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 something like pu??le and Credo Reference will search its dictionaries for six-letter works that begin with “pu” and end with “le.” You can also put in “itger,” and Credo Reference will unscramble the word into all the possibilities it can find.

Holidays and Festivals: This limits searches to entries categorized under “celebration.”

Conversions: You can choose types of measurements from the categories like area, distance, power, and energy, to name a few. You can also select precision with 4, 5, or 6 digits. Give it a try today!

Monday Morning Smile

What other countries celebrate the Fourth of July?

Virginia Hopkins
Texas A&M University
Corpus Christie, TX

Three days before July 4th, in 1867, the British North America Act went into effect on July 1, 1867, uniting Upper Canada (now called Ontario), Lower Canada (now Quebec), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into a British dominion. Canada Day is celebrated by Canadians with parades and picnics.

One day after the U.S. Independence Day, on July 5, [1811], a group of citizens in Caracas became the first in South America to proclaim a formal declaration of independence from Spain resulting in Venezuela Independence Day.

Read about these and 2500+ holidays and festivals in Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary, one of many titles available in the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Librarians: Need some last minute ideas for February programming?

From: The Pulse – Health and Wellness Resource Center by jevanchek Jan 7, 2011 7:48 AM – Show original item

If you’re focusing on American Heart Month, National Wear Red Day (February 4, 2011), African American History Month, and/or Valentine’s Day in February, here are some Quick & Easy ideas that are not too late to incorporate.

Quick & Easy

Use these printable coloring pages and activities with your Heart Health story time, teen time, or any time at all:

• Doctor Listening to My Heart (preschool and up)
• Red Cross coloring book (preschool and up)
• Follow the Blood Activity Sheet (kindergarten and up)
• Take a Look Inside of You! (1^st grade and up)
• Heart Health Valentine Heart Bookmarks (1^st grade and up)
• Heart Word Game (4^th grade and up)
• Valentine Healthy Dessert Scramble (4^th grade and up)
• Bookmarks, Iron-ons, Door Hangers, & Stickers (teens)

This is just the tip of the iceberg. We’re now publishing library programming ideas 3 months in advance. See our complete postings for February National Heart Month & African American History Month, March Nutrtion and St. Patrick’s Day and April Autism Awareness Month.

March is Women’s History Month

Be sure to checkout the ideas and resources for Women’s History month available on The Librarian’s Brain.  Upcoming articles will cover Women’s History resources and March Holidays around the world. Also remember the library’s InfoGuide Women’s History.