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Spicing Up Your Library Site! Sample School Sites Barley Sheaf School Library - Flemington, N.J. This site for an elementary school library has a simple three audience interface and limited, but well-choosen resources for students. East Side Middle School Library - Anderson, Indiana This site from Vicki Builta has a clean layout and a wealth of well-organized resources for students and teachers. Orchard Park Middle School Library - Orchard Park New York The team at Orchard Park Middle School have created a clean site with project links for students. University Laboratory High School - Urbana, Illinois Chock full of links to the schools subscription services as well as book chats, a blog, a photo gallery, reccomended reading lists, and other resources. Resources blogger.com This is one of the largest free blogging services on the Internet. It takes you step-by-step through the process of setting up your blog, you can host your blog on your web site or have it hosted on Blogger's web site. For more information on blogging, click here. Tools for Librarians Library Media and PR You'll find graphics, printable bookmarks and other promotional materials and ideas here. Noodle Tools This site has free and fee instant citations. The Citation Machine Create citations for cited works. Landmark Schools See what's up with educational technology with David Warlick. Room 5 Podcast Check out this podcast from a school in New Zealand. Pod-o-matic Create a free podcast. Podcasting 101 for K - 12 Librarians Good article on Podcasting for school librarians. What is a Podcast? Learn more about podcasting at this site from the Orange County Department of Education. The Education Podcast Network Find educational podcasts at this site. American Experience Listine to podcasts from the PBS show, the American Experience. NPR Podcasts Podcasts from a variety of Public Radio shows. Survey Monkey Create online surveys. Free and fee service. Free Polls Set up a free poll or apy $20 a year to have ad free polls. Basic Poll Set up free polls on your web site. Library Web Site Does your school have a library web site? Yes No View Result Free Web Polls proextender Freedback Create forms on your web site. Dynamic Effects You find cut and paste dhtml scripting code here to do some special effects on your site. Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5 Test 6