American Library Association

The American Library Association provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.

Ask An Expert Page

Suitable for all grades the Ask an Expert Page provides links to experts in a number of different categories. One of the greatest values of the World Wide Web is the people that are part of the Internet community. This site offers a quick one-step process for finding experts in any field.

Citation Machine - The LandMark Project

Need help listing your feferences in MLA Bibliographic Format? This site will help you get them right! Just fill in the information about the work you are citing, and this site will write your bibliography entry for you!

Copyright on the Internet

Kent State's workshop page for Copyright on the Internet - has additional resources and a Quiz!

Copyright Tips and Issues

Before creating a school web page, you should understand some basic copyright issues. What is fair use, the necessity of getting student permission to publish their work, and crediting other people's work can be found here.

Copyright Tutorial

Take this tutorial and then test your skills about US copyright laws...

Cyndi's list: Copyright Issues

Web Sites with Useful Copyright Reference Information.

Education Week

The online edition of this periodical will keep you current on education newsaround the country.

Funbrain.Com

Curriculum based games and activities grouped by grade level and subject. Links for Teachers, Kida and Patents - a fun site!!

Gaggle

A safe, controlled alternative for student e-mail accounts.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress Online Catalog is a database of approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials in the Library's collections. You can also access "Thomas" for legislative information on the Internet and "American Memory," Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.

Library Spot

LibrarySpot.com , the award-winning vertical information portal of the best library and reference resources on the Web, was one of 33 Web sites selected by Forbes magazine as a "Forbes Favorite" Web site in the publication's new Best of The Web guide. In the venerable company of sites such as ESPN.com, CNET.com and Yahoo Finance, LibrarySpot.com was selected as the "best of the best" in the reference category.

NCREL

The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping schools -- and the students they serve--reach their full potential. They specialize in the educational applications of technology.

OCLC - Online Computer Library Center

Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More than 53,548 libraries in 96¬Ýcountries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it.

Ohio Historical Society

The Ohio Historical Society is a nonprofit organization incorporated in 1885 "...to promote a knowledge of archaeology and history, especially in Ohio."

Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)

The mission of the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) is to ensure equity of access to information for all Ohio citizens. You can access all of their online databases if you have a library card from your local library!

OhioLink

The State Library of Ohio is a founding member of OhioLINK, a networkedconsortium of over 90 public and private universities and colleges throughout the state.

QUICK: Quality Information Checklist

Imagine you have been set a project on smoking. You decide that you want to find some information on the Internet. You do a search for the word "SMOKING". You find there are nearly 500 web sites about smoking. Some of these will be useless to you, e.g. pictures of people smoking or a list of cartoon characters who smoke! How do you decide which web sites will be useful? Here's where QUICK can help. QUICK will turn you into explorers. It will help you find clues so you can decide if the INFORMATION in a web site is any good.

refdesk.com - My Homework Helper

Hundreds of links to reference materials on the web.

School Grants

Your one-stop site for K-12 Grant Opportunities!

State Library of Ohio

State Library of Ohio provides support services to Ohio libraries through its technical services and library development departments, and by maintaining a library for state government.

The Amazing Picture Machine

Index to graphical resources on the internet.

The Copyright Website

This site endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information.

The Internet Public Library

The Internet Public Library is the first public library of the Internet. As librarians, we are committed to providing valuable services to that world.

U.S. Copyright Office Home Page

Latest information about copyright issues and U.S. Copyright Office publications.