Don’t think Twitter has a place in your library? Give these suggestions a try and maybe you’ll change your mind.
The Library Arcade features games designed to help students develop research skills through entertaining and easy-to-repeat activities. At this stage, we are testing each game to work through any technical glitches and prepare the games for a final version.
# Glubble Trusted Surfing for children under 12 years of age enables families to be sure they only see the best of the web they choose to allow.
# Glubble Altered Search makes Google and Yahoo show results from childrens trusted Glubbleworld instead of the world wide web.
# Child friendly look and feel with interfaces for pre-reading and reading age young children.
Flash site to view entire picture books.
Welcome to Tumblebooks - a fun and interactive library of animated, talking storybooks for beginning readers and older bookworms as well. Read along and listen, or read on your own Tumblebooks will help you build reading skills as you have fun with stories that are just right for you.
After reading a story you can play puzzles and games or even submit a book report on your favorite Tumblebook story. Once you are ready for longer chapter books, check out classic tales such as The Wizard of Oz in the Tumble Readables section.
Welcome to Wikibooks, a Wikimedia project that was started on July 10, 2003 with the mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit. Since our founding, volunteers have written about 27,501 modules in a multitude of textbooks.
The central place to ask questions or discuss ideas is the Reading Room (this is the equivalent to Wikipedia?s Village Pump; Wikipedians may wish to read our primer before getting started). See also the mailing list.
If you?re an instructor planning on using Wikibooks for a class project, please read our guidelines for class projects.
The following is an alphabetical list of library web pages that list experimental, beta, or trial web tools and services. Is your library's site missing? Please contribute other web sites not listed here.
The New Web has brought with it some amazing tools for creating online subject guides. These tools offer the addition of multimedia and multi-format elements such as photos, videos, social bookmarks, RSS feeds, and widgets to traditional resource guides, as well as an interactive dimension which makes them particularly 2.0. Here are a few tools for creating your own 2.0 guides. Got any other ideas for subject guides? Please share them in the comments!
Librarians are experimenting with a wide range of Facebook Apps ranging from the productive such as the 30 Boxes Calendar, Meebo, Twitter, and Zoho Online Office to the silly with Zombies, Likeness, My Aquarium, and SuperPoke. Here are the first three Facebook Apps designed for the librarian in all of us:
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Don’t think Twitter has a place in your library? Give these suggestions a try and maybe you’ll change your mind.
Welcome to Wikibooks, a Wikimedia project that was started on July 10, 2003 with the mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit. Since our founding, volunteers have written about 27,501 modules in a multitude of textbooks. The central place to ask questions or discuss ideas is the Reading Room (this is the equivalent to Wikipedia?s Village Pump; Wikipedians may wish to read our primer before getting started). See also the mailing list. If you?re an instructor planning on using Wikibooks for a class project, please read our guidelines for class projects.
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