Author: Dorothy Frechette

April 2008

What's in a name? Library media specialists are also teachers. As teacher librarians we teach the information process, understand the uses of technology, select and use a wide variety of materials, and work in partnership with classroom teachers using books, information and technology.

Your Library and the Web
When you're looking for web sites and materials about a certain subject, WebPath Express can help you find the information you need. Start by finding your library’s catalog at www.ricat.net. Go to the catalog tab, and choose WebPath Express in the left-hand column to get lists of web sites and library materials about your subject.

Find the subject you need in several ways:

The monthly theme shows you some subjects for this month—like Thanksgiving in November or Abraham Lincoln in February. You can just click the picture, or

Election results

underneath, to see the lists of websites and library materials.

Since WebPath Express returns only websites that contain all of the words you typed in, widening your search can be as simple as deleting some of those words. By default, WebPath Express performs a Boolean AND search on the words entered. If you are not finding what you want, use a shorter or more general term. For example, use marsupials instead of bandicoot. You can also try adding similar or related words with OR between them. For example, enter orbits OR planets OR neptune instead of just neptune. If you have entered a phrase, make sure to enclose the phrase in quotation marks: for example, "Mongolian wild horses" .

The Spotlight shows a topic that everyone should enjoy. To go to one of the websites, click its link beneath the picture.

Browse through our web links “file cabinet”, or search visually

The school library media center - where information is available in a wide variety of formats, both print and electronic; where materials and activities are coordinated with classroom assignments; and where students learn information skills that will prepare them to live and work in the 21st century.

Browse

Browse

Or search visually

Click on the topic that you want to explore

Countries & Cultures

Asia

Social Studies

Middle East

Drill down inside the folders until you get to the subject that you want to explore

Iraq

Link to books on the same to same topic in your in your library’s collecti collection.

Find web sites appropriate for your students

Make a bibliography

RILINK is a cooperative effort by Rhode Island school libraries to share their resources through an interactive, web-based catalog of library materials. RILINK serves over 34% of Rhode Island public school students, providing access to more than 800,000 books and other materials in member libraries.

Teacher Librarian is published by the
Rhode Island Library Information Network for Kids

Each web site listed has an annotation, a direct link to the site, and the complete URL.

ASSESSMENT TARGET
1.a. Student should be able to provide a basic description of government.
1.b. Student should be able to explain the difference between authority and power without authority, and that authority comes from custom, law, and the consent of the governed. materials correlated to this standard →