Got Homework?

This School Year Get Free Online Tutoring Seven Days a Week


Everywhere, KS. It’s late summer and students all across the state
are getting ready to head back to school. That means reading, writing,
arithmetic, papers, tests and, yes, homework. What to do? Children and
teens can get a head start. Students from 4th to 12th grade, and
college introduction level, can visit HomeworkKansas at
www.homeworkkansas.org for free homework help from qualified tutors.
The State Library of Kansas, and Kansas public libraries, offer
HomeworkKansas, an online tutoring service that connects students to
expert tutors in math, science, social studies and English via the
Internet. Spanish-speaking tutors are available for assistance in math
and science. HomeworkKansas is available from 4:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.,
seven days a week, in English and from 4:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.,
Sunday-Thursday in Spanish.

Real Results for Students. During the 2006/2007 school year, students
from across the state completed thousands of HomeworkKansas sessions.
In post-session surveys, students reported, by overwhelming majorities,
that they were glad the library offered this service and that they would
recommend the service to their friends. Students also said they felt
the program helped them build confidence in their school work and helped
them complete homework assignments and improve their grades.

Free Help in Core Subjects. This free service allows students to
connect to an expert tutor either from the local public library or from
their home computer with a Kansas Library Card (http://www.kslc.org),
and receive one-to-one homework help from a live tutor via the Internet.
HomeworkKansas is easy to use. Children and teens simply go to the
library’s Web site (www.homeworkkansas.org), click on the
HomeworkKansas link, and then enter their grade level and the subject
they need help in. Students are then connected to a tutor in an Online
Classroom for help in math (elementary, algebra, geometry, trigonometry
and calculus), science (elementary, earth science, biology, chemistry,
physics), social studies (American history, world history, political
science and more), and English (spelling, grammar, essay writing, book
reports).

Learn from Expert Tutors in an Online Classroom. Students and tutors
can review specific homework questions, as well as subject-specific
concepts using features such as controlled chat, an interactive white
board and shared Web browsing in the Online Classroom. Tutors can type
math equations using a special math tool, share educational Web sites
and much more for a rewarding learning experience. All tutors are
certified teachers, college professors, professional tutors or graduate
school students from across the country. Every tutor has completed a
third party background check and a comprehensive training program.

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Contact:

Library Contact Name Eric
Gustafson
Library Name State Library of Kansas
Phone 1-800-432-3919
Email egustafson@kslib.info

Seeking Volunteers Soon

The 2nd Annual Kansas Book Festival will be held at Koch Arena (Wichita State University) on October 5 & 6, 2007. Several nationally prominent authors will be featured this year, and the event will continue to spotlight Kansas authors and books. Volunteers are needed for a variety of duties, including hospitality, volunteer and author check-in, parking lot attendants, performance assistants, among others. Volunteers will be scheduled to work two-hour shifts.

The Festival takes place on Friday, October 5 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Saturday, October 7, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit the Festival website at www.kansasbookfestival.ks.gov to sign up as a volunteer.If you have further questions, email the Volunteer Coordinators at KSBFVolunteers@gmail.com.

The Kansas Book Festival celebrates literature, the arts, and Kansas heritage, and is a joint presentation of the Governor's Cultural Affairs Council, the State Library of Kansas, the Kansas Center for the Book, the Kansas Historical Society, and the Wichita Public Library.

And I'm helping coordinate this effort, so you can leave me a comment if you'd like to hear more.

Micaela

New in our ARTstor Database at Butler

ARTstor is pleased to announce that 2,000 images from the Library of Congress Eyes of the Nation collection are now available through the ARTstor Digital Library. This collection provides a pictorial overview of American history and includes prints, posters, maps, manuscript pages, photographs, design, movie stills, and cartoons.


Additional images added to the Islamic Art and Architecture collection
We have released approximately additional 1,600 images to the Islamic Art and Architecture collection. This latest release focuses on Ottoman architecture in Turkey and brings the total number of images in this collection to over 10,000.


Additional images from the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives
ARTstor has released approximately 1,400 additional images from the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives. These high quality images, scanned from large format color transparencies, focus on key European artists and collections from major European museums outside Italy.


We have ARTstor available for the use of Butler Community College students, staff and faculty. Check it out at http://www.butlercc.edu/nixon_library/ and click on Online Databases.

Apologies for not posting in nearly two months... that's another story...

Micaela

Database helps with citations

EBSCO says:

Based on valuable customer feedback, we provide consistent formatting guidelines in all instances where EBSCO uses citation formats. Specifically, we have updated our MLA and APA citation formats to conform to the latest guidelines available. Extensive help and citation format guides are now available to all EBSCOhost users, including information on how to cite, as well as extra instructions specific to EBSCOhost citations.

See their updates.

Great help on how their citation tools work seamlessly with the database.

Micaela

Visit the Golden Compass site....

Our newest database of images, art, etc.

What's New in ARTstor

Two Archives from the Negative Collection at the Frick Art Reference Library The first archive consists of over 3,000 images produced by the Italian photographic firm of Sansoni and richly documents fresco cycles and other forms of architectural decoration throughout Italy. The second archive, from A.C. Cooper and related archives, documents paintings as they passed through art auction galleries in London in the 1920s and 1930s. more

Tips & Tools

Recorded Online Tutorials Now Available Are you interested in ARTstor training? ARTstor introduces online training tutorials available for all ARTstor users at any time of day. more Sharing ARTstor Images and Image Groups through URL Links Did you know that you can share ARTstor images or image groups with students or colleagues from your course website? Each image in ARTstor and every image group you create have stable URLs associated with them. The URLs can be emailed, embedded in Word or PowerPoint documents, or added as a link to online syllabi or resource lists.

Vanguard to the front...

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing:
By John C. Bogle
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007

To learn how to make index investing work, there's no better mentor than legendary mutual fund industry veteran John C. Bogle. Over the course of his long career, Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group and creator of the world's first index mutual fund has relied primarily on index investing to help Vanguard's clients build substantial wealth. Now, with the May eBook of the Month, he can help your library users do the same.

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing will demonstrate how to capitalize on this proven investment strategy. As revealed by Bogle, the real formula for investment success is to own the entire market, while significantly minimizing the costs of financial intermediation. That's what index investing is all about. And that's what this book is all about.

Check it out through the Kansas library card...