New Resource: SIAM ebooks

Soci­ety for Indus­trial and Applied Math­e­mat­ics ebook collection.

The SIAM e-book pro­gram offers a new way for libraries and other insti­tu­tions to access approx­i­mately 400 books pub­lished by SIAM over the past five decades. These titles have been writ­ten by inter­na­tion­ally renowned experts and span a wide range of applied math­e­mat­ics and com­pu­ta­tional sci­ence sub­ject areas.

Around 200 books are avail­able now, an addi­tional 200 should be avail­able by June 2011.

http://epubs.siam.org

TRIAL: TeachingBooks.net

http://TeachingBooks.net/home

Trial avail­able until June 1, 2011.

Send feed­back to Kath­leen Collins

TeachingBooks.net is a por­tal to thou­sands of mul­ti­me­dia resources that can enhance and enliven your read­ing experiences.

TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use web­site that adds a mul­ti­me­dia dimen­sion to the read­ing expe­ri­ences of children’s and young adult books. Our online data­base is devel­oped and main­tained to include thou­sands of resources about fic­tion and non­fic­tion books used in the K–12 envi­ron­ment, with every resource selected to encour­age the inte­gra­tion of mul­ti­me­dia author and book mate­ri­als into read­ing and library activities.

TRIAL: Filmakers video online

http://flon.alexanderstreet.com

Trial access avail­able 4/1/11–5/30/11

In per­son demo Thurs­day April 7, 2–3 p.m. Suz­za­llo 5th floor east

Send com­ments to John Val­lier or Glenda Pear­son

Fil­mak­ers Library Online pro­vides award-winning doc­u­men­taries with rel­e­vance across the curriculum—race and gen­der stud­ies, human rights, glob­al­iza­tion and global stud­ies, mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism, inter­na­tional rela­tions, crim­i­nal jus­tice, the envi­ron­ment, bioethics, health, polit­i­cal sci­ence and cur­rent events, psy­chol­ogy, arts, lit­er­a­ture, and more. It presents points of view and his­tor­i­cal and cur­rent expe­ri­ences from diverse cul­tures and tra­di­tions world-wide. This release now pro­vides 913 titles, equal­ing approx­i­mately 757 hours.

TRIAL: Education in video

http://ediv.alexanderstreet.com

Trial access avail­able 4/1/11–5/31/11

Please come to a demo on Thurs­day, April 7, from 2–3 p.m.
Suz­za­llo 5th floor east conf room

Com­ments on the trial to Laura Lil­lard

Edu­ca­tion in Video is the first online col­lec­tion of stream­ing video devel­oped specif­i­cally for train­ing and devel­op­ing teach­ers. Upon com­ple­tion, the col­lec­tion will con­tain more than 1,000 video titles total­ing 750 hours of teach­ing demon­stra­tions, lec­tures, doc­u­men­taries, and primary-source footage of stu­dents and teach­ers in actual class­rooms. It will give edu­ca­tion fac­ulty, stu­dents, and in-service teach­ers a sin­gle source for the best research-based pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment video resources avail­able. This release now pro­vides 118 titles, equal­ing approx­i­mately 77 hours.