This is seriously FREE!

Please thank your friendly librarians and media specialists.

Go ahead.  Maybe right now.

Regardless of our bookish nature, we love compliments and flattery as much as the next professional.  Maybe more since we spend our days sequestered with books and digital devices.

Here's why I say this...Badgerlink.

Badgerlink is a sizable collection of resources purchased and organized by the DPI's Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning.

Why am I so amped up about Badgerlink?  (Was that like 80s, or what?)

• EBSCO search...search thousands of newspaper and journal articles by topic or tag.  Need to find an article for research data (or want your students to find one)?  Use Badgerlink for a quick and easy search for FULL articles.

• History Reference Center...Search or browse topics by category or by popular resource to find articles from reliable sources, chapters of books AND firsthand accounts/documents on a variety of historical topics.  WOW.

• NoveList K-8...Great review site for childrens' to YA books.  The site includes the professional reviews as well as other interesting tidbits about the books, breaks the books down by genre and is searchable by age, lexile, reading and interest levels.  Great way to find new and interesting books!

• Wisconsin Media Lab/ECB...A detailed list of videos available either online (directly from the site) or part of current PBS programming (including show times) on a wide variety of subjects.  The online streaming videos play at high quality and look great on SmartBoards.

• Soundzabound...THE royalty free music and sounds library for education!  

• Encyclopedia Britannica...the elementary and middle school versions.

• If you haven't been to Teachingbooks, I highly recommend it.  Meet the Author videos, book guides and lesson plans, book readings by the author, reader's theater videos and so much more.  The resources are all linked by common core standards.

• Recollection Wisconsin...Beautiful images of Wisconsin's history.  Search by category or by map to uncover timeless photos.  The photos are provided by local historical societies and public libraries all over the state.

• So much more!  Professional crafted research guide, Science Reference Center, kids search tools,  LitFinder, bilingual resources and databases,...

Good hunting!