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Summer Care Package
The end of another school year is in sight. Our team has assembled the perfect summer care package for teachers, librarians, and technology coordinators:
- Wrap up your year by grabbing in-depth usage stats. Where were the spikes?
- Grab this month's research lesson plan, then tap our activity archives. Plus, our Essentials, BookCarts, and Search by Standards features make lesson planning more efficient.
- Make it easy for researchers and staff to search eLibrary by adding a search widget to your school websites and student/staff Facebook profiles. Search anywhere, anytime!
- Become a library marketing superstar with our special toolkit. Handouts, posters, icons, and more are just a click away, and are all designed to boost awareness and usage of your subscription next year.
- Get trial access to more quality research resources from ProQuest, then suggest that your school purchase the most useful titles using our new suggestion tool.
This month's email newsletter will help you maximize your eLibrary access in 2010-2011, bring fresh standards-linked content on board for the new year, and make your library the go-to place for quality resources.
Comments? Questions? Drop us a line. Enjoy your summer planning season!
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Resource #1:
Your Usage Statistics
Looking Back & Planning Ahead
Our stats engine allows you to access usage reports for June 2004 to the present, and even set up scheduled reporting to get the information automatically.
To access the engine, first log in to your eLibrary subscription. Once you see the search screen, click here to begin.
Choose a report type by clicking the report type pull-down menu. Choose how you want the report delivered. Select the usage period for the report, then click Create Report to get your stats.
Instructions for obtaining usage stats for your other ProQuest subscriptions is also available. Questions? Email customer_service@proquest.com or call 1.800.521.0600, EXT. 7112.
Has your library or school enabled IP authentication? If so, take advantage of our direct URL login links (details) to make direct access of your subscriptions a snap.
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Resource #2:
Research Lesson Plans
This Month & Beyond
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) is celebrated in May to commemorate the contributions of people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the United States. ProQuest has created a BookCart learning activity to help your students learn more about the contributions of Asian Americans: "Asian Pacific Heritage Month."
Our editors create hands-on research lesson plans and standards-linked BookCarts every month of the school year. Be sure you're signed up to receive ProQuest Teachable Moments in addition to your eLibrary newsletter.
Archives of back issues in full webpage format are available.
Our Educator Tools page also archives these lessons going back several years. It's a must-bookmark! Feel free to repurpose any and all of our activities for use in your classroom or library.
Plus, our librarian-teacher collaboration guide makes it easy for staffers to work together to bring eLibrary resources into any learning activity.
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Resource #3:
Search Widgets
Facebook & Websites
A widget is a portable search tool which can be embedded in any school or library webpage by your technology team—or you! It enables instant searching of eLibrary (and other ProQuest tools) from anywhere on any website.
Grab the code (or codes) you wish to use, then embed the tools on your webpages to enable instant searching from your school website, library portal, or even your Facebook profile.
Watch a short video showing the new FB widget in action.
We also offer special grant funding feeds from GrantWrangler for your sites! Tap into our complete collection of search widgets and gadgets today.
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Resource #4:
Free Online Training Opportunities
Monthly Webinars
Our ProQuest product trainers are standing by to help you get the most out of your subscription. Tap into this month's free training schedules (by class or date) then register for a class.
Be sure to update your email newsletter account and add a checkbox next to our ProQuest K-12 Training Newsletter to get advanced notice of free online training opportunities.
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Resource #5:
eLibrary Teacher Tools
Quick Links & Resources
Connect to many of our most popular and useful tools for using your subscriptions in a learning setting, via a link on the main search page.
Found in the bottom-right footer, select Educator's Tool. Quick links to our Teachable Moments monthly newsletter, BookCart lesson maker, model Cart activities, quick start guide, videos, and more are available.
It's one more way we're working hard to connect our popular support website at proquestk12.com with your subscription!
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Grants for Libraries @ Grant Wrangler
Learn how to publish this feed on your site!
Self-Paced eLibrary Training Videos
Get trained anywhere, anytime!
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Librarian Survey @ eLibrary
Have a minute? We're looking for feedback from librarians who provide access to eLibrary and other online research tools in their school. One lucky survey taker will win a 2010 CultureGrams print set!
Take the survey here. We'll choose our winner on June 30, 2010.
Top 3 Websites
Each month, our SIRS team scours the Internet for top-quality websites for classrooms and libraries. Dive into this month's selections: Memorial Day, Mother Goose, Internment Camps.
Resource #6:
Lesson Planning Tools
BookCarts, Essentials, by Standards
eLibrary is much more than an in-depth research tool. It also offers a set of exclusive tools and resources that make lesson planning a joy.
Whether you're looking for a tool to organize and augment your lesson plans (BookCarts), seeking editor-selected content for major topics and issues of research interest (Essentials), or want to find timely articles or multimedia resources directly applicable to your state (or national) learning benchmarks (by Standards), eLibrary is here to help.
eLibrary BookCarts: BookCarts provide point-and-click templates for building standards- and Lexile-correlated reading lists, project pages, lesson plans, and assessments with online content.
Educators can incorporate links to relevant publications, articles, photos, maps, multimedia files, and websites from online sources or personal favorite weblinks. BookCarts and QuizCarts can be easily shared by teachers in the same school or any school in the district.
Watch a short video introduction, then get started making 'Carts today using our 800+ models.
ProQuest Essentials: These editor-created "smart content" pages highlight content from within eLibrary's 60 million documents, 5 million images, and 50,000 websites.
Essentials (video overview) are mapped to specific queries and appear as the first result. They're created by our editors based on the most popular queries and most studied subjects. This means what users need first, they see first—so they spend less time searching and more time learning.
To find all current ProQuest Essentials, click Publications and look under "ProQuest Essentials" in the alphabetical listing.
Search by Standards: This special search method gives educators the ability to tie content to
curriculum, classroom assignments, and learning standards.
Don't waste your time searching the open web with Google; eLibrary's built-in Search by Standards tool (video @ 5:25) is up-to-date, and makes it easy to select your location, then a specific standards set, and select each learning benchmark to find related resources.
To start a standards search, click Advanced Search. At the bottom, click the Search National and State Standards link.
Resource #7:
Spread the Word
Custom Marketing Tools
You, your staff, and your students all have access to your subscription, both from home and at school. Do they know how to login? How to search?
Not to worry. Our eLibrary Marketing Toolkit makes it easy to inform your user community about eLibrary. You can quickly spread the word about this research tool via a standard press release, customizable login handouts, printable posters, special notices, web icons, videos, and more.
Here's a full list of everything the kit has to offer; be sure to tap this kit prior to the start of the new school year. Every staffer and student should get a handout with remote login information at the beginning of the new school year, watch a short video to understand what eLibrary offers, and more.
Marketing Toolkit Contents
- Marketing Your Library's Resources
- Resource Notices (Remote Login Information)
- Solution Resources & Free Email Newsletters
- Generic Press Release Template
- ProQuest Database Solution Descriptions
- 2 Minute Video
- ProQuest Solutions vs. Google
- Library Support Poster
- eLibrary Posters
- eLibrary Icons
- Digital Library "Commercial"
- Special Library Videos
Open your toolkit to start boosting usage and powering access today.
Resource #8:
New Resources for Fall
Try & Suggest Purchase(s)
Power your summer lesson planning and information gathering by getting a free trial of one of more of our school-ready research tools (full listing and 2 minute videos for each)
Free trials are available to teachers, librarians, administrators, and technology coordinators.
Sign up for a trial here.
After you've had a chance to use them, consider asking your school buyer or department head to purchase it for your continued use.
Use our special form to send a custom email to the purchasing agent at your location, explain why you'd like it to be purchased, and more. Fill out a purchase suggestion form here.
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