KLMLibrarian http://blog.lib.umn.edu/meye0539/kristenmastel/ A blog of ideas, explorations and lessons learned by an outreach and instruction librarian. en Copyright 2009 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:10:45 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Community Economics Extension Presentation Below are slides about library resources for locating articles and grey literature for economists.

Community Economics Library Presentation
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Minitex will finalize license agreements with the following vendors for access to the following statewide electronic resources. These resources will be available beginning July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2012. (* denotes a database added to the suite of eresources for the coming contract period.)

EBSCO databases (Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota)
o Academic Search Premier
o Alt HealthWatch*
o Business Source Premier
o Consumer Health Complete*
o ERIC*
o Health Source: Consumer Edition*
o Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition*
o MAS Ultra – School Edition*
o MasterFILE Premier
o Middle Search Plus*
o Points of View Reference Center*
o Primary Search*
o Professional Development Collection*
o Regional Business News
o Science Reference Center*

Gale Group for K-12 electronic resources (Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota)
o Discovering Collection
o Expanded Academic ASAP*
o Educator’s Reference Complete*
o General Science Collection*
o InfoTrac Student Edition
o InfoTrac Junior Edition
o Junior Reference Collection
o Kids InfoBits
o Student Resource Center Gold*
o Gale’s Spanish-language database ¡Informe! (Minnesota and North Dakota only)

ProQuest for Newsstand Complete, our current package, PLUS two Gannett papers, the St. Cloud Times and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader (Minnesota only)
o ProQuest Newsstand Complete, the current package (North Dakota only)

OCLC for the FirstSearch Base Package (Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota)
o OCLC WorldCat
o ArchiveGrid*
o CAMIO*
o OAISter*
o OCLC ArticleFirst*
o OCLC Electronic Collections Online A&I*
o OCLC PapersFirst*
o OCLC ProceedingsFirst*
o Clase/Periodica*
o ERIC*
o GPO Monthly Catalog*
o MEDLINE*
o World Almanac/Book of Facts*
o OCLC Electronic Books*
o OCLC WorldCat Dissertations and Theses*

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s General Reference for K-12, public, and academic libraries (Minnesota and North Dakota only)
o Britannica Online School Edition*
o Britannica Online Public Library Edition*
o Britannica Online Academic Edition*

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So, if you are feeling stuck in your literature search, please feel free to contact me!

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To read a longer discussion of the resource, visit: http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2009/05/17/search-news-and-teens/

Googl WheelSearch.jpg Google announced a new universal search. "These include contextual navigation links above the search results that help users "drill down" to specific types of information. For instance, developers who search for [python] will see links for "web," "blogs," "books," "groups," and "code," whereas [downtown los angeles] will show a different set of links. "

More info on new search engines, here.

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Highlights from the report include:
- Direct Human Access- instruction, reference and other support from library personnel (that's me!)
- Providing information literacy integration into the curriculum
- Providing equal access to library resources and collections (databases, materials, etc.)

The areas I think we can grown in are providing additional resources to distance staff and students, working to make the library present in CMS, integrating tutorials into curriculum, etc.

To read the report, visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/guidelinesdistancelearning.cfm

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]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/meye0539/kristenmastel/2009/05/friends_school_plant_sale.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/meye0539/kristenmastel/2009/05/friends_school_plant_sale.html Outreach Fri, 08 May 2009 17:38:39 +0000 Why Do Students Procrastinate? The new short video is produced by Project Information Literacy (PIL) provides a glimpse into why students procrastinate:

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- Inquiry Question Icebreaker, used wiffiti, to ask a question and have students text answers that immediately post on the live screen.
- In teams during Science Activity Project students looked at a historically significant phenomenon, such as nuclear physics, and then applied the phen to modern day. the students created a Reactee T-shirt (http://reactee.com, shirts $20-27). people would text the number on the t-shirt and get a message to let people know about the connection and how it affects them today.
- Interested in having students create a simple mobile website of information on a topic, try Zinadoo or FeedM8.
- Students can create an enhanced mobile podcast by using PowerPoint slides with QuickTime pro to add audio, and Mobilatory. You will need to convert your PowerPoint movie to a 3G format.
- LastSpotted is a free service where you spy on a something and every tiem you see that thing or person you send a text message. Students can take pictures of insects with their cell phonesand send their pictures with a text message to LastSpotted.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/meye0539/kristenmastel/2009/05/cell_phone_student_exercises.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/meye0539/kristenmastel/2009/05/cell_phone_student_exercises.html Interesting Websites Mon, 04 May 2009 21:00:33 +0000 ARLIS NA 2009 April 17-20 I was in Indianapolis at the Art Libraries Society of North America conference. It was a bit of a homecoming being a graduate of Indiana University-Bloomington; so much that I coordinated an Indiana Reunion honoring my adviser and art librarianship guru, Betty Jo Irvine. During the conference I worked at the Web 2.0 Tech Kiosk where participants could freely ask questions about wikis, blogs, social tagging, bookmarking and other technologies, and assist in setting up new account. For more information on the Tech Kiosk, visit http://artlibrarytech.pbworks.com/The-Tech-Kiosk . A few highlights from the conference include:
- Amazingly I learn more exciting things by casual conversations than panels many times. At the IU Fine Arts Library they are using Delicious to help categorize databases and resources.
- Also at IU, they use Library Thing to advertise their newest books.
- I learned about MadCloud to create cheap publications. More for vanity magazines, but could be great for nonprofits or newsletters.
- Swivl is an interesting alternative to Google Custom Search Engine.
- Omeka is a resource for web publishing- some interesting oral history collections can be found there (I might look into this for my MLS thesis).
- Conduit I have heard about before, btu I saw in action how easy it is to create a custom toolbar.
- The IMA created an interesting dashboard application which is fascinating. It lists all sorts of stats from the previous two years in a widget like format, such as hoe much energy is used per month and number of works of art currently on loan from the permanent collection.
- Art Babble is a wonderful new website full of free artist interviews!
- Blist is a new resource for creating data sets and making it available on the web. Jodie at the U is interested in using this to catalog images.

For more information via an aggregater can be found below:

Grazr

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- Keeping Current in Extension: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p62302589/

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MAEE Author’s Rights
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Even though I am not an Extension Educator I picked up a lot regarding the review process from the following panel. Eli Sagor shared some great layouts for thinking about projects in relation to review criteria. I am so using that to outline my libraries continuous appointment review!

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https://umconnect.umn.edu/p62302589/

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