inspire k 12

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


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.


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


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


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


Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia Audience: Elementary and up Vendor: EBSCO Standard EBSCO interface Auto-suggest Full text for each entry


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


Middle Search Plus


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


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


Master File


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


Topic Search Audience: High school and up Vendor: EBSCO Current events database

Social, political, economic and scientific topics Recommended for debate club, persuasive

papers


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.


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


Biography in Context


Contemporary Authors Audience:

Middle school and up

Vendor: Gale Biographies and

bibliographical data on contemporary authors Mostly 20th and

21st century authors


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”


Science in Context Audience:

High school and up

Vendor: Gale Subjects:

earth science, life science, space, technology, math, biographies


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


TERC


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


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/


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]


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?


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.
