Bringing Multimedia to the K12 Classroom--Education Majors Take Note

"SchoolTube.com is the nation's largest K-12 moderated video sharing website that provides students and educators with a safe and FREE video sharing website that is exclusively endorsed by leading education associations."

Because it is moderated, it is a safe environment where materials made by and for students, organized into strands or channels, can be shared and used for educational purposes. In April, the site is asking for videos showing "what you and your club, school or community is doing to celebrate" Earth Day.

There are over a dozen professional organizations and companies serving as educational partners on the site. It has grown from its launch in 2006 to become the "largest teacher moderated video sharing website" in the United States.

Random House Children's Books provides a channel featuring video "book talks" and related resources to encourage reading in grades K-12.

"Smartlink" in EBSCO Activated for Linked Full Text

The "smartlink" feature is now activated in our EBSCO database collections.  After you run a search and find an article that is available by "linked full text," click the link and make sure your pop-up blocker is disabled. Otherwise the feature will not be able to open the resource in a new browser window.  Give it a try and let us know what you think by sending us an email.

New Titles for Philosophy Majors (and Others) in Credo Reference eBook Collection

The Credo Reference eBook Collection has recently added or updated these titles: Encyclopedia of American Studies, The New Encyclopedia of the American West, OECD Factbook 2010: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics, Debrett's People of Today 2011, and the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts.

Philosophy majors, take notice. There are several new titles you may want to consult for your studies, such as: Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece, Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, Encyclopedia of Ethics, The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics, and Great Thinkers A-Z.

Free Article Downloads from Salem Press

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Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing, and the well-known publisher of reference works such as Magill's Masterplots and the Critical Insights series, announced today a program to provide free access each week to "a few articles/chapters that will shed light on issues in the news."

They begin with "Nuclear Energy" from the Encyclopedia of Global Resources, "Climate (various articles)" from Encyclopedia of Global Warming, "Enrico Fermi" from Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions, and "Soviet Chernobyl Nuclear Plan Undergoes Meltdown" from Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century: 1971-2000.

You are allowed to "download these articles freely, print as many copies of these as you need, and distribute them any way you'd like." Nice...Thanks, Salem Press.

Search Gale eBooks on Your Mobile Device

Have you noticed the link for enabling searching in our Gale eBook collections using your mobile devices? It is just above the link for Gale Virtual Reference Library in the eBooks and eReference section of the Online Library Resources page.

You'll find the free QR codes online as part of the AccessMyLibrary College Edition campaign.

"ScienceCinema" Search Tool from the U.S. Department of Energy

In February 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched ScienceCinema, a new way to search DOE's extensive video resources.

Jeffrey Salmon, Deputy Director for Resource Management with the DOE Office of Science, said, "ScienceCinema's pioneering search and retrieval capability provides the public with a way to quickly access and view our multimedia-based R&D information."

You can search for specific words or phrases, then get results in the form of video snippets. The snippets have a media timeline indicating where in the video the terms were spoken.

ScienceCinema was developed by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in partnership with Microsoft Research.

ebrary Titles Top 52,000

The Cannon Memorial Library's ebrary (eBook) subscription just increased by more than 1,000 titles to a total of 52,100 academic research eBooks that you can read on your computer. Here are some titles that were just added to the subscription:

• From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe, by Peter Y. Palk
• Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
• Accelerating Out of the Great Recession: How To Win in a Slow-Growth Economy, by David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter
• Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism (2nd edition), Colin Neville
• Health and Society: Key Debates in Health Care, by Roger Taylor
• Emerging Practices in Cyberculture and Social Networking, Daniel Riha and Anna Maj

You will find ebrary listed as one of the eBooks and eReference Resources in the Online Library Resources section of the site. To read one of the suggested titles, logon to ebrary and search for the book title. It's as easy as that!