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By the time Meg Rosoff finally sat down at her computer, How I Live Now (Random/ Wendy Lamb Books) was spilling out of her. It was January 2003, and Rosoff, [...]

Summer isn't what it used to be: it's now considered a vital part of the academic calendar, and librarians play a more important role than ever in carrying over the [...]

Not many people can say they've worked with Meryl Streep and Aretha Franklin or William Steig and Maurice Sendak. But Mort Schindel can. The 85-year-old founder of Weston Woods Studios [...]

When Jim Hundemer took over as manager of library services, in the fall of 1998, the Houston Independent School District's 276 libraries were in sorry shape: their infrastructure was sagging [...]

Which U.S. President worked as a tailor before entering politics? What's the largest animal living on land? Which home-run slugger was drafted by the Montreal Expos as a pitcher? Those [...]

College campuses are not the only place where students cheat. A recent survey of high school students done by Duke University's Center for Academic Integrity found that cheating is widespread [...]

Ebrary.com, due to launch this fall, will be sort of like a book superstore, minus the lattes and the comfy chairs. You can read for free for as long as [...]

Print Busters Think your library is being shortchanged when it comes to patrons' printing costs? CybraryPRiNT aims to manage library printing costs by making users accountable for their copies. Using [...]

JSTOR makes academic journals available to high schools What do the following have in common? A letter from Ben Franklin about an electrical kite; an account by Sir Isaac Newton [...]

IEMILY.COM IS DEFINITELY NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S WEB site--it's your daughter's. The eight-month-old site is aimed at girls ages 12 to 17 and provides in-depth information on girls' physical and emotional […]

YOU'VE PROBABLY DONE IT LOTS OF TIMES. YOU PURCHASE A piece of software for library use, and come across one of those shrink-wrap licenses that reads, 'If you open this [...]

As head librarian of the Upper School Library' at Gil St. Bernard's School in Gladstone, NJ, Randi Schmidt is at tire center of her students' education. For a brief moment, [...]

NOT MANY KIDS EXPECT TO FIND JERRY SPINELLI, Alice Walker, or Chris Crutcher waiting to talk to them about their works. But that's exactly what teens in the Free Library [...]

Books aren't what hooked Harley Hamilton. He's one of those librarians who's quite happy tinkering with computers in the media center. 'I'm a tech guy,' explains Hamilton. 'Work is play [...]

Copycat's price may be too good to resist. Surpass's Copycat, a product that offers unlimited access to free MARC records, is now available to districts with centralized catalogs for a [...]

Homepage Builder, available on Scholastic's Web site (Scholastic.com), makes it easy to create a class home page. This handy tool enables teachers to easily communicate with students and families by [...]

Thanks to a brand-new product created by Thomson Gale, librarians are getting exactly what they asked for. The Gale Virtual Reference Library offers libraries their choice of 117 e-reference resources--including [...]

Reading, writing, arithmetic, and Web design--so goes a typical school day for many kids these days, and many of them will undoubtedly find Web-design skills vital in college and the [...]

Two popular products have been combined to offer Web users one-stop shopping for quality resources. 'Thinkronize's netTrekker, a curriculum-oriented search engine for schools, and Sagebrush's Pinpoint, a customizable tool that [...]

If you're the type who rarely completes a I research project in a single sitting, a new program from EBSCO Publishing may be just what you're looking for. 'My EBSCOhost' [...]

You won't find another media center in Baltimore County like the one at New Town High School--it was created with the help of a dozen media specialists who spent three [...]

SurfWax Scholar wants to make surfing the Web a lot easier. The company's Web site (www.surfwax.com), uses 10 major search engines and can be accessed from anywhere--at school, home, and [...]

Lexia Learning Systems recently introduced reading software to help Spanish-speaking five- to eight-year-olds read in English. Lexia Phonics Based Reading with Spanish Directions offers all audio instruction and feedback in [...]

Now you can download about 100,000 facts from the 2002 World Almanac and Book of Facts onto your Palm OS handheld computer. "Kids can use the databases to help with […]

Here's a one-stop shop for children's tunes: PlayhouseRadio.com has a library of more than 500 songs from which pre-school teachers and parents can choose. The Web site is unique because […]

Integrating technology and the Net into classroom instruction is undoubtedly a goal for the 21st century educator. Toward that end, Plato Learning Inc. recently established a new division, TeachMaster Professional [...]

The fallout from the WorldCom fiasco may soon affect teachers and students. The troubled telecommunications giant recently cancelled funding for MarcoPolo, the standards-based, Internet content provider for K-12 teachers and [...]

Only a handful of math software and curriculum programs for middle school students earned a passing grade, according to a recent federal study. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) (www.whatworks.ed.gov) identified [...]

Visit eBay on company time, and you risk getting the boot. That's the policy in Alabama's Limestone County school district. School district officials recently required employees to sign a contract [...]

A new collection of streaming video clips is likely to unleash the inner Spielberg in kids (and librarians, too). Discovery Education recently unveiled about 1,000 editable clips in its unitedstreaming [...]

For more than 50 years, Weston Woods, a pioneer in the field of children's filmmaking, has produced audiovisual adaptations of the best in children's picture books. Now, many of those [...]

The dubious impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) on schools nationwide is detailed on a new Web site dedicated to reforming the controversial law. NCLBGrassroots.org (www.nclbgrassroots.org) assembles [...]

Cybliography. That's a legitimate word, right? Well, it will be if librarian Laurie Murrell and her students at Fieldstone Middle School in Montvale, NJ, have anything to say about it. [...]

Holbrook Junior-Senior High School in Massachusetts could lose its accreditation after recently axing its media specialist. The New England Association of Schools & Colleges (NEASC), the nation's oldest regional accrediting [...]

Capturing kings, holding bishops hostage, and castling is what it's all about on the user-friendly Web site InstantChess.com. There, kids, from beginners to masters, can play chess online and chat [...]

Bootylicious, a term that originated in a Destiny's Child song, will appear in the revised, third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary Online (www.OED.com).The entry, which refers to a sexually [...]

The American Library Association (ALA) is creating a curriculum to help librarians teach students about their rights and responsibilities when. it comes to using copyrighted materials. 'Librarians are worried about [...]

Has your local school been goofing off lately? Or does it deserve high marks on its report card? The School Information Partnership's (SIP) Web site (www.SehoolResults.org) tackles those questions by [...]

There's nothing more daunting to a writer--especially a six-year-old one--than a blank page. That's the impetus behind Stationery Studio, a new software program created to encourage K-5 students to write [...]

Let's suppose you're the prime minister of Great Britain. It's 1938. Hitler wants control over Czechoslovakia. You've got a nervous France on one side, and then there's Mussolini. What are [...]

Jennifer Donnelly, author of the teen novel A Gathering Light (Bloomsbury), is winner of this year's Carnegie Medal, the most prestigious award for children's writing in the United Kingdom. Donnelly [...]

It looks like Christmas has arrived a few months early in Tennessee. The giant bookstore chain Barnes & Noble has vowed to update the state's woeful school library collections by [...]

Does a governor have the right to remove controversial links on a state library's Web site? No way, say library supporters in South Dakota who want links to Planned Parenthood [...]

Need to jazz up a presentation of class project? Check out Corbis Images for Education, a new online library of digital versions of the most famous photographs in history, now [...]

Innovative Interfaces, the maker of popular automated library systems, turns 25 this year. To mark the occasion, the Emeryville, CA-based company is releasing Millennium Silver, a package of upgrades to [...]

Ku Klux Klan flyers, photographs of the 'Little Rock Nine,' and first-hand accounts of civil rights activists are featured in an impressive new digital library. The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights [...]

An anti-Google Web site? That's one way to describe. MyReportLinks.com, a redesigned site from Enslow Publishers that offers K-12 students research help. The kid-friendly site helps youngsters find good, safe [...]

It isn't easy for students and educators to find a resource that offers a variety of political viewpoints minus the propaganda. Enter Global Views and Voices, a new Web site [...]

Mention Homer's Iliad to students, and you might get more than a few yawns. But bring Brad Pitt's name into the conversation, and that could change everything. That's the idea [...]