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Back to School @ eLibrary
Welcome back! A few days ago we released the latest updates to your subscription, just in time for back to school—powered by ProQuest.
We've updated the American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines for citations in all versions of eLibrary that offer computer generated (and editable) citations.
Keep in mind that eLibrary, unlike other subscription databases, offers a unique and helpful edit function that allows students to easily add missing text fields or fix errors.
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Curriculum (I.B.) standards have been added to our exclusive standards search. If you support an IB program at your school, you can now more easily use your subscription to find classroom-ready content that aligns to diploma standards. (Standards search in action).
What's coming? Soon we'll release the Occupational Outlook Handbook 2010-2011 and AFP Still Graphic images.
World Almanac and Book of Facts 2010 Edition and Great Events of the 20th Century videos will also be loaded.
Finally, the Chronology of American Literature and Encyclopedia of World History are also now accessible. Enjoy your Fall!
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School-Ready Lesson Plan
The "New Normal" U.S. Economy
The "new normal," as it has come to be called on Wall Street, academia and even CNBC, envisions an economy in which growth is too slow to bring down the unemployment rate, while the government is forced to intervene ever more forcefully in a struggling private sector.
If that sounds like the last three years, it should. Many economic and financial experts have coined that phrase and think the new normal has already begun and will last at least another three to five years.
ProQuest has created a CourseCart learning activity, powered by your eLibrary subscription, to help students learn more about the federal budget—"Financing Government—Taxes and Budgets."
Retrieve this timely student activity.
This is one of 22 CourseCart learning activities that librarians and/or teachers can copy to their local collections. CourseCarts are collections of BookCart learning activities that address the major topics and issues of popular courses and textbooks—in this instance, U.S. Government & Civics (XLS).
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Librarian & Teacher Tip
Using eLibrary in Bilingual Education
Over the summer, Susan M. from Smart Horizons Career Online High School in Florida wrote to ask: "When I was reviewing [eLibrary] I thought there was a bilingual component? Is that correct? If so how can I locate it?"
Great question, Susan! Here's a short list of the bilingual support tools and content you'll find in eLibrary:
- Translation tool: Makes it easy to translate eLibrary text from English to 10 languages, including Spanish, French, German, etc. Do a search, open a document from the results list, and select the appropriate language from the translation tool in the upper right-hand corner.
- Spanish Encyclopedia and Dictionary can be found in the Reference Desk.
- Spanish language periodicals available via Publications Search include: Hispanic Review, Symposium, Latin American Research Review, Americas, Texas Monthly, Santa Fe New Mexican, Inter Press Service Spanish News Wire, The Press Enterprise, People en Espanol and more.
Keep in mind that eLibrary's BookCart tool allows librarians and teachers to select the most appropriate content, include essential questions for critical thinking, and student directions for custom inquiry-based learning. This could include websites in other languages plus eLibrary Spanish-language articles.
Don't miss the video links on the right side of this month's newsletter to see eLibrary and our BookCart tool in action, both in two minutes or less.
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The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency
eLibrary eBook Fall Feature
Just in time for September's Constitution Day festivities, head into eLibrary and conduct a Publications Search, then enter "Companion to the American Presidency" in the Search box without the quotes.
Select Books from the pull-down menu, and finally click Search to find this new eBook in your subscription. It includes 41 essays by some of the top U.S. historians about the personalities, policies, and tragic flaws of our nation's chief executives.
Library Journal called it "the best place to find an authoritative overview of each president." Each presidential profile includes information not often included in similar reference works, such as demographic information, a summary of federal finances during the president's term, data about economic production during the era, and a timeline of events.
As with most eLibrary eBooks, there are both internal links to major sub-sections of each presidential essay, a table of contents and previous/next navigation. The documents also appear within search results.
Research projects on presidential administrations, biographies of presidents and first ladies, plus investigations into historical eras are common assignments. This new eBook supports these assignments, aligns to national social studies standards, and provides entertaining and informative reading for patrons of any age.
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Support Tools & More @ All-new proquestk12.com
Summer is one of our busiest seasons here at ProQuest headquarters. After talking with teachers and librarians at recent national conferences, we set to work making our central proquestk12.com support website easier to use and revised a number of items, including:
Handy Home Page: You said our home page was too busy. We agreed! The new entry page is cleaner, clearer, and offers an interactive calendar for our free web training sessions and live @ProQuest Twitter feed. Give it a try, and let the new large images scroll to see what's new.
Standards-Linked Lessons Plans: Revised for 2010! Developed by experienced educators with subject-matter expertise, these activities have been aligned to national standards and developed for four grade levels and four subject areas. Activities now address all of our major databases, making this a must-download set of free lesson plans.
21st Century Skills Addressed: How do ProQuest research tools help schools meet the needs of 21st Century learners? Our new video explains. (A number of new videos went live this summer.)
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Enroll & Save
Vendor of Choice Program
At ProQuest, we know that many of our customers are facing budget cuts (ProQuest CEO message). With each passing month, it's becoming more difficult to afford all of the online research resources you would like to provide to your students.
In response, we've put a program in place to help you during these hard times. ProQuest's new Vendor of Choice program has already helped schools just like yours save thousands of dollars. Find out more and enroll today.
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eLibrary Family Roundup
2009-2010 Content Additions
One of the most useful additions to the all-new eLibrary are ProQuest Essentials, or "smart" content pages. These special pages highlight content from within 80 million documents, 5 million images, and 50,000 websites.
ProQuest Essentials (video) are mapped to specific queries and appear as the first search result. They're created and maintained by our editors based on the most popular queries and most studied subjects in schools. This means what users need first, they see first—so they spend less time searching and more time learning.
More than 1,600 new ProQuest Essentials were added through the end of last school year, including:
To find this time-saving content, click Publications Search, select the letter P, and scroll down to ProQuest Essentials to mine the collection alphabetically.
Many additional content loads (new and updated sources) were made during the past school year as well. Click here for a sampler of new additions through Summer 2010 (PDF).
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Grants for Libraries @ Grant Wrangler
Learn how to publish this feed on your site!
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Back to School Posters,
Flyers & Usage Boosters
New customizable posters, flyers, videos, and other tools for all of our school-ready research tools will help you increase usage of your library media center resources this year.
Compliments of ProQuest!
Fall eLibrary Survey @ ProQuest
Win a print set of CultureGrams!
Have a minute? We're looking for feedback from educators and librarians who provide access to eLibrary and other online research tools in their school.
Take our quick survey.
One survey taker will win a 2010 CultureGrams print set!
eLibrary Videos:
Updated for Back to School
Your Subscription in 2 Minutes
The perfect Fall video—a short, engaging 2-minute overview of your subscription. Start here this new school year to boost usage and engage your entire school community in using eLibrary for teaching and learning in 2010-2011 and beyond.
eLibrary Full Training Video
Go in-depth into the all-new eLibrary family with our full training video: Start here. You'll find a new, easy menu which allows you to access the features you want to learn more about in one click.
My eLibrary Complete:
Timelines, Notes & More
What is My eLibrary? This short video series walks users through everything from My List and Notes to Tagging, Timelines, Slideshows, and Administrator Functions.
Search Widgets & Facebook
Set up a search widget to make it super-simple to access eLibrary from anywhere. Even Facebook! Our search widgets page explains how to set up widgets for all of our major research tools.
eLibrary BookCarts: Basics
No matter which version of eLibrary your school receives, our integrated BookCart tool makes it easy for you and others to integrate digital resources and assessments into daily classroom use. Give teachers and librarians a two-minute tour with this video.
eLibrary BookCarts: Complete
Only eLibrary gives your staff the ability to create standards-aligned lesson plans powered by eLibrary content. Our exclusive BookCart tool (details and model lessons) is built into your subscription, and this video gives users a complete tutorial from logging in to saving custom lessons and assessments, all inside eLibrary.
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: First Americans, Hispanic Heritage, U.S. Constitution.
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