World Digital Library October 9, 2009
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At the World Digital Library, you can view primary sources of historical significance from around the world in multilingual formats. Gain inter-cultural awareness and understanding through manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recording, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. Select your language. Click on a continent to begin your journey, Then browse by place, time, topic, type of item, or institution. Curator videos add interesting insights to many of the artifact descriptions.
eLibrary Elementary New Titles August 25, 2009
Posted by virtualnotes in Databases - Updates.Tags: history, maps, jazz, Pyramids, Mummies, Space, Biographies, archaeologists, archaeology, buffalo soldiers, Civil war, U.S. Presidents
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The following are new ebook titles which are now available in eLibrary Elementary.
American Journalists: Getting the Story .
Archaeologists: Explorers of the Human Past
Archaeology: Discovering the Past
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, v 3.0
Compton’s by Britannica, v 6.0
Child of the Fighting Tenth: On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers
GeoNova City Maps
GeoNova Continent Maps
GeoNova Country Maps
GeoNova Flags
GeoNova Ocean Maps
GeoNova Province Maps
GeoNova Region Maps
GeoNova State Maps
GeoNova Territory Maps
GeoNova Thematic Maps
Jazz Makers: Vanguards of Sound
Postwar America: A Student Companion
Pyramids
The Boy of Chancellorville and Other Civil War Stories
The Mystery of the Egyptian Mummy
The Presidency of the United States: A Student Companion
The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History
USA in Space
Weekly Reader Graphic Biographies Series
Weekly Reader Graphic Histories Series
Top Websites September 13, 2008
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History – It’s Happening!
One of our database vendors – EBSCO has created a free web site resource for middle and high school students to promote North America’s vivid history, and help celebrate events such as Women’s History Month, and Black History Month. This interactive site is a model for EBSCO database searches students can do on their own.
National Geographic Xpeditions
Geography for the classroom includes fun activities, lesson plans and Xpedition hall – an interactive “museum” that takes you on geography journeys. Here you’ll climb a mountain, hover over the Earth, speed across Europe, visit an archeological dig, and even order sushi—plus games, animations, and more!
New Database – Daily Life Online June 3, 2008
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Contains primary documents, images, maps, vetted weblinks, Tours through Time features, Spanning the Globe features, and thousands of folk and fairy tales. Book titles include:
Greenwood Dictionary of World History - Perfect for finding brief and informative entries on over 2,000 cross-referenced entries to the most important events, concepts, persons and place in world history. Covers all regions and periods.
Folktale Library - A collection of thousands of folktales and related lore from around the world. Click on a title and explore.
Primary Documents - Thousands of annotated documents drawn from all places and periods in World and American history.
Multimedia - Dozens of American audio files featuring American folk music.
Title List – check out the huge list of titles.
Do a quick search or browse by subject, time period, or by region or individual book titles. Offers lesson plans for teachers with student activities and resources to use in the project. New content is added two times a year.
New Databases – Historical Statistics of the United States January 22, 2008
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Historical Statistics of the United States
The new version contains three times more than in the previous edition (1975) — and dozens of new topics, among them slavery, American Indians, and poverty. The online format allows users to download spreadsheets in a variety of formats and create custom tables of data. Downloads of tables can be in PDF format and printed or emailed. Users can also create their own ‘free’ account to store data to access at a later date. Links to the database can be found in the InfoGuides – Finding government Information, American History, Las Vegas & Nevada History, Home Schooling, Women History, as well as the Databases A-Z list and the Catalog Plus subjects - History and Law & Government.
Did you know? October 25, 2007
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In the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) there is a wonderful six volume set which explains the history of an idea. Often students will need to find information about an ‘idea’ such as “gesture”. The book provides an over view of the concept then provides a study of gestures followed by gestures found in art. Each article comes with a bibliography and hyperlinks into other articles with related content.
If you have never looked at this reference tool, I urge you to do so.
Database – eLibrary Elementary September 21, 2007
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A great resource for young students to study Hispanic American History. Students can use the “Topic Search” area to locate information on a wide variety of topics. Follow this path for Hispanic-American History:
Click the Topics search tab > United States History > Special Subjects > Hispanic-American History
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