
Disturbing Pleasures: Learning
Popular Culture
Giroux, Henry
London: Routledge, 1994.
Bright Ideas: Media Education
Harpley, Avril
UK: Scholastic, 1990.
Teaching the Media: International
Perspectives
Hart, Andrew (Editor)
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, NJ 1998.
Virtuous Reality
Katz, Jon
New York: Random House, 1997.
Being Digital
Negroponte, Nicholas
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1995.
77 W. 66th St., 9th Fl., New York,
NY 10023 USA · (212) 456-1725
CBC
Box 500, Stn.A, Toronto,
ON M5W 1E6 · (416) 205-3351
CBS
51 West 52nd St., New York, NY 10019
USA · (212) 975-1556
CITY/Much Music
Booth, David, Lewis, Kathy et al.
Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Source For All Media Books
TheatreBooks, 11 St. Thomas St., Toronto,
ON M5S 2B7 (416) 922-7175
Toll-Free: 1-800-361-3414
Fax: (416) 922-0379 (accept major credit
cards and purchase orders.)
Has links to media literacy sites around the world.
Website: http://interact.uoregon.edu/
MediaLit/Homepage
Scanning The Movies
Website: http://www.bravo.ca/events/
scanningthemovies
Summit 2000
World media literacy conference in Toronto, May
2000. Website: http://www.summit2000.net
Media Groups
Alliance For Children & Television
1002 - 60 St. Clair Ave. E.,
Toronto, ON M4T 1N5
(416) 515-0466 Fax: (416) 515-0467
Jesuit Communication Project
Fox Broadcasting Co.
Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA, 90213 USA
Global
81 Barber Greene Rd., Don Mills,
ON M3C 2A2 · (416) 446-5311
NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York,
NY 10020 USA · (212) 664-2074.
PBS
1320 Braddock Pl., Alexandria, VA 223141698 USA · 1-800-328-7271.
Information Inequality
Media Sense 4, 5, & 6
The University of Oregon Website
PO Box 300, Agincourt Postal Stn.,
Agincourt, ON M1S 3C6
(416) 595-4100
CTV
TVOntario
Media Text Books
1500 Merivale Rd. 3rd Fl.,
Ottawa, ON K2E 6Z5
(613) 224-7721 Fax: (613) 224-1958
Website: http://www.schoolnet.ca/medianet
Cable in the Cassroom
Radio Canada
Schiller, Herbert
London: Routledge, 1996.
The Media Awareness Network
299 Queen St. W., Toronto,
ON M5V 2Z5 · (416) 591-5757
Playing the Future: How Kid’s Culture Can
Teach Us To Thrive in an Age of Chaos
Rushkoff, Douglas
New York: Harper Colllins, 1996.
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ABC
The Internet & CD ROMs
CP 6000, Montreal, QC H3C 3A8
(514) 597-5970
2180 Yonge St., Toronto, ON M4S 2B9
(416) 484-2600.
YTV
64 Jefferson Ave., Toronto,
ON M6K 3H3 · (416) 534-1191
CRTC, Public Affairs
Ottawa, ON K1A 0N2 · (613) 997-0313
Federal Communications Commission
Complaints & Investigations Office
2025 M Street N.W., Room 8210,
Washington, DC USA 20554.
1030 - 360 Albert St., Ottawa,
ON K1R 7X7 · (613) 233-3033
Website: http://www.cableducation.ca
1002 - 60 St. Clair Ave. E.,Toronto, ON
(416) 515-0466 Fax: (416) 515-0467
Resource centre and library for Media Literacy
offers workshops and presentations Newsletter
“Clipboard” - $15 a year.
Media Awareness Network
(comprehensive media literacy clearinghouse)
(613) 241-9060 Fax: (613) 241-9092
Website: http://www.schoolnet.ca/
medianet
Media Foundation (Publisher of Adbusters)
1243 W. 7th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6H 1B7
(604) 736-9401 Fax: (604) 737-6021
Media Watch
204 - 517 Wellington St. W.,
Toronto, ON M5W 2G5
(416) 408-2065 Fax: (416) 408-2069
Video Resources
The Ad & The Ego
A 60 minute history and study of advertising.
1996 California Newsreel.
149 - 9th St., Ste.420, San Francisco, CA
94103 USA · (415) 621-6196
TV & Me
Targeted at students between ages nine & twelve,
the kit is a combination of video - with PSA’s from
Concerned Children’s Advertisers and study guide
for classroom use.
Concerned Children’s Advertisers
2300 Yonge St., Ste. 804, PO Box 2432,
Toronto, ON M4P 1E4
(416) 484-0871 Fax: (416) 484-6564
Cameo Members
Canadian Assoc. for
Media Education in BC
Dan Blake, Curriculum & Instructional
Services Ctr. (CISC)
7532-134A St., Surrey, BC V3W 7J1
(604) 590 2255 Fax: (604) 590 2588
On site Email:
[email protected]
Alberta Assoc. for Media Awareness
Sharon McCann, Film Classification
Serv., Alberta Community Development
Beaver House, 5th Fl., 10158 - 103 St.,
Edmonton, AB T5J OX6
(403) 427-2006 Fax: (403) 427-0195
or: [email protected]
Media Literacy Saskatchewan
Bob Pace, Robert Usher Collegiate
1414 - 9th Ave. N., Regina, SK S4R 8B1
(306) 791-8435 Fax: (306) 791-8443
Manitoba Assoc. for Media Literacy
Brian Murphy, St. Paul’s High School
2200 Grant Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3P OP8
(204) 831-2300 Fax: (204) 831-2340
Assocation for Media Literacy Ontario
Barry Duncan, SEE School
40 McArthur St., Weston, ON M9P 3M7
(416) 394-6992 Fax: (416) 394-6991
Jesuit Communication Project
John Pungente, Jesuit Comm. Project
1002- 60 St. Clair Ave. E., Toronto,
ON M4T 1N5
(416) 515-0466 Fax: (416) 515-0467
JCP Homepage: http://interact.
uoregon.edu/MediaLit/FA/JCP/index.html
Assoc. for Media Education Quebec
Lee Rother, Lake of Two Mountains School
2105 Guy St., Deux Montaignes, PQ J7R 1W6
(514) 491-1000 Fax: (514) 491-6862
Assoc. for Media Literacy Nova Scotia
Trudie Richards, Assistant Professor
Mount Saint Vincent University
166 Bedford Hwy., Halifax, NS B3M 2J6
(902) 457-6210 Fax: (902) 457-1216
NASA at 40
Some Sources for
Library Posters
& Art Prints
(312) 944-6780 or 1-800-545-2433
Fax: (312) 944-2641
Website: http://www.ala.org
Argus (Posters)
Distributed in Canada by Aaron Communications.
11 Henegan Road, PO Box 5000,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0
1-800-463-8739
Website: www.argusposters.com
Canadian School Library
Association (Posters)
200 Elgin St., Ste. 602, Ottawa,
ON K2P 1L5
Crystal Productions (Art Prints)
Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025-6159 USA
1-800-255-8629
Website: www.crystalproductions.com
Fitzhenry & Whiteside (Art Prints)
195 Allstate Parkway, Markham,
ON L3R 4T8 (416) 477-0030
1-800-387-9776 Fax: (416) 477-9179
McGraw Hill Ryerson (Art Prints.
Also handle SRA Art Connections)
300 Water St., Whitby, ON L1N 9B6
1-800-565-5758 Toronto: (905) 428-2222
Fax: 1-800-463-5885 or (905)-430-5203
Website: www.mcgrawhill.ca
OLA Promotional Materials
(Posters, Buttons, etc.)
Ontario Library Association
Website: www.ola.amlibs.ca/promo.html
Pinetree Media Ltd. (Posters)
PO Box 369, Milton, ON L9T 4Y9
1-800-567-6150 Fax: (905) 878-7114
Sax of Canada
9515 Montrose Rd., PO Box 331,
Niagara Falls, ON L2E 6T3
1-800-884-3963 Fax: (905) 356-3700
Website: www.artsupplies.com
School Services of Canada
(Art Prints)
66 Portland St., Toronto, ON M5V 2M8
1-800-387-2084 Toronto: (416) 703-0900
Fax: (416) 703-9001
http://www.nytimes.com/library/
national.science/nasa.index.html
Spectrum Educational Supplies
Historic articles, dramatic video and pho- Ltd. (Art Prints)
tos from the archives of The Times recall the
high points and low points of NASA’s four
decades of space exploration.
125 Mary St., Aurora, ON L4G 1G3
1-800-668-0600 Fax: 1-800-668-0600
Atlases/CDs
School Library Journal
Recommendations: May, 1998
Children’s Atlases
Early Elementary
Picture Reference Atlas
World Book, 1996. 48p. ISBN 0716617455
Elementary
Picture Atlas of Our World
National Geographic. Revised edition. 1993.
276p. ISBN 0870449605
General Atlases (under $50)
Elementary-High School
(Grades 3 & Up)
First Choice:
Goode’s World Atlas
Rand McNally. 19th Ed. 1995. 372p.
ISBN: 0528839985
Second Choice:
Times Atlas of the World
Second Family Edition
Times Books, 1997.143p. ISBN: 0812929497
OR Oxford’s Concise Atlas of the World
Oxford. 4th Ed. 1997, 360p. ISBN: 019521370X
General Atlases (over $50)
Upper Elementary-High School
(Grades 6 & Up)
First Choices:
Atlas of the World
Oxford. 5th Ed. 1997. 288p. ISBN:0195213688
OR Hammond Atlas of the World
Hammond. 2nd Ed. 1998. 312p.
ISBN: 08437110701
High School and Up
First Choice:
Times Atlas of the World
Times Books, 9th Comprehensive Ed. 1994.
218p. ISBN: 08129920775
Second Choice:
New International Atlas
Rand McNally. 25th Anniversary Edition. 1998
Revised Ed. 560p. ISBN: 0528838083
If Money is Tight
(High School & Up)
First Choice:
Times Atlas of the World Concise Edition
Times Books. 7th Edition. 1995. 324p.
ISBN:0812926048
Second Choice:
National Geographic Atlas of the World
Revised 6th Ed. National Geographic. 1995.
413p. ISBN: 079223038
CD ROM
Elementary (Grades 1 to 4)
Cartopedia: the Ultimate World Reference
Atlas. Version 1.0
Dorling Kindersley. 1995. ISBN: 0789400456
Upper Elementary/High School
First Choice:
New Millennium World Atlas Deluxe
Rand McNally. 1998. ISBN: 0528520547
Close Second:
Encarta Virtual Globe
Microsoft. 1998 Edition. ISBN: 1572317779/
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Middle Ages - Facts, Fiction, Legend
Fiction/Novel Study
Battle for the Castle
Winthrop, Elizabeth
(3-7) $ 044040942X
Sequel to “Castle in the attic” this novel
features the further adventures of young
William when he decides to magically reenter the medieval world once more and help
Sir Jim and the villagers against a new foe.
Beduin’s Gazelle
Temple, Frances
(7up) 0064406695
A romantic tale of life in the desert in medieval times, when Atiyah and his beloved
Halima are separated, and Atiyah must find
Halima before she is forced to marry a powerful sheik and live in his harem.
Castle in The Attic
Winthrop, Elizabeth
(3-7) 0440409411
Two boys discover that the miniature castle up in the attic is magic, and that they
have the ability to enter the castle and join
a medieval family, Sir James and his entourage. A fast moving adventure story.
Catherine, Called Birdy
Cushman, Karen
(7up) 0064405842
An amusing look at life in the Middle Ages
is provided by this story of Catherine, whose
father is determined to marry her off to a
rich man to restore the fortunes of his family - which Catherine resists with all the wit
and wile she can muster.
Children of Winter
Doherty, Berlie
(4up) 0749718455
Two British children caught in a winter
storm are pulled back into history and the
time of the Plague..
Door in the Wall
De Angeli, Marguerite
(5-7) 0440402832
The Newbery Award-winning novel set in
the Middle Ages. A classic tale of medieval
life.
Dove and Sword
Garden, Nancy
(7up) 059092949
The gripping story of Joan of Arc is told
through the viewpoint of Joan’s longtime
friend, Gabrielle, who accompanies Joan
from Domremy, her home town, through the
battles, describing Joan of Arc and her visions, actions on the battlefield, and her
subsequent trial.
Fie, Bed and Bone
Branford, Henrietta
(5-9) 0763603384
In 1381 in England, a hunting dog recounts
what happens to his beloved master, Rufus,
and their family during the peasant’s rebellion, led by Wat Tyler and the preacher John
Ball. Great to read aloud a chapter at a time.
Soon to be issued as a paperback.
Garth and the Mermaid Smucker, Barbara
(3-7) 0140361685
Garth is involved in a serious car crash, and
finds himself transported back in time in he
14th century, where, as a peasant lad he is
subjected to rough and callous treatment.
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A Multimedia Resource List
Selected by Shirley Lewis
National Book Services
Goblins in the Castle
Coville, Bruce
(3-6) 0671727117
A shivery tale told by an orphan boy who
lives in the castle at Toad-in-a cage, and who
wonders what lurks in the locked towers.
Even the most reluctant reader can be drawn
into this easy to read medieval tale.
King’s Shadow
Alder, Elizabeth
(6up) 0440220114
The story of King Alfred of England is told
through the eyes of his manservant, Evyn.
Readers will learn how difficult and harsh
life was in Anglo-Saxon times. A School Library Journal best book of the year, 1995.
Knights of the Kitchen Table Scieszka, Jon
(3-6) 0140346031
Another goofy adventure in the Time Warp
Trio adventures, this features Joe, Fred and
Sam who travel back in time to King
Arthur’s court where they battle dragons,
and giants, and win the displeasure of the
Black Knight.
Reluctant Readers
Midwife’s Apprentice
Cushman, Karen
(5up) 006440630X
A young girl, Beetle,cast off by society, is
taken in by a midwife and trained as an apprentice. Gives a fine portrait of everyday
life in the middle ages, as well as creating a
fine characterization of a girl who gradually
learns how to fend for herself with the help
of a briskly confident mentor.
Minstrel in the Tower
Skurzynski, Gloria
(2-3) 0394895983
A Stepping Stone book, reading level 2.8.,
this fast moving tale follows the adventures
of Roger and Alice, two children whose father is killed in the Crusades, and whose
mother has fallen ill. When they set out to
find help from their baron uncle, they are
kidnapped by highwaymen and locked in a
tower. Set in 1195.
Parcel of Patterns
Walsh, Jill Paton
(7up) 0140362592
A girl describes the devastation that her village endures when the Black Death breaks
out in her small village. For better readers.
Ramsay Scallop
Temple, Frances
(7up) 0064406016
Better readers will get a fine view of medieval life when they join a young couple,
Elenor and Thomas on a pilgramage in England in 1299.
Search for Delicious
Babbitt, Natalie
(10up) 0374465363
A medieval tale with a twist of sly humour
and fantasy for better readers.
Shadows on a Sword
Bradford, Karleen
(7up) 0006480543
Sequel to “There will be wolves” this novel
focuses on the young knight Theobald, who
longs to go on a Crusade - but has his eyes
opened once he actually gets in to battle.
Song of the Gargoyle Snyder, Zilpha Keatl
(3-7) 0440408989
The son of the court jester and troubadour
discovers that his father has suddenly disappeared. His search for his father leads him
through cities and towns and the countryside of the Middle Ages.
There Will Be Wolves
Bradford, Karleen
(7up) 0006479383
Ursula, who is learning the art of healing is
accused of witchcraft, and in order to escape death she marches as a Pilgrim on a
Crusade. Paints a medieval tapestry of the
harrowing experiences that occurred during
the Crusades.
Young Joan: A Novel
Dana, Barbara
(5up) 006440661X
A novelized biography of Joan of Arc, from
the time she experiences her first vision
until she leaves her home to set out on her
historic mission.
Middle Ages Research Material
Castle
Gravett, Christopher
(4up) 0773727701
A Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness history
book describing the architecture and daily
life in a medieval castle.
Castle Explorer (CD ROM) Gravett,
Christopher
(4up) 0789408910
Windows or MacIntosh. Featuring the illustrations of Stephen Biesty, this combines
interactive pictures, videos, panoramas, audios, pictures and text to describe daily life
in a medieval castle in 14th century Europe.
Castles
Wright, Rachel
(2-6) 0531141381
Discusses castles of the Middle Ages, with
instructions for creating models of castles
& related craft projects.
Crusades (Video)
(6up) 4 Vol. Set 0531141381
A History Channel program of 4 videos
hosted by Terry Jones, covering the 200 year
story of knights, chivalry and medieval civilisation. Approx. 50 min per video.
Day With a Noblewoman Pernoud, Regine
(5-7) 082251916X
Pictures and text describe the daily life in
medieval times of a woman of wealth and
rank in the Middle Ages.
A Day With a Troubadour Pernoud, Regine
(5-7) 0822519151
Describes in detailed picture and text the
daily life of a medieval troubadour during
the Middle Ages.
Destination: Castle (CD ROM)
(3-6) 1569261822 Hybrid Windows/Mac
Both a research and creative writing program, this introduces readers ages 6-12 to
the Medieval world and sets the framework
for writing a creative story about the Middle Ages. “Imagination Express” series
Food & Feasts in the Middle Ages
(3-7) 0750210273
Dawson, Imogen
Concentrates on medieval holidays & festivities, and the food and drink used in Europe during the Middle Ages.
Forts & Castles
Williams, Brian
(3-7) 0600584240
Describes the different kinds of medieval fortifications and the people who lived in them
during the Middle Ages.
Illuminations
Hunt, Jonathan
(All) 0689717008
Describes the monastic life & illuminated
medieval manuscripts created by monks and
religious orders during the Middle Ages. Notable illustrations describe the beauty and
scholarship of the illuminations.
Knight
Gravett, Christopher
(4up) 0773726683
An addition to the “Eyewitness” series, this
provides an authoritative overview of the
life of a Knight in the Middle Ages. Includes
authoritative information and many illustrations and diagrams.
Knight’s Handbook: How to Become a
Champion in Shining Armour
(4-7) 0590249703 Gravett, Christopher
Describes all aspects of a knight’s life - including directions for making a suit of armour, shield, catapult, etc.
Knights
Wright, Rachel
(2-6) 0531141632
Introduces chivalry and the Middle Ages
through crafts and instruction in making
medieval models.
Knights in Armor
Clare, John D., Ed.
(3-7) 0152013083
A photo-studded paperback introduction to
the life and times of a knight and his entourage in the Middle Ages.
Knights and Armor (Video)
(4up) 156501443X Approx. 50 min.
The code of chivalry, the medieval lifestyle,
and the medieval trappings are all described
in full colour.
Knights in Shining Armor Gibbons, Gail
(JK-3) 316309486
Gail Gibbons describes the medieval civilization with detailed drawings and information for younger readers.
Medieval Castle
MacDonald, Fiona
(5up) 0872262588
A handsome paperback in the “Inside Story”
series, this describes medieval castles and
life in the Middle Ages.
Medieval Life
Langley, Andrew
(4up) 0773729313
A rich overview of life in the Middle Ages,
from the lowest serf to the most noble family. An “Eyewitness” book.
Medieval Times
Mason, Antony
(3-7) 0689809522
Includes a fold-out gameboard.
Stephen Biesty’s Cross-sections: Castle
(3up) 0590243462
Platt, Richard
Amazingly detailed full page drawings and
captions describe all the facets of a medieval castle and feudal life.
Till Year’s Good End
Nikola, Lisa W.
(2up) 0689800207
A month-by-month description of a serf’s
work in the medieval feudal system. Full
col. ill. on each page.
What Do We Know About the Middle Ages?
(5up) 0872263843
Howarth, Sarah
Descriptive text and many illustrations work
together to present a picture of everyday
medieval life in Europe.
Middle Ages Legends - King Arthur / Robin
Hood / Forestwife
Tomlinson, Theresa
(3up) 0440413508
An ALA Notable book of 1993, this adventure features Maid Marian and the outlaw
rebels of Sherwood Forest who were protesting the cruel laws of medieval England.
Legend of King Arthur
Pyle, Howard
(3up) 1561385034
Howard Pyle’s masterful prose describes the
medieval world of Camelot and the story of
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round
Table where chivalry ruled in the Middle
Ages of England.
Robin Hood
Ingle, Annie, Adaptor
(3up) 0679810455
A Bullseye Step Into Classics series book,
this adaptation of Howard Pyle’s story of
the medieval outlaws of Sherwood Forest is
written at the Gr. 2.4 reading level.
Young Arthur
San Souci, Robert
(2-6) 0679810455
The legend of how Arthur came to be king
with the help of the sword in the stone,
and Excalibur is told with glowing pictures
by J. Henterley.
Young Lancelot
San Souci, Robert
(2-6) 0385321716
The story of young, arrogant Lancelot and
his dream of becoming the world’s greatest
knight in King Arthur’s medieval court is
told with gusto and with expressive pictures
by J. Henterley.
Young Marian’s Adventures in Sherwood...
(3up) 0881662771
Mooser, Stephen
A “Girls to the Rescue” series addition, this
describes the exciting adventures of Maid
Marion when her father is imprisoned by
the Sherrif of Nottingham, and Marian joins
young Robin of Loxley in rescuing him.
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Checklist for Evaluating Multicultural Materials
Compiled by Willa Walsh
Here are some guidelines to check resource and library materials for bias and racism. Students also need to be
aware of these guidelines as they do their research and read materials. We must, as teacher librarians, point out
these critical features so that our students can better assess sources of information, and become critical thinkers.
1. Illustrations/Text
Are there stereotypes portrayed? Are the
complexities of the culture shown? Examples
of stereotypes would include the Mexican in
the sombrero, the domestic woman, naked
Natives, and the evil stepmother. Is the art a
mishmash of generic cultural designs?
] Does the source over-simplify the minority culture? Examples would include: “quaint”
clothing, the happy-go-lucky Black person.
] Are the minority characters (race or
gender) depicted realistically? Are there examples of tokenism? Examples could include: the
white-featured person with a tinted black skin,
or everyone of a certain race or ethnic group
looking exactly alike - not as genuine, distinct
individuals.
] Are minority characters shown in active
or passive roles? Examples of bias would
include: minorities always portrayed in
subservient roles or as being on-lookers at the
action of others.
] How do picture books depict minorities?
For example, are children shown “playing
Indian”? Do Natives have ridiculous names like
“Indian Two Feet”? In the ABC book, is E for
“Eskimo”?
] Does the author/illustrator avoid focusing on the “exotic” aspects of culture?
] Do the illustrations complement the text?
Does the author use photographs which
are often more accurate and realistic than
pictures?
]
2. Storylines
] Are minorities cast only as accepting,
passive persons? Do they resolve their own
problems and those of others?
] Are male or white standards required to
be successful? Is competition the only standard which is valued? Do male and/or white
heroes dominate the story? Do they intervene
and “save” the females or the minority
characters?
] Are females or minority persons the
problem in the story Iine? For example, are they
unemployed, underachieving, or lacking in
intelligence?
] Is only one standard of success portrayed?
Do minorities have to succeed extremely well
to gain approval? For example, must the
person be an exceptional athlete?
] Could the same story be told if the
gender roles were reversed?
] Would members of the racial, religious,
or cultural groups represented in the material
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approve of the way in which they are
portrayed?
3. Lifestyles
] Is one social class depicted as the “norm”?
For example, only the Middle Class living
in suburbia.
] Are minority or different cultures represented in an accurate manner? Example: the
Arab on the camel.
] Are Third World persons and settings
implied to be inferior? Or over-simplified?
] Are negative views stated or implied about
depicted differences? Examples would be:
ghettos, barrios and impoverished places
shown predominantly.
] Are there genuine insights into other
cultures?
4. Relationships Among People
] Are males and whites in superior roles?
Do they have all the power? For ex., females
only shown in supportive relationships.
] Are family relationships depicted realistically? Watch for the South American family
with a multitude of children or the Black family with a dominant “mama” figure in charge.
] If the families are separated, are societal
reasons given? For example, is it always
poverty?
] Are both genders portrayed or is there an
absence of one gender?
] To what extent are some groups
silenced or marginalized?
] Do the materials promote positive
attitudes toward all races?
be Eurocentric and not really respect other,
minority cultural groups.
] Has the author made adequate use of primary and/or secondary sources?
] Are there factual errors? Has the
author consulted professionals from
minority groups, local community organizations, and authorities to verify the
accuracy of information?
] Analyze the biographical data on the author/ illustrator - often given on the back jacket
flap of the book.
7. Vocabulary
] Is the vocabulary suitable for the
intended age group?
] Are the words carefully chosen in the text?
Watch for “loaded” words which have negative overtones; e.g. “primitive,” or “inscrutable”.
] Does the male pronoun dominate the text?
or are both sexes referred to?
] Do the words distort history? For
example, does the text use “conquest... victory,” to justify the Euro-American takeover
of the Native homelands?
8. Reader’s Self Esteem
5. Copyright Date
] What is the copyright date of the
resource? The 1960s saw a lot of “minority
experience” books being published by white
authors and publishers. The 1970s brought
a new awareness about multicultural and
multiracial communities and minority authors
appeared. Non-sexist books were almost
unknown before 1973!
] Is there anything that would embarrass
or hurt a child of a particular background?
] Are there any “norms” which limit a
child’s hopes and self-concept? or example: if
Blacks are portrayed as menacing and dirtywhat impact does this have on readers?
] Are women’s images always slim and
beautiful? Do males always perform the
important deeds in the story? What impact
does this have on female readers?
] Can minority readers identify in a positive
way with characters in the book?
] Is the author aware of self-identification
preferences of racial and cultural groups (e.g.
“Native Canadian” is preferable to “Canadian
Indian” and “Inuit” is preferable to “Eskimo”.
] Are all names spelled correctly?
6. Creator’s Background
9. Characters in the Book
What is the author’s or illustrator’s background? If they are not of the minority groups
being portrayed or written about, BE CAREFUL and watch carefully for their perspective.
] Ask, “What qualifies this author/illustrator to be the creator of this book? In the past,
middle class whites dominated the children’s
book industry. Their outlook was very ethnocentric and patriarchal. The authors could also
]
] Note the heroes in the stories. Can
minority groups define their own heroes of
both sexes? Sometimes these heroes are
struggling - for justice for their group.
] Are minority heroes only admired for qualities which made white heroes famous? Or do
their deeds only benefit white people?
] Does the author use accurate and
current names rather than Anglicized names?
March, 1997 The Bookmark
Book Award Winners
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon
Illustrator’sAward
Canadian Assoc. of Children’s Librarians.
1997 - Harvey Chan, “Ghost Train”
(Text: Paul Yee) (Groundwood).
1996 - Karen Reczuch. “Just Like New”
(Text: Ainslie Manson) (Groundwood).
American Booksellers Book of
the Year Children’s Prize
1997 - “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse”,
Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow).
Ann Connor Brimer Award
The Nova Scotia Library Association.
1997 - Janet McNaughton,
“To Dance at the Palais Royale”.
Australian Children’s Book of
the Year Award
Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Honour Books:
David Metzenthen, “Gilbert’s Ghost
Train” (Scholastic).
Tim Winton, “Lockie Leonard, Legend”
(Pan Macmillan).
Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Picture Book of the Year
1997 - Elizabeth Honey, “Not a Nibble”
(Little Ark/Allen & Unwin).
Honour Books:
Ann James (text Margaret Wild),
“The Midnight Gang” (Omnibus Books).
Julie Vivas (text Ana Zamorano),
“Let’s Eat” (Omnibus Books).
Carnegie Medal U.K.
Winners through 1997:
Malorie Blackman, “Pig-Heart Boy”
(Doubleday).
Jim Bowler, “River Boy”
(Oxford University Press).
Henrietta Branford,
“Fire, Bed and Bone” (Walker Books).
Geraldine McCaughrean,
“Forever X” (Oxford University Press).
Philip Ridley, illustrated by Chris Riddell,
“Scribbleboy” (Viking Children’s Books).
J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and
the Philosopher’s Stone” (Bloomsbury).
Theresa Tomlinson, “Meet Me by
the Steelmen” (Walker Books).
Charlotte Zolotow Award
Cooperative Children’s Book Centre (CCBC)
1998 - Vera B. WIlliams, “Lucky Song”.
(Greenwillow)
CLA Book of the Year for Children
Canadian Library Association.
1997 - Brian Doyle,
“Uncle Ronald” (Groundwood).
1997 Honour Book: Joseph Romain.
“The Wagner Whacker” (Vanwell).
CLA Young Adult Book Award
Canadian Library Association, Young Adult
Special Interest Group.
1997 - R.P. MacIntyre, editor, Takes:
“Stories for Young Adults” (Thistledown).
Honour Books for 1997: O.R. Melling
“My Blue Country” (Viking/Penguin).
Janet McNaughton, “To Dance at the
Palais Royale” (Tuckamore).
Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver
Canadian Picture Book Award
International Board on Books for Young People (Canadian Section).
1996 - Janet Wilson, “Selina and the
Bear Paw Quilt” (Text: Barbara Smucker).
Esther Glen Award
The New Zealand Library & Information
Association.
1997 - Kate De Goldi,
“Sanctuary” (Penguin).
Geoffrey Bilson Award for
Historical Fiction
Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
1997 - Janet McNaughton, “To Dance
at the Palais Royale”.
Governor-General’s Awards for
Children’s Literature Canada
Council
English Language Awards 1997.
Text - Kit Pearson, “Awake and Dreaming”
(Viking/Penguin Books).
Illustration - Barbara Reid, “The Party”
(North Winds Press/Scholastic Canada).
Hans Christian Andersen Medal
1998 Writer - Katherine Paterson
1998 Illustrator - Tomi Ungerer
Hope Dean Award
Foundation for Children’s Literature
1998 - Eloise Greenfield
Information Book Award
Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada.
1996 - Linda Granfield, author;
Janet Wilson, illustrator.
“In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem”
I.O.D.E. Violet Downey
Children’s Book Award
Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire.
1996 - Jean Little, “His Banner Over Me”.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Poetry Award
Children’s Literature Council of Pennsylvania
1998 - Kristine O’Connell George (illustrated
by Kate Kiesler), “The Great Frog Race &
Other Poems”. (Clarion)
Mr. Christie’s Book Awards
Sponsored by Christie Brown & Co.
1997 - English
Ages 7 & under - Don Gillmor &
Marie-Louise Gay, “The Fabulous Song”.
Ages 8-11 - Shelly Tanaka & Laurie McGaw,
“Discovering the Iceman”.
Ages 12 & over - Brian Doyle,
“Uncle Ronald”.
1997 - French
Ages 7 & under - Danielle Marcotte,
Stéphane Poulin, “Poil de serpent
dent d’araignee”.
Ages 8 - 11 - Francis Back & Robert Davidts,
“Jean-Baptiste, coureur des bois”.
Ages 12 & over - Jacques Lazure,
“Le Rêve couleur d’orange”.
New Zealand Post Children’s
Book Awards
Sponsored by New Zealand Post.
Picture Books
1998 - Lesley Moyes, “Alphabet
Apartments” (Mallinson Rendel).
1997 - Jennifer Beck, illustrated by
Robyn Belton, “The Bantam and
the Soldier” (Scholastic).
Fiction
1998 Junior Fiction - Joy Cowley,
“Ticket to the Sky Dance” (Viking).
1998 Senior Fiction - Paula Boock,
“Dare Truth or Promise” (Longacre).
National Council of Teachers of
English
(NCTE) Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding
Nonfiction for Children
1998 - Laurence Pringle (illustrated by Bob
Marshall), “An Extraordinary Life: The Story
of a Monarch Butterfly”.
R. Ross Annett Award for
Children’s Literature
Writers Guild of Alberta.
1998 - Hazel Hutchins, “The Prince of
Tarn”.
Red Cedar Award
The Young Readers Choice Awards Soc. of BC
1997 Fiction: Bernice Thurman Hunter,
“Amy’s Promise”.
1997 Non-Fiction: Linda Granfield, “In Flanders Field”.
Ruth Schwartz Children’s
Book Award
ON Arts Council & Cdn. Booksellers Assoc.
1997 Picture Book: Paul Yee, illustrated by
Harvey Chan, “Ghost Train”.
1997 Young Adult: Kit Pearson,
“Awake and Dreaming”.
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s
Literature Prize
1998 - James Heneghan,
“Wish me Luck” (Groundwood).
Other shortlisted titles for 1998:
Julie Lawson, “Emma and the Silk Train”,
illustrated by Paul Mombourquette
(Kids Can).
John Wilson, “Across Frozen Seas”
(Beach Holme).
Silver Birch Awards
Ontario Library Association.
1996 Non-fiction: Anouchka Galouchko,
“Sho and the Demons of the Deep”.
1996 Fiction: Sylvia McNicholl,
“Bringing up Beauty”.
Vicky Metcalf Award
Canadian Authors Association.
1997 - Tim Wynne-Jones
Young Reader’s Choice Award
Pacific Northwest Library Association.
1998 Youth: “Wayside School Gets a
Little Stranger” by Louis Sachar
(Avon/Camelot).
1998 Senior: “The Midwife’s Apprentice”
by Karen Cushman (Harper Trophy).
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Caldecott Medal Winners 1938-1998
1998: Rapunzel
Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)
1997: Golem
David Wisniewski (Clarion)
1996: Officer Buckle
Gloria Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)
1995: Smoky Night
illustrated by David Diaz;
text by: Eve Bunting (Harcourt)
1994: Grandfather’s Journey
Allen Say; text: edited by
Walter Lorraine (Houghton)
1993: Mirette on the High Wire
Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)
1992: Tuesday
David Wiesner (Clarion Books)
1991: Black and White
David Macaulay (Houghton)
1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood
Story from China
Ed Young (Philomel)
1989: Song and Dance Man
illustrated by Stephen Gammell;
text by: Karen Ackerman (Knopf)
1988: Owl Moon
illustrated by John Schoenherr;
text by: Jane Yolen (Philomel)
1987: Hey, Al
illustrated by Richard Egielski;
text by: Arthur Yorinks (Farrar)
1986: The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
1985: Saint George and the Dragon
illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman;
text: retold by Margaret Hodges
(Little, Brown)
1984: The Glorious Flight: Across the
Channel with Louis Bleriot
Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking)
1983: Shadow
translated & illustrated by Marcia
Brown; original text in French:
“Blaise Cendrars” (Scribner)
1982: Jumanji
Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
1981: Fables Arnold Lobel (Harper)
1980: Ox-Cart Man
illustrated by Barbara Cooney;
text: Donald Hall (Viking)
1979: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
Paul Goble (Bradbury)
1978: Noah’s Ark
Peter Spier (Doubleday)
1977: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon;
text by: Margaret Musgrove (Dial)
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1976: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in
People’s Ears
illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon;
retold by Verna Aardema (Dial)
1975: Arrow to the Sun
Gerald McDermott (Viking)
1974: Duffy and the Devil
illustrated by Margot Zemach;
retold by Harve Zemach (Farrar)
1973: The Funny Little Woman
illustrated by Blair Lent; text:
retold by Arlene Mosel (Dutton)
1972: One Fine Day
retold & illustrated by Nonny
Hogrogian (Macmillan)
1971: A Story A Story
retold & illustrated by Gail E. Haley
(Atheneum)
1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
William Steig (Windmill Books)
1969: The Fool of the World
& The Flying Ship
illustrated by Uri Shulevitz;
retold by Arthur Ransome (Farrar)
1968: Drummer Hoff
illustrated by Ed Emberley;
text: adapted by Barbara Emberley
(Prentice-Hall)
1967: Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
Evaline Ness (Holt)
1966: Always Room for One More
illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian;
text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud.
Leclair Alger (Holt)
1965: May I Bring a Friend?
illustrated by Beni Montresor;
text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
(Atheneum)
1964: Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak (Harper)
1963: The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)
1962: Once a Mouse
retold & illustrated by
Marcia Brown (Scribner)
1961: Baboushka & the Three Kings
illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov;
text: Ruth Robbins (Parnassus)
1960: Nine Days to Christmas
illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text:
Marie Hall Ets & Aurora
Labastida (Viking)
1959: Chanticleer & The Fox
illustrated by Barbara Cooney;
text: adapted from Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales by Barbara
Cooney (Crowell)
1958: Time of Wonder
Robert McCloskey (Viking)
1957: A Tree Is Nice
illustrated by Marc Simont;
text: Janice Udry (Harper)
1956: Frog Went A-Courtin’
illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky;
text: retold by John Langstaff
(Harcourt)
1955: Cinderella or The Little
Glass Slipper
illustrated by Marcia Brown; text:
translated from Charles Perrault by
Marcia Brown (Scribner)
1954: Madeline’s Rescue
Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
1953: The Biggest Bear
Lynd Ward (Houghton)
1952: Finders Keepers
illustrated by Nicolas, pseud.
Nicholas Mordvinoff; text: Will,
pseud. William Lipkind (Harcourt)
1951: The Egg Tree
Katherine Milhous (Scribner)
1950: Song of the Swallows
Leo Politi (Scribner)
1949: The Big Snow
Berta & Elmer Hader (MacMillan)
1948: White Snow, Bright Snow
illustrated by Roger Duvoisin;
text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
1947: The Little Island
illustrated by Leonard Weisgard;
text: Golden MacDonald, pseud.
Margaret Wise Brown (Doubleday)
1946: The Rooster Crows
Maude & Miska Petersham
(MacMillan)
1945: Prayer for a Child
illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones;
text: Rachel Field (MacMillan)
1944: Many Moons
illustrated by Louis Slobodkin;
text: James Thurber (Harcourt)
1943: The Little House
Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton)
1942: Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey (Viking)
1941: They Were Strong and Good
Robert Lawson (Viking)
1940: Abraham Lincoln
Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
(Doubleday)
1939: Mei Li
Thomas Handforth (Doubleday)
1938: Animals of the Bible,
A Picture Book
illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop;
text: selected by Helen Dean Fish
(Lippincott)
Newbery Medal Winners 1922-1998
1998: Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997: The View from Saturday E.L.
Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1996: The Midwife’s Apprentice
Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995: Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994: The Giver
Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1993: Missing May
Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992: Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1991: Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1990: Number the Stars
Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two
Voices Paul Fleischman (Harper)
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman (Clarion)
1987: The Whipping Boy
Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1985: The Hero and the Crown
Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1983: Dicey’s Song
Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1982: A Visit to William Blake’s Inn:
Poems for Innocent and
Experienced Travelers
Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1981: Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New
England Girl’s Journal, 18301832 Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
1979: The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
1978: Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
1976: The Grey King Susan Cooper
(McElderry/Atheneum)
1975: M.C. Higgins, the Great
Virginia Hamilton (MacMillan)
1974: The Slave Dancer
Paula Fox (Bradbury)
1973: Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George (Harper)
1972: Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O’Brien (Atheneum)
1971: Summer of the Swans
Betsy Byars (Viking)
1970: Sounder
William H. Armstrong (Harper)
1969: The High King
Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1967: Up a Road Slowly
Irene Hunt (Follett)
1966: I, Juan de Pareja
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
1965: Shadow of a Bull
Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
1964: It’s Like This, Cat
Emily Neville (Harper)
1963: A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle (Farrar)
1962: The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins”
Scott O’Dell (Houghton)
1960: Onion John
Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1958: Rifles for Watie
Harold Keith (Crowell)
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill
Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt)
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
1955: The Wheel on the School
Meindert DeJong (Harper)
1954: ...And Now Miguel
Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1953: Secret of the Andes
Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
1952: Ginger Pye
Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man
Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
1950: The Door in the Wall
Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1949: King of the Wind
Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons
William Pène du Bois (Viking)
1947: Miss Hickory
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
1946: Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
1945: Rabbit Hill
Robert Lawson (Viking)
1944: Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes (Houghton)
1943: Adam of the Road
Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
1942: The Matchlock Gun
Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
1941: Call It Courage”
Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
1940: Daniel Boone
James Daugherty (Viking)
1939: Thimble Summer
Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
1938: The White Stag
Kate Seredy (Viking)
1937: Roller Skates
Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1936: Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink (MacMillan)
1935: Dobry
Monica Shannon (Viking)
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of
the Author of Little Women
Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
1932: Waterless Mountain
Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Elizabeth Coatsworth (MacMillan)
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Rachel Field (MacMillan)
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow
Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse
Will James (Scribner)
1926: Shen of the Sea
Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
1925: Tales from Silver Lands
Charles Finger (Doubleday)
1924: The Dark Frigate
Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting (Lippincott)
1922: The Story of Mankind
Hendrik Willem van Loon(Liveright)
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ALSC First Notable Websites for Children
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of
the American Library Association, announced its first list of Notable
Websites for children. The sites were selected based on excellence of material, clarity of design and purpose, ease of navigation, and interest to
children from pre-school to age 14.
1998 Notable
Children’s Websites
Amazing Travel Bureau (National
Geographic)
www.national geographic.com/features/97/
bureau/ This site allows children to journey to some of the
world’s most fascinating places.
The Arthur Page
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/arthur/ -
This site, maintained by PBS, features games and
children’s art based on the popular book character created by Marc Brown.
Cyber Jacques
www.cyberjacques.com/ -
Games using the Shockwave plug-in, including
solving a tanagram and throwing pies at a smirking polar bear.
Dav Pilkey’s Website O’Fun
www.pilkeycom/ -
A tongue-in-cheek comic-strip biography, crafts
projects and “boring” stuff for teachers from children’s author and illustrator Dav Pilkey.
Sesame Street Central
www.ctw.org/sscentral/
Younger net users can play Java games with Cookie
Monster, solve an Ernie puzzle and help Elmo
around the farm.
Theodore Tugboat
www.cochran.com/theodore/
For younger children, a Canadian site centering
around the popular children’s television show.
Virtual Renaissance: A journey
Through Time
www. twingroves.district96.il.us/
Renaissance/VirtualRen.html
A time trip through history. Children can learn
about the plague, the Tower of London and other
aspects of the Renaissance.
700+ Great Sites
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/
For more great websites for children, see this
comprehensive website.
Jan Brett’s Home Page
KIDLINK www.kidlink.org
One of the internet “veterans”. Since 1990, over
100,000 children in 114 countries have joined
Kidlink’s moderated global dialogs, email, chats
and interactive projects.
Kids’ Space www.ks-connection.com -
Children can find penpals or visit “villages” personal web pages of other children organized
by subjects such as science or literature.
Learner Online Exhibits Collection
www.learner.org/exhibits/
Interactive exhibits inspired by video series in the
Annenberg/CPB Multimedia Collection; especially
suitable for middle school students. Outstanding
exhibits on volcanoes and the Middle Ages.
Little Explorers
www.Enchanted/Learning.com/Dictionary.html/
Click on a letter of the alphabet and connect to,
not one, but many pictures of words with that
letter and hot links to Web sites about that word.
Nine Planets: An Interactive Tour
of the Solar System
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/html
This interactive site by Bill Arnett supplies all the
vital statistics for all the bodies in the solar system, beautiful photos & diagrams & music files.
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http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/caninfo/
ecaninfo.htm
Canadian Information by Subject links you
to internet sites around the world that contain information about Canada. This is a continuing series of listings of websites of interest to reference staff and researchers provided
by the Canadian Information by Subject service at the National Library of Canada.
Canadian Information by Subject arranges
websites based on both the Dewey Decimal
Classification and an alphabetical index of
subject terms. Since its launch in 1995, Canadian Information by Subject has grown to
include more than 1,700 sites, with dozens
of new sites added each month.
Teaching with the
Internet
New Edition!
www.janbrett.com
Kids can send cyber-postcards, download artwork
and activities designed by author/illustrator Jan
Brett, find recipes read about Jan Brett’s books and
much more.
Canadian Information
by Subject
Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/
With tutorials, reviews, articles, a
glossary and more, the “Search Engine
Watch” website is a great place to learn
the basics of Internet searching or to find
out what’s new in the complex world of
search engines and directories.
If you’re developing your own web
pages, you’ll want to pay special attention to the section of the above site called
“Webmaster’s Guide to the Search
Engines”. There’s information here that
will help you build a web page that won’t
be missed by the major search engines.
Canada.com
http://www.canada.com/
Finally, for a search engine with a
Canadian focus try “Canada.com”. It
finds sites from any location on the web
with the added feature of a flag to
identify those Canadian sites that are of
special interest to those of us live here.
Looking for a new title for your Staff
Development bookshelf? The new, 2nd
edition of “Teaching with the Internet”
is out! Authors Don and Deborah Leu
teach at the SU School of Education.
You might want to mention this publication as a useful resource to school
librarians and K12 teachers.
Teaching With the Internet: Lessons
from the Classroom, 1999 Edition
by Donald J. Leu, Deborah Diadium Leu,
Katherine R. Leu
http://web.syr.edu/~djleu/teaching.html
ISBN 0-926842-85-4, 336 pages
Christopher Gordon Publishers, Inc.,
Norwood, MA 1-800-934-8322
http://www.Christopher-Gordon.com/
http://www.Christopher-Gordon.com/
twilfc.html
Anton Ninno, Educ. Resource Evaluator
[email protected]
4-194 Center for Science & Technology
315-443-3640
Information Institute of Syracuse
315-443-4100 fax
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100
800-464-9107
IIS-SU http://iis.syr.edu/
AskERIC http://askeric.org/
My 7 Best Websites for Teacher-Librarians by Donald Hamilton
1. Most Comprehensive Reference
Library Site for Education:
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca
/~mpress/eduweb.html
This is the most impressive site on all aspects of education in Canada. The purpose of Canadian Education on the Web is to bring together everything relating to Canada and education that has a presence
on the World Wide Web. The page is developed and
maintained by Marian Press. If you have comments
or suggestions for additions to the page;
These are some of the links you can follow from
this page:
Boards of Education
Canada-Wide Organizations
Commercial Education Sites
Community Colleges
Databases, Clearinghouses and Directories
Distance Education
Education Journals
Education Libraries
Educational Networks
Educators and Education Resources
Elementary and Secondary Schools
Faculties of Education
Independent Institutions
Jobs in Education
Ministries of Education
Private School Organizations
Provincial Organizations
School Board Organizations
Student Newspapers
Student Organizations
Teachers’ Organizations
Universities and Colleges
Other Canadian Education Internet Lists
2. Style Manuals to the Web
http://www.psych-web.com/
resource/apacrib.htm
A great compilation of sites that answer the question, “How do I cite this website in my bibliography” may be found there.
Canadian Teachers
Federation
http://www.ctf-fce.ca
Citing Internet Resources
http://
www.classroomconnect.com/
One of the best guides for citing online
sources is available at The Classroom Connect
website. Their site links to other websites
about citation.
Canadian Legal Sites
http://www.peelbarristers.com/
~biss/pages/youthcthtm
http://www.orbonline.net/~biss/
pages/tgyad.htm
3. Best site for Teacher-Librarians:
http://www.hi.is/~anne/iasl.html
Maintained for the International Association of
School Librarians (IASL) by Dr. Anne Clyde in Iceland, this is a truly comprehensive compilation of
sites and information for teacher-librarians all over
the world.
4. eBLAST, The Encyclopedia
Britannica’s Online Site
http://www.ebig.com/
Great content site designed and mainained for students. Visit eBLAST, the Encyclopedia Britannica’s
online site proving a unique search engine to new
and useful sites that have passed extensive scrutiny
for student audiences. The Encyclopedia Britannica
is not here - that is a paid service, these links are
presented to offer substantial enhancement to the
encyclopedia.
5. UVIC Reference Sources site
http://gateway.uvic.ca
Ready reference sites offer easy access to all sorts of
useful quick information that you always wanted.
Here you will find everything from postal codes and
telephone numbers to dictionaries and metric conversion tables.
6. David Brown’s Children’s
Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/
~dkbrown/index.html
David Brown is a librarian in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. His site is so important it has been visited over 265,000 times since
April 1998! (That is not a typo!) It is this site that
offers all the best stuff about children’s literature in
the world. It is linked to hundreds of other places. It
has to be on your page, in your school!
7. CM Web Site (Canadian Materials)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/
There will be those oldtimers among the audience
who know that I have had a long standing affair
with CM. Watching it rise from the ashes (several
times) into this new incredible thing is very satisfying. You have to subscribe! It is offered freely through
the web and through email, although the volunteers
who have developed and nurtured it hope you will
subscribe (even though you don’t have to). The real
issue is that CM delivers quality reviews on Canadian material right to your desktop on a regular basis. It has the potential to be huge if you and your
colleagues support its lofty objectives. Imagine ... hundreds of reviews by real librarians and teachers automatically flowing to your email! All the details
are on their website.
CM is. . . book reviews media reviews, news,
features and stories, of interest, to teachers, librarians, parents, and kids and a button for French...
en français.
Finding a Gold Mine: Network Nuggets
The BC Ministry of Education’s Community Learning Network (CLN)
produces many useful services, but the best is Network Nuggets. You can
find it at: http://www.cln.org/lists/nuggets/
CLN Network Nuggets on the Web
Network Nuggets is a service to teachers
and their pupils providing timely information
about important and appropriate links on a
myriad of topics and themes that will appeal
to teachers everywhere. And best of all, it
delivers this information to your email without complaint at least once a week. Then the
service maintains a huge archive of all the previously published Nuggets on the Web so that
one can return to find great sites whenever
they are needed. It is easy to subscribe to the
free email service that brings news of new
nuggets right to your email box.
To join check out http://www.etc.bc.ca/
lists/nuggets/join.html
Here is a partial list of the topics in the
archive taken from the Web page:
Network Nuggets Archives
1. Keyword Search of Network Nuggets
Use this link to conduct a keyword
search within the Network Nugget
archives.
2. General Educational Resources
(new site added June 9, 1998).
3. Art and Music (new site added
June 3, 1998).
4. English/Language Arts (new site
added May 25, 1998).
5. Environment (new site added May
26, 1998).
6. History (new site added June 11, 1998).
7. Internet and Technology Tools,
Hints and Announcements
(new site added May 27,1998).
8. Languages (including English as a
Second Language)
(new site added May 20, 1998).
9. Mathematics (new site added
May 12, 1998)
10. News and World Events (new site
added June 10, 1998)
11. Physical Education, Sports & Health
(new site added June 1, 1998)
12. Science (new site added June 2, 1998)
13. Students/Teachers on the Internet
(new site added June 5, 1998)
14. Miscellaneous (new site added
June 8, 1998).
15.CLN (Community Learning
Network) with more than 2,000 links
to educational WWW sites and over
120 WWW resources of our own.
Each one of these listings opens to a huge
list of new and old sites that might answer
your instructional need. Bring this service
to the attention of all your teachers!
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The CCCCCCCCCC (Ten C’s)
for Evaluating Internet Resources
1. Content
What is the intent of the content? Are
the title and author identified? Is the content
“juried”? Is the content “popular” or “scholarly”, satiric or serious? What is the date of
the document or article? Is the “edition” current? Do you have the latest version? (Is this
important?) How do you know?
2. Credibility
Is the author identifiable and reliable? Is
the content credible? Authoritative? Should
it be? What is the purpose of the information, that is, is it serious, satiric, humorous?
Is the URL extension .edu, .com, .gov or .org?
What does this tell you about the publisher?
3. Critical Thinking
How can you apply critical thinking skills,
including previous knowledge and experience,
to evaluate internet resources? Can you
identify the author, publisher, edition, etc. as
you would with a “traditionally” published
resource? What criteria do you use to
evaluate internet resources?
4. Copyright
Even if the copyright notice does not
appear prominently, someone wrote, or is
responsible for, the creation of a document,
graphic, sound or image, and the material falls
under the copyright conventions. “Fair use”
applies to short, cited excerpts, usually as an
example for commentary or research. Materials are in the “public domain” if this is explicitly stated. Internet users, as users of print
media, must respect copyright.
5. Citation
Internet resources should be cited to
identify sources used, both to give credit to
the author and to provide the reader with
avenues for further research. Standard style
manuals (print and online) provide some
examples of how to cite internet documents,
although standards have not yet been formally
established.
6. Continuity
Will the internet site be maintained and
updated? Is it now and will it continue to be
free? Can you rely on this source over time to
provide up-to-date information? Some good
.edu sites have moved to .com, with possible
cost implications. Other sites offer partial use
for free, and charge fees for continued or
in-depth use.
7. Censorship
Is your discussion list “moderated”? What
does this mean? Does your search engine or
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index look for all words or are some words
excluded? Is this censorship? Does your
institution, based on its mission, parent
organization or space limitations, apply some
restrictions to internet use? Consider
censorship and privacy issues when using the
internet.
8. Connectivity
If more than one user will need to access
a site, consider each user’s access and
“functionality”. How do users connect to the
internet and what kind of connection does the
assigned resource require? Does access to the
resource require a graphical user interface?
If it is a popular (busy) resource, will it be
accessible in the time frame needed? Is it
accessible by more than one internet tool? Do
users have access to the same internet tools
and applications? Are users familiar with the
tools and applications? Is the site “viewable”
by all web browsers?
9. Comparability
Does the internet resource have an
identified comparable print or CD-ROM data
set or source? Does the internet site contain
comparable and complete information? (For
example, some newspapers have partial but
not full text information on the internet.) Do
you need to compare data or statistics over
time? Can you identify sources for comparable earlier or later data? Comparability of data
may or may not be important, depending on
your project.
10. Context:
What is the context for your research? Can
you find “anything” on your topic, that is,
commentary, opinion, narrative, statistics and
your quest will be satisfied? Are you looking
for current or historical information?
Definitions? Research studies or articles? How
does internet information fit in the overall
information context of your subject? Before
you start searching, define the research
context and research needs and decide what
sources might be best to use to successfully
fill information needs without data overload.
With permission, Emergency Librarian. Betsy
Richmond is librarian in the reference
department of McIntyre Library at the
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She can
be reached at [email protected].
Jan Alexander & Marsha
Tate’s Guide to Evaluating
Websites
http://www.science.widener.edu/
(withers/webeval.htm
Networks: An On-line
Journal for Teacher Research
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~ctd/
networks/
Free on-line journal published by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/
University of Toronto. It offers a place for
sharing reports of action research, in which
teachers at all levels, K to post graduate,
are making changes and observing their
effects.
A List of E-Resources
h t t p : / / w w w. s c h o o l f i l e . c o m /
our_oceans.htm
Contains a list of resources, lesson plans
and related scientific sites on oceans. Students can swim with a dolphin or take a
virtual voyage to mark International Year of
the Ocean 1998.
Education Week Newsletter
http://www.education-world.com
Education World, The Educators Complete
Resource Guide to the Internet, offers education professionals, parents, students and
administrators lesson plans and research
materials.
Sierra Club K-12 Environmental/Outdoor Program
http://www.sierraclub.org/education/
A K-12 program offering teachers and students environmental, science and ecology
education through website materials and
hands-on trail and nature activities.
Harriet Tubman & The
Underground Railroad
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/
tubman/tubman.html
Interactive website created by a second
grade class at Pocantico Hills School in
Sleepy Hollow, New York. Includes an interactive quiz, timeline, research links, character sketches and much more.
Some of the Best CDROM Titles, K-12
Courtesy of Calgary Board of Education/Edmonton Public Schools.
K-3
· A to Zap! (Sunburst)
· Bailey’s Book House (Edmark)
· Community Exploration
(Conter-Jostens Software)
Discus Books:
· Thomas Snowsuit
· Paper Bag Princess
Literatek Books
· Sitting on the Farm
· The Cat Came Back
Living Books
· The New Kid on the Block
(Broderbund)
· Mammals (National Geo)
· Millie’s Math House (Edmark)
· My First Incredible, Amazing
Dictionary (DK)
· Sammy’s Science House (Edmark)
· Sim Town (Maxis)
· The Learn About CD (Sunburst)
· The Animals (Software Toolworks)
· Trudy’s Time and Place House
(Edmark)
· Whales and Dolphins (Sunburst)
· Wiggleworks (Scholastic)
· Wonders of Learning Library
(National Geo). Includes titles such as:
World of Animals, World of Plants,
Our Earth, Seasons, The Human
Body, Solar System and Beyond,
Animals and How They Grow, A Tree
Through the Seasons, What Air Can
Do, Butterflies, Birds, & How They
Grow, Spiders.
Grades 4-6
· Adventure Canada (Software Plus)
· Ancient Civilizations Picture Show
(National Geo)
· Ancient Cities (Sumeria)
· Ancient Lands (Microsoft)
· Canada History: A Country by
Consent (West/Dunn)
· Canada’s Capitol: The Story of
Ottawa (Timebox).
· Canadian Historical Images
(Arnold Multimedia)
· Classical Greece, China Photo CDs
(Edmark)
· Discovering Junior Authors (Gale)
· Earth’s Endangered Environments
Picture Show: Wetlands,
Rainforests (National Geo)
· Exploring our Solar System
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(AIMS Media)
Favorite Greek Myths (Scholastic)
Field Trip to the Stars (Sunburst)
Fortress of Louisburg (Software Plus)
Geology Picture Show: Rocks &
Minerals, Weathering & Erosion
(National Geo)
Native Americans I & II
(National Geo)
Science Sleuths I & II (MECC)
Tesselmania! (MECC)
Weather: Air in Action
(AIMS Media)
Yukon Trail (MECC)
Grades 7-9
Japan (Nelson)
Middle Search
Rainforest Researchers (Tom Snyder)
Rainforest Explorer
(New Media Schoolhouse)
· UXL Biographies (Gale)
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Grades 7-12
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Canada’s Visual History (NFB)
Canadian Newsdisc
Great Artists (Attica Cybernetics)
Introducing Shakespeare (Nelson)
Maps & Facts (National Geo)
SIRS
Ultimate Human Body (DK)
Grades 10-12
· Discovering Authors:
Canadian Edition (Gale)
· Discovering World History (Gale)
· Macbeth (Voyager)
· Romeo & Juliet (Attica Cybernetics)
All Grades
· 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia Plus
(McLelland & Stewart)
· Encarta 98 (Microsoft)
· Encyclopedia of Science (DK)
· Encyclopedia of Nature (DK)
· PC Globe Maps & Facts (Broderbund)
· Picture Atlas of the World
(National Geo)
· SimCity (Maxis)
· The Way Things Work (DK)
· True North: Arrivals (McGraw-Hill)
· World Book MultiMedia 1998
Social Studies
Web Resources
Lesson Resources
BCTF Lesson Aids
h t t p : / / w w w. b c t f. b c . c a / c g i /
LessonAidsDb.exe/
Eric Lesson Plans
http://www.ericir.syr.edu/
General Resources
http://www.esu3.k12.ne.us/curriculum/resourcepage.html
http://socialstudies.com
Critical Thinking
Resources
Malu Critical Challenges, written by
students 1998
h t t p : / / w w w. m a l a . b c . c a . /
www.discover/educate/
temp.ctchome.htm
Graphic Organizers
http://www.graphic.org/
Film Resources
National Film Board
http://www.nfb.ca/E/4/comm.html
School Links for Social
Studies Class Projects
School Network
http://schoolnet2.carleton.ca/
Canadian Government
Main Site
http://Canada.GC.CA/main_e.htm
Parliamentary Information
http://www.Parl.GC.CA/
Global Studies
Global Studies Network
http://www.gsn.org/
Green Teacher
http://www.web.ca/~greentea/
Endangered Species
http://eelink.net/EndSpp/
Endangered.html
BBC Modern
World History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/
modern
Examines key historical events between
1915 to 1945 including European politics
and the Depression. Includes over 30 animated maps, an animated timeline, interactive quizzes, and a special section for
teachers.
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Library Automation Software
Distributors
ALEPH Library Automation
System
LibraryWorld ’98 Library
Automation System
Alexandria Library Automation
System
Materials Flow Management
ExLibris (USA) Inc. www.exlibris-usa.com
3M - www.3M.com/library
Companion Corporation
www.companioncorp.com
Online Bibliographic/Cataloguing
Service
The CGI Group. www.amicus.cgi.ca
Polaris Library Automation
System (new)
Galaxy (old system)
Amicus Library Automation
System (for large libraries)
Athena (new version) Library
Automation System
MARCit Tool for Cataloguing
Websites
Nichols Advanced Technologies, Inc.
www.nicholsinc.com
Best-Seller Library System
OCLC. www.oclc.org
Gaylord Information Systems
www.gaylord.com
Precision One Integrated Library
System
Brodart Company. www.brodart.com
Le Pac CD-ROM based online catalogue.
Best-Seller Inc. (Canadian)
www.bestseller.com
Q-Series Library Automation
System
CARL Corporation. www.carl.org
Everyone’s Catalogue (graphic interface for
online catalogue)
Kid’s Catalogue (graphic interface for online
catalogue)
SIRS Mandarin M3 (new) Library
Automation System
CARL system (for main frames)
DRA Integrated Library System
Taos (new next-generation system)
Data Research Assoc. Inc. (DRA)
www.dra.com
Dynix, Horizon, NOTIS LMS
Library Systems
Ameritech Library Systems
www.amlibs.com
Eloquent Library Automation
Software
Eloquent Systems
www.Eloquent-Systems.com
Geos system (new) (large libraries)
Geac Computers Inc.
www.library.geac.com
INNOPAC Millenium (new) Library
Automation System
EOS International. www.eosintl.com
SIRS Inc. www.sirs.com
Spectrum 2.0 Version of CIRC/
CAT Products
Winnebago Software Company
www.winnebago.com
STAR Library Automation System
Cuadra. www.cuadra.com
Unicorn 98 (new) Library
Automation System
Hyperion Digital Media Archive
System
(Helps create databases of locally digital
materials including scanned images, video,
audio, etc.)
SIRSI Corp. www.sirsi.com
Universal Resource Sharing
Application
(Helps groups of libraries share their resources
through shared catalogues)
CPS Systems, Inc. www.cps-us
Innovative Interfaces Inc. www.iii.com
Virtua (new) Library Automation
System
Kelowna Software Ltd.
#200-200 Spall Rd., Kelowna, BC V1Y 9P6
The Voyager Integrated Library
System (large libraries)
Library 4 Library Automation
System (Canadian)
Library Automation System
Follett. www.follett.com
Library Pro 2.0 Library
Automation System
Chancery Software (Canadian)
www.chancery.com
Library Solution (new) Library
Automation System
BiblioFile on CD-ROM Bibliographic Database for Cataloguing
The Library Corporation (TLC)
www.TLCdelivers.com
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CASPR, Inc. www.caspr.com
VTLS Inc. www.vtls,com
(The Library of Congress has just chosen this
system). Endeavour Information System Inc.
www.endinfosys.com
WebSPIRS 4.0 Search Client
SilverPlatter Information Inc.
www.silverplatter.com
E-zines & News
Services
Subscription information can be found on
the following websites;
Amazon.com
http:Hwww.amazon.com
An on-line bookstore sends interested readers an email when there is a new publication
on a particular subject or by a favorite author.
ASCD Education Bulletin
http:Hwww.ascd.org/pubs/bulletin/
ebuilet.html
Published bi-weekly, picks up national education items and appends a list of
WebWonders, new internet resources of interest to educators.
The Daily Report Card
http:Hwww.utopla.conVmailings/
reportcard/
Summarizes national education news stories
of general interest. Delivered to your desktop
three times a week, the editors pick “big issue” topics like charter schools, desegregation, teacher training, and schools-for-profit
which relate to national education goals.
Edupage
http:Hwww.educom.edu/web/pubs/
pubHomeFrame.html
Is delivered via email three times a week and
focuses on technology news which has an impact on education.
IAT Infobits
http:Hwww.iat.unc.edu/infobits/
infobits.html
Published once a month with technology
news items with a post-secondary focus. Lots
of links to other sites.
Info Beat
http:Hwww.infobeat.com
Another customizable news feed. This time
the news sheet comes directly to your email
box on a daily basis. Not only can you get
news, weather, and sports, this service will
send you an email reminder of personal
events.
Newbot
http://www.wired.com/newbot/
An “intelligent” search engine which will save
user-defined searches and bring back only hits
on new items from news sources, the web, or
newsgroups. Try Education and Technology
or Internet Education as saved search topics.
PointCast
http:Hwww.pointcast.com
A customizable “push” news service. Choose
from a list of dozens of publications including CNN, Wired, Pathfinder, the Wall Street
Journal and many regional newspapers. From
within each of those sources, indicate the
specific topics in which you have an interest
which will be updated and cached on your
computer as often as you’d like.
Scout Report
http:Hscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/
Reports lists of new internet resources of interest to educators on a weekly basis. Its team
of librarians and educators selects only the
best.
Tid ITS
http:Hwww.tidbits.com/ and
WinNews
[email protected]
Regularly brings the reader up-to-date news,
tips and reviews on the worlds of Macintosh
computing and the Windows operating
system (respectively).
From: The Indispensable Librarian; Surviving
(and Thriving) in School Media Centers in the
Information Age by Doug Johnson.
Copyright Reminder
PPR - Public Performance Rights for Video-tapes for Classroom Use
The copyright holder has the right to grant
“performance in public” for video-tapes.
You must have purchased the public performance right, or have obtained permission for
PPR before a video is used in any “public”
place, which includes classrooms and showings to groups of any size in any location that
is not a home.
Most school boards, colleges and universities in Canada have policies in place to
protect them and their employees from copyright infringement. However, these policies are
not always understood or respected. We hope
this circular will help fill the knowledge gap
with respect to Pubic Performance Rights for
video programs, and help teachers and
educational institutions to respect the rights
of video creators.
PPR or Home Use Video-tapes?
Teachers must be sure that the video they
plan to use in classrooms, or with a group in
any educational setting, carries a public
performance right. Video programs purchased
by the school library or resource centre should
include PPR so that they may be shown to
groups and classes as well as loaned to
students to use at home.
Video-tapes rented at a video store,
purchased at a retail outlet or bookstore, or
advertised in commercial magazines and
newspapers do not (with a few exceptions)
include a public performance right. The fine
print on the back of the jacket usually spells
this out clearly.
Some public libraries purchase both home
use video-tapes and videos with public
performance rights. Those with PPR are
usually clearly marked, and may even be in a
different section. If in doubt, check with a
library staff person.
Most television broadcast programs may
not be legally copied off air, and are not cleared
for use in schools. In some provinces, educational channels or the cable network may
offer educational programs, which may be
copied off air for classroom use, usually for a
limited period. Your media centre will be able
to provide information about what is
available to you in your locale.
Infringement of copyright in any way
could result in litigation and costly penalties.
Both the individual and the employing institution are vulnerable if the law is contravened.
On a more positive note, schools, which
purchase tapes with PPR, are supporting the
continuing production and distribution of
educational learning resources in Canada.
Copyright law protects a work or “a substantial part” of the work; what constitutes a
“substantial part” of the work is not defined
by Gary Karlsen
in the copyright act, but court cases have in
some instances upheld the rights of copyright
holders for very small portions of works.
How Do You Acquire Public Performance Rights for Video-tapes?
1. Purchase tapes, which include
Public Performance Rights
Most educational video distributors indicate in their catalogues and brochures the
rights that are included with the purchase of
their tapes. The letters PPR may be printed in
front of the price or the introduction to the
catalogue may have a general statement about
public performance rights (e.g. the National
Film Board catalogue).
The tape cases, covers or sleeves, usually
have a statement printed on the back indicating that they are licensed “for non-broadcast,
non-commercial showings only” (public
performance rights) or that they are “for
private home exhibition only” (home use only)
or similar statements.
The public performance right applies only
to the tape you have purchased; it does not
apply to home use copies of the same tape
purchased or rented from other sources such
as retail or rental stores.
2. Purchase Public Performance
Rights for Home Use Tapes
If home use only tapes have been
purchased, you may be able to purchase the
Public Performance Rights from a Canadian
educational video distributor. Two directories
can help you find the Canadian distributor for
video-tapes: the Canadian Publisher’s Directory published semiannually by Quill and
Quire Magazine, Toronto, and the Distribution Guide for Educational Media in Canada:
A Directory of Sources for Video, Film & Multimedia, 12th Ed., ISBN 0-9682907-0-1, soon
to be published by Langara College, BC.
Contact the author, Linda Prince at
[email protected]
When a video distribution company sells
a public performance right for a tape, they
usually provide a PPR sticker to be affixed to
the tape case.
3. Acquire a PPR License for a
Limited Time for Specific Product
Companies such as Visual Education
Centre in Ontario and Audio-Cine Film in
Montreal sell public performance licenses
which apply to rented (mostly feature length)
video-tapes from a list of specific producers
which they represent. The user may purchase
a license for one showing of a specific title, or
they may acquire a license for the showing of
any works by specific producers for a specific
time period (often for a school year) in a school
or school district.
4. Obtain Permission from a
Copyright Holder at No Cost
In a few cases, where there is no indication of rights on a video case, or where there
is no Canadian educational distributor for a
video program, you may be able to contact
the original producer and obtain written permission to use the program in a classroom or
other educational setting. Example: a video
produced by a business or industry, as a public relations product may not have the rights
defined on the jacket.
Magic Lantern Communications Ltd. 1998
Audio Cine-Films Inc.
8462 Rue Sherbrook Est
Montreal, PQ H1L 1B2
1-800-289-8887 Fax: (514) 493-9058
Visual Education Centre
41 Horner Ave., Unit 3
Etobicoke, ON M8Z 4X4
1-800-668-0749 Fax: (416) 251-3720
Copyright Information
Organized on the WWW
To assist librarians, teacher-librarians,
teachers and administrators in understanding the complexity of issues related
to copyright in Canada and the importance of copyright to teaching and learning, the Canadian Library Association
Copyright Committee has created a copyright link site at:
http://www.cla.amlibs.ca/copyrigt.htm
The site will provide the latest
information on:
· revisions to Canada’s Copyright Act
and regulations;
· position statements by associations
and governments on copyright reform;
· interpretations of Canadian copyright
law;
· issues related to digital information
and media copyright;
· international copyright law and the
Multilateral Agreement on
Investment;
· collectives and performing rights
societies;
· readings and writings on Canadian,
US and international copyright.
For further information: John Tooth,
Convenor, CLA Copyright Committee (204)
945-7833 Email: [email protected].
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Renting Videos?
Criteria for Effective
School Library Facilities
Keep These Ratings in Mind!
Canadian Television
Classification Rating System
The classification system focuses on violence
but also considers language and sexual
content in its ratings. The content evaluation
is assigned a rating according to the generally
accepted stages of child development.
The levels of classification are:
E ........ Exempt
C ....... Children
C8 ..... Children eight years and older
G ....... General programming,
suitable for all audiences
PG ..... Parental guidance
14+ ... Viewers 14 years and older
18+ ... Adult programming
Exempt
Exempt programming includes: news,
sports, documentaries and other information programming, talk shows, music
videos and variety programming.
Children
(From Information Power, 1988)
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Violence Guidelines: Might contain
occasional comedic, unrealistic depictions.
Children over 8 Years
Violence Guidelines: Any realistic depictions
will be infrequent, discreet, of low
intensity and shall portray the
consequences of violence.
Violence portrayed must be within the
context of the storyline or character
development.
Might include mild physical violence,
comedic violence, comic horror, special
effects, fantasy, supernatural or animated
violence.
Family
Violence Guidelines: Minimal, infrequent.
May contain comedic, unrealistic
depictions.
Contain no frightening special effects not
required by storyline.
]
]
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Parental Advisory
Violence Guidelines: Any depiction of
conflict and/or aggression will be limited and
moderate; it might include physical, fantasy
or supernatural violence.
Any such depictions should not be
pervasive and must be justified within the
context of theme, storyline or character
development.
]
]
14+
Violence Guidelines: While violence could
be one of the dominant elements of the
storyline, it must be integral to the
development of plot or character.
Might contain intense scenes of violence.
18+
Violence Guidelines: Contains depictions of
violence which, while integral to the development of plot, character or themes, are
intended for adult viewing, and thus are not
suitable for audiences under 18 years of age.
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Facilities provide a barrier-free learning environment and un-impeded
physical access for all users.
Facilities have built-in flexibility, so that changing needs and newer
information-handling technologies can be accommodated in the
existing complex without extensive redesign.
Facilities are located to provide easy access and encourage frequent
use, allowing for traffic flow that minimizes interruptions and
distractions.
Facilities have a separate outside entrance and are located to make
them readily accessible before, during, and after school hours and
during vacation periods.
Facilities provide a comfortable, efficient, and safe working
environment for students, teachers, administrators, and library
media staff.
Facilities include adequate space for independent study, small and
large group activities, reference service, manual and electronic access
to the collection, circulation and activities, and informational or
recreational reading.
Facilities have sufficient space to carry out the support functions
(administrative, technical and consultant) required in providing
materials and services.
Facilities have sufficient space for housing materials and the
equipment required in production, for evaluation activities, and for
the use of such materials and equipment.
Facilities are functional in design and arrangement, aesthetically
pleasing in appearance, convenient and comfortable to use.
Facilities have the requisite natural and artificial lighting, acoustical
treatment, and climate control for the comfort of the user and for the
preservation of materials and equipment.
Facilities are designed to provide the necessary electrical power, light
control, circuit surge, telephone and. intercommunication devices,
sound control, lightning protection, and electronic capabilities
required to meet the needs of a changing technological environment.
Facilities are designed with attention to safety precautions such
as fire preparedness, emergency exits, securely fastened equipment,
and other safeguards that will minimize risk to students, faculty,
and staff.
Facilities provide for the unobtrusive security of materials and
equipment during the school day utilize additional electronic and
other security measures during non-use hours.
The size of the overall library media centre and its spaces ,and the
relationship of those spaces to each other, help determine, the number
of library media staff needed to manage and supervise the centre.
Some Canadian Non-print Distributors/Producers
Access Network
FilmWest Assoc. Dist. Ltd.
Marlin Motion Pictures Ltd.
BBC Enterprises
Full Frame Film & Video Dist.
Nuance-Bourdon Audiovisuel Inc.
Green Acre Video
National Children & Youth Fitness
Office
3720 - 76th Ave., Edmonton, AB T6B 2N9
(403) 440-7777 Fax: (403) 440-8899
c/o International Telefilm Enterprises
5090 Explorer Dr., #301
Mississauga, ON L4W 4T9 (905) 629-3133
1-800-561-4300 Fax: (905) 629-1211
BFA Educational Media
c/o International Telefilm Enterprises
1-800-561-4300 Fax: (905) 629-1211
Bodega Pictures Inc.
#10 - 2035 W. 3rd Ave.,
Vancouver, BC V6J 1L4
(604) 732-1845 Fax: (604) 731-2615
CBC Educational Sales
PO Box 500, Stn.A, Toronto, ON M5W 1E6
(416) 205-6384
Canadian Cancer Society
565 W. 10th Ave., Vancouver, BC V5Z 4J4
(604) 872-4400
1-800-663-2524 Fax: (604) 879-4533
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Ctr.
67A Portland St., Toronto, ON M5V 2M9
(416) 593-1808 Fax: (416) 593-8661
Educational Activities
3185 Benbow Rd.,
W. Vancouver, BC V7V 3E1 (604) 922-0237
Cinéfête
1587 Rue Fleury E., Montréal, PQ H2C 1S9
(514) 858-0300 Fax: (514) 858-0442
Health & Welfare Canada Publications
Unit 4th Fl., Jeanne Mance Bldg.
2399 Hayman Rd., Kelowna, BC V1Z 1Z7
(604) 769-3399 Fax: (604) 769-5599
394 Euclid Ave., Toronto, ON M6G 2S9
(416) 925-9338 Fax: (416) 324-8268
P.O. Box 5028, Stn.A
Toronto, ON M5W 1N4 (416) 536-2711
Green Dragon Publications
5225 Rue Berri, Montréal, PQ H2J 2S4
(514) 273-4231 Fax: (514) 276-5130
National Geographic Educational
Services 211 Watline Ave., Ste.210
#3 – 8755 Ash St.,
Vancouver, BC V6P 6T3 (604) 324-4191
1-800-665-6636 Fax: (604) 324-4855
New Vision Media Ltd.
1-800-561-4300 Fax: (905) 629-1211
Nova Productions
Le Groupe Multimédia du Canada
Image Media Services
International Telefilm Enterprises
Image Works Alberta Inc.
#103 - 10171 Saskatchewan Dr.
Edmonton, AB T6E 4R5
(403) 448-2382 Fax: (403) 433-3430
Jeflyn Media Consultants
7305 Woodbine Ave., #486
Markham, ON L3R 3V7 (905) 642-6142
1-800-668-6065 Fax: (905) 473-1408
Kem Murch Productions
322 Queens Ave., London, ON N6B 1X4
(519) 673-3342 Fax: (519) 673-3358
4067 Boul. St-Laurent, Bureau 403
Montréal, PQ H2W 1Y7
(514) 849-7888 Fax: (514) 849-1231
Lynx Images Releasing
63 Mack Ave., Scarborough,
ON M1L 1M5 (416) 691-9094
1-800-267-2977 Fax: (416) 691-8833
Lakeshore Studios
Public Information Office
Rm. 303, East Block, Parliament Hill
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
(613) 943-0712 Fax: (613) 995-1309
CTV Program & Archive Sales
#312 - 1600 James Naismith Dr.
Gloucester, ON K1B 5N4 (613) 748-5743
National Film Board of Canada
Kinetic Inc.
Canadian Learning Company
5215 rue Berri, Ste.300,Montréal, PQ H2J 2S4
(514) 273-0605 Fax: (514) 279-0100
135 George St. S., Ste.902
Toronto, ON M5A 4E8
(416) 360-6006 Fax: (416)360-6006
Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa, ON K1A 1B4
(613) 954-8865 Fax: (613) 990-7067
Cinéma Libre, Societé de Dist.
211 Watline Ave., Mississauga, ON L4Z 1P3
(905) 890-1500 Fax: (905) 890-6550
408 Dundas St. E., Toronto,ON M5A 2A5
(416) 963-5979 Fax: (416) 925-0653
174 Spadina Ave., #606
Toronto, ON M5T 2C2
(416) 504-9333 Fax: (416) 504-5404
2264 Lake Shore Blvd. W.
Toronto, ON M8V 1A9 (416) 225-7976
McNabb & Connolly
Sales & Customer Services, D-10
P.O. Box 6100, Stn. Centre-Ville
Montreal, PQ H3C 3H5 1-800-267-7710
Mississauga, ON L4Z 1P3 (905) 890-1111
#3 - 8755 Ash St. Vancouver, BC V6P 6T3
(604) 324-4191 · 1-800-665-6636
Fax: (604) 324-4855
Suite 20 - 43 Metcalfe St.
Toronto, ON M4X 1R7 (416) 920-8544
Omega Films Ltd.
70 Milner Ave., Unit 5A
Scarborough, ON M1S 3P8 (416) 291-4733
Pacific Edge Publishing
Site 21, C.50, Gabriola Island, BC V0R 1X0
(250) 247-8806 Fax: (250) 247-8299
Pepsi-Cola Canada Ltd.
1255 Bay St., Toronto, ON M5R 2G8
(416) 964-1313
P.J. Spratt Associates Inc.
160 Perth Ave., Toronto, ON M6P 3X5
Société Radio-Canada
1400 Boul. René-Lévesque Est, 17E Étage
Montréal, PQ H3L 2M2
(514) 597-7825 Fax: (514) 597-7862
Teleglobe Canada
680, rue Sherbrooke ouest
Montréal, PQ H3A 2S4
THA Media Distributors Ltd.
1200 W. Pender St., #307,
Vancouver, BC V6E 2S9 (604) 687-4215
1-800-661-4919 Fax: (604) 688-8349
60 Briarwood Ave. Port Credit, ON L5G 3N6
(905) 278-0566 Fax: (905) 278-2801
3M of Canada Ltd.
131 Albany Ave., Toronto, ON M5R 3C5
(416) 977-0569 (416) 532-4209
Fax: (416) 977-0569
TV Ontario
Medicinema Ltd.
7100 River Rd., Richmond, BC V6X 1X5
(604) 273-2211 Fax: (604) 273-6410
250 Yonge St., Ste.1800
Toronto, ON M5B 2N8
(416) 595-4464 Fax: (416) 595-0917
McIntyre Educational Media Ltd.
Vidéo Femmes
9005 Centaurus Circle, Unit C
Burnaby, BC V3J 7N4
(604) 420-3066 Fax: (604) 420-3095
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd.
Visual Education Centre
Classroom Video Inc.
Canada Wild Productions
#16 - 2137 W. 1st Ave.
Vancouver, BC V6K 1E7
(604) 737-2522 Fax: (604) 251-9149
Les Éditions De La Cheneliére Inc.
215 Rue Jean-Talon Est
Montréal, PQ H2R 1S9 (514) 273-1066
Energy Mines & Resources Canada
580 Booth St. - 9th Fl.
Ottawa, ON K1A 0E4
(613) 992-5198 Fax: (613) 992-0792
6845 Rexwood Rd., Unit 2,
Mississauga, ON L4V 1S5 (905) 678-9866
1-800-565-3036 Fax: (905) 678-2403
300 Water St., Whitby, ON L1N 9B6
(905) 430-5000 Fax: (905) 430-5020
Moving Images Distribution
Box 200, Stn.Q, Toronto, ON M4T 2T1
1-800-463-6886 Fax: (416) 484-4425
700 Rue du Roi, 1e étage,
Québec, PQ G1K 2X7
(418) 529-9188 Fax: (418) 648-9201
41 Horner Ave., Unit 3
Etobicoke, ON M8Z 4X4 (416) 252-5907
1-800-668-0749 Fax: (416) 251-3720
402 W. Pender St., Ste.606
Vancouver, BC V6B 1T6
(604) 684-3014 Fax: (604) 684-7165
Videotel Marine International Ltd.
#3 – 8755 Ash St.,
Vancouver, BC V6P 6T3 (604) 324-2600
1-800-263-1818 Fax: (604) 324-4855
Ward’s Natural Science Establishment Inc.
901 Manning Ave, Toronto, ON M6G 2X4
(416) 516-9775 Fax: (416) 599-6300
60 Briarwood Ave., Port Credit, ON L5G 3N6
(905) 278-0566 Fax: (905) 278-2801
Magic Lantern Comm. Ltd. (West)
Mongrel Media
P.O. Box 2366, Stn.D,
Ottawa, ON K1P 5W9
(613) 523-0840 Fax: (613) 523-9290
1840 Mattawa Ave.
Mississauga, ON LX4 1K1
Weston Woods Studios
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Cataloguing Resources
LC- USMARC Formats
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdlist.html
Cataloguers Tool Box
MARC Information
http://www.mun.ca/librar y/cat/
#USMARC
Latest Dewey Editions
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/menu/
home1.htm
Latest Sears
http://www.hwwilson.com/
Dewey Decimal Classification
and Relative Index, Edition 21
OCLC Forest Press, 1996. Four vol.
Permanent paper, buckram binding.
ISBN 0-910608-50-4. $325.00.
Cataloguer’s
Reference Shelf
http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/
crspress.htm
The Library Corporation (TLC) has just
made its collection of 21 MARC
(MAchine-Readable Cataloguing) manuals and other reference works relating to
library technical services freely available
on the web.
Library of Congress publications and
the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
(AACR2) were the basis for the content
and arrangement of many of the
manuals contained at this site. There are
cataloguing manuals for specific formats,
including “archival moving images”,
looseleaf publications, serials (CONSER),
rare books, maps, and graphic materials.
In addition, there are guides to
USMARC formats for bibliographic,
authority, classification and holdings data.
For detailed descriptions and examples of all MARC fields and their subfields,
choose “Bibliographic Data” from the
main menu and then follow the “Tag List”
link. USMARC code lists for countries,
geographic areas and languages are also
available.
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Abridged Dewey Decimal
Classification and Relative
Index, Edition 13
OCLC Forest Press, 1997. 1,023 pp.
Permanent paper, buckram binding.
ISBN 0-910608-59-8. US$90.00.
Sears List of Subject Headings,
16th Edition
H.W. Wilson, 1997. Appr. 786 pp.
ISBN 0-8242-0920-6.
Sears List of Subject Headings:
Canadian Companion, 5th Ed.
H.W. Wilson, 1995. Appr. 97 pp.
ISBN 0-8242-0879-X.
Anglo-American Cataloguing
Rules, 2nd Ed.
Dewey Decimal
Classification
21st Edition
Changes of Interest
to School Librarians
Contains three major revisions: 350354 Public administration, 370 Education and 560-590 Life sciences. Only
two parts of 560-590 Life sciences are
completely revised: 570 (Biology in general) and 583 (Dicotyledons). Other
important revisions include 296
Judaism; 297 Islam; 368 Insurance; and
Table 2 area numbers - 47 for the former
Soviet Union and - 449 for Bulgaria.
1988 Rev. Canadian Library Association; American Library Assoc., c1988.
Appr. 677 pp. ISBN 0-88802-242-5.
AACR2
to Appear in
“Cataloger’s
Desktop”
The Cataloging Distribution Service
(CDS) of the Library of Congress and the
American Library Assocation (ALA) have
signed an agreement to incorporate the
Anglo-American Cataloging Rules,
Second Edtion (AACR2) into Cataloger’s
Desktop, CDS’s one-disc CD-ROM
cataloging tool.
AACR2 is scheduled to first appear
in Cataloger’s Desktop in the last quarter
of 1998. AACR2 joins 29 other publications included in Cataloger’s Desktop.
According to the announcement,
library cataloguing policy specialists will
develop extensive links between AACR2
and many of the cataloguing publications
already included in Cataloger’s Desktop,
such as USMARC formats.
The quarterly update schedule of
Cataloger’s Desktop keeps all of the links
from AACR2 synchronized with the
Library of Congress Rule Interpretations
and other critical cataloguing tools.
Source: The Library of Congress, Washington, DC (202) 707-2905 Fax: (202)
707-9199 http://www.loc.gov
The New York Times
Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning
The new Learning Network connects teachers of grades 6 to 12, their students and
parents to the most comprehensive news
and education resource on the web. Building upon news and archives from The New
York Times, the Learning Network includes
daily lesson plans, interactive news quizzes, and opportunities to talk with reporters from The Times.
Breaking Technology
News from CMPnet
http://www.nytimes.com/tech
The technology section now includes breaking news from CMPnet, keeping you up to
the minute about the fast-changing world
of technology. We’ve also made available
CMP’s encyclopedia of technology terms,
product reviews and downloads of popular
software. All in addition to our original
CyberTimes technology coverage, found
only on the web.
The Hero’s Journey
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/
smc/journey
The purpose of this website is to create an
environment where anyone can create a
story using the mythical hero structure
described by Joseph Campbell. Includes an
extensive reference section, ideas and
examples, and a “Story Tool” for creating
original Hero’s Journey stories.
Indicators of School Quality
From: Schoolwide Indicators of Quality, NSSE (National Study of School Evaluation, USA, 1997)
1. Learning To Learn
Students access information efficiently and effectively by:
] Recognizing the need for information
] Recognizing the accurate and
comprehensive information is the basis for
intelligent decision making
] Formulating questions based on needs
] Identifying a variety of potential sources
of information
] Developing and using successful
strategies for locating information
Students pursue information related to
personal interests by:
] Seeking information related to various
dimensions of personal well-being,
] Such as career interests, community
involvement, health matters and
recreational pursuits
Designing, developing and evaluating
information products and solutions
related to personal interests
Students strive for excellence in information
seeking and knowledge generation by:
] Assessing the quality of the process
and products of their own
information seeking
] Devising strategies for revising,
improving and updating self-generated
knowledge
]
2. Expanding & Integrating
Knowledge
Students use information effectively and creatively by:
] Organizing information for practical
applications
] Integrating new information into
their own knowledge
Indicators of Effective Learning
Resource Management
Developed by John Caldwell & Lillian Carefoot for “Evaluating, Selecting & Managing
Learning Resources: A Guide” BC Ministry of Education, 1996.
Following are indicators which can be used to determine whether learning
resources management at the school or district levels is positive and student-centred
and whether policies and procedures are in place which are based on equitable,
efficient access for staff and students:
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
Resource-Based Learning is supported in the school and district and is evident in practice,
policies and programs. (“A Resource-Based program is a planned educational program that
actively involves students in the use of a wide range of print, non-print, human and
electronic resources.”)
Policies and procedures are in place related to learning resources management. These
policies provide recommendations for effective purchase, access, circulation, storage,
copyright, collection development, etc.
Equitable access is supported so that students and teachers, in any location in the school/
district are able to located and use learning resources when they are required.
A Learning Resources Implementation Plan is in effect at the school and district levels
which addresses the management of learning resources.
The facilities within the school/district are organized so that students and staff have
reasonable access to learning resources and equipment during school hours and extended
hours.
The school/district Technology Plan provides for the purchase of a variety of technology
formats which support learning resources. These include; computer, video, telecommunication and audio-visual.
The school/district has effective methods and policies for inventory control which
protects resources, identifies lost or damaged resources and provides recommendations
for replacement.
Decisions about learning resource management including availability, location and
storage are made in a collaborative manner.
Learning resources are promoted in a variety of ways so that teachers and students have
opportunities to learn what is available and how it can be accessed.
There is a reasonable balance of learning resources available at all locations including;
the school library resource centre, classroom, school bookroom and the district
resource centre.
Teachers, administrators and parents are aware of school, district and Ministry policies
on the provision of funds for the purchase of learning resources.
Adequate, qualified staff (professional and clerical) are available to support the
management of learning resources.
]
Applying information in critical thinking
and problem solving
3. Communication Skills
Students appreciate and enjoy literature and
other creative expressions of information by:
] Demonstrating their competence and
motivation as readers
] Deriving meaning from information pre
sented creatively in a variety of formats
] Developing creative products in a
variety of formats
4. Thinking & Reasoning Skills
Students evaluate information critically and
competently by:
] Determining accuracy, relevance and
comprehensiveness
] Distinguishing among facts, points of
view, and opinions
] Identifying inaccurate and misleading
information
] Selecting information appropriate to the
problem or question at hand
5. Interpersonal Skills
Students participate effectively in groups to
pursue and generate information by:
] Sharing knowledge and information
with others
] Respecting others’ ideas and
backgrounds, and acknowledging
their contribution
] Collaborating with others, both in
person and through technologies, to
identify information problems, and to
seek their solution
] Collaborating with others, both in
person and through technologies, to
design, develop and evaluate information
products and solutions
6. Personal & Social
Responsibility
Students recognize the importance of
information to a democratic society by:
] Seeking information from diverse sources,
contexts, disciplines and cultures
] Respecting the principle of equitable
access to information
] Practicing ethical behavior in regard to
information and information technology
] Respecting the principles of
intellectual freedom
] Respecting intellectual property rights
] Using information technology
responsibly
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ALSC Lists Notable Computer Software
The Association for Library Service
to Children (ALSC) has announced
its list of Notable Computer
Software for 1998.
The American Girls Premiere
The Learning Company
Windows/Mac. US$34.99.
American Girls come to life as viewers create their own historical dramas, using this
versatile and innovative CD-ROM. Users
design and produce their own plays, setting
the stage, selecting the characters and determining the dialogue as Addy, Samantha, Felicity, Molly and Kirsten perform within their
historical time frames. Props, musical selections, lighting and sound effects are available to young “directors” to help them learn
about theatre production.
Cat in the Hat
Broderbund. Windows/Mac. US$34.95
Beginning readers love the impulsive Cat,
Thing One, and Thing Two, brought to life in
this wacky Living Books title. The series
teaches a new level of interactivity, as kids
can pile books, cakes and toy ships on the
balancing cat, along with a hatful of other
silly activities.
The Digital Field Trip to the
Rainforest
Digital Frog International. Windows/Mac.
US$49. Educational version US$99.
Designed primarily for classroom use, this
CD-ROM enables viewers to discover the
world of the Blue Creek Rainforest Reserve in
Belize in Central America. Explore the trail
in Quicktime and take in a panoramic view
of the surroundings. At each trail marker,
users can learn about the plants and animals
through film clips, photos and text information that describes different types of rainforests and the mechanisms that keep the rainforest alive. The educational version includes
an extensive teacher and study guide.
My Amazing Human Body
DK Multimedia. Windows/Mac. US$29.95
Seemore Skinless, an engaging skeleton, takes
children ages 6 to 10 on a guided tour of the
human body where they learn about systems
and organs while playing a variety of lively
and entertaining educational games. Sure to
be a hit with libraries who offer CD-ROM
technology to customers, as well as with
parents and teachers looking for a way to
educate primary grade children about how
the body functions.
Piano Discovery for Kids.
Jump! Music. Windows/Mac. US$49.95
Farewell to boring piano lessons - this disk
comes with a keyboard overlay that sits on
the computer keyboard and plays the associated notes or it can be used with an optional
MIDI keyboard. Included are 600 lessons and
33 songs for students to progress at their own
pace. A website allows members to join the
“club” and download a new song each
month. Lots of positive feedback and rewards,
including stickers.
Search & Learn with
Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.nytimes.com/archives
Over 85,000 Encyclopaedia Britannica
articles and illustrations are now included
in every search of the 365-Day Archive of
The New York Times. The search and
summary are free; each full article retrieved
costs US$2.50, regardless of length.
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