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Resources section: web sites

Resources section: web sites Web Sites A Cure for the Kid-Surfin ™ Blues By Karen G. Schneider We ™ve heard a lot of suggestions on what to do about the œbad stuff  on the Internet; most of the solutions come from people with little or no experience working with children ™s information needs. As anyone who works with children day in and day out at public libraries can tell you, the first response should be to focus on the good stuff ”such as 700+ Great Sites . This Web site, aimed at children under 14 and their caregivers, is maintained by a team of children ™s librarians from the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. By most standards, 700+ is a rustic site ” it has no search engine and simply lists resources by category, with annotations. Comments I ™ve received from colleagues via library-related lists such as PUBLIB and WEB4LIB have included complaints that 700+ is sketchy and uneven in content; the Religion category, for instance, would give a child the impression that there are only three Christian denominations (Catholic, Quaker and Unitarian), while the Chemistry section lists only four sites. Those quibbles http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png netWorker Association for Computing Machinery

Resources section: web sites

Tepper, Michele
netWorker , Volume 2 (3) – Jun 1, 1998
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 1998 by ACM Inc.
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1091-3556
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10.1145/280506.297551
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Web Sites A Cure for the Kid-Surfin ™ Blues By Karen G. Schneider We ™ve heard a lot of suggestions on what to do about the œbad stuff  on the Internet; most of the solutions come from people with little or no experience working with children ™s information needs. As anyone who works with children day in and day out at public libraries can tell you, the first response should be to focus on the good stuff ”such as 700+ Great Sites . This Web site, aimed at children under 14 and their caregivers, is maintained by a team of children ™s librarians from the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. By most standards, 700+ is a rustic site ” it has no search engine and simply lists resources by category, with annotations. Comments I ™ve received from colleagues via library-related lists such as PUBLIB and WEB4LIB have included complaints that 700+ is sketchy and uneven in content; the Religion category, for instance, would give a child the impression that there are only three Christian denominations (Catholic, Quaker and Unitarian), while the Chemistry section lists only four sites. Those quibbles

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netWorker – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jun 1, 1998

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