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Literacy Bug
"Literacy Bug" is a site created especially for Literacy Connection students and their tutors. Newly updated in 2007-2008, the site includes activities, useful links and helpful information. Tutors are encouraged to submit their own favorite links and materials: email the Outreach & Resource Coordinator at info@elginliteracy.org.

Training

ThinkFinity (formerly the Verizon Literacy Network) is a cooperative effort between ProLiteracy Worldwide and the National Center for Family Literacy with support from Verizon Communications. It is a FREE online training center providing assistance to a wide range of organizations and individuals (including volunteers) working in the literacy field. Visit this very helpful site for: downloadable resources, literacy-related Internet links and other documents and tools. 

Adult Learning Resource Center - The ALRC is a professional development organization that helps teachers teach better. Staff development resources can be found here.

Other Sites About Books and Reading

www.bookspot.com
Are you looking for a book to snuggle up with? BookSpot is a hub for online book reviews, reading lists and bookstores. The site doesn't have much of its own content but instead links to a myriad of sources.

www.netlibrary.com
This site, sponsored by the Gail Borden Public Library District, has dozens of books available free online. The offerings are quite varied, with everything from Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" to John F. Kennedy's inaugural address to arcane selections such as "James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography." 

www.Bartleby.com
Proclaiming itself "the preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse," Bartleby offers free electronic versions of encyclopedias and dictionaries, historical texts, the complete works of Shakespeare, and much more.