How can these tools be applied to your everyday work?
My library website has a link to the K-5 ELM tools. Park Elementary website I primarily teach and use Kids Infobits. This past summer, I completed the M.O.R.E. webinar course. I have used the ELM databases to support colleagues' and my own post-graduate work. As an ELM provider for my school district, I receive notifications from EBSCO about upcoming enhancements and difficulties (this winter, the databases were down for an entire day.) In addition to using these resources myself; I promote them and facilitate their use with my colleagues and students.
How can these tools facilitate collaboration with your colleagues?
Unfortunately, elementary school teachers do not delve into sources like Academic Premier very often; however, our school utilizes netTrekker d.i.. This subscription service utilizes a very similar format in which you can organize, save, email and print searches. I was pleasantly surprised at how similar the EBSCO interfaces. Another reminder of how important and widespread the web 2.0 revisions have become. While EBSCO and ProQuest were familiar tools, I hadn't explored netLibrary before. My most pleasant surprise was that the account username and password was the same as for the other EBSCO tools. [Side confession: One feature that I find daunting about using all of these free tools well is the need to maintain separate and secure usernames and passwords. I have read about this and tried to follow their logical advice, but still find it overwhelming at times.]
How can these tools benefit your patrons/students?
I'm going to explore setting up an elementary animals search page like I viewed as an example and show it to some of my colleagues. I wonder if they might not appreciate it!
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