Library Resources INSPIRE Adult
Education
Shauna Borger
Indiana State Library
INSPIRE.in.gov
Who are you?
• Adult education straddles many disciplines.
– Libraries
– Educators/Teachers
– Career centers
– Business
– Literacy groups
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Who are we?
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Indiana State Library
140 N Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, IN
www.in.gov/library
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Who are we?
• Indiana State Library
– Public services
• Genealogy
• State Data Center
• Talking Books and Braille Library
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Who are we?
• Indiana State Library
– Statewide services
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Connections with libraries statewide
Regional Coordinators
Evergreen Indiana
InfoExpress
INSPIRE
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Discussion
• Work with 1 or 2 people next to you.
• Discuss strengths and challenges of integrating
electronic content (websites, online
newspapers, Google) into curriculum and
teaching.
• Designate one person who will summarize
your discussion for the group.
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About
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http://www.INSPIRE.in.gov
LSTA & Build Indiana funds
Coordinated sourcing projects
Collection of 100s of databases
• Reliable, current information vs. blogs,
youtube.com wikipedia
• Preparing yourself
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Content in
– Organized in databases by subject
– Database: Organization structure of content
provided online
– Databases allow us to organize magazine and
newspaper articles, video and audio resources
according to the audience age
– Biography in Context, Science in Context
– Newspaper source, TopicSearch
– TalkingBooks.com
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Biography in Context
 Audience: Middle school
and up
 People are fascinated with
people!
 More than 600,000
biographies on people from
science to literature.
 Browse and Resources lists
 Search by:
 Name, Occupation,
Nationality, Birth Place, Death
Place
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Biography in Context
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Science in Context
• Audience:
High school
and up
• Subjects:
earth science,
life science,
space,
technology,
math,
biographies
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Student Research Center
• More
search
options
– Types of
documents
– Full text
• Top
searches
feature
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Additional Tools
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Advanced search
Saving search results
Emailing search results
Viewing full-text
Downloading PDFs
Teacher Resources
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Teaching Books
• Audience:
Elementary and up
• Offers an enriched
reading experience
– Supplemental
materials
• Indiana resources
– Young Hoosier book
lists
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Testing & Education Resource Center
(TERC)
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High School Tools
• Test prep
– GED prep – HSE transition
– High School Placement Test
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Career Tools
• Test prep
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ACT WorkKeys
ASE Automotive
Clerical
Cosmetology
Teaching (PRAXIS)
/ CASA test
• Other tools
– Basic computer
skills
– Resume builder
– Virtual career
library
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Other Tools
• International tools
– TOEFL
– U.S. Citizenship
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Discussion
• Work with 1 or 2 people next to you.
• What types of online articles, websites,
activities do you already use?
• Designate one person who will summarize
your discussion for the group.
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Searching
• Federated search
– Search by subject OR database
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Searching
• Search an individual database
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Searching
• Search all EBSCO databases
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Searching
• Search all Gale databases
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Tips and Tricks
• Don’t get overwhelmed! Practice with the
exercises at the end of this presentation.
• Break up the databases into chunks and tackle
them as a group.
• Identify some of the databases your audience
could use the most and get to know those
first.
• Digital literacy training for patrons / Assistance
for library staff.
– Goodwill Community Foundation Online Classes
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Continuing Education
• ISL Professional Development Office
– INSPIRE trainings
• On-demand Gale trainings
– http://solutions.cengage.com/gale-training/ondemand-tutorials/
• EBSCO trainings
– Support site: http://support.ebsco.com/
– On-demand EBSCO trainings
• TeachingBooks.net
– Video tutorials
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Thank you!
• Download this presentation from ISL’s Slide Share
profile:
– http://www.slideshare.net/isl_pdo/
• Contact your regional coordinator for more
training opportunities:
– http://www.in.gov/library/pdo.htm
• Call me!
– Shauna Borger, Indiana State Library, Professional
Development Office Supervisor
– 317-232-3718
– sborger@library.in.gov
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Practice Exercises
 A student would like to take a practice test for the ACT.
Also, all of the guide books are checked out for the U.S.
History AP exam. Find these resources using Inspire.
 A third-grader is doing a short report on Guatemala. He
needs a map and a flag of the country, as well as some
basic facts about the geography of the country.
 A high school sophomore is looking for primary source
material written by Abraham Lincoln. She needs at
least one speech and one letter.
 A child comes into the library and doesn’t know what
he wants. He is reading at a 6th grade level and his
favorite class is P.E. He likes books on sports. Can you
find him suggestions using an Inspire database?
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Practice Exercises
 A teacher comes into the library. He wants to know the name of a
poem he learned in school. All he remembers is that the last line is
“under an English heaven.”
 Does Inspire have access to a magazine called National Geographic
Little Kids?
 Someone calls the reference desk. The caller swears that there is a
slide rule collection at Purdue, and he made a bet with a friend. The
friend says no way, not even Purdue would have a collection that
nerdy. Try to prove or disprove the caller’s claim by only using an
Inspire database.
 A student has to do a science fair project on gravity. Where can you
find science fair projects on Inspire?
 Where did Drew Brees grow up?
 Some people in the circulation department are excited about the
new Nick Hornby novel. You heard him give an interview on NPR’s
Morning Edition some time ago, but you think your co-workers
would like to read the transcript.
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