INTERNET RESOURCES FOR LIBRARIANS
Children's Literature (and other wonderful things)
Handout of the lecture, presented at the ASDAL 2000 Convention, July 12,
2000 by
Ray Ostrander, Ph.D. Associate Professor (Andrews University) at
Andrews University.
- To create participant awareness regarding some of the many web
resources
for literature
- To explore specific resources so participants will have a better
understanding
of what the sites contain
- To stimulate participants vision to enable them to future how they
can use these
resources in a library setting.
A cyber source for children's reading and reading related information.
Some of the
sites are Movies and Television Based on:
- Childen's Books
- Best Books Lists
- Children's Bestsellers
- Online Children's Stories
- Children's Songs and Poetry
- Readers' Theatre
Written by Children, Related Associations on the Internet, and Other
Internet Sites
for Families and Kids
The On-Line Books Page
This site includes more than 11,000 English works in various formats. All
are free for personal, noncommercial use.
The user can search by:
Author
Title
Subject
Serial Archives
The Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library is the first public library of the Internet.
Some of the stated reasons for this site are:
to provide library services to the Internet community
to learn and teach what librarians have to contribute in a digital environment
to promote librarianship and the importance of libraries
to share interesting ideas and techniques with other librarians.
Aesop's Fabels On-Line
Includes a total of 655+ fables, indexed in table format, with morals
listed. Also in this site are:
Real Audio Narratives
Classic Images
Random Images
Random Fables
Search Engine
Message Forum
Recently added were 1327 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen along
with 209 Grimms Fairy Tales.
Folk Tales from Around the Word
The stories in this collection represent a small sampling of the rich
storytelling art that is the common heritage of humanity. Included are
folk tales from:
Africa
Central Asia
China
Middle East
Ireland
Fairrosa Cyber Library
This is a very nicely arranged site with links to authors and
illustators, booklists, discussions, reviews, on-line books, and much
more.
Multicultural Book Review Homepagep>
The purpose of this page is to create a qualitative list of
multicultural literature for K - 12 educators and librarians.
This site presents more than just lists of books. It presents to its readers
the opportunity to discover more information about multicultural
literature.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This site is an excellent resource for librarians to be able to reference
for and to teachers.
In this site is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways
to use them in the classsroom and collections of books and activities about
particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.