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What Is the Future of Reference?
From the left (left image): Rocco Staino; Barbara Genco, Library Journal's manager of special projects; and Christopher Harris. From the left (right image):Jon Gregory, Matt Andros, Roger Rosen, Diana...
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The College Maze | From Application to Admission (And Beyond)
By Alicia Eames For the college-bound the pressure is on; there are essays to write, tests to ace, and applications to complete. With guides galore available to teens, this round-up offers a sampling...
View ArticleHot Topics for Teens and Tweens: Financial Literacy and CyberSmarts
Rosen Digital has just announced the launch of two new digital resources for middle school and high school students: Financial Literacy, an online database for economics and personal finance; and Teen...
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Why Offer Black Storytime? | First Steps
Photo courtesy of Jupiterimages Imagine that while interviewing for a library job you’re asked, “What would storytime specifically for African-American families look like to you?” That’s what happened...
View ArticleWorld book’s print standard gets new life: Solid Scholarship Meets...
When it comes to research, World Book has long held a special place in the hearts of librarians and teachers alike. In the rapidly evolving world of online resources and shrinking budgets, though,...
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Beyond Barron’s: The College Maze
SLJTeen’s sister newsletter, Curriculum Connections, recently ran a terrific article that’s perfect for high school seniors who are thinking about college—and for those of us who work with them. “The...
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Teens Rock the World! Win a Free Copy Now
When it comes to changing the world, two titles—Girls Who Rocked the World and Boys Who Rocked the World—prove that it doesn’t matter how old you are. Originally a two-book series, which Publishers...
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Global Issues, Digital Perspectives
Image from ‘Atlas by Collins’ A number of apps address the state of our planet. One of the first produced for students was Al Gore’s award-winning Our Choice (Melcher Media/Push Pop Press; $4.99),...
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An Alternative Search Tool for Your Tablet
Izik, by Blekko, debuts as the top reference app in iTunes A new app for the iPad and Android devices uses a highly visual format to provide a different search experience for the tablet user. More than...
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Tech Tidbits: Testing, Testing, One, Two, Spring! ACT and SAT Prep Help
It’s spring! Just like the narrator says in the 1947 educational film Body Care and Grooming, “Ah, spring. When birds are on the wing, when flowers bloom… Spring, when a young man’s fancy likely turns...
View ArticleThe Google Game
Sure, your kids are familiar with Google (even to the exclusion of other search engines). But how effective are they at using it? It’s 10 a.m. and Kate Elder’s ninth-grade English class is in the...
View ArticleWikipedia, The Review
How the online behemoth compares to standard reference works While media specialists and librarians would agree that no one should rely on any single source for research, we all have our favorite...
View ArticleCan We Make Peace with Wikipedia?
Every day, librarians around the world turn to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as the definitive resource. This trusted authority, however, has a shocking secret—the venerable OED began life as a...
View ArticleReturn of the Google Game
More fun ideas to transform students into skilled researchers It’s Sunday night and Amanda and Zach are instant messaging each other on Gmail chat. Their high school is staging the musical Man of La...
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EBSCO Offers Free ERIC Database Access During Government Shutdown
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that it is making the government database ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, freely available during the government shutdown. ERIC is...
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Internet Archive Offers Access to Blacked Out Government Websites
Although the U.S. federal shutdown means many important government websites—such as those for the Library of Congress and NASA—have gone completely dark this week, the nonprofit Internet Archive is...
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BiblioBoard Review | Online Reference | October 2013
BiblioLabs’s interesting new hybrid offers thousands of public domain ebooks as well as images and other primary sources, and, unusually, a way for users to save locally created materials for patrons...
View ArticleSmithsonian Libraries Launches Three Courses on iTunes, More Courses Coming Soon
From the Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian Libraries today launched three courses of selected content on iTunes U that focus on topics in early aviation and space history. This release increases...
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How to Start through Creating Citations: ProQuest Research Companion | Online...
For many students new to the game of research papers, the task can appear overly daunting. And with ever shrinking budgets and increasing class sizes, teachers and instruction librarians find...
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Nominate Your Favorite Database
February is almost here, and at many libraries that means that the budget year is more than halfway over. Decisions about which materials to buy with your precious dollars—use them or lose them!—aren’t...
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