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POWER Library Tip of the Day (5/9/2005)
The POWER Library Tip of the Day has concluded for this year. Thank you to everyone who suggested tips to include. We hope you found the tips useful and shared them with others.
Please continue sending us your tips. Your tips help us all to make the best use of these wonderful resources. Please also continue to learn about the POWER Library resources by attending the training that will be offered this fall during the afternoon sessions of the Access PA trainings.
Are you a POWER user of POWER Library?
Send your tip to the POWER Library Tipster:
ra-powerlibrarytips@state.pa.us
POWER Library Tip of the Day Archive:
Tip of the Day #1:
What happened to poem finder?
(9/7/2004)
What happened to poem finder? It's still there! It's part of Lit Finder now. You may limit your searches to poems only by checking poems under the basic search dialogue box.
Need help searching Lit Finder? Try using the Lit Finder Help Page. Click on Help in the upper right hand corner of the Lit Finder home page. You will find different examples and ideas on how to best use Lit Finder.
Tip of the Day #10:
490,000 licensed biographical articles
(9/23/2004)
The Wilson Biography Reference Bank recently added 14,000 licensed biographical articles bringing the total to 490,000.
Tip of the Day #100:
Access current events in SIRS Discoverer
(2/11/2005)
SIRS Discoverer Current Events encourages children to research the world in which we live, and promotes awareness of current issues. They are updated daily with articles remaining in the database for thirty days. From the main page, select Current Events from the Reference section on the bottom.
Tip of the Day #101:
SIRS Discoverer Activities and Crafts
(2/14/2005)
A tip of the hat to POWER user Rebecca Shives from the York County Library System who sends the following tip:
Sirs Discoverer provides suggested Christmas activities/crafts. Search on the subject heading Christmas. Select the subject headings Christmas Decorations and Christmas Tree Ornaments. Browse through the list looking for the red letter "a" that indicates an activity.
Tip of the Day #102:
Spotlight of the Month in SIRS Discoverer
(2/15/2005)
Each month, SIRS research staff selects articles as a sampling from the SIRS Discoverer database to encourage research into the new featured topic. Access current 2004 and archived 2003-2004 spotlights by clicking the Spotlight of the Month icon underneath Reference on the main search page.
Tip of the Day #103:
Looking for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?
(2/16/2005)
Start a search in NoveList® and click on the 'Best Fiction' link under the 'Browse Lists' heading. For example, in the 'Adult' category, you can follow links to awards lists sorted by genre, including horror, fantasy, westerns, mysteries & thrillers, and science fiction. In particular, under the 'Literary' heading, you'll find a list of current and past winners of the Pulitzer Prize, PEN-Faulkner Award, Nobel Prize, the Booker Prize, and many more.
Tip of the Day #104:
Help someone get a jump on their next job interview
(2/17/2005)
EBSCO's Business Source Premier® database contains 10,000 Company Profiles and over 3,000 Industry Reports. To help you gauge the job market, Business Source Premier also contains nearly 530 market research reports.
Tip of the Day #105:
Help middle school students select research topics
(2/18/2005)
A tip of the hat to Mary Ann Stewart from Oil City Area Middle School/Oakland Elementary School who sends the following tip:
To help middle school students select a topic for their research paper, print out the list of topics from Facts for Learning's "Issues in the News." The topics are a little advanced for lower students, but the articles provide complete coverage of a topic plus sidebar articles related to the topic. Complete citation for each article is provided at the end of each article.
Tip of the Day #106:
Are students in your library currently studying geography?
(2/22/2005)
They can find a variety of map types (political, demographic, etc.) for most regions of the world in EBSCO's Image Collection. The Image Collection is accessed via the "Images" button on the tool bar of most EBSCOhost® databases. The collection also contains thousands of other images (e.g., people, places, flags), which are organized by category for easy searching.
Tip of the Day #107:
Need to find recent popular titles on a topic?
(2/23/2005)
A tip of the hat to POWER user Rebecca Shives from the York County Library System who sends the following tip:
Need to find recent popular titles on a topic? Use Book Index with Reviews as a collection development tool. Search for your topic - such as dog training. When you get a list of titles, click on the drop-down menu next to "Sort by." Choose "Popularity" from the drop-down list. The list will re-sort with the most popular titles (based on sales) at the top.