Recommended Listening, Viewing, and Websites: Websites
The American Library Association, through the work of its member committees, award selection panels, and review editors, regularly prepares lists of high quality library materials, whether audio, video, or online materials.
List of recommended and award-winning websites and online resources for all ages, including apps and social media, along with privacy and safety guidelines.
- Great Websites for KidsThe Great Websites for Kids site is evolving into Notable Children’s Digital Media. Content highlighted on this site will include ALL forms of digital media, not just websites. The charge of the new Notable Children’s Digital Media Committee is: To evaluate, select, annotate, and present a list of notable digital media of interest to children which is updated on a continual basis.
- Great Websites for Kids: Sites for the Adults in Their LivesSites selected by ALSC to help those adults tending to and raising children in a digital world.
- Filters and FilteringAn outline of ALA's position on internet filters, and resources to help understand the options.
Senior Sites on the Web (Sites for Seniors) - Library Services to an Aging Population - (archived version December 2015) List of links compiled by members of the Library Services to an Aging Population Committee of the Reference Services Section (RSS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA, a division of ALA), in the following categories: Organizations; Health Resources; Elder Law/Elder Abuse; Estate/Retirement Planning; Magazines; Searchable Sites/Directories; Of General Interest to Seniors.
Online Resources for Librarians/Educators
- Best Apps for Teaching & LearningThe Best Apps for Teaching & Learning is a recognition honoring apps of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.
- Best Websites for Teaching & LearningBest Websites for Teaching & Learning honors websites, tools, and resources of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.
- PRIMO databasePromotes and shares peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments.
Reference Resources
- Best of the Best Business Web ResourcesIdentifies outstanding web sites for librarians involved in providing business reference services. The winners are selected by the Best Business Web Resources Award committee under the auspices of the BRASS section of RUSA.
- Best Free Reference WebsitesAn annual series initiated under the auspices of the Emerging Technologies Section (ETS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web.
- Online History AwardThe award recognizes the accomplishments of a person or a group of people producing (1) a freely available online historical collection, or (2) an online tool tailored for the purpose of finding historical materials, or (3) an online teaching aid stimulating creative historical scholarship.