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eLibrary Updates
Our product development team is constantly reviewing customer feedback and making changes to our learning resources to meet your needs. Several updates or content additions were recently completed, and we wanted to bring them to your attention:
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Classroom Activity: Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic culture has had and will continue to have a major impact on many aspects of our lives regardless of the outcome of the illegal immigrant issue. To help students understand and appreciate the contributions of Hispanic Americans, teachers should assign students two- to three-minute oral (or PowerPoint) reports that use at least three eLibrary resources. Students should be assigned different topics that help define Hispanic culture. (More.)
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Free Library Marketing Kit
Help spread the word in your school about your media center! Print all-new, full-color handouts, notices, and bookmarks; link to new videos explaining the importance of the media center and your online subscriptions; retrieve fresh static and animated icons for your websites; and much more. Get your kit today!
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Free Photo Essays Available
Looking for colorful, fact-filled mini-posters to post in your media center or classroom? Our SIRS staff can send you a
set of SIRS Photo Essays focused on Horses, Dogs, Cats,
or Birds. Each essay pack includes 4-6 individual posters measuring 11 X 14 inches. Allow 4-8 weeks for delivery; quantities are limited. To request your essay(s),
send an email to tim.mclain@il.proquest.com and
copy/paste this into your email and change it as
necessary before sending:
Jane Doe
Anytown School
123 Main Street
Anytown, NC 27502
Essays: Horses, Dogs, Cats, Birds, or ANY
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Tips & Tricks: Engaging Issues
eLibrary empowers researchers to do much more than track down quality information and multimedia from more than 2,000 sources. Retrieve a copy of our revised special report that offers links to a collection of 90+ engaging issues for mini-research activities, each supported by a model eLibrary BookCart. The guide also provides models and strategies to help teachers implement our mini-research process that integrates the Big 6.
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K-12 Website Updates
The newest additions to proquestk12.com, your single source for hands-on K-12 solution information:
Teachable Moments: More Fall Student Activities
Why Libraries? Video
Why Research Databases? Video
History Happenings Activities: Just War Theme
New SIRS, eLibrary, CultureGrams, ProQuest Information Pages
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Free Online Training Opportunities
Our ProQuest product trainers are standing by to help you get the most out of your subscription. Attendees can obtain a Certificate of Attendance for any of our online courses. Our training sessions cover after-school hours within several time zones. Tap into this month's free training schedules (by class
or date) then register for a course today. (Monthly training dates reminder email signup.)
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