Hit on Electric Library use

[Helen Dittmer <hdittme@ix.netcom.com>]

Hi there, sorry I have taken so long to post these responses, but thanks
to all of you for your patience and for the responses you shared with
me.
1. Here is a site for Electric Library's Educator's Resource kit,
<http://www.k12.infornautics.com/resources>.  this is a site only for
teachers and librarians.
2. Also, Electric  Library sends out a booklet, "A Teacher's Guide to
the Mini-Search" which is rather useful.
3. With reference to using it with students, or demonstrating how it's
used one librarian said she did a small research projnect on the Makah
whaling episode .  She used this as a way to demonstrate all of Electric
Library's various search possibilities.
4. Another librarian wrote that "the main feature I feel users and need
instruction with is choosing which dataases to sort and how to reduce
results.  It's been really good as a source for pictures so this is one
of the main features I instruction students and teachers on."....this
librarian also instructs on the use of boolean strategies....
5. How to advertise for Electric Library--give presentations using an
overhead projnector..display banners about Electric Library..try to get
feedback from teachers and students on how they feel about this tool.
6. One librarian wrote that she learned alot about electric library at a
tech conference..."I did a PowerPoint presentation for our faculty on
using Electric Library instead of search engines for betterinformation.
...Assume a student is coming into the library to research something on
child rearing, say..."spanking." Go to Alta Vista, ..and type in
"spanking". The gasps could be heard across the room.  We just looked at
the titles...we didn't even need to call up the sites themselves. Then
go to Electric Library and do the same...what a difference. These
articles are about pediatricians and parents and spanking!"  This
librarian went on to say that she clicked on the icons  on the main sc
reen (referring to books, magazines, radio etc.) so that teachers could
see the v ariety of materials available.  One more point--the librarian
sugests that students just search titles for a better "hit".
7. Another answer, a librarian uses Elibrary "on the encyclopedia mode
to get articles and pictures for animal reports for elementary
students.  It's cut down on the hassles of hard copy encylcopedias..."
another nice feature of Elibrary-the grade level of the material
accessed is noed.
8. Another response from someone who uses the tool in a 7--12 school...I
love..the natural language search interface..."  "When training teachers
it's ..worth the time to point out the "sort by..." box at the b ottom
of the screen.  This person also said that Elibrary is "producing some
great training materials by Carl Janetka, which connects various
subjects to our state standards thru Elibrary."
I think this pretty much summarizes the responses to my request for
information.  Thank you all again, from Helen Dittmer, Redwood Day
School librarian, Oakland, Ca <hdittme@ix.netcom.com>

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