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Children's Services Round Table (CSRT)
"I Want Bone Dog", Online Reference and Reader's Advisory for the Smallest Clientele
Utah Library Association Conference - May 2, 2002
Lisa Myron & Patty Steed
Salt Lake City Public Library Main/Downtown
The Ultimate Tool
Use the advanced search and you will find anything your heart desires including poetry. (www.google.com)
Children’s Literature
www.childrenslit.com
Good source for information on book awards, authors, booklists.
www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ChildrenLit
Very intereseting site with multicultural booklists, and interesting lists such as, female voices in picture books.
http://www.rickwalton.com/utahauth/bring.htm
Utah authors.
www.bookmuse.com
Good book information for adults and kids.
www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/new.html
Children’s Literature Web Guide.
www.carolhurst.com
Children’s Literature information – reviews.
www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=5002&cid=2&url=5002
Fun site where kids learn about dewey.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/librarylandclosed.html
A rich resource – it would take less space to list what is not here then what is.
Hodgepodge
www.beritsbest.com
Visitors rank the top 25 sites on a variety of topics and they do a good job!
www.aaamath.com
This is a great site for math K – 8.
www.goodies.com/lessons
Introduction to algebra concepts.
www.schoolexpress.com/fws/sub_cat1math.asp?cat=Math
Printable worksheets on a variety of topics, math, phonics, etc.
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html
Grand selection of sites listed by topic.
http://lcweb.loc.gov
Library of Congress has more then American Memory.
http://library.thinkquest.org/15060
Introduction to piano.
www.biography.com
Good information about people, looks a little glitzy (Hollywood) at first but it does give information on all kinds of people.
www.educationworld.com
Lots of information about the internet and suggested sites. If you are on their mailing list you get a list a couple of times a month that will suggest good sites.
www.bigchalk.com
Everything! Get on the mail list and new sites will e-mailed to you weekly.
The Sciences
www.artyastro.com
Interactive solar system site.
www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
Great site about the solar system for older kids.
www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide
Science Fair.
www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/SciProjIntro.html
Science Fair.
www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/science.html
Science Fair, biographies on inventors, and much more.
http://sciencefairproject.virtualave.net
Science Fair – good place for ideas.
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Spacelink.Hot.Topics
NASA Hot Topics – check-out "Space Day".
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Spacelink.Cool.Picks/.index.html
NASA Cool Picks – check-out the Hubble Telescope videos under “Amazing Space”.
www.froguts.com
Dissection of a frog while you watch or you can interact.
www.discoveryschool.com
Information on the sciences.
www.zoomschool.com/coloring
Nice animal site.
Homework Sites
www.abcteach.com
Information for children, parents, and teachers on a variety of topics.
www.highschoolhub.org
Good for high school but younger kids can use the information.
www.sparknotes.com
Book notes (like cliff notes) and other homework helps in lots of different subjects.
www.factmonster.com
Great Homework help site.
www.refdesk.com
Reference and current events.
www.researchpaper.com
Another good “How to do it” research paper site.
www.yourdictionary.com
Good dictionary.
www.ipl.org/teen/aplus
Reference and current events.
Last but Not Least (just for fun)
www.yucky.com
Great kids gross out site!
Page last updated December 2002.
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