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Adventist Elementary School Libraries: A Model
Kindergarten-Grade 8
This JAE article presents a library model, ANGEL, for elementary schools. Libraries are not perceived as a high priority area, resulting in students not gaining access to enrichment or remedial information and not learning how to use a library. Southern Adventist...
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Adventist Librarianship Accesses the Electronic Future
Tertiary-Lifelong
This JAE article describes the journey Adventist librarians are taking into technology by sharing their activities in planning for the future. Adventist librarians meet every year to plan how to provide for the quick and efficient delivery of information.
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Adventist Library Information Cooperative - ALICE
Kindergarten-Lifelong
The Adventist Library Information Cooperative (ALICE) is a consortium of Adventist institutional libraries operating under the umbrella of the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians (ASDAL). A volunteer organization, managed by a council consisting...
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American Association of School Librarians - AASL
Preschool-Grade 12
AASL works to ensure that all members of the school library media field collaborate to:
* provide leadership in the total education program
* participate as active partners in the teaching/learning process
* connect learners with ideas...
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ANGEL and the Well-Stocked Library
Kindergarten-Grade 12
The Adventist Network of General Educational Libraries (ANGEL) was developed to improve the quality of church school libraries in the Southern Union Conference. The services it offers include selection and purchase of books appropriate to student age level,...
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Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians - ASDAL
Tertiary-Lifelong
This website includes information about association laws, committees, the ALICE consortium, an ASDAL member list, and Adventist resource links of interest to Adventist librarians.
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Athenaeum Light
Kindergarten-Lifelong
Athenaeum Light is a free and easy-to-use library program. It can be used both in the library and to track textbooks. Useful for small schools with limited budgets, but can handle large catalogues and manage borrower lists easily. The program allows you to...
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Automating the K-12 Library
Kindergarten-Grade 12
A school librarian tells of her experience in automating a school library. A list of the features that are common to the majority of library management systems software and another list of school library automation systems, with company name and contact information,...
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Bibliotherapy in Seventh-day Adventist Education - Using the Information Media for Character Development
Tertiary-Lifelong
Bibliotherapy is the use of literature and other forms of media "to solve an individual's personal or emotional problems." Cronje points out "that when bibliotherapy is applied, it can be of benefit to students in our educational institutions...
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Big6: An Information Problem-Solving Process
Grade 3-Lifelong
This website is designed to help teachers teach essential information literacy skills. The Big6 concept simplifies the complex issues of information literacy by breaking them down into six areas which may be addressed sequentially, providing teachers and students...
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BookSpot
Grade 1-Grade 12
A website with the best book-related resources on the World Wide Web. It is designed to break through the information overload to bring top book-related sites together with insightful editorial in one convenient, user-friendly spot.
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Cataloging and Classification
Kindergarten-Lifelong
This article explains the processes of cataloging and classification of library materials. A library catalog is an organized set of bibliographic records. Cataloging has two phases: descriptive and subject cataloging. The two most commonly used methods for...
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CNN Interactive
Grade 5-Lifelong
CNN's website includes information on the latest news around the world, sports, weather, etc. Also available are Asia and Europe editions.
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Creating a Good Library Web Site
Kindergarten-Lifelong
This article focuses on the experience of Southern Adventist University (SAU) Library's experience in web site design and provides a step-by-step guide to the process followed. A well-designed web site is one of the best ways for a library to communicate to...
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Cruden's Complete Concordance
Grade 1-Lifelong
Compact and easy to use, this concordance is a practical, convenient, eminently useful companion to the King James Version and other classic translations of the Bible. Includes more than 200,000 references to both the King James Version and the Revised Version....
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Disaster Control in Libraries: A Lesson from the Los Angeles Central Library Fire
Tertiary-Lifelong
An examination of the April 29, 1986, Los Angeles Central Library fire. Recovery methods are described. Elements of disaster control are prevention, preparedness, and response. These should be included in a written disaster plan, formulated by a committee...
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Distance Learners: Teaching and Assessing Information Literacy
Tertiary-Lifelong
This article discusses distance learners and teaching and assessing information literacy. Library support for these learners must follow learning outcomes assessment programs. It must emphasize the development of critical thinking skills and support culturally...
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How to do Research
Grade 12-Tertiary
This site introduces students to plagiarism, copyright, and fair use. The information on research is easy to print and is handy at any reference desk. The rudiments of finding books, articles, searching the web, evaluating information, and citing sources,...
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Info Please
Grade 5-Lifelong
Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938 first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet. Includes almanacs, atlas, encyclopedia,...
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Institute for Learning Technologies
Tertiary-Lifelong
This is a large collection of articles and a virtual library of resources on learning. Includes links to publications and other information.