eLibrary Curriculum Edition Update
Winter 2011
Power discovery in the new decade...
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 Curriculum Edition 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 CE Multimedia
Haiti Earthquake (2010)
The report includes open access to our CultureGrams PDF reports for both countries, available for a limited time.
CE Essential Pages & Content Picks
Our editors have done the hard work. They've combed the vast content stores available inside eLibrary CE, 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 CE, 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 simple keyword search 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 Curriculum Edition Lesson Plans
Where are the jobs? At home, and abroad?
Corporate profits are up. Stock prices are up. So why are so few firms hiring? Actually, many American companies are—just maybe not in your town. They're hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is fat.
The trend helps explain why unemployment remains high in the United States, edging up to 9.8 percent last month, even though companies are performing well. Many economists blame the government for providing tax incentives to outsource jobs to other countries. The 112th Congress will probably consider removing these incentives as a strategy to help increase employment in this country.
So, as the U.S. economy begins to grow again, many of the jobs that are in demand will be very different than those that disappeared during the last decade and during the recent recession.
Knowing the type of job opportunities that will present themselves in the future will help students and adults make more knowledgeable career decisions. The continuing trend of outsourcing jobs such as programming, tech support, customer service, content development, etc. to English-speaking, low labor-cost countries will reduce the need for those jobs in the U.S., while positions that require your physical presence may remain in the United States.
Students need to learn more about the careers of the future and be able to compare their talents and interests against the opportunities that an economic recovery will present to them during this decade.
Our ProQuest editors have created a BookCart learning activity (tool details) that provides a collection of the best resources for students to use in doing career research and analysis: "Career Exploration Resources."
This timely activity collection also includes research activities employing History Study Center and ProQuest Learning: Literature, two sources available inside your eLibrary CE subscription via the History and Literature buttons.
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.
@ProQuest Feedback: School Users
"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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