CASLS+Newsletter+Vol.+3+N.17

JANUARY 22, 2013 RONDA'S CORNER

This newsletter finds me prepping for Friday's training with Marina Budhos. It sounds like it's going to be fun and interesting. If you plan to attend and did not receive a confirmation from Laurie Sledge today, please contact me as soon as you read this. The confirmations have been sent to all who registered.

There have been many new titles added to the professional library over the last few weeks. I took apart a few kit bags that we had that weren't being used and made them in to individual titles again. You might remember them from the "Books for Boys" training we did a few years back.


 * 1. New: 17-Jan-2013 The Adventures of Captain Underpants : an epic novel (PL1068) PIJ 1997 BOOK ||  ||   ||
 * 2. New: 17-Jan-2013 Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets (PL2289) PIJ 1999 BOOK ||  ||   ||
 * 3. New: 20-Dec-2012 Module 1 - Biology - 10th Grade (PL1628) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 4. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 10 - Mathematics: Estimates and Measurement 2nd Grade (PL1010) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||
 * 5. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 11 - English Language Arts - 8th Grade (PL1019) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 6. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 12 - English Language Arts - 3rd Grade (PL1013) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 7. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 13 - English as a Second Language - 9th-12th Grade (PL2148) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||   ||
 * 8. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 14 - Mathematics, Pythagorean Theorem - 6th Grade (PL2472) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||
 * 9. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 15 - Earth Science, Elliptical Orbits - 10th Grade (PL1009) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||   ||
 * 10. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 16 - English Language Arts: Using Prepositions-5th gr (PL1007) TA 2012 DVD ||  ||
 * 11. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 17 - English Language Arts: Text-to-Self Connections (PL1008) TA 2012 DVD ||  ||
 * 12. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 2 - 1st Grade Literacy - English Language Development (PL1022) TA 2010 DVD ||  ||
 * 13. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 3 - Language Arts- ELD (English Language Development) (PL1011) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||
 * 14. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 4 - Literacy - 4th/5th Grade (PL1629) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 15. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 5 - Language Arts - 7th Grade (PL2116) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 16. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 6 - 12th Grade Grammar / SDAIE (PL1021) TA 2010 DVD ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 17. New: 27-Dec-2012 Module 9 - Science - 9th Grade (PL2560) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 18. New: 17-Jan-2013 Captain Underpants and the Big Bad Battle of the Bionic ... (PL1056) PIJ 2003 BOOK ||  ||
 * 19. New: 17-Jan-2013 Cinderella Bigfoot (PL1054) PI 1997 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 20. New: 28-Dec-2012 Dog Breath!: the horrible terrible trouble with Hally Tosis (PL1044) PI 1994 BOOK ||  ||
 * 21. New: 28-Dec-2012 Dogzilla (PL1040) PI 1993 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 22. New: 03-Jan-2013 Leveled Texts for Social Studies: Early America (PL2331) TA 2007 Compact Disc ||  ||   ||
 * 23. New: 16-Jan-2013 Habitus : a diaspora journal No. 6 - Mexico City (PL0022) JSA BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 24. New: 16-Jan-2013 Habitus: a Diaspora Journal No. 7 Berlin (PL0072) JSA BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 25. New: 17-Jan-2013 Hanzel and Pretzel (PL1052) PI 1997 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 26. New: 28-Dec-2012 Help! I'm Trapped in a Professional Wrestler's Body (PL2288) IJ 2000 BOOK ||  ||   ||
 * 27. New: 16-Jan-2013 The History of Violets: (historial de las violetas) (PL0016) JSA 2010 BOOK ||  ||   ||
 * 28. New: 17-Jan-2013 Captain Underpants and the invasion of the incredibly naught (PL0392) PIJ 1999 BOOK ||  ||
 * 29. New: 28-Dec-2012 The Last Burp of Mac McGerp (PL1026) IPJ 2003 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 30. New: 03-Jan-2013 Expanding and Preserving the Union: Leveled Texts (PL1047) TA 2007 Compact Disc ||  ||
 * 31. New: 27-Dec-2012 Leveled Texts for Social Studies-World cultures through time (PL1024) TIJ 2007 BOOK ||  ||
 * 32. New: 20-Dec-2012 Module 7 - 1st Grade - Small Group Reading Lesson (PL1219) TA 2010 DVD ||  ||   ||
 * 33. New: 20-Dec-2012 Module 8 - English Literature - 10th Grade (PL1006) TA 2011 DVD ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 34. New: 16-Jan-2013 Monarch Butterfly (PL2658) PI 1989 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 35. New: 17-Jan-2013 Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professer Poopyp (PL0393) PIJ 2000 BOOK ||  ||
 * 36. New: 17-Jan-2013 The Princess and the Pea-ano (PL1053) PI 1997 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 37. New: 28-Dec-2012 Aliens Ate My Homework (PL2698) PIJ 1993 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 38. New: 17-Jan-2013 Schmoe White and the Seven Dorfs (PL1055) PI 1997 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 39. New: 28-Dec-2012 The Snowy Day (PL0175) IP 1976 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 40. New: 28-Dec-2012 The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (PL2220) PI 1992 BOOK ||  ||   ||
 * 41. New: 28-Dec-2012 Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear (PL1025) IJ 1993 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 42. New: 09-Jan-2013 Leveled Texts for Social Studies : The 20th Century (PL1049) TA 2008 Compact Disc ||  ||
 * 43. New: 17-Jan-2013 Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman (PL0394) PIJ 2001 BOOK ||  ||
 * 44. New: 17-Jan-2013 Captain Underpants and the big bad battle..., part 2 (PL1069) PIJ 2003 BOOK ||  ||   ||
 * 45. New: 28-Dec-2012 The Thumb in the Box (PL1032) PIJ 2001 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 46. New: 28-Dec-2012 Summer Reading is Killing Me! (PL1028) PIJ 1998 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 47. New: 28-Dec-2012 Toad Rage (PL1037) IPJ 2004 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 48. New: 28-Dec-2012 Underwear! (PL1041) PI 1988 BOOK ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 49. New: 09-Jan-2013 Leveled Texts for Social Studies: World Culture Through Time (PL1051) TA 2007 Compact Disc ||

MARY ANN'S MEANDERINGS  Many Eyes is an experiment by IBM Research and the IBM Cognos software group. With Many Eyes you can upload data and then create a visualization based on that data. You can view and discuss your visualizations and data sets by creating and participating in topic centers, as well as track your contributions and see comments that others have written to you.For example, if you want to analyze a text, you can create a word tree, a tag cloud, a phrase network, or a word cloud. To compare a set of values, you can create a bar chart, a block histogram, or a bubble chart. To see relationships among data points, you can create a scatterplot, matrix chart, or network diagram. You can see the parts of a whole by creating a pie chart or treemap, and you can track rises and falls over time by creating a line graph or stack graph.If you don't have data of your own, you can upload data found on public sites such as the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, or the Federal Reserve.This would be a really fun tool to engage kids in statistics or other math classes.

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ANTS - which has a collection of Videos contributed by Librarians. They are at: [] Some of these videos could be used for high school research.

**Links to free resources on the web for librarians to use:**

Some Common General Reference Sites: [|www.merriam-webster.com] [|http://onelook.com] [|http://www.thefreedictionary.com] [] [|http://www.encyclopedia.com]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Journals & Journal article databases: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://agricola.nal.usda.gov] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|www.doaj.org] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.eric.ed.gov] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|www.gopubmed.com] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.openj-gate.com] (suspended) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.e-journals.org] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.jurn.org] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Scholarly Literature of Various Types: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://scholar.google.com] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.scirus.com]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Genealogy and Vital Records <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|www.genealogy.com] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|www.familytree.com] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|www.ancestry.com] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|www.myheritage.com]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Legal Information <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">International Affairs, Government, Politics <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Religion and Theology <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Librarian-Hosted Guides to the Web: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.libraryspot.com] The Library Spot <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.ipl2.org] Internet Public Library <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.refdesk.com] RefDesk <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] LibrarianChick

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Public Library Weblink Pages: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] (Nyack, NY) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] (Long Beach, NY) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] (Charlottesville, VA)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">School Library Weblink Pages: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Academic Library Weblink Pages: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Educational Videos: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://soundzabound.com]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">E-books : Some of most well-known sites: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">E-Books <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">--Directories of ebook websites: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] Hampshire College’s Directory of eBooks <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Beware of “Cobweb”Sites <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] (many links are out of date)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">101 Cool Freebies on the Web (compiled by Business Week) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">ALA’s List of Recommended Websites: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|http://www.ala.org/offices/library/alarecommends/recommendedwebsites#reference]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">…and within that is: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">ALA’s Reviews of the Best Free Resource Websites (2011): <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]