The Caldecott Medal home page.

Young adult books lists arranged by categories, e.g. With a Little Help-(fiction about friendship) or Keep Out! This Means You! (fiction in diary format).The lists provide brief annotations.

The Coretta Scott King Medal home page.

Short, annotated reading lists by genre for YA literature.

The John Newbery Medal home page.

Out of the ordinary teen annotated book lists.

Cathy Young's site that, among other things, reviews books for teens.

Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Peruse the lists (some annotated) of award winning books.

A collection development plan that can be viewed on your browser's window, as a PDF file, or as a MS Word file. Visit the Library, Media Technology page to see a link to their Library Media Program Frameworks.

Corpus Christi, Texas. Library Collection Development/Materials Selection Policy. Statements are short and to the point.

Hopkinton High School & Middle School

An interesting collection development plan which opens with short statements of underlying principles.

The Internet Public Library's document designed to help the members of the Teen Division's Advisory Board select resources for the Teen Division. Interesting reading for high school librarians.

A 62-page PDF document that lists criteria for specific subject areas in the various collections of this library.

A detailed, organized sequential outline for creating a school library media program. Each section consists of lists of questions. The answers to the questions provide the basis for the policy document.

This site is maintained by librarian Linda Bertland. A page of quality links to general policy statements, school library collection policies, collection evaluation and weeding, and selection tools.

Dr. Isabel Schon, Director of the center, presents information about recommended books in Spanish that are published around the world. The selection criteria for the books was based on their quality of art and writing, presentation of material, and appeal to the intended audience. Also included is a weekly update for recently published books. All information is provided in both English and Spanish.

Titlewave is Follett's online database that contains over 110,000 book titles and over 30,000 audiovisual titles.

Use The Collection Connection to search Baker & Taylor's database of over 110,000 books and audiovisual titles and series.

An excellent source for science fiction and fantasy.

A great list of ready reference links.

Links are arranged by subject with sub-categories under the main subject.

Sonoma State University's library's ready reference links.

Use the drop-down menu under the heading Magazines, Newspapers & More to pick a reference resource. Some resources are available in Español.

More than 100 links organized by subject.

The State Library, founded in 1850, is California's public research library that helps a diverse people, their governments and their libraries meet their knowledge and information needs.

The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.

A section of the The Internet Public Library's Web site. Its purpose is "to supply resources and materials to support the professional development of librarians and information professionals, and to train and inform about the use of the Internet in library and information settings."

In addition to its primary mission of serving the research needs of the U.S. Congress, the Library serves all Americans through its popular Web site and in its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill. Of the 121 million items in its collection, more than two-thirds of are in media other than books.

This site's mission is to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial. Sites are reviewed by an team of diverse backgrounds, interests and perspectives, comprised of journalists, educators, librarians, engineers and business people.

Children's Bestseller List

This service is provided by Publishers Weekly, the main magazine read by the book publishing industry, including bookstores.

Children's Software Review

Provides commentary and reviews of software and web sites. There is also the Children's Software Finder which is a searchable database of reviewed software. Includes a catalog and publisher directory

CM Magazine

Canadian review of materials by the Manitoba Library Association. Although Canadian based, many titles reviewed in this site are also available profiles of children's authors/illustrators, (2) reviews of currently published children's and young adult books, and (3) information on recently released multimedia, including audiobooks, videotapes, and CD-ROMs.

Environmental Literacy Council

Environmental issue articles & research This nonprofit group reviews materials that can be used for teaching with concerns for the environment in mind.

This site is maintained by Diana Tixier Herald the author of Teen Genreflecting. It is an excellent source for book reviews and titles arranged by genre that teenagers/young adults read.

Midwest Book Review

The Midwest Book Review publishes five monthly library newsletters for community and academic library systems in California, Wisconsin, and the upper Midwest: "an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing."

MultiCultural Review

A "quarterly journal for teachers at all grade levels, college professors, librarians, administrators, and anyone else who is interested in learning about new developments and trends in the field of cultural diversity. The journal features reviews of new print and non-print resources on multicultural topics, and articles that explore current issues."

Superiorland Preview Center

Organized by Dewey number and by genre, this site provides "children's books, workshops on how to evaluate and review them, and distribute those reviews via the World Wide Web so they can be shared as selection tools by others."

Provides reviews of educational software and hardware. Also articles regarding technology and education.

UMBC Children's Literature

The students of the Children's Literature classes at UMBC have compiled this list of books which they believe to be appropriate reading for young children.(A bit outdated—looks as though it was created in the late 1990s.)

Workbook for Selection Policy Writing

Criteria for selection of library media material--short, to the point descriptions. Check out the "professional review sources" list of links.

From East Perth, Australia. For school libraries, succinct general selection guidelines and specific selection criteria by type of resource.

The ISLMC is a preview site for teachers, school librarians, parents and students. This page provides links to sources which review nonprint media, free and inexpensive materials, reference books and other materials.

Selection of school library learning materials developed by a Catholic high school. A succinct list divided into several sections. Similar to many public school selection policy statements.

A concise materials selection policy.

A thorough selection policy statement.

Materials selection policy for school library instructional technology centers.

Weeding the library collection: reasons to weed and weeding criteria.

A commercial site with a list of links to school library sites which have weeding policies.

Weeding policy listed among other policy statements in the Standards for School Library Media Centers. Well-designed Web pages.

An interesting section on the authority held by the library director.

This handbook was written by students completing the Diploma in School Librarianship at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Well-designed pages, easy to read with good, succinct information.

Weeding the Library Media Center. Reasons for weeding and what not to weed. A very helpful table giving guidelines for weeding by Dewey classification number.

Weeding policy for the library media centers in the state of Iowa.

The SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club is an effort to help provide Florida's School Library Media Specialists with guidelines and suggestions for weeding their collections a little at a time as well as for adding quality materials.