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[|ALA Youth Media Awards] - Monday, January 26, 2009. The results are in!

[|Read-i-cide]: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It - A 2.0 book discussion.

[|FREE Audio Books]- More than 250 FREE audio books. Check this one out!

[|2CoolTools]- Mobility @ Your Library. Ten Categories of How Libraries Use Mobile Devices.

[|Children's Picture Book Database from Miami University]- This is an academic website for teachers, librarians, parents, and students. It has abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books. Please take a look at this and share with your teachers.

[|Book Swap]- Check this site out! It is a great way to share books!!!! You pay the postage when someone wants a book you have listed and then you can use your credits to receive books!

[|Joyce Valenza's Neverending Search] - Jocye is the Teacher-Librarian at Springfield Township High School, a technology writer, and a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at UNT's School of Library and Information Science. Her blog is a discussion of information fluency, searching, teaching, and learning in the 21st Century.

[|Interesting Nonfiction for Kids - I.N.K.]- Children's Nonfiction Book Lists. This is a blog where you can meet writers whose words are presenting nonfiction in a whole new way. Check this site out and I think you will use it with your students!

[|Good Reads]- A place to see what your friends are reading, keep track of what you have read and what you want to read, get a book recommendation from people you know, and answer trivia and collect your favorite quotes.

[|Illinois Standards Aligned Instruction for Libraries (I-SAIL)] This is a great website that aligns Library benchmarks and objectives to Common Core Standards

[|AASL Learning Standards aligned with Common Core Standards] Gives correlations between AASL standards and English Language Common Core Standards