INSPIRE Virtual Library for K-12 Shauna Borger Indiana State Library
INSPIRE Virtual Library for K-12
Shauna BorgerIndiana State Library
Agenda Databases and descriptions (vs. INSPIRE
federated search) Organized by:
Vendor Audience age group
Tips and tricks Practice exercises
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INSPIRE Virtual Library
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Advanced search Advanced search
Boolean tutorial: http://lib.colostate.edu/tutorials/boolean.html AND means both terms must be present in results. OR means either or both terms will be present in
results. NOT will exclude a term from the search results.
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EBSCO database features Add to folder: Use when quickly browsing
results Save: Allows user to save article as a text
file. Cite: APA, MLA, etc. citations Export: Export bibliographic record or
citation into various software/formats. Create Note: Sign in to store notes. Permalink: Create a permanent link to the
resource. Bookmark: Link on social media Listen: Choose an accent! Translate: Choose a language from drop-
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Kids Search Databases in
Kids Search (for basic searching): Middle Search
Plus Primary Search Newspaper
Source TOPICsearch Funk &
Wagnall's New Encyclopedia
Teachers Resource section databases (for more advanced searching): ERIC Academic
Search Premier Professional
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Kids Search
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Audience: Elementary
Vendor: EBSCO
Student Research Center Audience:
Middle school and up
Same databases
More search options Types of
documents Full text
Top searches feature
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Primary Search Audience: Elementary Vendor: EBSCO 80 popular elementary
school magazines Ranger Rick Weekly Reader Scholastic News Highlights for Children Encyclopedia of
Animals and Funk & Wagnall's
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Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia Audience: Elementary and up Vendor: EBSCO Standard EBSCO interface Auto-suggest Full text for each entry
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Middle Search Plus Audience: Middle
school and up Vendor: EBSCO 140 popular middle
school magazines Sports Illustrated,
Boy’s Life, Baseball Digest, National Geographic, Funk & Wagnall's, American Heritage Dictionary
Multimedia search results
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Middle Search Plus
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MAS Ultra Audience: High School and up Vendor: EBSCO Full-text general reference database Extensive primary source documents
Magill Book Reviews Essential Documents of American History Bill of Rights Constitution The Federalist papers CIA World Factbook
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MasterFile Audience: High school and up Vendor: EBSCO Full text and bibliographic records for public
library periodicals Reference, Business, Health, Education, General
Science, Multicultural topics Popular publications include:
Computer Weekly, Consumer Reports, Cosmo, Ebony, Jet, Runner’s World, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair
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Master File
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Newspaper Source Audience: High school
and up Vendor: EBSCO More than 40 national and
international newspapers Christian Science Monitor,
USA Today, Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star
Multimedia TV and radio news
transcripts CBS, CNN, Fox News, NPR
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Topic Search Audience: High school and up Vendor: EBSCO Current events database
Social, political, economic and scientific topics Recommended for debate club, persuasive
papers
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Gale database features Most don’t have a unified look. Advanced search Change Resources (with databases
“In Context”) to change Gale databases
Bookmark: Create a permalink to copy and paste.
Share: Post on social media outlets. Email: Send the resource over
email. Dictionary: Search for a word in the
dictionary.
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Biography in Context Audience: Middle school and
up Vendor: Gale People are fascinated with
people! More than 600,000
biographies on people from science to literature.
Browse and Resources lists Download a Bio in Context
App Search by:
Name, Occupation, Nationality, Birth Place, Death Place
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Biography in Context
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Contemporary Authors Audience:
Middle school and up
Vendor: Gale Biographies and
bibliographical data on contemporary authors Mostly 20th and
21st century authors
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LitFinder Audience: Middle-High
School and up Vendor: Gale Nearly 150,000
poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays
More than 80,000 authors
Full text with citations Search for famous
phrases “How do I love thee”
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Science in Context Audience:
High school and up
Vendor: Gale Subjects:
earth science, life science, space, technology, math, biographies
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Testing Education Reference Center (TERC) Audience: High school and up Vendor: Gale Career development tools
Practice tests, study guides, cost estimator High School, College, Graduate School, ESL
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TERC
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Teaching Books Audience: Elementary
and up Vendor:
TeachingBooks.net Offers an enriched
reading experience Supplemental materials
including activities, discussion questions, author interviews, reading lists
Indiana resources Young Hoosier book lists
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Tips and Tricks Don’t get overwhelmed! Practice with the
exercises at the end of this presentation. Break up the databases into chunks and tackle
them as a group. Identify some of the databases your audience
could use the most and get to know those first. Build up your information literacy teaching skills.
Reference page on WebJunction Indiana: http://www.webjunction.org/explore-topics/reference.html
Digital literacy training for patrons / Assistance for library staff. http://digitallearn.org/
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Thank you! Download this presentation from ISL’s Slide
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Contact your regional coordinator for more training opportunities: http://www.in.gov/library/pdo.htm
Call me! Shauna Borger, Indiana State Library, Professional
Development Office Supervisor 317-232-3718 [email protected]
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Practice Exercises A student would like to take a practice test for the
ACT. Also, all of the guide books are checked out for the U.S. History AP exam. Find these resources using Inspire.
A third-grader is doing a short report on Guatemala. He needs a map and a flag of the country, as well as some basic facts about the geography of the country.
A high school sophomore is looking for primary source material written by Abraham Lincoln. She needs at least one speech and one letter.
A child comes into the library and doesn’t know what he wants. He is reading at a 6th grade level and his favorite class is P.E. He likes books on sports. Can you find him suggestions using an Inspire database?
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Practice Exercises A teacher comes into the library. He wants to know the
name of a poem he learned in school. All he remembers is that the last line is “under an English heaven.”
Does Inspire have access to a magazine called National Geographic Little Kids?
Someone calls the reference desk. The caller swears that there is a slide rule collection at Purdue, and he made a bet with a friend. The friend says no way, not even Purdue would have a collection that nerdy. Try to prove or disprove the caller’s claim by only using an Inspire database.
A student has to do a science fair project on gravity. Where can you find science fair projects on Inspire?
Where did Drew Brees grow up? Some people in the circulation department are excited
about the new Nick Hornby novel. You heard him give an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition some time ago, but you think your co-workers would like to read the transcript.
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