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Nominate Your Favorite Database
In SLJ’s April issue, we’d like to offer some help in choosing the biggest ticket items out there—databases—by running a librarian-nominated list of the best resources available. We’d love to hear from you with your nominations. Which database knocked your socks off lately? You can let me know at hthornton@mediasourceinc.com.
February is almost here, and at many libraries that means that the budget year is more than halfway over. Decisions about which materials to buy with your precious dollars—use them or lose them!—aren’t far off. In SLJ’s April issue, we’d like to offer some help in choosing the biggest ticket items out there—databases—by running a librarian-nominated list of the best resources available. We’d love to hear from you with your nominations. Which database knocked your socks off lately? You can let me know in the comments below or at hthornton@mediasourceinc.com. We’re looking for titles in categories such as the ones listed below—or make up your own category. We’d also like a short explanation of what makes the resource “most-improved,” “best buy,” “most ambitious,” etc. A bulleted list of reasons is fine. We’ll be using your reasons as direct quotations within the article, which will appear in print and then online. Nominations will close on February 14, 2014. However, please let me know if you are not comfortable with being quoted directly. Suggested Database Categories: Best Newest Best for meeting Common Core standards Best for Reluctant Readers Best for Elementary School Students Best for Middle School Students Best for High School Students Greatest Content Upgrade Greatest Usability Revamp Quirkiest/Most Eccentric Most Ambitious (in scope or content) Most Improved (overall) Best Integration of Media Most Unlikely Hit (with users) Most Elegant (aesthetics and functionality) Best Buy Best Integration of External/Outside Content Best Original Content Your Patrons’ Favorite Database(s) 
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Margo Fryling
We love all of the Pebble Go's and Culture Grams!Posted : Feb 28, 2014 08:27
Sandy
Conrad Weiser West Elementary loves PebbleGo! It is a great non-fiction resource for students in K-4 that they can easily use independently, or follow along as the text is read to them. It was difficult to find good non-fiction research materials for the varied levels of our students reading ability. This program has solved that problem. It is an excellent resource that is used over and over again. PebbleGo is available to students and staff through our school computer network. We have also added 60 iPads this school year, which also have PebbleGo as an application. Our library’s website also has a link for our students and their families use while at home. We have expanded our database to include the Biography and Social Study applications for 2013-14. We receive positive feedback on a constant basis from students, faculty and parents – “We Love PebbleGo!”Posted : Feb 06, 2014 09:34
Josianne
Greatest Usability Revamp: Britannica School Edition. My students like the less cluttered landing page, but especially appreciate the different reading levels and the translate feature which is helpful to our ESL students. Best Elementary (K-2): Pebble Go. Superb. We love the visual navigation, with the interactive search field for more advanced readers. We also love that the information is laid out with headers and that's there's even a citation generated for each article. We're waiting with bated breath for a Life Sciences module. We use it for research and also to teach features of non-fiction.Posted : Feb 02, 2014 04:52
Christina Cucci
Best Elementary: Pebble Go from Capstone, animals and social studies Newest for Elementary: Just subscribed to Early World of Learning by World Book. Great early reading activities for pre k and k students. Best for Reluctant Readers and Most Popular with Students: More Starfall, interactive, leveled and differentiated, highly engaging for early learners k-2Posted : Feb 01, 2014 09:25
Jeri Hurd
Most Ambitious: Gale's Global Issues in Context. In this ever-shrinking world, students need an understanding of global events that incorporates world views other than their own. Gale attempts to provide that in it's one-of-a-kind database. Covering global events, it pulls not only from a variety of top-quality sources, but also provides sources from around the world. As a librarian from an international school, I struggle to sources that are not US or European centric. Gale provides that in this database, which is not only a must for our MUN group, but by far our most-used database. Best Original Content: Facts on File Issues and Controversies in American History. I really love this database. Focusing on key events in US History, FoF write their articles based around solid research questions. They give multiple points of view and leave it up to the students to draw their own conclusions. They also link to multiple primary source material. I not only wish more history databases would follow this example, I wish FoF would use this model with more of their databases.Posted : Jan 31, 2014 02:31