Library

British Museum

The British Museum makes its collection database available to be used by scholars around the world.

 

Calisphere

Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 1,300,000 images, texts, and recordings.

 

CIA World FactBook

Anything you want to know about any country is found here. Great resource

 

Citation Machine

If you need to write citations in MLA or APA format--this is the easiest way.

 

The Daring Librarian

A blog of activities for school librarians.

 

Digital Public Library of America

Over 35,000,000 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

 

DOAJ

Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open-access, and peer-reviewed journals.

 

Google Book

Search and preview millions of books and journals digitized from library collections. Titles out of copyright are available in full.

 

How Stuff Works

If you want to know the why and the how of how things work--this is the website for you.

 

Library Learners Blog

A blog with resources for the Elementary Library Media Specialist

 

Library of Congress Digital Collections

Digital Collections on almost every subject in American History

 

NetSmartz

A great free resource for teaching digital citizenship as well as how to respond to bullying, etc. It is maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Information for all ages.

 

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks.

 

Smithsonian Library's List of Databases

This list includes databases, collections, and search tools. Best of all--they are free.

 

TEL (Tennessee Electronic Library)

Free resources for Tennesseans including Homework Help, Test Prep, Career Tools, and Genealogy. The Gale databases are also provided.

 

Tumblebooks

This is subscription based but a fantastic resource for early readers.