Collection Developement

Bibliographic Searching:

http://credendalibrary.blogspot.com/2009/03/request-form-to-materials-purchase.html
-this blog gives some examples of request forms and online book sellers to help you with adding materials to your library collection

How to Evaluate Non-Fiction:

http://people.virginia.edu/~lbs5z/Reviewing%20Nonfiction/ -how to evaluate nonfiction

http://credendalibrary.blogspot.com/ -how to evaluate nonfiction

http://books.google.com/booksid=Dq4fjmc6rwQC&pg=PA6&dq=robots+from+every+day&ei=47G-Sf-OEovukQSFwvWdDw#PPA6,M1 -google books, you can look at parts of books to help you review them

Sources for In-print materials:

http://www.bookmanager.com/ -provides info on which distributors have which books and you can look at national bestsellers and get the national rating on books

http://credendalibrary.blogspot.com/2009/03/meet-author-virtual-tour-with-arthur.html-meet the author aurthur slade, this blog also has sites to get reviews on books

Government Documents:

http://credendalibrary.blogspot.com/2009/01/pathfinder-on-government-documents.html -This website is neat because it shows a map of the depository libraries in canada and you can see ours there!

http://credendalibrary.blogspot.com/2009/03/webquest-on-bibliographic-searching.html
-Webquest on Bibliographic Searching -this webquest was really tough!

Non-English Materials:

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/multicultural/005007-300-e.html

http://onlinenewspapers.com/canadasa.htm http://www.ethnologue.com/ -"An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages"

http://www.foreignword.com/ -has links to language dictionaries, translators, etc.

Vertical Files:

http://coldfusion.mcps.k12.md.us/cfms/webteam/dvf/ -digital vertical files

http://www.noblenet.org/bhcc/virtualverticalfile.htm -virtual vertical files

Periodicals on the Internet and Bookmarking:

Periodicals on the internet blog: http://credendalibrary.blogspot.com/2009/05/periodicals-on-internet.html

Bookmarking blog: http://credendalibrary.blogspot.com/2009/04/social-bookmarking-for-librarians.html

Ordering and Accounting

http://credendalibrary.blogspot.com/2009/05/basic-bookkeeping-for-libraries.html -there are some really great videos on here on the basics of excel

Gifts and Exchanges

Tonight we discussed the different policies on accepting donations and some things you might consider before deciding whether or not to add a book to your collection.

This was a fun webquest. We had to practice searching to find the title of the book and then look up reviews and use our donation policy to decide whether or not we would keep this book.
http://credendalibrary.blogspot.com/2009/06/library-webquest.html

Weeding and Evaluation

We learned about MUSTIE guide to help when weeding books:
Misleading (factually inaccurate)
Ugly
Superceded (by a new edition or better book)
Trivial (of no literary or scientific merit)
Irrelevent (no longer meets the needs of the community)
Elswhere (if you can obtain it somewhere else)

This link is to a weeding manual, there is a lot of interesting information on how to weed books in here: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/crew/crewmethod08.pdf

Reader's Advisory

http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/rr.html -interesting website. You can search under the type of book you like to read, or a certain title and it gives an overview of what the book is about and their reviews.

http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/blog/ -reader’s advisory

Websites About Children's Books

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/lac-bac/art_of_illustration-ef/www.lac-bac.gc.ca/3/10/index-e.html -Library and Archives Canada Art of Illustration website

www.gutenberg.org -free electronic books

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/ -fairytales

www.kennethoppel.ca –website for author Kenneth Oppel

http://carol.carolmatas.com/contemp.htm -website for author Carol Matas

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen/ -about author and books by Gary Paulsen

http://www.ourcanadiangirl.ca/ -lists the books in the Our Canadian Girl series, information about the characters, and neat activities you can do.

Online Encyclopedias

http://www.infoplease.com -atlas, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus

http://en.wikipedia.org

http://www.encyclopedia.com

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com

http://www.bartleby.com -search inside books like the King James Bible, Gray’s Anatomy, Roget’s Thesauri and more

http://www.globio.org/glossopedia -neat kid’s encyclopedia

http://academickids.com

http://www.esask.uregina.ca -Saskatchewan encyclopedia

http://www65.statcan.ca/acyb01/acyb01_0000-eng.htm -Canadian yearbooks

Dictionary Websites

http://www.pdictionary.com -picture dictionary (browse by letter, category, and in other languages)

http://www.infovisual.info -visual dictionary (search by image, word, common usage, or topic)

http://www.etymonline.com -dictionary on the history of words

http://onlineslangdictionary.com -slang dictionary

http://www.koalanet.com.au/austranian-slang.html -Australian slang dictionary

http://www.synonym.com -online thesaurus

http://www.thefreedictionary.com -allows you to search many sources: dictionary, medical dictionary, thesaurus, acronyms, idioms, translate words.

http://www.netlingo.com -chat slang dictionary

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com -children’s almanac

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary

http://www.visuwords.com -a visual dictionary

http://www.urbandictionary.com

http://publications.gc.ca/control/publichomepage -search government documents

http://www23.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/ch/e/docs/ch_welcome.asp -career handbook

http://www.eric.ed.gov -search the Education Resources Information Center