[Dcmosls] Resources for Friday

[Charles O'Bryan]

Good morning,

It is still refreshing to read a concise advocacy piece on the role of school librarians in schools.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100211/OPINION/100219850/1350?p=all&tc=pgall

Need to engage your students via texting or online polling?
http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Medline Plus--free healthcare information
http://medlineplus.gov/

Close to home: ALA Annual in D.C.
http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/generalinformation/index.cfm

We are also working on getting you access to the following resources for your schools:

FirstSearch: These databases include WorldCat, ArticleFirst, ContentsFirst, NetFirst, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, and Union Lists of Serials. Other useful citation databases include ERIC, GPO, and Medline. Citations and full text articles are available from 1400 journals in Wilson Select. This year new resources include ArchiveGrid, CAMEO, OAIster, and CONTENTdm.

ArchiveGrid: Provides online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.

•CAMIO-Catalog of Art Museum Images Online: A premier resource of high-quality art images from around the world contributed and described by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes. CAMIO art images span the following categories: photographs, prints, sculptures, painting, decorative arts, costumes and more.

OAIster: A union catalog of more than 19 million digital resources from over 1,000 organizations developed by the University of Michigan and harvested using OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). Digital resources in OAIster include items such as digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, images, audio files, movies and more.

All for now,

Chuck

Charles O'Bryan
School Library System, Coordinator
DCMO BOCES
6678 County Road 32
Norwich, NY  13815

Tel: 607.335.1371
Fax: 607.336.6518

“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
--Isaac Asimov