NEED HELP WITH SPSS OR EXCEL?
Nancy Kechner, Ph.D. will hold office hours in the CLIC on Wednesday afternoons from 1:00pm -4:00pm during the Spring semester.

You can set up an appointment by calling 434.924.0911 or dropping by her desk in the CLIC for assistance with SPSS, EXCEL or data sets. Nancy also has available office hours throughout the week in her office in Alderman Library's Scholars' Lab.

SPSS software is installed on all of the PC computers in the CLIC's computing lab. Ask Nancy about additional options for obtaining access to SPSS software.

ARTICLE INFLUENCE
In the last issue of our newsletter, the link to the database, W of Science in the article about the The Eigenfactor Project™ was incorrect. Here is the correct URL for the database, Web of Science. We have corrected it on the newsletter archive page, however, we can't fix the URL on your email version. We regret the error. We have now learned to cut and paste correctly!

---Your on the Grounds and in-the-Cloud librarians,
Kay and Carole

LEADERSHIP
When the baby arrives it is obvious that he is the boss of the household. He makes constant demands which if not met result in a fit. He holds lots of meetings. He expects lots of perks like spas, executive gyms, and a private jet. He commands without a a spoken word. How effective is he? Read this new award winning book and find out. Better yet, give the book to new parents. It is sure to bring a smile!

Title: Starring the Boss Baby as Himself!
Author: Marla Frazee
Call number: PZ7.F866 Bo 2010
Location: the CLIC's Children's book collection

 
Make an appointment with Carole Lohman your CLIC librarian to learn how to use RefWorks. Carole can show you how to automatically create an APA bibliography for your research paper or journal article using RefWorks. She can show you how to attach the full text of articles to your RefWorks citations and save you time! Contact Carole at 434-924-7040 or ccl5u@virginia.edu.

FEBRUARY 4, 2011, 2-3PM
MY TEACHING PARTNER

Join us in the CLIC for a multimedia presentation by Dr. Mable Kinzie, Associate Professor in Instructional Science & Technology, Curry School of Education.

TOPIC: The“MyTeachingPartner: Innovative Technology Providing Teachers with Professional Development Resources to Help Young Children Succeed" is the title of this week's CLIC presentation.
DATE: Friday, February 4, 2011 2 - 3 p.m.
LOCATION: The Curry Library Innovation Commons,
3rd floor Ruffner Hall
DETAILS: MyTeachingPartner (MTP) has been funded by the U.S. Dept of Education to produce and evaluate a year-long curriculum in Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics and Science with a focus on at-risk preschool children. The curriculum directly links inquiry experiences children can have in the natural world with complementary math and science concepts and skills. Embedded, on-line support provides teachers with video clips demonstrating high quality implementation and bite-sized teaching tips highlighting the most effective teaching strategies, describing how children think, and offering important concept knowledge. In this PIC talk, Mable will show samples of the innovative MyTeachingPartner project and discuss the research now underway on learning outcomes. Mable will also identify challenges with creating and using datasets.

Light refreshments will be served. A tour of Bavaro Hall will follow the presentation.

FACTOID

Who chewed the most gum in 2006?
If you voted kids, you'd be wrong. The answer is college-educated women in their thirties!

During the 1920s, the Fleer Company built a lab inside their Philadelphia candy factory to work on a top-secret invention: gum that could blow bubbles. There were beakers and pots and tubes of experimental batches . . . but not much progress. Soon the lab was ready to give up. Walter Diemer, an accountant who worked at Fleer, was not. Further information about Walter Diemer. Facts about gum. Sources. Photographs. Full-color acrylic-paint illustrations. This book just won the School Library Journal Best Books 2010: Nonfiction award.

Call number: TX799.M33 2011
Location: the CLIC's Children's book collection

NEWSLETTER
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