Keeping Up and Keeping Track Keeping Up and Keeping Track of the Best Free Web Resourcesof the Best Free Web Resources

Sam WallinSam WallinOASL/WLMAOASL/WLMA

Joint Conference in PortlandJoint Conference in Portland October 9-11, 2008. October 9-11, 2008.

• Great Free Resources

• Use Delicious to keep track

• Use Bloglines to keep up!

The EnvironmentThe Environment

• High School Environmental Center – US EPA – Site designed by the Environmental Protection

Agency to explore topics related to the environment and also to provide ideas and resources for environmental activism.

• ToxTown– Environmental Health Concerns and Toxic Chemicals

Where You Live, Work and Play

HistoryHistory

• Women In History – Historic Figures– A site started by a library in Ohio, with a lot of great,

short biographies of famous American women in history.

• American Memory from the Library of Congress – Great place to look for primary source photographs

from American history.

PoliticsPolitics

Election 2008 – Youth Radio – Youth Radio has young adults writing short articles,

recording audio and video on the subject of the current election campaign.

IFES Election Guide– Results of past elections around the world,

with statistics, voter turn-out and major candidates.

ScienceScience• Encyclopedia of Life

– Project to make a comprehensive, free database of all the species on Earth.

• PBS - Wired Science– Lots of fun videos showing science experiments

• Periodic Table of Videos– Short videos showing what each element in the

periodic table, plus anecdotes and history.

ResourcesResources• WorldCat

– The resources of thousands of libraries around the world at your fingertips, with tools to help you get those resources through your local library.

• Librarians Internet Index– Index to thousands of great websites, chosen by

librarians with students and researchers in mind.

DeliciousDelicious

• Delicious is a social bookmarking site.

• Bookmark websites and keep track of them for free online.

• Share lists with others

• Access your bookmarks from any online computer

BloglinesBloglines

• Bloglines is an RSS Reader.

• RSS is a signal that tells you there’s something new at a web site.

• Using Bloglines, you can keep track of what’s new at your favorite sites, all in one place.

Thanks!Thanks!

• You can find all the resources in this presentation online at Delicious.

• You can find the presentation itself online at Slideshare.