[CASL-L] Databases& Research Tools - report

[Janet Kenney]

At Bristol Eastern High School we subscribe to Proquest's SIRs suite of 4
databases. I've come to prefer their presentation of "Issues" to opposing
viewpoints. They have great overviews and timelines for the issues. Not to
mention they provide example research questions with supporting links for
both sides.  I pooled my budget with our other high school and our middle
schools for it.

My only other database is CQ researcher.

As for Noodletools v Easybib, I just shared my feelings the other day with
one media specialist, but I'll pass them along here as well.

I've been troubled by EadyBib's propensity for inaccurate/incomplete citations
for a long time. The students aren't savvy enough to know what's
missing/wrong in its citations. I've been using Noodletools since 2006 (I
think?). It is "harder" for our students, but I like how it requires
students to go through all the different fields. If a student notices that
there are a lot of blanks, I hope they re-evaluate their trust in a source.

The quick cite by ISBN and copy and paste features (for database provided
citations) are the only streamlining.  In Bristol, the students start using
the junior version in middle school and we build on it in High School.

-Janet


On Friday, November 21, 2014, STEPHANIE PATTERSON <
SPATTERSON at southingtonschools.org> wrote:

>  Our current line up:
> Infobase:  Blooms Literature, Today's Science News, Issues & Controversies
> in Amer Hist, Mod World Hist Online
> (like Bloom's Lit, Science and Amer Hist, I'm not as impressed w World
> Hist- find it harder to search thru)
>
>  Proquest: eLibrary and SIRS
>
>  Just trying NoodleTools this year... it seems far more complicated than
> EasyBib
>
>  Any comments on NoodleTools and EasyBib?
>
>
>
>  *Stephanie Patterson*
> Southington High School Library
> "Building character with creativity, collaboration and communication."
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* CASL-L [casl-l-bounces at mylist.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','casl-l-bounces at mylist.net');>] on behalf of
> Vaghini, T [vaghinit at stafford.k12.ct.us
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> *Sent:* Friday, November 21, 2014 8:38 AM
> *To:* casl-l at mylist.net
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> *Subject:* [CASL-L] Databases - report
>
>   Hey folks,
>
>  I'm looking for a research that highlights (reports on) the most
> subscribed to databases for high schools. Bottom-line, I'm reevaluating my
> database subscriptions and want to know which databases are the most relied
> upon for High Schools. Anyone seen anything like this in our professional
> journals? I'm a bit behind.
>
>  *Current Subscriptions at Stafford HS:*
>
>  CultureGrams (ProQuest)
> Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)
> Issues and Controversies (Infobase)
> Grolier (Scholastic)
>
>  Thanks! Happy Friday.
>
>    Thomas Vaghini
>
> Library Media Specialist
> Stafford High School
> 145 Orcuttville Road
> Stafford Springs, CT 06076
>  860.684.4233 x3032
>
>
>
>  *"[People] occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
> themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."   - - Winston
> Churchill - -*
>


-- 
Janet Kenney, Library Media Specialist, Webmaster,
& Instructional Technology Coordinator
Bristol Eastern High School
bit.ly/behslib
@libraryladyj <http://www.twitter.com/libraryladyj>
1-860-584-7876 x152
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