News from the
Educational Resources Collections
Volume 1, Issue 3
Spring 2008
Message from the Media Librarian
Mon.Thurs.
Friday
Sat.
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HOURS
7am—3am
7am—9pm
9am—6:30pm
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Educational Resources
Collections
Bracken, Lower Level
(765) 285-5340
www.bsu.edu/library/
collections/edres/
ERC Staff
Diane E. Hill
Media Librarian
dhill@bsu.edu
Julie Nelson
Info/Circulation Supervisor
jnelson2@bsu.edu
Justin Knox
Office Supervisor
jmknox@bsu.edu
Mandy Vance
Info/Circ Evening Supervisor
mjvance@bsu.edu
Abdalla Abdalla
Circulation Assistant
aabdalla@bsu.edu
Bradley Johnston
Booking/Reserves Assistant
bcjohnston@bsu.edu
Behrouz Kousari
Equipment Technician
bkousari@bsu.edu
April Pickett
Library Night Assistant
ajpickett2@bsu.edu
With Spring Break behind us, it’s time to think about completing project assignments. The University Libraries can help you and your students with a
wealth of learning resources and services. There are now online forms to
help you place materials on reserve. On the University Libraries home page
click on Resources for . . .Faculty/Staff; under Teaching Support, click on
Course Reserves. I urge you to explore the Faculty/Staff page for other valuable links. For example under Research Assistance a link that could prove
useful is Subject Guides. The subject guides include one describing how to
use the ERIC database and another on finding biographical information about
children’s authors and illustrators. If you have questions about using the
Libraries’ web pages, call me at 5-5333.
ERC Now Features Multimedia Computers and Video Cameras
The Ball State University
Libraries recently opened a
multimedia computing environment in the Educational
Resources Collections. This
resource, which consists of five highperformance PCs and two iMacs, enables students, faculty, and staff to
easily manipulate media such as video,
audio, and 3D models.
Complementing the Multimedia
Computers in the Education Resources
Collections, students, faculty, and staff
can now borrow high-quality Sony PD170 video cameras to provide opportunities to create and use rich media assets for class and independent
projects. Also available are wireless
microphone kits. The video cameras
and wireless microphone kits are
available for four-hour checkout, with
up to two renewals.
Two analog and three digital capture devices are available to transfer
content from miniDV and other media
onto the PC and iMac workstations.
Studio-quality Sony headphones are
also available to ensure a superior
audio experience. The capture devices and headphones are available
for four-hour checkout, with up to two
renewals.
Give me the hot stuff!
If you are looking for materials
that are in high demand, click on
“Popular Items” found in the
blue banner of the University
Libraries’ CardCat. This link will
take you to a list of bestselling
books, audio books, DVDs, and
music favorites in rock, pop, jazz, and
country. This is a quick and easy way
to find foreign language resources
such as phrase books, A/V learning
aids, textbooks, etc. and information on
hobbies like gardening, cooking and
travel. Search the University Libraries
webpage for a wealth of flaming hot
resources.
News from the Educational Resources Collections
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Germs Away!
New Video
Equipment!
4-Hour loan
plus 2 renewals!
Did you know that a hearty sneeze can send germs flying up to 30 feet
away? While they can certainly wreak havoc, in some cases, germs are
actually our friends. Learn more about them from books such as
“Achoo!: The most interesting book you’ll ever read about
germs” available from the Educational Resources Collections. Other
materials about germs and related topics include videos, computer disks,
stuffed toys, and more.
Germs are everywhere and most of us just want to get rid of Common cold
Stuffed Toy
them! You think your hands are clean and then you touch a doorknob, the back of a chair, a dollar bill, etc. And how about that computer keyboard? University Libraries is attempting to help you fight against germs
by offering hand sanitizing wipes within public service units. Take one, they’re free!
Live Chat for Information Assistance
Sony
Headphones
Wireless
Microphone Kit
Live Chat is a service that is proving to be increasingly popular with BSU students.
Guidance on using Live Chat is found on the Ask a Librarian page in the University
web pages. Ask a Librarian provides instruction on multiple ways of contacting a
librarian for information assistance. Go to http://www.bsu.edu/library/askalibrarian/
for the details and chat with us awhile.
What’s New?
Examples of recent
acquisitions:
New videos
Chalk / Virgil FIlms ; Warrior Poets ; Someday
Soon Productions; directed by Mike Akel. Arts
Alliance America, 2007.
Call number: DVD VIDEO
3676
Choose from many
international
3-D materials!
Hat from
ala
Guatem
Flag of Ireland
As American as public
school, 1900-1950 / directed by Sarah Mondale ; produced by Stone
Lantern Films, Inc. Films
for the Humanities & Sciences, [2004]. Call number: DVD VIDEO 2984.
The bottom line in education, 1980 to the present /
directed by Sarah Mondale ; produced by Stone
Lantern Films, Inc. Films
for the Humanities & Sciences, [2004]. Call number: DVD VIDEO 2986.
A struggle for educational
equality, 1950-1980 / directed by Sarah Mondale ; produced by Stone
Lantern Films, Inc. Films
for the Humanities and
Sciences, [2004]. Call
number: DVD VIDEO
2985
New Curriculum guides
101 great classroom
games : easy ways to get
your students playing,
laughing, and learning /
Alexis Ludewig and Amy
Swan. McGraw-Hill,
c2007. Call number: 372E A1 A17 2007.
New Youth Books
Minnie's Diner : a multiplying menu / Dayle Ann
Dodds ; illustrated by
John Manders. Candlewick Press, 2004. Call
number: 800 D6415MI.
Your own, Sylvia : a verse
portrait of Sylvia Plath / by
Stephanie Hemphill. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Call
number: 800 H491YO.
Wild science projects
about Earth's weather /
Robert Gardner ; illustrations by Tom Labaff.
Enslow Publishers,
c2008. Call number:
551.5 G228WI.
The best of writing bug :
the world-famous writing
prompts and "bug in your
ear" writing tips. National
Education Association :
Education World, 2007.
Call number: 808-E A1
B47 2007.
Dynamic physical education curriculum guide :
lesson plans for implementation / Robert P.
Pangrazi. 15th ed. Pearson/Benjamin Cummings,
c2007. Call number: 796E A1 D96 2007.