Credo Topic Pages – Border Security, Bullying, Solar Energy, Suicide, TSA

Credo Topic Pages are a new approach to presenting and organizing information resources. Topic pages provide context and vocabulary around a subject and act as a starting point for research. Credo currently has over 9,000 topic pages. They cover a wide range of subject areas – from art to medicine and literature to science. View [...]

New Literature Criticism

These new titles have been added to Literature Criticism Online Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol 311 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol 246 Poetry Criticism Vol 121 Short Story Criticism Vol 156

Grolier Online is Back!

The State Library added Grolier Online to the group of state databases.  Currently, Gene has only linked under Databases A-Z (letters F-H).  Jon is working with him to get it on the Search by Topic page and Homework Help website. There are two databases under Grolier Online – New Book of Knowledge and Multimedia Encyclopedia. [...]

New Proquest Interface

You have about 10 days to get familiar with the new interface for our historical newspapers and Las Vegas Review Journal.   There are many changes to the site so it is important that you take a look at it. Currently, only the newspapers are included in the interface.  Later this year Culture Grams will be [...]

Kindle is Coming!!!

Amazon and OverDrive have quietly started rolling out Kindle ebook lending from public libraries, albeit in Beta. Even though there hasn’t been any official announcement yet, some public libraries have already started lending ebooks for the Kindle. The image to the left hails from the Seattle Public Library; several other libraries are starting to list [...]

New Topic Pages in Credo Reference

This week Credo Reference has added the following new Topic Pages. Vaccination Barack Obama DuPont Egyptian Protests

What is Augmented Reality?

Social Media Examiner has an excellent article on Augmented Reality: 5 Ways it Can Your World. Using an iPad2 or smartphone with a camera you can turn a virtual world into a 3D world. Be sure to view the videos as they show you how it all works. Any ideas on how the Library could [...]

eBook Summit

Don’t miss the upcoming LJ eBook Summit: eBooks The New Normal on Wednesday, October 12. It promises to be a full day of intriguing ideas that you won’t want to miss. I’m looking forward to this panel: The Ebook Evolution: How They’ll Change Public Libraries As ebooks catch fire with public library patrons librarians are poised to [...]

Gadgets in Credo Reference

Today we’re featuring the Credo Reference gadgets, which are right there every time you visit Credo Reference! We’ve got a pretty neat assortment of gadgets, including Define, Person, Images, Pronunciations, Crossword Solver, Quotations, Holidays and Festivals, and Conversions. To highlight a few: Crossword Solver: Get help with your crossword puzzles! For example, you can put [...]

Fayetteville Public Library Hosts Open House to Showcase Various E-Resources

Marketing for Libraries Transitioning from tried and tested print subscriptions to online resources can be difficult for some library patrons. Staff members at the Fayetteville Public Library in Arkansas assessed their marketing strategies and tactics in order get their users accustomed to the number of research databases available without a trip to the library under [...]

Enhancements to “In Context” Databases

In the next couple of days you will begin to see enhancements being added to all of Gale’s “In Context” databases. An example of a universal change is that users will be able to search within portal pages to help them ‘trim down’ portal page information. An example of an individual product improvement is that [...]

Location-Based Social Networks

Chris Bundren sent out the information for the webinar Location-Based Social Networks.  Since this is right after the Department Head meeting, if anyone is interested in attending please let me know and I’ll set it up in the Virtual Training Lab. Title:  Location-Based Social Networks Format:  Webinar Date:  Thursday, September 14, 2011 Start Time:          12 [...]

New Interface for GVRL

The new interface for the Gale Virtual Reference Library will go up as soon as Gene changes the URL.  If you want to view it now go to http://galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=lvccld_main. Gale has changed the way the GVRL authenicates remotely.  If you use your cell phone or tablet (not on the library’s wifi) you will see the [...]

New Cyber Bullying Titles

ebrary has added new e-books to their open access collection on cyberbullying.  The collection, which is subsidized by ebrary and now includes over 100 titles, will help parents, educators, and others better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern. You can find the link to this great resource of ebooks on our Hot [...]

Current Events: Wild Fires, Disaster Relief & Euro

Credo Reference Online has added three new Topic Pages this week reflecting current events happening around the world. Wildfire Disaster Relief Euro  Topic Pages provide background information on the topic as well as recent magazine and newspaper articles from a variety of other library resources.

LJ eBook Summit

The Virtual Library will be hosting a one day ebook summit – eBook the New Normal: How Libraries are Leveraging the ebook Opportunity – October 12th from 7am (well maybe we view recorded version the 7am one at a later date) – 3pm PST Please review the article in Digital Shift for more information and [...]

Plan Ahead: October is National Breast Cancer Month

Provide by The Pulse – Health and Wellness Resource Center Here is the October installment of ideas for incorporating health programming into your overall library programming strategy. Still working on summer programming? See September: National Cholesterol Awareness Month. According to the latest available information (2007) from The United States Cancer Statistics (USCS), a woman’s overall lifetime risk [...]