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January 24, 2008

New Feature on Minnesota Reflections!

The Minnesota Digital Library is pleased to announce that people may now comment on the images in our “Minnesota Reflections” collection. The MDL designed a wiki site that allows us to provide this resource. Look at a photo, map or document, click on the “comment on this item” and leave your comments.

We are looking for public support in providing information on the items in our collection and we would like people to ask questions and share stories.

Here’s what you need to do:

• Visit Minnesota Reflections ( http://reflections.mndigital.org/ )

• Search for items you want to view.

• When you are looking at an individual photo, document or map, you will see a button in the blue menu bar above the image. The button is red with yellow type.

• Click on that button and you will go to a wiki page. From there, comment as you like on that particular object.

No registration is required. We do ask people to focus their comments on the item in the collection.

The Minnesota Digital Library will monitor comments. This is still a prototype service. We are still designing it and answering questions about how to share the information people provide.

If you have general comments, suggestions or insights to offer regarding the Social Side of Reflections, please send them to Marian Rengel, MDL outreach coordinator (mrrengel@stcloudstate.edu).

Thanks for helping the MDL with the project and have fun.


Visit the Minnesota Digital Library’s collection site at http://reflections.mndigital.org/ and our home at http://www.mndigital.org/

April 18, 2007

Free Lesson Plans

Check out a full selection of free Thomson Gale lesson plans, including primary and secondary-level Earth Day lessons and MANY MORE.

http://www.galeschools.com/lesson_plans/index.htm

September 11, 2006

Gale offers free resources to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

From September 15 to October 15, 2006, Thomson Gale will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by offering free or trial access to a variety of online resources, educational activities, and authoritative information about the history, influence and achievements of the Hispanic culture.

Check the Gale Web site to find free activities, biographies, links, music, and more.

August 7, 2006

Standardcatalogs.com (H.W. Wilson)

www.Standardcatalogs.com, a clearinghouse of free tools for collection development, is being offered by H.W. Wilson as a free service for librarians. The site includes "best" lists, editors' picks. Hot topics, periodical lists, best professional books, librarian home pages and blogs, and more. The Editor's Picks feature focuses on notable titles from Wilson's Children's Catalog, Public Library Catalog, Fiction Catalog, Senior High School Library Catalog, and Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog. (Source: H.W. Wilson; edited)

Teacher Reference Center, a free resource from EBSCO

Teacher Reference Center, an index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books, is now offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more. (Source: EBSCO; edited)