Florida Electronic Library - FEL

The Florida Electronic Library—your gateway to superior electronic resources that offer access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information—offers a training program designed to meet the needs of all library staff. With its blended curriculum, you can take advantage of the training that best suits your learning style: on demand, live webinar, or on-site in your library.
Homework Help Using FEL Resources
Get an overview of the best FEL resources to use when assisting elementary, middle, and high school students with homework assignments. A multidisciplinary approach will be used to teach attendees about the FEL resources geared to the library staff and a student audience. Reference questions and assignments will be provided to help teach the practical application of the database to real life student research. The attendees will be taught the most effective and efficient search strategies to obtain the best results for student questions and research.

This session is ideal for children and youth services staff, media specialists, and anyone helping students with research.

· Always available on demand
· Live webinar Thursday, October 7 at 11:00 a.m.

Register online at http://www.flelibrary.org/training/.

Other courses available include:
· The World of FEL/Gale Resources: A General Product Overview
· Patron Outreach: Creating Easy Access and Increasing Usage of FEL Resources
· A Healthy Perspective: Health Research Using FEL Resources
· FEL QuickStart: General and Academic OneFile Searches
· The Power of Web 2.0: Best Practices Using FEL Resources
· Getting Down to Business: Effective Use of FEL Business Resources
· Following the Trends: Understanding FEL Reports and Analysis Data
· Making It Personal: Customizing Your FEL Products

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STAT-USA Office to Cease Operations September 30, 2010

After more than 25 years of operation, STAT-USA will cease operations. The world of access to government information has evolved to the point that STAT-USA's business model ,as a fee for service office, is no longer viable.
USA Trade Online will continue, provided by the Foreign Trade Division of the Census Bureau- a key source of STAT-USA data.
STAT-USA/Internet (which includes all State of the Nation and GLOBUS & NTDB databases) and their syndication services will cease Sept 30, 2010.
Please check the STAT-USA website for where your customers can find similar information in the future.

Ask a Librarian

Everyone’s headed back to school – from first-time kindergartners to non-traditional college students, teachers and faculty, parents, and even your library’s friendly staff, no one is immune to the Back to School bug. And every fall, when classes roll in, Ask a Librarian – Florida’s statewide virtual reference service - helps countless users find what they need to make a strong start. Not sure what you need? No problem! We can help you find books on certain topics, books for specific ages, grades, or reading levels, books in different languages, print size, and other formats, and much more. You tell us where you are or where you want to be, and we’ll help you locate the resources to get you on your way. Librarians across Florida are standing by and ready to help you through live chat. What are people asking?

My 3rd grade daughter has to do a book report. Can you recommend any books for her?
Need help finding a book for my history class! It needs to be about colonialism.
I am a teacher looking for books appropriate for 5th graders (not too easy; not too hard).
As an education major, how can I find age-specific books for children? Are there any resources to get me started?

Your library has tons of resources available, in print and online, to help everyone move to the head of the class. No matter what you’re looking for, we’ll help you find it!

What can we help you with today?

NewsBank- Special Reports

NewsBank's Special Reports are news articles, maps, images and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. Easily accessible within NewsBank resources, they enable users to quickly locate information on a specific subject while helping them gain better insight into current issues and events on a global scale.

Each Report features current and retrospective coverage, and new articles are added daily. Special Reports constitute a unique value to your users, and are included with your NewsBank subscription.
The following is an updated listing of current Special Reports:
Continued coverage of Current Reports of particular interest:
The World Cup-coverage of the 2010 games in South Africa
World Environment-the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
World Economics-the global financial situation and its market impact
2010 U.S. Mid-Term Elections-the candidates and issues
Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events:
Natural Disasters
World Health
Conflict and Terrorism
World Travel
Science and Health in the News

All NewsBank Special Reports are located on the left side bar on your online resource menu page at infoweb.newsbank.com, on search screens and the Other NewsBank Products link in full-text newspaper products.