The Educational Resources Center has acquired several new digital tools for K-12 education:
- Bookflix – A digital literacy resource that pairs more than 120 animated stories from Weston Woods. The fiction and nonfiction pairings are designed to strengthen early literacy skills while exposing young learners to real-world concepts
- ProQuest CultureGrams – CultureGrams are country/state/province reports. The database includes: images, slideshows, streaming videos, sortable data tables and graphs, interviews with natives from countries around the world, and recipes for each country.
- Storia – Offers hundreds of fiction and nonfiction ebooks in English and Spanish for grades PreK-3rd grade.
- Ebsco Flipster has made available many children’s magazines, such as Ask, Cricket, and National Geographic for Kids. Find titles by searching the catalog.
For more information, contact Tiffeni Fontno, Head, Educational Resource Center.
AccessPediatrics from McGraw-Hill Medical covers the entire span of pediatric practice, from neonatology through adolescent medicine. Updated regularly and optimized for viewing on any device, this comprehensive online pediatric resource provides access to information essential for completing evaluation, diagnosis, and case management decisions. This collection includes 37 leading pediatric textbooks, videos, and cases, plus vignette style exam preparation for licensing. For more information, contact Wanda Anderson, Sr. Research Librarian for Nursing & Health Sciences.
This growing collection of video, documents, images, reports and books explores protest movements, revolutions, and civil wars around the world from the 18th century to present day. Examples in the collection include the Haitian Revolution, Russian Revolution, Indian Independence Movement and the Arab Spring. The resource allows students to browse and search material by event and theme. For more information, contact Julia Hughes, Senior Research Librarian/Bibliographer for Political Science and International Studies.
The Safari 500 Online Book Collection has changed! Now called Safari Online Learning, this digital package includes unlimited user access, exclusive O’Reilly-produced content, more than 250 additional publishers, videos, customized accounts and content to match emerging career trends like big data, artificial intelligence, gaming and more. This O’Reilly product specializes in technology introduction books for software, programming languages, marketing, cloud computing and other business topics. For more information, contact Barbara Mento, Senior Research Librarian/Bibliographer for Computer Science, Data, Economics, and Mathematics.
