The Media Resource Service (COSER 511) incorporates the latest technology into its offerings. Our more than 9,000 current, subject-specific multimedia resources (streaming video and audio) enhance the curriculum and support students in the learning process. They utilize the latest technology allowing remote access 24 X 7 for faculty and students. Professional development workshops and training sessions encourage participants to develop skills for integrating multimedia materials effectively into the teaching/learning process.
Remote databases access services are also available.
Online Information Resources (COSER 513) provides subscribers with access to a variety of comprehensive full-text and/or indexed reference databases that complement the K-12 curriculum. Up-to-date resources improve student research through successful searching strategies. Students are able to select the type of information required to meet their needs in a range of formats (citations, abstracts, full-text documents and page-image documents). Staff development workshops provide hand-on opportunities to incorporate databases into the teaching and learning process.
Databases electronically available through the Internet include:
- Essential Database Packages
- Search for Success
- NOVELNY Databases
- BrainPop
- Capstone
- Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
- Columbia University
- CountryWatch
- CQ Press
- EBSCO Publishing
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Gale Group
- H. W. Wilson Company (via EBSCO)
- Infobase Publishing
- Jstor
- Learning A-Z
- LexisNexis
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- Lincoln Library
- Maps.com
- Marshall Cavendish
- Media Flex, Inc.
- Newsela
- NoodleTools
- Oxford University Press
- Questia
- ProQuest
- Rand McNally
- Rosen Publishers
- Scholastic, Inc.
- Springshare
- TumbleWeed Press
- Turnitin
- World Book Online
- World Trade Press
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Other databases are available upon request.
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