1. BadgerLink adds access to new EBSCO interfaces
2. IMLS awards over $2 million to Native American tribes for enhancements to library services
3. UW-Milwaukee SOIS receives IMLS grant
4. Florida State University needs volunteers to test new early learning research tool
5. Website of the Week: National Institutes of Health
6. Calendar
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1. BADGERLINK ADDS ACCESS TO NEW EBSCO INTERFACES
BadgerLink now has access to two new interfaces from EBSCO - Science Reference Center and History Reference Center.
Key features of the new Science Reference Center Interface include:
Browse Subjects - The highlight of this interface is its subject browsing functionality. There are two main history areas that occupy the premier location on the main interface:
For any questions or concerns, please contact BadgerLink Technical Support at http://rl3.dpi.wi.gov.
2. IMLS AWARDS OVER $2 MILLION TO NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES FOR ENHANCEMENTS TO LIBRARY SERVICES
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced that out of 46 applicants nation-wide, 17 Native American tribal communities were chosen to receive $2,030,562 in Native American Library Services Enhancement grants. Ten of these grantees are first time awardees. To see a full list of Enhancement grant recipients, click here: http://www.imls.gov/news/2010/090710b_list.shtm.
"These grantees have been chosen for their commitment to offer the very best to their communities through expanded services, partnerships with local organizations, and increased access to important cultural knowledge," said IMLS Acting Director Marsha L. Semmel.
This year's grantees include two Wisconsin projects:
Menominee Indian Tribe - Keshena, WI
Award Amount: $74,520
Project Title: "Digitizing Special Menominee Collections"
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin is working in partnership with the College of Menominee Nation Library Special Collections Department and Wisconsin Heritage Online to house, preserve, catalog, and digitize a large collection of rare and historically significant archival materials, many relating directly to the personal, legal, and national story of the Menominee Tribe's struggle for sovereignty during the Termination and Restoration period from 1954 to 1973. Project activities will increase online access to these rare documents for the Menominee community, College of Menominee Nation faculty, staff, and students, as well as for public and scholarly research, adding to a greater understanding of the impact tribes felt from the federal termination policy.
Oneida Nation of Wisconsin - Oneida, WI
Award Amount: $102,824
Project Title: "Oneida Community Library Enhancement"
The Oneida Community Public Libraries, on behalf of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, are planning a library makeover with new furnishings to provide a comfortable, safe, and inviting environment for the community. In addition, new computers, a white board for Oneida culture and language classes, a Nintendo Wii for fitness and educational gaming, and video equipment will help bridge the digital divide for staff and patrons. An Oneida artist and videographer will develop a Teen Video Project with the Youth Liaison hired under this grant. Final videos will be voted on by community members for an awards ceremony honoring all participants. The Green Earth Branch Library will organize a mini-autobiography scrapbooking project for their Elder Day activities and will host Elder Story Time during which this work will be showcased.
The next deadline for Native American Library Services Enhancement Grant applications is May 2, 2011. Applicants must apply for the Native American Library Services Basic Grant in order to be eligible to apply for the Enhancement Grant program. The next deadline for Basic Grant applications is March 1, 2011. Please contact Senior Program Officer Alison Freese at 202-653-4665 or afreese@imls.gov with any questions.
3. UW-MILWAUKEE SOIS RECEIVES IMLS GRANT
The School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has recently been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to enhance library and information science education and to help develop library leaders. The SOIS grant program, entitled "Overcoming Barriers to Information Access (B2A): Educating the Next Generation of Library and Information Science Leaders," addresses the need for new PhDs in SOIS' three key areas of doctoral study: information organization, information policy and information retrieval. SOIS is currently seeking applications for six funded full-time doctoral positions under this grant program for fall 2011.
Participants in the B2A program will receive three or four years of funding to cover tuition, a generous annual stipend/scholarship, research and teaching opportunities, resources to support their research and travel, and mentoring from SOIS faculty members during their studies. For more information about the B2A program, please see the program website:
http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/programs/phd/b2a.cfm.
4. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO TEST NEW EARLY LEARNING RESEARCH TOOL
Making advancements in the field of early learning for children is a collaborative effort that includes academic research. If you are an adult over 18 years of age, you are invited to participate in a research project and to impact the development of a new tool that is being constructed under the guidance of the Florida State University. When finished, this tool will be used to assess the understanding of early literacy concepts of adults who may be called upon as leaders to promote early literacy development of young children. Your participation in the study will benefit the direction of early literacy leadership preparedness of adults that work with young children. No experience or background in early literacy concepts is required. To participate, please visit: http://www.elcapstone.com.
5. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
National Institutes of Health — http://www.nih.gov/ — An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the Federal focal point for health research. The NIH website offers health information for the public as well as medical professionals. There's extensive information on funding opportunities and links to the many Institutes and Centers that make-up NIH such as the National Cancer Institute and the National Library of Medicine.
6. CALENDAR
September 10, 2010 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Fish Creek
September 13-17, 2010 - AskAway Awareness Week 2010
September 17, 2010 - Public Library System Directors Annual Meeting, Madison
September 21, 2010 - Delivery Services Advisory Committee (webinar)
September 24, 2010 - Public Library System Continuing Education and Certification Consultants Annual Meeting, Madison
September 25, 2010 - Public Library System Youth Services Consultants Annual Meeting, Madison
September 25-October 2, 2010 - Banned Books Week
October 26, 2010 - Instructional Media and Technology (IMT) Team Regional Meeting, Oconomowoc
November 1, 2010 - Instructional Media and Technology (IMT) Team Regional Meeting, Rice Lake
November 2-5, 2010 - Wisconsin Library Association annual conference, Wisconsin Dells
November 12, 2010 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, TBC
November 15, 2010 - Instructional Media and Technology (IMT) Team Regional Meeting, Wisconsin Dells
November 16-17, 2010 - Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
November 17, 2010 - Instructional Media and Technology (IMT) Team Regional Meeting, Green Bay
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Roslyn M. Wise
Editor, Channel Weekly
Department of Public Instruction
Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning
PO Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
Phone: (608) 266-6439
FAX: (609) 267-9207
2. IMLS awards over $2 million to Native American tribes for enhancements to library services
3. UW-Milwaukee SOIS receives IMLS grant
4. Florida State University needs volunteers to test new early learning research tool
5. Website of the Week: National Institutes of Health
6. Calendar
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1. BADGERLINK ADDS ACCESS TO NEW EBSCO INTERFACES
BadgerLink now has access to two new interfaces from EBSCO - Science Reference Center and History Reference Center.
Key features of the new Science Reference Center Interface include:
- Browsing subjects as the main navigational theme of the interface
- Six main science categories in premier locations: Applied Sciences, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Scientists and Space Sciences and Astronomy
- Science categories linked to a list of carefully-reviewed topics within the selected category
- Topic selection that launches a database search producing highly-relevant results
- Result List item refinements such as Date Range, Source Type, Title, Subject and other limiters
- Reference Shelf links to the Dictionary, Science Experiments, Citation Help and a Research Guide
- A Featured Science Topic of interest, which will be changed regularly
Browse Subjects - The highlight of this interface is its subject browsing functionality. There are two main history areas that occupy the premier location on the main interface:
- U.S. History to direct researchers to a sub-menu of ten main U.S. History timeline periods.
- The U.S. History Timeline periods align to the Timeline Limiter available in the current EBSCOhost interface.
- Period selection takes users to a list of topics that fall within that time period.
- Topics include famous people, events and topics from the selected period. Topics were identified after careful review of curriculum standards, classroom study and important topics from the time period.
- Selection of a topic will conduct a search and return a highly-relevant Result List related to the topic. In some cases, the result list may only be a handful of records... but all will be highly relevant to the topic at hand.
- The updated EBSCOhost Result List allows researcher to further limit by Date Range, Source Type, Title, Subject and more.
- World History will direct researchers to a sub-menu of eleven main World History timeline periods which follow the same functionality as described for U.S. History.
For any questions or concerns, please contact BadgerLink Technical Support at http://rl3.dpi.wi.gov.
2. IMLS AWARDS OVER $2 MILLION TO NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES FOR ENHANCEMENTS TO LIBRARY SERVICES
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced that out of 46 applicants nation-wide, 17 Native American tribal communities were chosen to receive $2,030,562 in Native American Library Services Enhancement grants. Ten of these grantees are first time awardees. To see a full list of Enhancement grant recipients, click here: http://www.imls.gov/news/2010/090710b_list.shtm.
"These grantees have been chosen for their commitment to offer the very best to their communities through expanded services, partnerships with local organizations, and increased access to important cultural knowledge," said IMLS Acting Director Marsha L. Semmel.
This year's grantees include two Wisconsin projects:
Menominee Indian Tribe - Keshena, WI
Award Amount: $74,520
Project Title: "Digitizing Special Menominee Collections"
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin is working in partnership with the College of Menominee Nation Library Special Collections Department and Wisconsin Heritage Online to house, preserve, catalog, and digitize a large collection of rare and historically significant archival materials, many relating directly to the personal, legal, and national story of the Menominee Tribe's struggle for sovereignty during the Termination and Restoration period from 1954 to 1973. Project activities will increase online access to these rare documents for the Menominee community, College of Menominee Nation faculty, staff, and students, as well as for public and scholarly research, adding to a greater understanding of the impact tribes felt from the federal termination policy.
Oneida Nation of Wisconsin - Oneida, WI
Award Amount: $102,824
Project Title: "Oneida Community Library Enhancement"
The Oneida Community Public Libraries, on behalf of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, are planning a library makeover with new furnishings to provide a comfortable, safe, and inviting environment for the community. In addition, new computers, a white board for Oneida culture and language classes, a Nintendo Wii for fitness and educational gaming, and video equipment will help bridge the digital divide for staff and patrons. An Oneida artist and videographer will develop a Teen Video Project with the Youth Liaison hired under this grant. Final videos will be voted on by community members for an awards ceremony honoring all participants. The Green Earth Branch Library will organize a mini-autobiography scrapbooking project for their Elder Day activities and will host Elder Story Time during which this work will be showcased.
The next deadline for Native American Library Services Enhancement Grant applications is May 2, 2011. Applicants must apply for the Native American Library Services Basic Grant in order to be eligible to apply for the Enhancement Grant program. The next deadline for Basic Grant applications is March 1, 2011. Please contact Senior Program Officer Alison Freese at 202-653-4665 or afreese@imls.gov with any questions.
3. UW-MILWAUKEE SOIS RECEIVES IMLS GRANT
The School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has recently been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to enhance library and information science education and to help develop library leaders. The SOIS grant program, entitled "Overcoming Barriers to Information Access (B2A): Educating the Next Generation of Library and Information Science Leaders," addresses the need for new PhDs in SOIS' three key areas of doctoral study: information organization, information policy and information retrieval. SOIS is currently seeking applications for six funded full-time doctoral positions under this grant program for fall 2011.
Participants in the B2A program will receive three or four years of funding to cover tuition, a generous annual stipend/scholarship, research and teaching opportunities, resources to support their research and travel, and mentoring from SOIS faculty members during their studies. For more information about the B2A program, please see the program website:
http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/programs/phd/b2a.cfm.
4. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO TEST NEW EARLY LEARNING RESEARCH TOOL
Making advancements in the field of early learning for children is a collaborative effort that includes academic research. If you are an adult over 18 years of age, you are invited to participate in a research project and to impact the development of a new tool that is being constructed under the guidance of the Florida State University. When finished, this tool will be used to assess the understanding of early literacy concepts of adults who may be called upon as leaders to promote early literacy development of young children. Your participation in the study will benefit the direction of early literacy leadership preparedness of adults that work with young children. No experience or background in early literacy concepts is required. To participate, please visit: http://www.elcapstone.com.
5. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
National Institutes of Health — http://www.nih.gov/ — An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the Federal focal point for health research. The NIH website offers health information for the public as well as medical professionals. There's extensive information on funding opportunities and links to the many Institutes and Centers that make-up NIH such as the National Cancer Institute and the National Library of Medicine.
6. CALENDAR
September 10, 2010 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Fish Creek
September 13-17, 2010 - AskAway Awareness Week 2010
September 17, 2010 - Public Library System Directors Annual Meeting, Madison
September 21, 2010 - Delivery Services Advisory Committee (webinar)
September 24, 2010 - Public Library System Continuing Education and Certification Consultants Annual Meeting, Madison
September 25, 2010 - Public Library System Youth Services Consultants Annual Meeting, Madison
September 25-October 2, 2010 - Banned Books Week
October 26, 2010 - Instructional Media and Technology (IMT) Team Regional Meeting, Oconomowoc
November 1, 2010 - Instructional Media and Technology (IMT) Team Regional Meeting, Rice Lake
November 2-5, 2010 - Wisconsin Library Association annual conference, Wisconsin Dells
November 12, 2010 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, TBC
November 15, 2010 - Instructional Media and Technology (IMT) Team Regional Meeting, Wisconsin Dells
November 16-17, 2010 - Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
November 17, 2010 - Instructional Media and Technology (IMT) Team Regional Meeting, Green Bay
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To access previous issues of Channel Weekly, or to subscribe or unsubscribe,
go to: http://channel.dpi.wi.gov/chn_chweekly
==========================================================================
Roslyn M. Wise
Editor, Channel Weekly
Department of Public Instruction
Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning
PO Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
Phone: (608) 266-6439
FAX: (609) 267-9207
For questions about this information, contact Roslyn Wise (608) 266-6439