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eLibrary Canada:
New Version, Enhanced Learning
Since January, thousands of schools have tried the all new eLibrary Canada and Curriculum Edition (details). Your subscription now sports a next-gen interface, user-inspired Web tools, and editorial context that appears at the top of popular queries.
Current subscribers can click a special banner graphic on the main search screen to try our new version, or by authenticating via the appropriate link (URL list). All subscribers will be moved to the new interface in July.
See what all the excitement is about with a quick tour. More videos are linked below.
Get ready for the July switchover with updated title lists, quick start guides, user docs, icons, videos, and more. Our proquestk12.com Product Information area links you to all of the updated documents, training files, and more. Watch for the final items to go live just prior to the summer release.
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Enter to win this month's book from Linworth Books!
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New Canada Titles: 2009 YTD
Our content management group has added numerous Canada-specific titles to eLibrary Canada and CE since the new year began.
You can conduct a Publications search to instantly access each title directly, or click the "Canada sources only" box to focus your next query on these important information sources.
Recently added titles include: 100 Mile House Free Press, Alaska Highway News; Fort St. John, B.C., Border Crossings, Bulletin des Agriculteurs, CA Magazine, Caledonia Courier, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, Courtenay Comox Valley Record, Energy Processing Canada, Feliciter, Golden Star, Goldstream Gazette, Human Rights Tribune, Literary Review of Canada, Our Schools Our Selves, Peace Arch News, Regina Sun, Review; Richmond, B.C., Tri City News.
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Lessons, Activities & Tools
Celebrate National Library Week
April 12-18 offers Canadian libraries of all shapes and sizes a chance to join in special festivities. National Library Week, first sponsored in 1958 in the United States, honors the contributions of libraries and librarians—academic, public, and schools. The theme this year is "Worlds connect @ your library."
The ultimate success of Canadian school librarians and libraries in the era of Google is to demonstrate to teachers, school leaders, and tech directors that you provide the best electronic resources available for 21st-century teaching and learning.
School leaders and Tech Directors provide library funding for electronic resources based on how they will benefit teachers and students, and how those benefits translate into increased usage. Teachers use, and steer students to use, resources that clearly benefit them both.
The teacher power in eLibrary Canada & CE helps make your subscription an "education solution" instead of just another student research database. That should get the attention of school leaders who fund your library. Find out more.
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ProQuest Essentials = New Editorial Content
One of the most useful additions to the all-new eLibrary are ProQuest Essentials (PE's), or smart content pages. PE's highlight content from within 60 million documents, 5 million images, and 50,000 websites.
PE's (video) are mapped to specific queries and appear as the first result. They're created by our editors based on the most popular queries and most studied subjects. This means what users need first, they see first—so they spend less time searching and more time learning.
Below is a short list of some of the best examples available inside the new eLibrary today. Conduct a keyword search on each item, and the collection will appear at the top of the results.
- Zeus
- Global Economic Crisis
- Death Penalty
- Great Wall of China
- World War I
- John F. Kennedy
- Stem Cell Research
- Global warming
To find all current ProQuest Essentials, click Publications and look under "ProQuest Essentials" in the alphabetical sorting.
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Differentiated Teaching and Learning Support
A current major priority and buzz word in education is differentiated instruction. Ongoing scientific research on learning demonstrates that students achieve at higher levels when teachers and students have daily access to these elements of differentiated instruction.
The new eLibrary from ProQuest provides a solution that can help teachers and students implement differentiated instruction (details) and 21st-century skills in schools, libraries, and at home.
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Free Canadian Online Training Opportunities
Our ProQuest product trainers are standing by to help you get the most out of your subscriptions. Attendees can obtain a Certificate of Attendance for any of our online courses. Tap into this month's free training schedules (by class or date) then register for a Canadian-specific training course (NEW) today.
For custom training information, contact Tasha Maddison (email) at 647.456.9985, or leave voicemail at 1.800.387.2689 EXT. 65.
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Seeking: Innovative Users of eLibrary for Teaching
More and more librarians are discovering the power of eLibrary BookCarts to increase librarian-teacher collaboration (guide). At a time when libraries and librarians are constantly challenged to prove their value and their impact on teaching and learning, BookCarts can provide one unique solution to this problem.
ProQuest is looking for librarians who are using BookCarts in innovative ways (testimonials). An example of this is Sonja Bedford of Maria Carillo High School in Santa Rosa, CA. She is working on a strategy that has teachers assigning students to search for one "best" eLibrary article on a selected research topic, save it to My List, and then email My List to her and the teacher. Together, they will collaborate on building the BookCart learning activity. Because students see their input, they have additional motivation to use this BookCart for research. This is an excellent example of collaboration and the integration of Web 2.0 and 21st Century Skills.
Another example of innovation comes from Ana Banos of Sweetwater Union High School in San Diego, CA. Ana includes a requirement to use at least one print resource in each BookCart learning activity and lists the Call Numbers in the Description box to make it easy for students to find a print resource. Ana also provides essential questions for critical thinking and student directions in each BookCart Description box so that students have everything they need to complete assignments with only one place to go.
If you have a creative way that you are using BookCarts to work with teachers, ProQuest would like to hear about it and feature you and your idea in future eLibrary newsletters. If you are interested, please email your idea to Carl Janetka, ProQuest Education Consultant. If you'd like to include a photo of yourself, and an email address so that other librarians can share ideas with you, we would welcome that as well.
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Bonus: SIRS Current Events, Political Cartoons, Graphs + More
What makes our SIRS solutions so special? It's the human element. Every day, our SIRS Discoverer editors post hand-picked articles and resources. Tap into a short list of the most topical articles added
to SIRS in recent weeks. Did you know that SIRS Discoverer offers
charts and graphs plus
map activities,
geared for young researchers? SIRS Discoverer even offers
political cartoons.
(Try SIRS today!)
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