Historically, the publications from the Library of Congress were made available, for purchase, through CDS. However, as of July 1st, this information can now obtainable at no cost. Click here to learn more about how to access this FREE resource .
Tip: You can download a PDF of the titles available by visiting the Library’s Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate website at www.loc.gov/aba/.
ALA Live’s next broadcast is Thursday, September 12th at 1 pm Central. Listen to a panel of experts discuss Digging into Databases. Click here for registration information.
TIP: If you are unable to fit this event into your schedule, remember that you can always view the recorded session(s) by going to the ALA Live Archives.
Upcoming Broadcasts
Information in this post was provided by Laurie Conzemius, MEMO.
The MEMO Fall Conference, It’s About the Learning, is being held on Oct 3-5 at St. Cloud’s River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Each year attendees comment that the sessions at this conference, more than any other they attend, support their work in schools and provide the tools and training they need to do their job.
Register online at: bit.ly/2013memo
The new Britannica School interfaces went live in July!
This new platform has been developed for Britannica School resources. Therefore, if your school media center uses Britannica you will want to obtain a copy of the following updated links to access K-12 databases;
Other points of interest:
A recent article in Reference Notes (September 2013) written by Beth Staats, discusses the new Lesson Plan Builder tool. Staats states the following,
“One of the new features, specifically for teachers, is the Lesson Plan Builder. It is available in My Britannica, which is a tool that allows you to save and share content . You’ll need to create a free account to access it and use the Teacher Code KMVL when setting up your account . Once I logged in with the teacher code, I was shown a page that introduced me to the features available in My Britannica . This tool lets you save and organize favorites and create descriptive tags for those items; lets you search for interactive lessons, study guides, and lesson plans; and lets you create lesson plans.”
Click here to read the full Minitex article in Reference Notes on page 4.
As promised, this week we resume our CMLE communication streams! This means that CMLE staff cull through hundreds of library news items each week and pick the news we hope is most important to you. Hopefully, we offer a “manageable bite” of national, state, and regional library news and resources to academic, public, school and special library staff. Our goal is to provide opportunities to learn something new while also helping everyone feel connected to the larger library world. We share the chosen items through a weekly email message (like the one you are reading) which feeds our blog (www.cmleinfofeed.wordpress.com), Facebook (Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange) and Twitter (@CMLEMN) accounts. We use all of these options so we can connect with you where you are, when you have the time! This way, you have four possible ways of connecting with us for this information! And, by using the comment feature in three of these tools, you can interact with us and other library staff in our region. Sometimes CMLE staff will ask for your preferences for future news or programming, so please help us by using the comment feature. This year we hope to include very short polls too if that is most efficient. Too shy to go public with a comment? Or, are you wondering about how to share staffing changes in your library? Or, do you have a specific service need? Or, do you have a story to share with us to include in the Weekly Review? Email us at cmle@stcloudstate.edu or call us at 320-308-2950.
Patricia Post, Director
Central MN Libraries Exchange (CMLE)
A Minnesota Multitype Library System
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