ELM for K12: A World of Information

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ELM for K-12 A World of Information

• Jennifer Hootman
• MINITEX Reference Librarian
• MEMO 2007
• October 6, 2007

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Overview

• ELM Databases for K-12
• New Features from Gale
• ELM Publication Title List
• ELM Access
• MINITEX Reference Services

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MINITEX Resources
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ELM

• Electronic Library for Minnesota
• Online virtual library, comprised of
• 15 databases/resources from five different
  vendors
• Accessing ELM?
• Your School Library Media Center
• ELM Portal
• ELM is brought to you by your local library or
  school media center, the
• MINITEX Library Information Network and State
  Library Services with
• state appropriations to Minnesota Office of
  Higher Education and the
• Minnesota Department of Education, and federal
  LSTA funds under the
• support of the Institute of Museum and Library
  Services.
• eBooks purchased with contributions from libraries

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ELM Curriculum Based Subjects
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What can I find in ELM?

• Full-text scholarly, popular magazine, news
  articles
• Image, video, sound files
• Primary source documents
• Reference resources
• E-books tools to locate resources in print
• Special features (i.e. course web pages, journal
  alerts, search alerts)

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Databases Grades K-12

• Kids InfoBits (K-5)
• InfoTrac Junior Edition (6-8)
• InfoTrac Student Edition (9-12)
• Discovering Collection (8-12)
• Junior Reference Collection (6-8)
• Informe!
• MasterFILE Premier
• Academic Search Premier
• Business Source Premier
• ProQuest Newsstand Complete
• NetLibrary eBooks

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EBSCO
MasterFILE Premier
Academic Search Premier

• 1,729 full text periodicals
• 276,622 photos, maps and flags
• 85,639 full text biographies
• 104,481 primary source documents
• 473 full text reference books

• 8,240 Abstracted and Indexed Journals
• 7,159 Peer-Reviewed, Abstracted and Indexed
  Journals
• 4,506 Full Text Journals
• 3,745 Peer-Reviewed, Full Text Journals
• Includes all the academic disciplines

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EBSCO
Business Source Premier

• 2,300 journals
• 9,474 FT publications
• 1,208 FT trade journals and general business
  magazines
• 1,103 FT peer-reviewed journals
• 426 FT market research reports
• 5,028 FT industry reports
• 1,403 FT country reports, reviews, studies,
  surveys
• 10,120 company profiles
• 2,293 SWOT analyses

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Gale
Reference
Periodical
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Gale
Kids InfoBits

• 550 full-color maps
• 1,500 charts, graphs and tables
• 2,600 pictures, flags and country and state seals
• 7 reference titles
• 100 popular periodicals

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Gale
InfoTrac Jr. Ed.

• Over 330 FT titles that have been hand picked by
  Educators, Librarians, and Education Specialists
  as appropriate for grades K-8.

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Gale
InfoTrac Student Ed.

• Over 1,100 FT titles that have been hand picked
  by Educators, Librarians, and Education
  Specialists as appropriate for grades 6-12.
• Newspaper coverage national local (Duluth
  News Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press)
• NPR radio shows with complete transcripts
• Cross searchable with e-books

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Gale

• Over 45,000 biographies, critical essays and
  overviews appropriate for grades 6-12
• Over 515 new critical essays on more than 120
  widely studied authors were added this year,
  including
• Sherman Alexie
• Jimmy Baca
• Stephen Hawking
• Kazuo Ishiguro
• Walter Dean Myers
• Alice Walker
• Images, audio, video clips, plot summaries
• Thousands of primary source documents, full-text
  poems, plays, and study questions

Discovering Collection
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Gale

• Education topics in many curriculum areas, plus
• Child/adolescent psychology and development
• Drug and alcohol abuse
• Health/nutrition/fitness
• Learning disabilities
• School law
• Sports/athletic training
• Over 300 full-text journals/magazines selected
  for teachers, educators, school administrators,
  education students, and librarians

Professional Collection
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Gale

• Created for Spanish-speaking users, FT of popular
  Hispanic magazines (Spanish language and
  bilingual periodicals).
• 330 Spanish-language and bilingual sources
• Over 350,000 documents including Spanish-language
  reference material
• Updated daily
• News, politics, current events, cultural and
  lifestyle issues, entertainment, health and
  parenting, literature, history, science and more
• Content is not translated
• Indexing terms and thesaurus based on the
  expressions commonly used by Spanish speakers
• Contains a Spanish-language subject guide

Informe!
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ProQuest

• Over 673 newspapers (350 FT)
• Local, regional, state, national ,
  international news sources
• Wide range of articles, including
• Arts, Sports, Business, Entertainment,
  Editorials, Editorial Cartoons, Obituaries, and
  Letters to the Editor from well-known people
• Broad coverage of news stories allows for
  national and international perspectives
• Coverage is 1980-Present

ProQuest Newsstand Complete
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WorldCat

• OCLC Union Catalog all materials catalogued by
  member libraries in 45 countries and in 400
  languages
• All formats books, videos, sound recordings,
  scores, visual materials, computer programs,
  maps, manuscripts, archives, Web sites, eBooks,
  etc.
• Over 70 million bibliographic records
• The worlds largest bibliographic database, but
• Reminder Not all libraries are OCLC members, so
  it does not reflect holdings of ALL libraries

OCLC WorldCat
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NetLibrary
OCLC NetLibrary

• Web-based system for accessing and retrieving the
  full-text of selected eBooks.
• 15,130 selected eBooks.
• Subject areas include business, economics,
  social sciences, technology, medicine,
  literature, religion, education, psychology,
  history, law, science, sports, and more

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Whats New?

• Gale / PowerSearch
• Did You Mean?
• Search alerts in PowerSearch, with RSS export
  capability
• Cleaned up user interface, with easier access to
  limiters (including limit by content level and
  content type)
• Better document display, with easier access to
  InfoMarks and document tools
• Improved How-to-Cite functionality
• Tab configuration
• Enhanced Subject Guide with topic groupings
• Search by Subject Guide, Publication, Curriculum
  Standards, and Topic Trees
• Search within Results

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New Features of PowerSearch
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New Document Display
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Build the curriculum blocks

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Star Features

• Web Page Creators
• EBSCO ProQuest
• RSS Feeds
• EBSCO Gale
• PowerSearch
• Gale

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ELM Library Lit. for You
ELM4YOU.ORG
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ELM Education Lit. For You
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Where do I find ELM?
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Got ELM?
ELM Support elm_at_umn.edu
http//minitex.umn.edu/elm/access.aspx
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ELM4YOU.ORG
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Collaboration Higher Achievement
An Illinois study in 2005 found, for instance,
that eleventh-grade ACT scores are highest when
there is a high degree of true collaboration
between library media specialists and classroom
teachers in a wide spectrum of activities. Higher
library staffing levels are linked to higher
reading performance for all grade levels. -The
State of Americas Libraries A Report from the
American Library Association 4/06
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Ways Media Specialists Collaborate

• Provide library and research instruction
• Teach search techniques efficient use of
  databases
• Teach resource evaluation skills
• Assist in connecting the resources with the
  curriculum
• Collaborate in designing research assignments
• Support acquisition of resources

Other Ways?
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MINITEX Reference Services
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MINITEX Reference Services

• Reference Referral service for libraries in MN
• Call us at 1-800-462-5348
• E-mail mtxref_at_umn.edu
• Visit
• http//www.minitex.umn.edu/reference/request.asp
• Conduct sessions for library staff on ELM
  resources and reference tools
• ELM Support E-mail elm_at_umn.edu
• Publish Reference Notes, monthly newsletter
  available at
• http//www.minitex.umn.edu/publications/refnotes/
  
• Reference Services Blog
• http//blogs.minitex.umn.edu/reference/

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Webinars Teleconferences

• Webinars
• Gale EBSCO Resources
• Web Page Creators
• ProQuest Newsstand Complete
• Library 2.0
• Instant Messaging
• NetLibrary
• WorldCat
• Teleconferences
• Finding the Trends that Matter Get Your
  Environmental Scan On (Oct. 26)
• People Watching with a Purpose Meeting Needs
  Before they Need It
• (Feb. 8)
• Library Trends (Mar. 14)
• Trends, Fads or Folly Spotting the Library
  Trends that Really Matter
• (Apr. 11)
• The Future Library (May 9)

Cant make the webinar date time? Check out
our recordings! Cant make the teleconference
date time? Check out our streaming video!
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How Can We Help You?

• Provide informational packets for your teachers?
• Assist in collaborating with your teachers?
• Assist in workshops for your students teachers?
• Provide different webinar topics and times?
• Provide promotional materials that target
  specific classes or projects.

Ideas?
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Questions/Comments?

• Thank you for your attention!
• Contact
• Jennifer Hootman
• hootm001_at_umn.edu
• 1-612-624-2924
• OR
• mtxref_at_umn.edu
• 1-800-462-5348