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- about.com: Authors (searcher & lots of
links)
- A&E Biography ("over 20,000 of
the greatest lives, past and present, at your fingertips ... discover who they were, what
they did and why")
- Book Reviews by Danny
Yee ("ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist ... A collection of
almost 500 book reviews, covering all kinds of books" ... search by: Subjects,
Titles, Authors,
Keywords, Publishers, Latest")
- Children's Authors &
Illustrators on the Web @ U of Calgary ("The Internet has become a great source
of information about a great many children's writers and illustrators. The websites listed
here include authors' personal websites and websites maintained by fans, scholars, and
readers.")
- Literary Kicks (Beat authors: Jack
Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure., etc.)
- Mississippi Writers' Page
("a showcase for the many writers, both past and present, who have called the
Magnolia state home. Biographies of the writers, information about their books and other
publications, and bibliographies of other information sources [including literary
criticism] are among the features available here.")
- Oz's Kingdom: People -
Biographies (& genealogy ... lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Shakespeare, William: Legends (Robin Hood Pages, King Arthur & the Matter of
Britain, Ballads &
Broadsides, Pirates &
Privateers, Swashbucklers &
Fops, Erin & Alba, Fairy Tales, Shakespeare's Stories, Beowulf, Sagas & Sea-Kings, Paladins & Princes, Poets & Painters, Legendary Resources" ...
illustrations)
- Shakespeare, William: Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
("This site attempts: .. To be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly
Shakespeare resources available on Internet ... To present new Shakespeare material
unavailable elsewhere on the Internet")
- Shakespeare, William: Complete Works of William
Shakespeare @ MIT
- Shakespeare, William: Shakespeare, William @ www.shakespeare.com
- Mark Twain: Mining
Company: Mark Twain (TONs of info on him, etext, history, etc.)
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Literature
(reviews, criticism, history, study guides, links, etc.)
|
- about.com: Authors (searcher & lots of
links)
- about.com: Children's Books (searcher
& lots of links)
- about.com: English Literature (searcher
& lots of links)
- about.com: Fiction (searcher & lots of
links)
- about.com: Non-Fiction (searcher &
lots of links)
- about.com: Poetry (searcher & lots of
links)
- about.com: Contempory Fiction (searcher
& lots of links)
- about.com: Suspense / Thrillers
(searcher & lots of links)
- African
American Literature Book Club ("to promote the rich and diverse treasure that is
African American literature ... Read, or even hear, the work of classic authors like
Frederick Douglass, contemporary authors like Maya Angelou, or indulge the work of fresh,
new, up-and-coming writers like Tina McElroy Ansa. You'll find everything from
slave narratives to comic strips, from poetry to critical commentary ... hundreds of links
to other related African American Literature web sites")
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (English
literature, American literature, and Western philosophy)
- Bartleby.com - Reference (Columbia
Encyclopedia, American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language, Rogets II: The
New Thesaurus, American HeritageŽ Book of English Usage, Fowler's The Kings English
{commonsense rules of style and grammar}, Strunk's The Elements of Style, Simpsons
Contemporary Quotations, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Cambridge History of
English & American Literature, Fannie Farmer's The Boston Cooking-School Cook
Book, Emily Post's. Etiquette ... search page)
- Book Reviews by Danny
Yee ("ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist ... A collection of
almost 500 book reviews, covering all kinds of books" ... search by: Subjects,
Titles, Authors,
Keywords, Publishers, Latest")
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Sparks ("publisher of fiction, poetry, music, art
and spoken word")
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Fiction ("novels and short fiction, classics and new
works")
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Drama ("a collection of plays, modern works and
classics")
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Books ("book-length nonfiction and miscellaneous
literatures")
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Cultural Theory ("readings in current cultural
studies and critical theory")
- Classics at the Online Literature Library @
literature.org ("This site is here to try to bring real books to people through the
Internet." ... from Aesop to HG Wells)
- Encyclopedia
Mythica (mythology, folklore, magic, and more)
- English Online Resources @ U Virginia
(etext of many books ... also in other languages)
- Internet Classics Archive @ MIT
("Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors ...
Mainly Greco-Roman works .. some Chinese and Persian .. all in English
translation" ... includes commentaries)
- MIT
Internet Classics Archive (440+ works of classical literature by 59 different authors,
mainly Greco-Roman works .. some Chinese and Persian)
- Literature - What makes a good short
story? by Annenberg/CPB Exhibits ("Join our journey through a classic short story, 'A Jury of Her Peers,'
by Susan Glaspell. Along the way, you'll solve the mystery of whether Minnie Wright killed
her husband and explore the story's literary elements. You will also
encounter rest stops where you can read more about the structure of story and take part in
activities related to 'A Jury of Her Peers'.")
- Lynch's On-Line Literary Resources
(lots of literature & writing links)
- Lynch's On-Line (new) Literary
Resources (lots of literature & writing links)
- Mississippi Writers' Page
("a showcase for the many writers, both past and present, who have called the
Magnolia state home. Biographies of the writers, information about their books and other
publications, and bibliographies of other information sources [including literary
criticism] are among the features available here.")
- Modern Library @ Random House
('100 best since 1900' lists ... chosen by readers and publishers)
- New
York Times Book Reviews (book reviews and archives ... free subscription)
- On-Line
Library of Literature (including full-text of classics)
- Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)
@ Berkeley ("a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical
and Medieval civilization")
- Project
Gutenberg: Etext Library (complete, downloadable etexts .. "Light Literature;
such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.
Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or other religious documents, Shakespeare, Moby Dick,
Paradise Lost, etc. References; such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, and a set of
encyclopedia, dictionaries, etc.")
-
Reading about Children's
Literature: A Bibliography of Critism --- Compiled by Perry Nodelman. Writing, Reading,
Teaching, Theory of Ideology,
History of Children's Literature, Contemporary
Childhood, Piaget, Censorship, Non-Fiction, Media Reading. Against a Text: Feminism,
Masculinity, Race, Subjectivity Children's
Literature as a Genre, Kinds of Children's Fiction Critical Theories and Children's
Literature Types of Children's
Literature: Picture Books, Poetry, Fairy Tales.
- Romantic Circles @ U
Maryland (scholarly notes, etext, links)
- S.C.O.R.E. CyberGuide (K-12
literature searching over Internet)
- USA Today's top best sellers
("a list of approximately 300 best-selling books ... based on a computer analysis of
retail book sales nationwide last week .. more than 1 million volumes from approximately
3,000 independent, chain, discount and online booksellers")
- Violet
Books: Antiquarian Supernatural Literature ("webpage is meant to be fun &
useful for all who collect & care about these literatures ... essays & bibliographies on my special interests
in writers & genres, & I've started a gallery of rare dustwrappers &
decorative bindings")
- washingtonpost.com:
Books & Reading (book reviews and entire first chapters)
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Poetry
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- American Verse Project @ U Michigan
(etext of American poetry prior to 1920)
- Bartleby.com - Verse (Anthologies:
The Oxford Book of English Verse,Yale Book of American Verse, Modern American Poetry,
Modern British Poetry, Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century, The Golden Treasury
(original lyrical pieces and songs by such famous poets) ... Volumes: The
Odysseys of Homer, Emily Dickinson's Poems, T.S. Eliot (Prufrock and Other Observations,
Poems and The Waste Land), Robert Frost (A Boys Will, North of Boston, Mountain
Interval and Miscellaneous Poems), Robert Graves' Fairies and Fusiliers. Thomas Hardy's.
Wessex Poems & Other Verses, G.M.Hopkins' Poems. A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, John
Keats' Poetical Works, D.H. Lawrence (Amores and New Poems), Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon
River Anthology. Edna St. Vincent Millay's Renascence and Other Poems, Carl Sandburg
(Chicago Poems and Cornhuskers), Siegfried Sassoon (The Old Huntsman and Other Poems,
Counter-Attack and Other Poems and Picture-Show), William Shakespeare's Poems, Percy
Bysshe Shelley's Complete Poetical Works, Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, Walt Whitman's
Leaves of Grass, Oscar Wilde's Poems, William Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works,
William Butler Yeats (The Wind Among the Reeds, Responsibilities and Other Poems and The
Wild Swans at Coole) ... search page)
- CAPA:
Contemporary American Poetry Archive - An Internet Archive for Out-of-Print Books @
Connecticut College
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Sparks ("publisher of fiction, poetry, music, art
and spoken word")
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Sudden ("original poetry that reflects imagination
and intelligence")
- English Online Resources @ U Virginia
(etext of many books ... also in other languages)
- Index of Poets in
Representative Poetry On-Line @ U of Toronto (poetry: 1912- present ... short
biographic info, explanations, criticisms, etc.)
- Internet Poetry Archive @ U North Carolina
(poems from a few contemporary poets from around the world including Philip Levine and
Nobel Prize winners Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz)
- about.com: Poetry (searcher & lots of
links)
- Perseus Project @ Tufts College
("a continually growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world.
The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps,
extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase
painting.")
- Romantic Circles @ U
Maryland (scholarly notes, etext, links)
- Shakespeare, William: Complete Works of William
Shakespeare @ MIT
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Online Texts (complete text of books, poems, stories, essays, etc.)
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- Aesop Fables - Online Collection by
John R Long (don't be mislead by title ... includes full-text works by Androcles, Ambrose
Bierce, Jean De La Fontaine, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, Charles Dickens)
- Athena: Authors & Texts
(over 7,000 links to online books and texts ... and works by Swiss authors and texts in French)
- Austen, Jane Info Page (her books &
writings, life, pictures, reviews, links, etc.)
- Bartleby.com - Fiction (Sherwood Anderson's
Winesburg, Ohio, John Buchan's The Thirty-nine Steps, G.K. Chesterton's. The Man Who Was
Thursday. Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles, F. Scott Fitzgerald's This
Side of Paradise, Nathaniel Hawthorne's. The Scarlet Letter, Sarah Orne Jewett's. The
Country of the Pointed Firs, Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, Herman Melville's Bartleby, the
Scrivener, Eugene ONeill's. Beyond the Horizon, Bernard Shaw {Man and Superman and
Pygmalion}, Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons. H.G Wells {The Invisible Man,
The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds}, Virginia Woolf's
Monday or Tuesday ... search page)
- Bartleby.com - Nonfiction (Henry Adams'.
The Education of Henry Adams, W.E.B. Du Bois'. The Souls of Black Folk, T.S. Eliot's The
Sacred Wood, Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, John Stuart
Mill's On Liberty, Thomas Paine's. Common Sense, Theodore Roosevelt {The Rough Riders,
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Letters to His Children, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, An
Autobiography, History as Literature, A Book-Lovers Holidays in the Open, The
Strenuous Life and A Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt}, H.G. Wells' A Short History of
the World, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman ... search page)
- Bartleby.com - Verse (Anthologies:
The Oxford Book of English Verse,Yale Book of American Verse, Modern American Poetry,
Modern British Poetry, Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century, The Golden Treasury
(original lyrical pieces and songs by such famous poets) ... Volumes: The
Odysseys of Homer, Emily Dickinson's Poems, T.S. Eliot (Prufrock and Other Observations,
Poems and The Waste Land), Robert Frost (A Boys Will, North of Boston, Mountain
Interval and Miscellaneous Poems), Robert Graves' Fairies and Fusiliers. Thomas Hardy's.
Wessex Poems & Other Verses, G.M.Hopkins' Poems. A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, John
Keats' Poetical Works, D.H. Lawrence (Amores and New Poems), Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon
River Anthology. Edna St. Vincent Millay's Renascence and Other Poems, Carl Sandburg
(Chicago Poems and Cornhuskers), Siegfried Sassoon (The Old Huntsman and Other Poems,
Counter-Attack and Other Poems and Picture-Show), William Shakespeare's Poems, Percy
Bysshe Shelley's Complete Poetical Works, Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, Walt Whitman's
Leaves of Grass, Oscar Wilde's Poems, William Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works,
William Butler Yeats (The Wind Among the Reeds, Responsibilities and Other Poems and The
Wild Swans at Coole) ... search page)
- Berkeley: On-Line Book Links (papyri,
ancient texts, speeches, etc.)
- Biblomania:
The Network Library (reference, fiction, non-fiction, poetry))
- Books On-line at University of Pennsylvania - (7,000+
books on-line ... most subject areas ... also literature in French, German and Spanish)
- Classics at the Online Literature Library @
literature.org (Honore de Balzac, L Frank Baum, Ambrose Bierce, Anne Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily Bronte, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, Chaucer, Charles Darwin, Rene
Descartes, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Omar Khayyam, Rudyard Kipling, Jack
London, John Milton, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker,
Mark Twain, Sun Tzu, Jules Verne, Voltaire, H G Wells)
- Classic
Short Stories @ bnl.com (more than 60 stories ... "site is dedicated to the short
story and to those who love reading light prose")
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads
- Columbia U: Project Bartleby (complete
text of select poets)
- Gargoyles, Angels and
Shadows - An Outline Anthology (more than 30 short stories; links)
- Gaslight @ Mount Royal
College ("an Internet discussion list which reviews one story a week from the genres
of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919. The current readings
and selected ones from the past are available here.")
- Internet Classics Archive @ MIT
("Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors ...
Mainly Greco-Roman works .. some Chinese and Persian .. all in English
translation" ... includes commentaries)
- Internet Public Library - Literature
(Authors, Book Lists & Awards, Criticism)
- Johnson, Samuel by Jack Lynch @
Rutgers U (etexts, searchers, links, etc.)
- MIT:
The Internet Classics Archive ("441 works of classical literature by 59 different
authors .. Mainly Greco-Roman works [some Chinese and Persian]")
- Perseus Project @ Tufts College
("a continually growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world.
The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps,
extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase
painting.")
- Project
Gutenberg: Etext Library (complete, downloadable etexts .. "Light Literature;
such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.
Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or other religious documents, Shakespeare, Moby Dick,
Paradise Lost, etc.")
- Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Library @ Duke U ("holdings .. range from ancient papyri to records of modern
advertising. They number more than 200,000 printed volumes and more than 9,500,000 items
in manuscript and archival collections. They support research in a wide variety of
disciplines and programs, including African-American studies, anthropology, classics,
economics, history, literature, political science, religion, sociology, and women's
studies.")
- Science Fiction Story Showcase by
Terry Bisson ("The featured short stories and articles on this website are complete.
Most have been published in magazines but are not yet available in book form. I'm
displaying them on the internet because that's what the internet is all about." ...
also includes essays, poetry, reviews, etc.)
- Shakespeare, Complete Works of
William @ MIT
- Stevenson, Robert Louis @ U of Bergamo (bio,
pictures, etexts, critiques, links, etc.)
- Twain,
Mark @ Mining Company (etexts, biography, critiques, photos, etc.)
- U
of Michigan: Humanities Text Initiative
- U of Toronto:
Representative Poetry On-line ("over 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the
early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century")
- U of Virginia: Electronic Text Center (many
are available to public ... also multilingual
& multinational versions)
- U of Virginia: Electronic Text Center -
British Poetry 1780-1910
- Wheaton
College: Christian Classics: Ethereal Library (books .. selected for your edification
... enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime ... Copy them freely")
- Wiretap
- Electronic Text Archive ("a free public service to provide electronic text to
citizens of the Internet. As one of the earliest etext repositories, there are thousands
of links to this site" ... a gopher site but will switch to www format later)
- Wordsworth, William @ U of
Oregon
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Mythology,
Legends, Fables & Fairy Tales ... also see Anthropology
& Cultures
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- Cathie's Faery Story Land
(interactive stories, faery pics, famous faeries, links, midi files of nursery rhymes,
etc.)
- Celtic Mythology: The Story of MacDatho's Pig
(written in Gaelic and English)
- Druid´s
Well ("Fairytales, ancient history & mythology of Celts, Vikings, Aesirs,
Dragons....")
- Encyclopedia Mythica ("an encyclopedia on
mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 5100 definitions of gods
and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the
world")
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures (lots of
information, resources, links, etc.)
- Fables
("a virtual hamlet dedicated to providing quality folklore and speculative fiction on
the internet")
- Fairies and More Fairies
(poems, pictures, fairy art, fairy names, links, etc.)
- Fairy Tales:
Origins and Evolution ("Looks at fairy tale literature, from before the dark
stories were aimed at children.")
- Folktales from the North East of
England ("There are some 50-odd stories in the
collection ... plus Songs &
Poems and some traditional Sayings and Rhymes")
- Indian Mythology
(information, etext, pictures, links, etc.)
- Irish Mythology: Cead Mile Failte, Brugh na Boinne
- Joseph
Campbell Foundation ("Promote mythological education by creating and
disseminating educational materials and training teachers .. Support community-based,
mythological informed activities .. Encourage intercultural mythological dialogue and
exploration by sponsoring conferences, workshops, and seminars")
- Legends (Robin Hood, King Arthur & the Matter of
Britain, Ballads &
Broadsides, Pirates &
Privateers, Swashbucklers &
Fops, Erin & Alba, Fairy Tales, Shakespeare's Stories, Beowulf, Sagas & Sea-Kings, Paladins & Princes, Poets & Painters, Legendary Resources" ...
illustrations)
- MIT
Internet Classics Archive (440+ works of classical literature by 59 different authors,
mainly Greco-Roman works .. some Chinese and Persian)
- Mythweb
("site is devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology" ...
teacher resources)
- Odin's
Castle of Dreams & Legends: An Archive of History and Historical Resources
(excellent educational resources & links, Dawn of Man to Ancient Times; Greeks,
Romans, Egyptians, and Others; Mythology: Gods, Goddesses, and Others; Vikings, Mongols,
and Other Barbarians; Dark Ages to Renaissance - Medieval History; Legends? King Arthur
& Robin Hood; Gwynnevere's Old World - Culture & Other Things; The Crusades &
the History of Religion; Men, Ships, and The Sea - Maritime History; Post Renaissance thru
the 19th Century; The History of the Old World; American History - Discovery to
Revolution; American History-Post-Revolution to Pre-Civil War; American History - The
Civil War; American History - The Native Americans; American History - The Wild, Wild
West; The World in Conflict - The Great Wars; To Soar Free - The History of Flight; The
History of Art and Literature; The 20th Century and Modern Times; The Celts; ... etc.)
- One Thousand One Papua New
Guinean Nights ("Wantok, the Pidgin English newspaper of Papua New Guinea, has
published a series of folk tales sent in by readers from around the country .. I have
collected and edited these folk tales, and have translating them into English .. indexed
by author, village, original language, province, flora and fauna, and motif ... also a
list of folktale titles")
- Oz's Kingdom: Classics & Myths
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: Myth, Legend,
Folklore and Ghosts (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Pantheons ("Here is an index
to various catalogues of religious and mythological pantheons: Celtic, Greek, Roman,
Slavic & Eurasion, Teutonic")
- Philippine Folklore ("The
myths and legends of the Philippines are beautiful and rich as those of other lands,
colored by the people who have come and influenced the land. The tales here are gathered
to share the charm, depth and variety of what makes us Filipino")
- Ring of Fairy
Tales, Folk Tales and Mythology (over 120 links to mythology pages)
- SurLaLune: fairy tale pages
("I have annotated some of my favorite tales and included information about their
histories, similarities with various tales, and other interesting tidbits.")
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Quotations
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- Advertising Quotations @ U of
Texas ("a variety of quotes concerning some aspect or effect of advertising. Some are
pithy, some are pointed, and others are simply important.")
- Bartleby.com - Reference (Columbia
Encyclopedia, American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language, Rogets II: The
New Thesaurus, American HeritageŽ Book of English Usage, Fowler's The Kings English
{commonsense rules of style and grammar}, Strunk's The Elements of Style, Simpsons Contemporary Quotations, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Cambridge History
of English & American Literature, Fannie Farmer's The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book,
Emily Post's. Etiquette ... search page)
- Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
- Freedom's Nest Quotations
- Gelbart's The Quotations Page ("Q's of
the Day, Motivational Q's, Q Search, Q Book Reviews, Q Links, etc.)
- LitQuotes.com: You can enjoy two types of daily quotes; search quotes by topic; view quotes by author; explore quotes by title; email quotes to yourself or to a friend; search by word or phrase.
- Mathematical Quotation Server @
Furman U
- about.com: Quotations (searcher &
lots of links)
- One Liners and Proverbs
- Oz's Kingdom: Reference
(Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Research Sites, Foreign Language, Books, Magazines, News ...
lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Starting Page! ... fastest links
to the best ("quick reference guide to the world's best famous quotes and
familiar quotations")
- TPCN:
The People's Cyber Nation: Quotation Center ("over 13,000 Fabulous Quotations ..
Indexed By Subject .. To Inspire You To Live A Happier And More Rewarding Life!")
- Yahoo's Quotations
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Children's
Literature
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- CBC Online (the website of the Children's Book Council, website for adults working with children and children's books. Online catalog of reading encouragement materials)
- Children's Literature: A Guide to the Crticism -
Online Book ("Covering works as
diverse as a historical survey of the alphabet book and an analysis of the young adult
novels of Judy Blume, this annotated bibliography draws together significant articles,
books, and dissertations of children's literature criticism. Compiled from a wide variety
of popular and scholarly sources... a thorough and easy-to-use resource to this burgeoning
field of study ... categorizes and assesses the critical response to fiction, drama,
poetry, and some nonfiction written for children between the ages of one and
sixteen")
- Children's Literature Web Guide
(this site ... "gathers
together and categorizes the growing number of Internet resources related to books for
Children and Young Adults ... compiles book awards lists from a variety of .. sources")
- Greek Children's Literature
("through this site ... an attempt is being made to present: various Greek children's
books (however not all in translation), where and how children's literature is studied in
Greece, as well as various theoretical and critical books on children's literature
published in Greece")
- Quia ("a great starting point for new
users ... a collection of thousands of activities categorized into 40 subject areas ...
more than 400,000 activities)
- Reading about Children's
Literature: A Bibliography of Critism --- Compiled by Perry Nodelman. Writing, Reading,
Teaching, Theory of Ideology,
History of Children's Literature, Contemporary
Childhood, Piaget, Censorship, Non-Fiction, Media Reading. Against a Text: Feminism,
Masculinity, Race, Subjectivity Children's
Literature as a Genre, Kinds of Children's Fiction Critical Theories and Children's
Literature Types of Children's
Literature: Picture Books, Poetry, Fairy Tales.
- Reading Rockets: Advice and suggestions for parents to encourage young readers.
- Vandergrift's Special Interest
Page ("This website is a means
of sharing ideas and information with all those interested in literature for children and
young adults.)
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Library
Resources (Libraries Online, Librarian Resources)
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Libraries
Online
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Librarian
Resources
- about.com: Librarians & Library Science
(searcher & lots of links)
- American
Booksellers Association: BookWeb (search for bookstores by name or specialty)
- Australian Libraries Gateway: ALG ("a
free Web-based directory service which has improved access to information about more than
5,400 Australian libraries, their collections and services" ... check out their execellent librarian resources,
including online library journals)
- Book Information Website ("site is
devoted to all aspects of books, bookarts, book history, letterpress printing, fine
printing, book schools, book and paper restoration and conservation, paper and
papermaking, book artists, bookbinding and bookbinders, antiquarian books, book search
services, book auctions, individual bookdealers, manuscripts, pop-up books, history of
printing.")
- Copyright in an Electronic Environment
@ N.C. Public Schools InfoWeb ("Guidelines for Fair Use of Internet, Electronic and
Multimedia content. A must read for anyone using electronic materials to create
instructional materials, demonstrations and presentations.")
- Current Cites - An Annotated Bibliography
of Selected Articles, Books, and Digital Documents on Information Technology ("A
team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature in both
print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for a free
publication. ... The items that are freely available on the Internet are also retrieved
and indexed so that you can perform an Article Search of the full-text of these
items.")
- D-Lib
Magazine - The Magazine of Digital Library Research ("a monthly magazine about
digital libraries for researchers, developers, and the intellectually curious. New issues
are published on the 15th of each month.")
- ErgoLib: Safer Library Computing @ U of
California at Riverside ("Working in a library can be hard, physical work. And
working with computers, mice, and monitors requires many of the same skills that
successful athletes have. Get informed and start planning your own training program by
checking out the following web sites and our list of quick, cheap tips.")
- Evaluation of information
sources ("pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly
those on the Internet. It is intended to be particularly useful to librarians and others
who are selecting sites to include in an information resource guide, or informing users as
to the qualities they should use in evaluating Internet information.")
- Internet Library for
Librarians ("a comprehensive database ... links to over 2,300 Internet sites. All
the Internet resources .. have been reviewed. Each entry has a full description of the
goals and/or scope of the resource ... a handy and useful tool for both novices and
experienced library staff")
- Librarians'
Index to the Internet ("a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than
6,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to
users of public libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as
a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.")
- LibraryLand: Resources for Librarians @
rcls.org ("A resource guide to web sites of interest to library administrators and
staff, with a special focus on public libraries. Arranged in 18 categories. Maintained by
the Ramapo Catskill Library System."
- Resources for School Librarians (online guide for teachers, students and readers)
- Library of Congress
Classification System @ About.com ("This outline .. should assist you to locate
areas of the library to begin your research")
- Library of
Congress Classification: Z - Library Science and Information Resources @ About.com
- UKOLN Public Library Research ("explores
how public libraries can and are making use of computer networking. This work involves
setting up projects and networking initiatives, helping to raise awareness about public
library networking and disseminating research findings.)
- Library of Congress Connections Collection: Alphabetically listed areas for all subjects.
- Yahoo's Reference Links (Libraries, etc.)
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