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
