Explorer Web Sites

[Guusje Zimmerman Moore <guusje@TENET.EDU>]

Our 5th graders are in the midst of their explorer reports Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 
11:03:44 -0500
nyone know of any EASY web sites we can check
out?. I've found one of Columbus, but everything else is way to academic
and dry for them to understand and comprehend.
TIA
Guusje

                           Guusje Moore
                 Librarian, Housman Elementary School
                           Houston, Texas
                          guusje@tenet.edu
From: "Barbara Herrin (Linda Waddle)" <lwaddle@ALA.ORG>
Subject: AASL National Conference Proposals

      Date:  09/03/1996  11:28 am  (Tuesday)
      From:  Barbara Herrin
        To:  LWaddle
   Subject:  Posting on LM_Net

Can you post messages to LM_Net?  If so, I have one I'd like to have
posted.  (See following; Subject head should read:  AASL Annual
Conference Program Proposals - San Francisco).  Thanks


The theme for AASL programming at the 1997 Annual Conference of the
American Library Association in San Francisco June 26-July 3, 1997,
is "Libraries Lead to Learning."  This theme suggests that
libraries--and library media specialists--are integral components of
the educational process and essential to student learning.

The AASL Program Planning Committee (chaired by Dagmar Finkle) is
seeking suggestions and/or proposals which address the theme through
one or more of the following specific topics:

1) technology
2) budget planning/preparation and resource allocation
3) information literacy skills--access and assessment
4) management skills
5) learning styles/brain-based learning
6) implementation of partnership strategies

If you or your committee are interested in presenting a program,
please submit the following information by October 1, 1996 to:

AASL Annual Conference Program
50 East Huron
Chicago, IL  60611
FAX:  312/664-7459

"Libraries Lead to Learning"  Program Proposal

1)  Committee/Section Proposing Program:
2)  Program Contact:
3)  Contact Mailing Address:
4)  Contact Work Phone:
5)  Contact Home Phone:
6)  Contact FAX:
7)  Contact E-mail:

8)  Working Title of Program Proposed:
9)  Program Description (75 words or less for possible use in the
Preliminary Program and advertising brochure):
10)  Relationship to AASL Conference Theme--"Libraries Lead to
Learning:"
11)  Proposed Speakers (Please note that honoraria and expenses are
not paid to librarians and/or AASL/ALA members for presenting regular
conference programs.):
12)  Program Format:  a) Theater;  b) Rounds of 10;
13)  Number at Head Table:
14)  Program Length:  a) One hour;  b) 1 1/2 hours;  c) 2 hours;  d)
3 hours.
15)  Target Audience:
16)  Expected Audience:  a) 100;  b) 100-250;  c) 250-500;
d) over 500.
17)  Audio Visual Equipment Needed (Must be ordered before May 1 and
approved by AASL Staff prior to submission to ALA;  Union contracts
do not allow for bringing your own equipment.  Possibilities include
Overhead Projector/Screen; Slide projector; Video Projection Unit;
LCD Panel--for IBM or MAC; Audio Cassette Player, IBM or MAC Computer
Equipment--Please be specific.):
18)  Proposed Funding Source (for speakers expenses, handouts, etc.):
 a) Annual Committee Allocation ($50); b) Annual Section Allocation
($500); c) Other (describe in detail):

Key dates for Annual Conference Programming
Program Proposals Due:  October 1, 1996
Notification of Acceptance:  Following Midwinter, 1997
Preliminary Program Copy Due:  February 26, 1997
Final Program Copy Due:  March 23, 1997
Divisional Promotional Flier Distributed:  April, 1997
Final Arrangements Made:  May, 1997
Program Locations Assigned by ALA:  June 1, 997
ALA Annual Conference:  June 26-July 3, 1997

If you have questions, please contact Dagmar Finkle
(dfinkle@njlink.pppl.gov) or Barbara Herrin (800/545-2433 x4387;
bherrin@ala.org).