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Perkins, John – 2001
Museums hold enormous amounts of information in collections management systems and publish academic and scholarly research in print journals, exhibition catalogs, virtual museum presentations, and community publications. Much of this rich content is unavailable to web search engines or otherwise gets lost in the vastness of the World Wide Web. The…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Information Dissemination, Information Management
Fink, Kenneth D. – 2000
This paper provides descriptions of key online history resources useful to teachers, librarians, and other education professionals. Highlights include: primary sources on the Internet; archives; Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs); the American Historical Association (AHA) Web site; state and federal government resources; business history…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, History, Information Retrieval
Kyvig, David E.; Marty, Myron A. – 2000
A comprehensive handbook on investigating the history of your community, family, local institutions, and cultural artifacts, this fully updated second edition provides insights on how to find and use published, unpublished, visual, and material records; collect information through interviews; connect individual investigations with broader…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Family History, Heritage Education, Historiography
Chicago Univ., IL. School Mathematics Project. – 1998
The University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) officially began in 1983 to improve mathematics education for the vast majority of students in grades K-12. UCSMP began by examining the curricula of other countries for proven ideas and methods, creating textbooks and training programs at the elementary and secondary levels, and…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Sources
Reese, Jean – 1999
This book is a reference guide to more than 100 Internet books. The book is divided into six chapters covering: (1) general Internet books; (2) books for educators and librarians; (3) books for parents, children, and students; (4) books for use in curriculum development; (5) juvenile fiction; and (6) books for web page design and creation. Within…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Books, Childrens Literature, Computer System Design
Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc., New York, NY. – 1998
This directory is a guide to 500 programs and services for children with special needs in New York City. Programs are listed alphabetically. When possible, each entry includes the following information: program name, address, contact information (phone, fax, e-mail), and a description which includes (when available and appropriate) the following…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Children, Community Programs, Community Services
Dare, Donna E.; Maddy-Bernstein, Carolyn – 1999
This resource guide provides information on currently available career guidance materials and resources for the elementary and middle/junior high school levels. Section 1 contains National Career Development Guidelines for Elementary and Middle/Junior High School from the National Career Development Guidelines K-Adult Handbook. Section 2 is a…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship
Marisa, Richard J. – 2001
Law is grounded in the past, in the decisions and reasoning of generations of lawyers, judges, juries, and professors. Ready access to this history is vital to solid legal research, and yet, until 2000, much of it was buried in vast collections of aging paper journals. HeinOnline is a new online archive of law journals. Development of HeinOnline…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Computer System Design, Electronic Journals
Stiff, Carol Wilcox – 2001
When violence involving students erupts at school, journalists generally are faced with obtaining important records to substantiate their stories. To do that, they must cope with privacy laws that protect student records from abuse, state laws that prohibit the release of information about juveniles involved in crime, and the sensitive nature of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Sources
2001
This report presents information compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from nine fact-finding missions conducted by WIPO in 1998 and 1999 on the intellectual property (IP) needs and expectations of holders of traditional knowledge. The fact-finding missions (FFMs) were designed to enable WIPO to identify the IP needs and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Services, Information Sources, Intellectual Property
Hartness, Elizabeth Williams; Bingham, Margaret H. – 2001
In the past 5 years, each state in the Southeastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) region (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina) developed virtual libraries that provide citizens access to licensed databases. This guide describes each state's offerings including the methods of access, resources, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Educational Development, Electronic Libraries
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. – 2001
The organizations listed in this reference circular provide a variety of direct services to persons who are blind and visually impaired, including advocacy and advisory services, information and referral, counseling and employment programs, assistive devices, and publications in special format. Many of the organizations also offer guidance to…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Blindness, Braille, Counseling
Mardis, Marcia – 2001
Too often, search engines don't see and directories can overlook clearinghouses, digital libraries, full-text databases, and learning objects. In contrast, the hidden Web is rich with these high quality and cutting-edge learning materials. By integrating resources from the hidden Web into the classroom, educators extend their instruction in new…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Educational Resources, Information Retrieval
Gouwens, Judith A. – 2001
This book presents an overview of the education of migrant farmworkers and their children in the United States. Chapter 1 describes characteristics of migrant workers and explains how conditions of migrant labor put migrant children, youth, and families at risk of educational failure. Chapters 2-3 present a chronology and a history of migrant…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Information Sources
Lane, Nancy; Chisholm, Margaret; Mateer, Carolyn – 2000
This book is designed to help college students develop information and research skills. Twenty-one chapters cover the following topics: (1) "Information Content, Information Packages"; (2) "Reference Works: Finding Facts Fast"; (3) "Directories"; (4) "Biographical Dictionaries"; (5) "Encyclopedias"; (6) "Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Other Word…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Skills, Information Sources, Internet
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