Vol. 3, No. 28

CLIC WORKSHOPS
TOPIC: Children's Book Collection.
PRESENTER: Carole Lohman or Kay Buchanan
TIME: 10am-11am You need only attend one session.
DATE: November 8, 9, 10, 12
LOCATION: In the CLIC, 3rd floor of Ruffner Hall
DESCRIPTION: This 30 workshop will acquaint attendees with the CLIC's Children's Book Collection and related services. We will show how the new VIRGO interface allows you to limit your search to books in the CLIC's Children's Book Collection, and then allow you to search that subset by author, subject, or call number. Here is a handout we developed to help you use VIRGO to locate children's books. It will also introduce you to the self check out machine so you can check out the books you need from the collection.

  GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Working With Raster Data
If you’ve ever taken a digital photo, you’ve created a raster dataset. In Geographic Information Science, photo rasters are used alongside rasters for elevation, landcover, rainfall, temperature, and more. We’ll look at tools to create and manipulate raster datasets in GIS. And we’ll review the pros and cons of raster file formats like JPG, JP2000, Mr. Sid, TIFF, and GeoTIFF.
PRESENTER: Scholar's Lab GIS Experts
TIME:Thursday, November 4 at 2:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Alderman Library, 4th floor NE
in the Alderman Library Electronic Classroom

REFWORKS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: RefWorks for Research
PRESENTER: Alderman Librarians
DATE: Thursday, November 4th
TIME: 11:00am-Noon
LOCATION: Alderman Library's Electronic Classroom, 4th floor, East Wing
DIRECTIONS: Enter the main door of Alderman turn right and head into the Alderman Reference room. Then, turn left and walk north down the center aisle. The classroom is 1/2 down the aisle on the left.

NEW DATA SERVICE
Libraries have been managing information for 4,000 years. Today, your libraries are evolving and building expertise to continue this tradition so that they can help you preserve research data of the past, present, and future. The Scientific Data Consultation Services group is ready to consult with you on your entire data life cycle, helping you to make the right decisions, so that your scientific research data will continue to be available when you and others need it in the future. Contact us now to start a conversation about your research.
Andrew Sallans, Librarian for Digital Services
Sherry Lake, Scientific Data Consultant

NEW DATA TOOL
A new addition to the suite of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data tools greatly expands the accessibility of data on urban students in grades 4 and 8, a population of great interest to education policy makers.

The District Profiles Tool offers information about the urban districts that participated in the NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) program. Compare the performance of 4th and 8th grade public school students in TUDA districts to students in the nation, in large cities, and their respective states, and see how certain districts performed over time. Create downloadable maps and charts, and read snapshots with demographic information for each district.

& WEB OF SCIENCE

TEA & TECHNOLOGY
LOCATION: Curry Library Innovation Commons, Room 302 Ruffner Hall
PRESENTER: Ira Socol
TIME:: 12 noon-1pm, Thursday, November 4, 2010
TOPIC: Ira Socol, a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, will discuss fundamental changes in pedagogy and school design made possible by contemporary learning tools. Ira is currently working with Punya Mishra (nationally recognized for his work in advancing the concept of Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge). He has conducted research for the National Center for Supported Electronic Text, for Michigan's Vocational Rehabilitation agency, and for the New York Hall of Science. Ira has also worked with numerous schools on technology and disability.

UPDATE

When working with Word on a Mac and Write-N-Cite, the current version of Write-N-Cite requires that you first save the file before selecting Bibliography tab to format the paper.  Here are some tips to ensure this goes smoothly:

• Save the file as .doc  If you save it as .docx it will not be able to produce the format paper.
• Only make changes to the original document (the document with the citations in pre-format state that look like {{123 Author Year}}.  If you make changes to the document that has some citations formatted correctly and some still in pre-format state, your bibliography will not be formatted correctly

CONGRESSIONAL TIMELINE
The Dirksen Congressional Center has created this multimedia congressional timeline chalk full of videos, primary documents, audio and more. They welcome your input! Please contact us at the Dirkson Center with suggestions. We’ll do our best to respond and improve the timeline.  
  
For each Congress beginning with the 73rd (1933-35), this timeline features session dates, partisan composition, the presidential administration, a list of congressional leaders, and notable legislation passed. This first version only addresses legislative output, not non-legislative events such as the impeachment of President Clinton or internal congressional processes or congressional politics. We plan to leave room for expansion to include such elements as a timeline of notable, non-congressional events and selections from our historical collections.  
  
Here’s how it works.   
  
* Go to the CTL index page at http://www.congressionaltimeline.org/   
  
* On the top right, click on SELECT A CONGRESS icon and select the 88th Congress.   
  
* Click the "expand" button under 1963 to see general information about the  88th.   
  
* To experience the multimedia potential for the site, click the "collapse"  button for 1963 and the "expand" button for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at July 2, 1964.   
  
* Check out the rotating cube! You will see additional content -- documents, photos, even a video of the presidential signing ceremony.   
  
* If you would like to contribute to the timeline, use the wiki component --just click on "wiki" on the rotating cube.   

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