Career Transitions July 14, 2009
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At a time when the need to re-evaluate, alter or develop careers is greater than ever, Gale has developed a new electronic resource offering a comprehensive guide to career change.
Career Transitions is a complete, guided, self-paced application that walks the individual through the process — taking stock of the current situation, assessing strengths and interests, exploring new opportunities, improving chances of getting a job and finally taking the plunge and pursuing the next opportunity.
Over the past year the number of unemployed in the United States has increased by over 5 million people. The introduction of Career Transitions comes at a time when people need help making life-changing career choices.
Learn more -
http://www.gale.cengage.com/careertransitions/
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JobNow by BrainFuse June 3, 2009
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A To Z Maps Online June 3, 2009
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We have a trial of A To Z Maps Online . 
If you want to try it you will need to ask your reference department head or all Susan, Becky or Steve or Jon to get the user ID and password.
(They are in process of adding the entire USGS Topo Map Collection)
All maps can be printed and used for personal use. Some can even be printed in poster size for hanging on the wall.
If you have Google earth installed on your computer it can interact with it as well.
Includes Lesson Plans under Education Teaching Tools.
Inventions and Discoveries May 28, 2009
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The newest addition to World Book’s Digital Libraries
World Book Digital Libraries offer an online, interactive complement to World Book.s most popular print reference sets. Each library 
features all the content from the print set as well as videos and animations, interactive activities, curriculum correlations, and links to encyclopedic content.
Inventions and Discoveries is an exploration of the transformative impact of the inventions and discoveries that continue to shape our world today, including an examination of advances in agriculture, engineering, communications, economics, manufacturing, the arts, astronomy, transportation, warfare, medicine, mathematics, and everyday items.
Key features include:
• Easy-to-read content that helps students understand core curriculum topics
• Translation tool that generates content into 13 languages
• Text-to-speech feature that allows students to highlight text and hear it read aloud
• Video tutorials and animations that help visual learners grasp difficult concepts
• Interactive activities that engage students in the topics
• Lesson plans and reading comprehension questions that enable teachers to gauge students. understanding of key concepts
• Font size that can be enlarged for easy reading
• Correlation to state and provincial curriculum standards and benchmarks
Take a tour of Digital Libraries at:
http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/digital_libraries/index.htm
Please leave your comments or indicate you like us to signup for a trial.
American History Videos – Trial March 17, 2009
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Please take 5 minutes and look at this trial database of American History Videos. Please vote on whether or not we should add this to our virtual collection and/or leave your comments. Expires May 16, 2009.
Historic Map Works Library Edition – Trial January 12, 2009
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Historic Map Works Library Edition is one of the most extensive digital map collections available, with over 200,000 high-resolution, full color historic maps.
The core of the collection consists of property and land ownership maps illustrating the geographic and development history of the United States. This unique content allows genealogists, historians, and researchers to track the “residential genealogy” of families and locations.
Historic Map Works collections include:
- Property Maps, over 100,000 maps covering the development of the United States since the late 1700’s to the present
- Antique Maps, over 100,000 antiquarian maps covering the world from the 15th to 19th centuries, drawn from the University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library
- City Directories & Illustrations, thousands of related listings, images, business ads, and statistics
The special attention to image quality allows users to see incredible detail that supports research into ancestral lands, land boundaries and structures, geographic names and locations, community growth, topography, and more.
Plus, with collections that span decades and centuries, researchers can easily examine change over time-from big cities to small rural areas around the world.
The straightforward interface lets users search Historic Maps Works by keywords, location names, and other advanced features. They can also easily browse the collections using an intuitive point-and-click world map. Other features such as image previews, zoom in/out, and image cropping make reviewing and using the maps easy.
Leave your comments about this database and let me know if we should buy it.
Trial available until February 10, 2009
URL: http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=2869199
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Database Trial – DragonSource Qikan Chinese Online Reading Room October 30, 2008
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A database of 2000 of China’s most well-known and circulated titles of magazines and journals are available in three formats – Text base, PDF and audio. Text based version covers 1997 to the present. Currently, PDF and audio cover from 2006 to the present but there are plans to provide older issues in the near future.
Patrons can browse by title or topic as well as search across all the publications.
I have included a PowerPoint – product-show_97-2003_format (double click the link and it takes a few minutes to load) to help you understand the database better.
Con: searching can only be done in the Chinese Language. This might be an issue with patrons using the database in-house. However, we did discover patrons could go to google.com.cn, type into the google search box a word to search, copy the Chinese characters, then go to the database and paste the characters into a search box on DragonSource and execute the search. So there is a work around for in-house patrons who wish to search the magazines rather than browse.
Pro: Great resource for our Chinese patrons
So what do you think about the library purchasing this database? Take the poll and feel free to leave comments.
Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center – Trial September 25, 2008
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Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides comprehensive full-text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full-text for more than 500 magazines and books, as well as access to 333 videos and 144 hobby reports, this database offers detailed “how-to” instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby-enthusiast. Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors & nature; and scrapbooking & papercrafts; and offers extensive information on over 140 topics. Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides full text from the leading hobby and craft magazines, including Bead & Button, Birder’s World, Creative Knitting, FineScale Modeler, PaperWorks, Scrapbooking, Quilter’s World, and many more.
Database Trial – ProQuest Historical Newspapers – San Francisco Chronicle September 4, 2008
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Please take a look at the Historical San Francisco Chronicle. I wondering if this would be useful for our patrons researching Nevada or western history. Please leave a comment of what you think about us purchasing this database. We currently have the LA Times and NY Times for historical content. These two newspapers are well used.
Trial expires October 3, 2008.
Popular Culture Universe (Database Trial) August 6, 2008
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Offers information about pop culture from the 1920s to the present. Easy access from the colorful timeline at the top of the main page, or access via the subject area. They even provide audio and videos for students to learn about writing research papers, avoiding plagiarism or making a compelling argument.
For Teachers, they offer lesson plans and student activities.
This looks like a great resource for middle and high school students, what do you think?
To Access Go To: http://pop.greenwood.com
IP authenication should work in-house, if you have problems contact Lauren for the user id and password.
Arbaonline (Database Trial) August 6, 2008
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ArbaOnline reviews reference materials by subject area. To Access Go To: http://arba.lu.com
IP address recognization should work if not contact Lauren and I will give you the user id and password.
Trial Dates: 07/23/2008 – 08/22/2008
Database Demo – Annual Register: World Events July 9, 2008
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I was looking for some Reference books with historical timelines and events and ran across the Annual Register: World Events. The entire series is now online (dating back to 1758). I was playing around with the demo, and this seems like a really user-friendly and useful tool, especially for student reports. It is available through Proquest.
http://annualregister.chadwyck.co.uk/info/demo.htm
Marie Nicholl-Lynam
Lauren: Marie thinks this database is pretty cool – What do you think? Please leave your coments.
Trial Database – Capstone Interactive Library June 27, 2008
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This database currently offers 167 electronic books for young children to help them build their reading skills and engage them in nonfiction reading. They are also great for ELL students to boost literacy in English and Spanish. Books are also links to vetted websites for additional learning. Give it a try and let me know what you think. Database Purchased – called BookFlix.
Website – www.mycapstonelibrary.com
Trial Database – Global Road Warrior June 3, 2008
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Global Road Warrior
World Trade Press is a publishing company specializing in topics of international trade, development, culture and cartography. They have been in business for 15 years, but in the past have licensed their proprietary country-based e-content only to very large companies, domestic and foreign government agencies, and third-party resellers. (Significant clients include DHL, UPS, FedEx, every major international logistics and shipping company,the U.S. DoD, and agencies of more than 12 foreign governments.) They now offer their country-based e-content for libraries, universities and secondary schools on a subscription and license basis. “Global Road Warrior,” “Best Country Reports,” and “AtoZ” Series e-content products provide, according to many client librarians, the world’s most comprehensive country data related to:
*Society and Culture (about 10 x the content of CultureGrams)
*Communications (the world’s most comprehensive)
*Media (details on thousands of media outlets worldwide)
*Travel (with more of a business perspective, but equally usable for personal travel)
*Trade (their forte)
*Business
*Money and Banking (scans of all banknotes and coinage in worldwide circulation)
*Country Maps (9 proprietary downloadable maps per country)
and more than 20 other topics.
Database purchased.
Trial Database – WilsonWeb May 6, 2008
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WilsonWeb
Subscription Period: 5/2008 to 6/2008
Please leave a comment of what you think of this database.
Database purchased.
WilsonWeb Trial Subscription Databases:
- Senior High Core Collection
- Childrens Core Collection
- Middle & Junior High Core Collection
- Public Library Core Collection: Non Fiction
- Public Library Core Collection : Fiction
- Graphic Novels Core Collection
- Non-Book Material Core Collection
Trial Database – Corporate Affiliations February 29, 2008
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By popular request we have a trial database setup for your viewing pleasure – Corporate Affiliations.
Please be sure and leave your comments about the database here. Thank you!
Trial Database – Teen Health & Wellness January 22, 2008
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Rosen Publishing’s award-winning, critically acclaimed database, Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers.
To start exploring Teen Health & Wellness, just go to http://www.teenhealthandwellness.com and enter the user name and password below. Please note that passwords are case-sensitive.
Database purchased.
The trial begins on 01/14/08 and ends on 02/29/08.
Please leave your comments about this database!
Trial Databases – Visual Thesaurus January 22, 2008
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At ALA Mid-Winter, I found this database which I thought was really cool. We have a trial for you to give it a try. Please check it out and leave your comments.
Visual Thesaurus
VT pronounces words, translates into 5 languages and comes with extensive lesson plans which align to the McRel national standard. You can even try out the crossword puzzles. Available until February 22.
Database purchased.
Trial Database – From RefUSA January 22, 2008
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New Business, International Module, New Movers and New Homeowners
Go to ReferenceUSA from the library’s Databases A-Z list. Once there you will just need to click on the sm symbol located on the top right of their logo. This will prompt for a user name and password. Trial expires 2/1/2008 @ 12:01 am
Please be sure to leave your comments about these four databases by clicking on the “Comment” link.
Trial – Tool Bar December 7, 2007
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I met a vendor at Internet Librarian who has a cool new custom tool bar which I thought might be useful for patrons at home and on the MCC computers. It simplifies access to many of our online resources and helps patrons connect with the library more often. This is just a sample of how it can be configured.
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If you are interested in trying it you are welcome to do so. I just ask you provide feedback on by using the comment link here in the blog. Let me know if you think it would be helpful and what links you would like to see on the tool bar. Please note, you may have to try this at home rather than your staff computer.
To download and try it out, simply go to the LVCCLS Toolbar download page and click on the link:
http://www.offshootsystems.com/searchaxis_download/?sc=58LVPL75
