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• Caldecott Award 2012
  Posted February 8, 2012 by Rachel Wadham

  The American Library Association Children’s Book Awards were announced on January 23rd.  Here are the titles awarded the Caldecott medal for superior illustration are listed below with call numbers for the juvenile collection in the HBLL are below.  Happy reading of these award winning books! Winner:  A Ball for Daisy, written and illustrated by Chris [...]

• Dolly Gray Book Award Collection
  Posted January 11, 2012 by Rachel Wadham

  The HBLL is pleased to announce the formation of the Dolly Gray Book Award Collection.  The Dolly Gray Award for Children’s Literature in Developmental Disabilities (http://daddcec.org/Awards/DollyGrayAwards.aspx) was initiated in 2000 by members of the Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).  Given every even year the award recognize [...]

• Filmakers Library Online
  Posted December 7, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

  We are pleased to announce that through one of our consortia, CCLA, we have acquired system-wide access to  the Alexander Street Press’ “Filmakers Library Online.” Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science [...]

• Open Access EBooks on Cyberbullying from Ebrary
  Posted November 9, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

  ebrary, a major distributor of eBooks, recently  announced that they have added new e-books to their open access collection on cyberbullying.  This collection, which is subsidized by ebrary, now includes over 100 titles, that will help parents, educators, and others better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern. Newly added titles include Cyberbullying: [...]

• Academe Today, The Chronicle’s Free Daily E-mail Report
  Posted October 12, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

  Because the HBLL has purchased a license to the Chronicle of Higher Education, we make available to all campus faculty, Academe Today, The Chronicle’s free daily e-mail report.  This popular e-mail newsletter, which summarizes the latest news in higher education and provides links to the complete news articles posted on The Chronicle’s Web site every [...]

• Trial of Education in Video
  Posted April 6, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

  The library is now hosting a trial of an exciting new resource, Education in Video, produced by Alexander Street Press. Education in Video is a collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers.  The publisher notes that this collection has “more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750+ hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, [...]

• Introducing TechingBooks.net
  Posted February 23, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

  The library is pleased to announce that we have recently taken a subscription to the database TeachingBooks.net. “TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children’s and young adult books. This online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used [...]

• New Online Access to The Teaching Professor
  Posted February 15, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

  Because of a special collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning the HBLL is pleased to offer full online access to the newsletter: The Teaching Professor. This informative newsletter provides inspiration, ideas, and insight into teaching and learning.  For example the most recent issue offers articles on strategies to get students to do reading [...]

• What’s New In The Media Center
  Posted February 9, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

  Would you like to find what new videos and other media they library has just acquired?  Check out the What’s New Link on the library media center’s blog,  (http://lib.byu.edu/sites/mediacenter/)  click on the month under the What’s New in the navigation area on the left hand side of the blog to see a list of all [...]

• Open Access Journals In Education
  Posted August 18, 2010 by Rachel Wadham

  Open Access Journals are scholarly journals that are freely available and accessible on the web.  These journals offer great resources for research and excellent opportunities for publishing.  To find some great open access journals in the field of education the following sites are recommended: http://oaedu.wetpaint.com/page/Open+Access+Journals http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=127