[Fwd: Re: Hit on Electric Library use]

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

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Thank you for the information about Electric Library. We just got it in our
district, and I know the information will be useful. I thought you would
like to know that the URL for Electric Library's Educator's Resource kit was
incorrect. The corrrect one is  http://www.k12.infonautics.com/resources
(no "r")

Marilyn Harfst, LMS
Hannah Beardsley Middle School
Crystal Lake, IL
harfst@starnetinc.com

Helen Dittmer wrote:

> 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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