eLibrary Update
Winter 2011
Looking back, forging ahead...
At ProQuest, we've continued to invest in technology and content throughout 2010. This includes the recent release of the all-new ProQuest platform. We've re-imagined the way to discovery... to finding, creating, and sharing knowledge.
Our ProQuest platform isn't the only resource we've enhanced in 2010. In recent months, the eLibrary team has added:
- More than 2,000 Essential Pages (list broken down by subject), a more than two-fold increase that brings the collection coverage to nearly 4,000 most-studied topics.
These pages give all the content, context, and pathways students need to begin researching a topic. And we all know students appreciate help in getting to the right information, fast, during their limited online research time.
- Dozens of new full-text books, magazines, journals, newspapers and transcripts; plus major new image collections from Agence France Presse (AFP) featuring current event photos, charts and graphs. (Look under Publications to find this amazing content.)
- 7 million+ new documents added across all sources, adding up to a nearly 10% increase in total documents (and more than 20% total pictures and 17% total full-text magazine and journal articles).
- Great Events of the 20th Century Videos are new and improved for 2011. With lots more videos to choose from, delivered in smooth Flash playback windows, your students will swear they've gone back in time!
- New standards alignments for International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Curriculum; National Governors Association Common Core Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects; and National Governors Association Common Core Standards for Mathematics.
One Year Ago @ eLibrary Multimedia
Haiti Earthquake (2010)
The report includes open access to our CultureGrams PDF reports for both countries, available for a limited time.
Essential Page & Content Picks
Our editors have done the hard work. They've combed the vast content stores available inside eLibrary, and found the very best resources connected to hundreds of the most popular queries made by K-12 students. These content collections are only available inside eLibrary, stored on our Essential Pages.
Here's a trio of the best of our most recent additions, as shared by our editorial team. Simply conduct a search in eLibrary for each title and you'll see the Essential Page at the top of your search results. Easy!
One of the most-accessed Essential Pages in December was Cyberbullying. A runner up? Seismographs.
eLibrary Lesson Plan
State of the Union—Clinton, Bush, Obama
President Obama delivers his third State of the Union address to Congress, the American people, and the world on January 25.
Based on the accomplishments of the "Lame Duck" session in December, the speech will probably be optimistic, with the recovering economy a major focus. With the advent of the revolution in communication technology and the Internet, billions of interested people all over the world will likely see the speech live on TV or later in other ways.
State of the Union Messages to the Congress are mandated by Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution which states, "He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."
Among the many precedents established by George Washington was clarification of the phrase "from time to time." Since 1790 State of the Union messages have been delivered regularly at approximately one year intervals.
ProQuest has created a BookCart learning activity to help your students learn more about the history and the policies of government during the period of 1998-2000—"State of the Union--Clinton, Bush, & Obama."
Top 3 Websites @ ProQuestK12.com
Each month, our SIRS team scours the Internet for top-quality websites for classrooms and libraries. Dive into the new month's selections: Ben Franklin's Words, Congress, Astronomy.
2010 Feedback: Students & Staff
"I wish I knew about the online resources like ProQuest, SIRS, and eLibrary where you can search a topic and get an enormous amount of articles on whatever you are researching. I just found out that [Joel] Barlow had these on their website last week!"—M. Brennan, Student @ Redding, CT
"We Love eLibrary: ... Used for general research and our annual spring survey always shows it is #1 favorite by faculty and students for general research. Can't say enough about SIRS: Love the Top 10 Box, A-Z list and Yes-No Topic Information boxes, they are awesome! Thank you for sharing why CultureGrams is so special! My student library worker just walked in and said "Hey, we used CultureGrams last hour..." Thanks for caring about our school kids and making your products so teen-user friendly!"
—S. Hacker, LMS @ Bolivar, MO
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