Jennifer Fabbi: August 2007 Archives

The Libraries provide RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic software package that enables you to:
*Organize your references
*Create a bibliography in a variety of citation styles, including APA, MLA and Chicago
*Import references from many data sources
*Create bibliographies in different document formats (Word, RTF, HTML, etc.)
*Include citations while you write your paper

You and your students can set up and access your personal accounts from any computer connected to the internet. For more information, go to http://www.library.unlv.edu/help/refworks/index.html. We can also provide workshops on this useful tool for groups of faculty or graduate students.

The CML is excited to offer a relatively new service as a part of our Teacher Prep Room line up. We now have a Large Format Printer that prints items up to 6 feet wide. Documents that are prepared in Microsoft Publisher, or a comparable design program and formatted as poster size can be brought to the CML on a flash drive or CD to be printed on our full-color printer. The cost of printing is $2 per linear foot, which is a great price for such a service! If you have any questions about this service or would like to arrange to have a document printed, please call us or inquire at the front desk.

When searching the library catalog (http://webpac.library.unlv.edu/search~S3/), you may notice some new features this fall including:

Link+: Clicking Link+ in the catalog allows you to search a master list of books available from a consortium of libraries. In essence, it expands the Libraries’ collection by 7.5 million additional titles that can be requested and delivered in two to four business days.

Community Reviews: Users who have logged into their library accounts now have the ability to add reviews to items in the catalog for the benefit of other readers. We plan to encourage the use of this feature with COE students so that peers may share resources that have been particularly useful to them.

Here are just a few of several library resources that may help in your research or teaching. To access them or find additional resources, try http://www.library.unlv.edu/cml/research/databases.php or the Libraries’ Database Finder at http://www.library.unlv.edu/search/databases/index.html

Title List of UNLV Journal Holdings: If you are looking for your favorite title and can’t seem to find it, search the list of periodicals owned by the UNLV Libraries in print and/or electronic format available from the Libraries Website at http://qm3ut3ze6e.search.serialssolutions.com. If the journal is available electronically, you can link to it right from your desktop.

Education Full Text: Based on Education Index, this database provides indexing and abstracting of articles from Education-related periodicals and yearbooks. Full text coverage begins from 1996.

Education: A Sage Collection: A collection including the full text of 23 peer-reviewed journals published by Sage and participating societies distinguished by up to 36 years of backfiles and encompassing over 7,000 articles.

Mental Measurements Yearbook: Produced by the Buros Institute, this database contains information from the 9th edition of Mental Measurements Yearbook forward. Records contain descriptive information and critical reviews of over 2,200 standardized English-language personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, educational, achievement, and intelligence tests. Subject coverage includes behavioral science, education, psychiatry, psychology, speech, language, and hearing.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL): The complete 26th edition of the Kraus Curriculum Development Library is now available online. With hundreads of new documents, the KCDL database now contains over 7,000 curricula, frameworks, and standards from 1983 through 2006.

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD): A research and reference service including over 200,000 reviews of children’s books from 33 review sources (all full text searchable), over 33,000 book jacket images, over 60,000 links to web pages featuring individual authors or illustrators.

NEW! Chronicle of Higher Education & Education Week Site Licenses: Get the latest education news and access to archives from anywhere on campus at http://www.chronicle.com or http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html

NEW! Brain Pop: BrainPOP is an educational program that provides K-12 curriculum-based content spanning seven main subjects including: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health, Arts & Music, and Technology. BrainPOP currently features more than 600 animated movies. Each movie is supported by activities such as a quiz, comic strip, experiments and other printable worksheets, all tied to national subject curriculum standards.

NEW! Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature: This online encyclopedia documents and interprets the books read by children throughout the world. With a global perspective that pays attention to significant international trends and the multicultural expansion of the field, it includes brief biographies of every major author and illustrator. Also included are feature essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children's literature in many countries throughout the world.

The CML website outlines the collections and services available at the CML and also provides a gateway to web-based education resources for COE students and faculty. Features of the CML website include a “Research” section that links to electronic indexes and databases provided by the Libraries for research in education, an “F.A.Q.” section based on frequently asked questions of CML users, an “Ed Websites” section, and online registration for CML orientation sessions.

From the CML website, users can link to resources on the University Libraries main website, view their library accounts, and access course reserves by selecting the choices in the top menu bars. Information on CML collections and services can be accessed by selecting options from the side menu. Ideas for new content are always welcome!

Here are some newly organized curriculum standards pages:

Curriculum Standards
http://www.library.unlv.edu/cml/collections/curriculum.html
Information about local and state standards, as well as links to the standards from other countries and US states.

National Standards by Subject
http://www.library.unlv.edu/cml/collections/substandards.html
Information and links to all subject-based national standards, as well as information on standards documents in the CML collection.

Deanna Stefanelli, Library Assistant, can help you with all of your electronic course reserve needs. By utilizing this service, your students will be able to access articles, lecture notes, or other materials that are able to be digitized—online! All electronic reserves for Education courses should be submitted at the CML. Books, media items, and your personal copies of bound course materials can be placed on physical reserve for a 2-hour, 3-day, or 7-day loan period. Items for physical reserve may be placed at either the CML or Lied Library. Students are able to access a list of items that you have placed on reserve from the library catalog.

To ensure that your electronic reserve materials are available for the first day of the Fall semester, please submit them to Deanna by Wednesday, August 22. Materials submitted after August 22 will be processed as quickly as possible in the order they are received. For more information on course reserves including the Course Reserve Form, please visit http://www.library.unlv.edu/cml/services/ereserves.html or contact us in person, by phone, or by email.

Also, have your students check out this brief tutorial on how to access E-Reserves: http://www.library.unlv.edu/cml/tutorials/reserve2.htm

The CML offers general and specialized library instruction for students that can be scheduled during one of your class sessions. These sessions are usually held in the CML’s technology-enhanced classroom and can be designed around one of your assignments. To schedule a session, call 895-3593, stop by the CML, or access our online orientation form at http://www.library.unlv.edu/cml/instruction/registration.html.

For sessions at Lied Library, contact Jen Fabbi at 895-3884 or by email at jennifer.fabbi@unlv.edu. If you are unable to schedule a time for your students to work with library resources, please be sure to let them know that we’re in the building. Highlights for students include computers, quiet study space, a lab for the creation of teaching materials, and the resources they need to complete their assignments.

Strategies that can be integrated into your session:

*identifying and utilizing resources for a research or teaching assignment
*evaluating information, especially on the Internet
*looking at popular versus scholarly literature and understanding the concept of peer review
*looking at primary versus secondary sources of information
*proper citation of resources