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NEW TO THE SITE 7/01/00 Major additions, renovations, in preparation of Eleanor's Books and Children's Books Central getting their own web site. If you are a new visitor please click FOR THE WEB SURFER

NEW TO THE SITE 3/01/99 Recent additions.

http://www.book-sales-in-america.com/ book sales and bookstores run by libraries and other non-profit groups across the nation. Some sales have a few hundred books - some have hundreds of thousands - and they're cheap!
http://www.webtales.com/ Amazing Web Tales Online serials, free individual display pages for writers & publishers, writing forums, message boards, features, add your link, kiosk, more.
kidpub.org kid stories written by kids.

www.teleport.com~burrell writing, resources, and more to check out.

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Education/ERYS/listserv.html Electronic Resources for Youth Services (mailing lists)

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Education/ERYS/childlit.html "This web site is dedicated to reviewing WWW resources related to children's literature and youth services. These resources are aimed towards school librarians, children's writers, illustrators, book reviewers, storytellers, parents, and others interested in this area." (sounds familiar) many links need updating as site has not been updated in quite some time, but many choice sites linked from here.

http://db.cochran.com/li_toc:theoPage.db Berit's Best Sites for Children, "This is a directory of safe, recommended Web sites for children up to age 12. Each selected site has been carefully reviewed and given a rating out of 5." (family, kids)

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Help/Tutorial/index.html Chebucto Internet Guide and tutorial, Getting Started Guide. An easy way to slide into using today's technology, nice, simple. If new to all this start here. (search engines) Version française available.

http://www.pixelfoundry.com/index.html The Pixel Foundry, tips, tricks, and resources for web designers, photoshop users and graphic artists. (search engine tuning, illustrator resources)

http://www.addall.com Addall checks out price, availability, shipping times and shipping costs of any book at over 25 online stores, and even does a price comparison of stores offering your book. Best searches are done with ISBN number. Does a non-English search. (new books, books in languages)
http://literaryleaps.com/leapaisle.cfm?aislenumber=2 BookZone Literary Leaps, Bookstores, Booksellers for a listing of links to new and used resources. (books new + used)

NEW TO THE SITE 12/01/98

http://www.altavista.com/ Altavista search by question (search engines)

http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/reference-books.html Virtual Reference Sites, over 10,000 selected sites, good index, line or two description. (General Dir.)

http://www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/english/links.htm Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents Related Links for books in languages, recommended books, conferences. (books in languages)
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/ DOD Dictionary of Military Terms, The DOD Dictionary and the Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations master data base are managed by the Joint Doctrine Division, J-7, Joint Staff. (dictionary)
http://www.c3.lanl.gov:8064/ Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru), not too accurate but a help sometimes. (dictionary)

http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/schoolhouse/ Virtual Schoolhouse, "A Meta-Library of K-12 Internet Links" Try their Library, Art Room and Virtual Field Trips. (teacher resources, library resources, general directories)

http://www.webteacher.org/macnet/indextc.html Web Teacher your source for web knowledge, start with their Web Primer and Web Tutorial. Then work down their list of lessons to increase your knowledge of the web and it's workings. Thanks to the National Cable Television Association and Tech corps for all this great information at one location in easy to understand terms.(Search engines help,tuning)

http://www.cdm.org/links1.html Children's Discovery Museum's accessibility web page, links to nation and world wide children museums. (kids stuff, family sites)
http://www.kidlitonline.com/ KidLit Newsletter online now after being in print for ten years, information on auctions, exhibits, conferences, bookfairs and general articles about authors and illustrators of children's books. (collectors)

http://www.rosenbach.org/mainpage.html Rosenbach Museum and Library holdings include one of the largest and most important collections of Carolliana worldwide. And the major repository for the illustrations and manuscripts of Maurice Sendak. Developing site with Lewis games in the Kids section and Teachers page coming soon. (libraries, kids, authors)
http://www.magickeys.com/books/ Children's Storybooks Online, (need to check out what is here, quick look says it will take some indexing.)
http://www.cherryvalleybooks.com/chilread.cfm?transid=35825.7473212 Cherry Valley Books, link listing page to online resources (check out whole site)

NEW TO THE SITE 11/12/98

http://www.sau.edu/CWIS/Internet/Wild/index.htm BIOTN the Best Information on the Net chosen by librarians at O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University (gen directories)
http://www.abt.org/dictionary/ Ballet dictionary complete with defination of terms with illustrations and quick-time videos for positions and steps. (dictionary)
http://www.mtnds.com/af/ Acronym Finder not only looks up acronyms in a database of about 60,000 but allows you to search words through the acronyms' meanings, e.g., all acronyms whose meanings have to do with "film". (dictionary)
http://www.bconnex.net/~randys/ Animated American Sign Language Dictionary (dictionary)
http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt/ The Wordsmyth English Dictionary -Thesaurus one of the greatest reference tools I've ever seen. If you're not sure about spelling, use the Approximate Search ("elgant" retrieved "elegant"), and the computer will look for near matches; if you want to see all words that INCLUDE your word, do a Floating Search ("brain" retrieved addlebrained, brainchild, brain wave, etc.). Not only are there definitions, there are synonyms--and since you can click on those to view full definitions, this is also a dictionary of synonyms. (dictionary)

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm Direct List which gets you to over 600 search tools and directories for specific subject areas--it beats using general search engines by a long shot. (directories, search engines help?)

http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OL1998/hock5.html How To Do Field Searching on the Search Engines this article from Online tells you which search engines allow you to search which specific fields (URL, images, date, title, language, etc.) and how, with a handy comparison chart. (search engines).
http://www.pw.org/ Poets & Writers magazine Online, no magazine but some good links; check out their classifieds (author resources)

http://www.antiquarian.com/pbfa/ Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association PBFA - the largest trade association in the world for dealers in Antiquarian and Secondhand Books, organizing around 150 Book Fairs a year in the U.K. (conferences, fairs)

http://www.antiqbook.com/ NAN Netherlands Antiquarian Booksellers' Network, searches their dealer network for used books, nice feature is the guest of the month.(books used)

http://lycospro.lycos.com/ try the pro search feature at this site. (search engines)

http://www.childrensbookguild.org/index.html The Children's Book Guild, check out their listing of member authors and illustrators, with links to their home pages and publishers (author illustrators)

http://blackdog.net/welcome.html Blackdog.net, fun games, pictures, music, interactive stories, postcards and info (kids,family sites)

http://bookswithoutborders.com/ Books Without Borders, has available many titles in different languages in text and audio formats. (books in languages)
http://www.pioneer.lib.ut.us/resource/books.htm Pioneer, Utah's Online Library. Resources page, good resources for writers and writing, among other things. Electronic Texts Online | Banned Books | Book Information on the Internet | Children's Literature | Online Booksellers | Writers and Writing | Fiction (link to link, writers resources)

http://collectbooks.miningco.com/msubmini.htm The Mining Company's list of links for minature books. (collecting)

http://www.readersretreat.com/ Reader's Retreat, articles for and about writing (author resources)
http://www.robinsnest.com Robin's Nest for Writers and Web Surfers, many good links reached from here. (author resources, link to link)

NEW TO THE SITE 10/7/98

http://www.he.net/~libdir/ Librarian's Home Page Directory, listing is alphabetical and by specialization. (librarian res.)

http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~mstimson/text/hotspots.html School Library Hotspots, web links to materials for librarians and public school. Good listing including web awareness links.(librarians res.)

http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ Major site to combat spam, tells you what to do, what not to do and how to help fight the battle. (search engines, help)

http://www.bibliomag.com/links_groups.html Bibliomags list of newsgroups and mail lists, some good ones and others that will have you looking for that one that covers your subject. (mail lists)

Mailing Lists
Bibliophile Mailing List
http://www.auldbooks.com/biblio/index.html
Discussion on all aspects of books.
Bibsocan
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/~bsc/bibsoc.htm
Discussion on bibliography.
Book_Arts-L
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/bookarts/
Discussion on all facets of the book arts.
SHARP-L
http://www.indiana.edu/~sharp/sharp-l.html
Discussion on the history of printing culture.

http://www.voicenet.com/~bertland/libsf/stpages/stdir.html Directory of public school library web sites, listed by state. If this isn't all of them it sure is a complete listing. Update last 9/1 new #29. With this. (librarian res.)

http://k12.oit.umass.edu/libguide.html The Public Service Librarian's Professional Guide to Internet Resources provided by The Winsor School Library, Boston MA. As the name implies there is a lot here but a bit difficult to resource quickly, definitely worth the look though. ( book & gen directory, lib res)

http://k12.oit.umass.edu/libguide.html#Lists The Public Service Librarian's Professional Guide to Internet Resources provided by The Winsor School Library, Boston MA. This page links you to, and tells you how to get on list servers (mailing lists), with some 20 plus described. (mail lists)
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/ Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, on going listing of valuable web resources for teachers. (teacher res)

http://www.tyler.net/ruskhslib/webpage.htm Rusk High School Webpage Creation Tools & Tutorials, good links to backgrounds, arrows & etc., tutorials (Web development)
http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/npin/index.html National Parent Information Network, part of the ERIC system links to many resources. (parent res)

http://encarta.msn.com/EncartaHome.asp Encarta encyclopedia on line, in your choice of languages. (dictionaries)
http://www.eb.com:180/ Encyclopedia Britannica on line available free trail, have to register (dictionaries)
http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/ Literature Resources for the High School and College Students. Literature by date or author, books on-line, writer's resources, magazines, more. (books on-line, books resources)

http://americas-stirfry.com/links.html America's Stirfry, building links around the world for families with kids who love to read, many child safe links. Offering multi culture books and items for sell. (family resources)

http://pages.prodigy.com/ct_homeschool/index.htm Homeschooling in Connecticut, many good links on the subject, a reference site for information. (family resources)

http://www.bookgarden.com/fox.html Fabler Fox's Reading Room, Book Garden publishing on-line, good early reader. (publishers)
http://www.bookgarden.com/ Book Garden Gallery, offers a nice selection of books for sell, has illustrated stories on-line, links to interesting sites. (book illustrations)
http://www.disney.com/DisneyBooks/ Disney Books (new books)

http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=childlit&list A Children's Literature Gathering (web ring)
http://www.unm.edu/~lhendr/ Linnea Hendrickson's Online Book: Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism. Available there are the in print resources that were used. (reference, teacher resources)

http://www.inforamp.net/~abrown/frames.htm Alan Brown's Canadian Teacher-Librarians' Resource Pages from Ontario, provides an annotated list of sites as general resources for schools. Nicely indexed and many links with detailed descriptions. (directories, librarian & teacher resources)

http://www.newstrawler.com/nt/nt_home.html Newstrawler is a wonderful new meta-search engine with a twist, it searches hundreds of news archives across the net and it does it all at once. (search engines)

http://sashimi.wwa.com/~jayhawk/index.html Librarian's Site du Jour, general links with usually a research outlook. (daily)

http://ansernet.rcls.org/libland/llchil.htm Library Land Resources for Librarians, music, storytelling, resources, authors, reading clubs, parenting, library skills and more. (directories, library resources)

http://clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html Free Internet Encyclopedia, words linked to sites for information. (dictionaries)

http://www.pathfinder.com/@@rjmEmgcADvP9mjp/photo/index.html Time Life Photo Sight, index archive of photos from Civil War to Bogart. (illustrators resources)

http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/libonweb.htm Libraries on the Web, growing world index. Strong listings in North America. (librarian's resources)

http://www.webring.org/#ringworld Web Ring Directory, is an index of most of the rings on the web. Search by topic and see a short description with how many members. (web rings)
http://members.aol.com/thedrawing/ The Drawing Board For Illustrators, links to many sites from on-line materials to the questions of copyright, large list of mail lists, good links and on-line information for the children's illustrator to be. (illustrator resources)

http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary, perfect rhymes, connects to MW dictionary, spell check, partial rhymes and more. (dictionaries)

http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/ Bartlett's Familiar Quotes, Columbia University site. Not just a listing but a search engine giving excellent results. Also can search by author. (dictionaries)

http://www.kcpl.lib.mo.us/ya/ Young Adult Librarian's Help, link listings updated monthly, many choice sites not found listed otherwise. (librarian resources)

NEW TO THE SITE 9/1/98

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ KidsClick: Web Guide and Search Tool for Kids by Librarians: Over 2600 records for Internet resources of interest to kids that have been selected, annotated and categorized by a team of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System in New York.. (kids, gen dir)

http://www.nj.com/yucky/ Yuckiest Site on the Internet -- Worms & roaches; New Jersey Online (kids)

http://www.refdesk.com/first.html My Virtual Reference Desk, First Things First. Start the day with First Things First for todays comics or current events from papers, magazines, news on-line services and more (daily)
http://www.bookwire.com/index/other-resources.html The Bookwire Other resources, from book binding to authors and illustrators who visit schools. If it has to do with books it might just be here. (directories)
http://www.rarebooks.org/Childrens/ChildrensQ198.htm IBCA articles on childrens' book collecting, great intro and some good links for more info. (book collecting)
http://www.rarebooks.org/Childrens/ChildrensQ198.htm Children's Literature Ring specializes in children's literature http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3777/ring.html explains the ring while the first is a member site. (rings)
http://www.bilingualbooks.com/ Bilingual Books for Kids Spanish and English books about myths and legends, biographies, pooetry,nursery rhymes, and more. (bilingual)
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/libsci.html#acqdept Acqweb's Library & Information Science Resources of Interest to Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarians. (lib res)
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/ Children's Picture Book Database Searchable bibliography of over 4000 children's picture books that are held by the Instructional Materials Center of the Miami University Libraries. (libraries, ill)
http://www.refdesk.com/siteweek.html My site of the week with some previous weeks links still available. My Virtual Reference Desk. (daily)
http://www.ipl.org/col/rotw.html Resource of the week from Internet Public Library. Examples: Atlas of US Mortality, World Cup Race. (daily)
http://home.snap.com/directory/category/0,16,-1665,00.html?st.sn.fd.0.dir-1665 Snap's literture guide many good links located here, with best stamps on some. (directories)
http://www.cfm.org/famlinks.html Links to Family Areas, a list of sites for children and parents. Christian Family Movement. (parents)
http://members.tripod.com/~eruantalon/tolkien/webrings.html Inklings Webring for Tolkien (rings)
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/referenc.htm Virtual Reference Library from JMU. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, yellow and white pages, more links for reference (dictionaries, ref)
http://home.revealed.net/albee/ Needle in a CyberStack- the InfoFinder: Not as easy to navagate as the digital librarian but definitely a wealth of links on a wide base. (gen directory)
http://members.tripod.com/~PHILKON/ring.html The History Ring. This ring is dedicated to internet sites which feature historical information. (rings)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ Librarians' Index to the Internet from Berkeley. Easy to search index, with well described links simplifyiing your search. (general directory)
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/ Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. Site listings for curriculum and teacher growth. (teacher res)
http://www.educationindex.com/ Education Index; "your guide to the best and most useful education-related sites on the Web." Many resources, well indexed, excellent variety. (techer res)
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/EDUCATE/PARENTS/index.html Ohio Public Library Information Network. Good links for librarians, parents, teachers, students. Site building and more here. (lib res, par, tec, kid)
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alcuin/alpha.html Eric Morgan's OPAC (online public access catalogs) Listing of libraries with their resource listings available over the web (lib res)
http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/index.htm St Louis Public Library: Premier Internet Sources great links to fun and knowledge. Go to their Highlighted Sites or Day Trips or the Category links. (kids, daily)
http://www.cary.lib.me.us/ Cary Library, great little site with fun buttons! And nice graphics. (kids)
http://www.cpl.org/010004/010004.shtml Cleveland Public Library short listing (~50) of Electronic Resources-Children's Literature Department (fun kids stuff)
http://copac.ac.uk/copac/ COPAC is a new national Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland (libraries)
http://remove-list.com/links.html AntiSpam links brought to you by remove-list dot com (web engines) SERVER HAS CUT SERVICES 10-98
http://www.rcs.rang.k12.va.us/SCHOOLS/RCHS/Library/Rchslib.htm Rockbridge County High School site with a nice selection of links (gen dir)
http://www.voicenet.com/~bertland/libsf/stpages/stdir.html links to the home library pages of public schools (lib res)
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html Web 66-School Web Site Listings (teacher res)
http://www.classroom.com/ Classroom Connect's Class Web Listings (teacher res)
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/art/M.C.Escher/ Escher drawings, including hands drawing hands. (illustrator res)
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/art/ Famous Artists works available to view, what you expect to find in museums is available on the web. (illustrator res )
http://www.rich.k12.ut.us/pages/media.htm Rich County School District Media Center, internet resource page, nice index to a variety of school subjects and some fun sites. (gen dir)
http://www.si.edu/ Kids guide to the Smithsonian (kids)
http://www.servtech.com/~mvail/childresources.html Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the web. Check their red marked new items for some real treats. Such as the Yuckiest Site on the Internet. (daily)

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