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Web Guides

Use librarian-created subject guides and search directories in addition to general web search engines to find more web sources for your topic.

Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web - maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York.

Great Web Sites for Kids - sites selected by the American Library Association for elementary students through middle schoolers.

Librarian's Internet Index - a searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.

Parkview Web Links - selected resources by Parkview staff.

 

Web Search Tools

Ask.com

Google.com

Yahoo.com

Research Help

  • Ask the Teacher Librarian! - Your best resource is to ask your professional teacher librarian.  "Google doesn't teach students how to use information, but librarians do!" - Walter Minkel, School Library Journal

Get help choosing/narrowing a topic, determining sources available, determining information relevant for your topic, and more...


  • United States Copyright Law - Collection of sites includes a Student Guide developed by Iowa AEA 11, U.S. Copyright Office, American Library Assoc and more...

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