 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host over here Krista Burns here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. We're a webinar. We're a webcast, an online show. There's some disagreement on what to call these things. We don't care what you call us, but we're here live, online, every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. Call us what you want, but come and watch. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, you can always watch our recordings. We do record every week, so you can go on our website and see all of that. Both our live show and our recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So definitely, you know, share the information with your colleagues out there. We do a mixture of things here on the show, presentations, book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos, which is pretty much what we're doing today. We bring in guest speakers sometimes, but sometimes we also have Nebraska Library Commission staff, which is what we have today, a whole group. Today we have Debra Dregos and Susan Nisley and Alana Nabati, I want to order there, from well, Technology and Access Services Department Australia. And after the Library Commission. I'm here still. Who are our key people in charge of Nebraska Access, our database. Group of databases that we have. And apparently there's a ton of changes coming. And they're going to tell us everything you want to know about all the things that are happening in one hour. Or whatever it takes. Whatever we can get into one hour. So I will hand over the mouse to you guys. You can do Go ahead and take it away. Thanks, Krista. And as Krista said, and if you read the description for the session today, we are going to be talking about 13 new databases That we are going to be subscribing to from EBSCO. But I thought I'd start off this morning with just some information about Nebraska Access. The Nebraska Library Commission requested and received funding for statewide subscription to informational databases and started offering them through Nebraska Access in 1999. Since then, the databases of offerings have changed very little as we have not been able to increase the funding to subscribe to additional databases. Or to expand access for the ProQuest eLibrary database to the K-12 schools. We have asked for additional funding in our budget multiple times to extend access for eLibrary. But we have not been successful in that. And in fact, in 2010, because of state budget cuts, we did have to drop the Kiplinger database and we negotiated either flat or even one highly reduced renewal pricing for the other databases that are in Nebraska Access. Over the years, librarians have asked for K-8 content. They've asked for novelist, small business information and other content. So when the EBSCO representatives approached us earlier this year with a proposal to bundle 13 databases, which would be available to all types of libraries at a price that is less than we are currently paying for five of the databases, which includes the eLibrary that has the restricted access, we had to give it really serious consideration. Not only will this bundle save the commission money, but it also saves money for libraries who are subscribing to some of these databases and it helps out those libraries that cannot afford to subscribe to these databases. The content of the EBSCO general interest databases, the genealogy database and novelist does overlap with databases that will be dropped this coming year. But there's a lot of new content too. The databases that will not be available after July 1st are HeritageQuest online, which is, if I can move the screen here, which is our genealogy database, but there is a replacement genealogy database, eLibrary, the Omnifile Full Text Select and Books and Print. The Biography Reference Bank will still be available. It is an EBSCO product and it will, we are told, eventually combine with the Biography Reference Center, which will also be available to you now. WorldCat and FirstSearch will also be available after July 1st. The 13 EBSCO databases that will be live for all the Nebraska residents to access from any library, school, work, or home on July 1st will be available through this same URL. This page will just totally change and we'll show you what that will look like here in just a couple minutes. The same Nebraska Access passwords that you are currently using will still work, as will your IP addresses, Nebraska driver's licenses, and state IDs. Access for library staff will be available later today so that you have a chance to look over these databases. An email will be sent out over the Nebraska Access, the systems, and the trial mailing lists to provide you with a temporary web link and a unique password. This site is meant only to be available to library staff, not the public, so please do not post this on your website or hand it out to your customers. We will also be putting up a customizable press release announcing the new databases and that will be placed on the library's toolbox within the library commission's website. Susan is currently working on setting up database roadshow trainings around the state. She has two set up right now for later in August and she's working on others. There will also be recorded webinars about each of the databases and so those will be available live or to watch through recordings at a later date. So watch for emails announcing times and places for those training sessions. On another note before we get into the EBSCO databases, you may have heard that OCLC is transitioning from the first search interface, which includes the world cap database. Their new interface is called WorldCat Discovery Service. The commission will make a change to this new interface later this fall. There are differences not only in the look of the interface and the way it works, but we've had several issues as far as access goes that we've had to work through and it has taken some time. As part of that move, Elana will be asking all the schools and libraries for updated IP information. So if you get that email, please let us know so that we make sure our information is up to date. This relates to the fact that each library that does OCLC cataloging and or interlibrary loan has been assigned a unique URL for access to this WorldCat Discovery Service by OCLC. So if your library has static IP addresses, but you still send your patrons through the Nebraska and Elana is frowning at me and we've gone back and I'll tell you we've gone back and forth with OCLC and between ourselves so often on the authentication process that it's gotten very confusing. So I'll just say the setup can be rather complex. So we'll be talking to you, those interlibrary loan and cataloging libraries possibly individually or as just the subset of all the libraries at a later time to get all of that straightened out. So back to the new EBSCO databases and the preview site. This is the website that you will be sent to and I'm not going to tell you what the password is. You'll get that in the email, but once you go in, you'll see that we actually have now laid out the web page in two sections. At the top, we have databases that can be used by anyone, could be of interest to anyone. And then towards the bottom, we have highlighted those databases that are could be especially useful to the K-12 population, but that doesn't mean that only students may use them. All of these are available to everybody. So I'm going to turn this over to Susan and Alana and they are going to do overviews of each of the databases. This is Alana and Susan and I are going to fairly quickly just kind of highlight what is in each of these resources with our limited amount of time. We're only going to spend a couple minutes, so this is definitely not a training session or anything like that. We just kind of want to give you a preview of what's available. And we're kind of going to skip around a little bit here in the order. The first database I want to actually start talking about is the master file. Before jumping into that, I also want to point out you will see these question marks on the page. These will take you to the about or help information. And I want to point these out because we do include on these pages links to the title lists. I always find it useful to go into a title list to see what journals, magazines and other resources are included in a database. And as we move forward and develop more training material, we're also going to probably have more help information available at the bottom of the screen, but Susan and I are still working on that, so it'll be a few weeks before that probably comes about. So I'm going to jump back and I'm going to go ahead and get into the master file. The master file is one of the more general databases in the collection. If your go-to database before was the Omni file, I would suggest the master file would be the database you want to start using to start with. The master file contains more than 2200 full text magazines and journals covering a variety of topics. As I mentioned, it's a great database for general research for adults and students. In addition to the journals and magazines, there's also a thousand reference books and 55,000 primary source documents. So it's a wide variety of information. I also want to point out that those we're starting talking about the journals and magazines, the coverage of them will vary from title to title, but there are a couple of titles that actually go back to 1923. For example, the Saturday evening post goes back to coverage was back to 1931 and that is available as PDFs. So I pulled up a few of those. It's kind of fun to look at the covers of those magazines. Time also goes back to 1923. I think those could be good resources if you're studying something from a time period. To go back and see how that issue was covered during that time period in those periodicals. Some other great journals and magazines that are included in the database are going to be Consumer Reports and Consumer Report Buying Guides. I'm very excited to have those in there personally because we always have something it seems like to buy and it's great to be able to go in there and see what their reviews are and recommendations are. I think a lot of people across the state will get a lot of views out of those magazines and the Buying Guide. Otherwise, you need to subscribe yourself personally to Consumer Reports. Or go and get the paper copy of the library. I'm really excited about those. There are a lot of other journals and more academic titles in there too, but I also wanted to highlight some of the time content that for those of you who've been around long enough, you may remember we lost some of the time content from the Wilson databases. I didn't look at the exact date of it, but it's been a few years ago, but now we will have access to journals such as Sports Illustrated, Cooking Light, People, Field and Stream, Country Living. Don't think of these just as all hardcore research titles in here, but there's also some more general purpose magazines that you could be of use. So I'm going to go ahead and just do just one quick search in here. So I just went and did a search for Digital Camera. Looking at this interface, I'm sure most people recognize it. This looks just like the interface we had for the OmniFile and the Biographies Database. So you should be used to the interface. The first one here I just wanted to point out is Digital Camera Basics, and this is one of those consumer report buying guides. And I'm just going to jump right into the PDF of this document just to show you that it looks just like you would get if you were looking at the regular paper version of the consumer reports with their little nice handy charts. One other thing I did want to point out about the master file, this database actually contains full text, and it also has just some abstracts and indexing. So if you do want to limit your search to full text, there is a nice limit here over the left hand side that will easily allow you to limit your search results to just the full text. Those of you who went to Rojo's in the past will remember Alana and I complaining about the full text limiter when our database was at 100% full text. Now finally... It has a purpose as well. So I know that was a real quick overview, but I need to keep moving so I give Susan enough time to talk about the other databases. There's a couple of ways we can go back and forth to select different databases. You can see here I just clicked on the Choose Database option. I could choose a different database here or of course I can go back to the preview site. The next database I want to jump into, I'm going to scroll down here to the databases especially for K-12s, and I'm going to go to the search primary. So the primary search is designed specifically for elementary age students. It has full text and articles from 70 popular elementary school magazines. Some of those magazines include things such as Boys Life, National Geographic Kids, Ranger Rick, Time for Kids, and Sports Illustrated for Kids. Now also included in this database is the Funk and Wagner's New World Encyclopedia which I'm sure a lot of school folks will be happy to see. There's also the Encyclopedia of Animals and the American Heritage Children's Dictionary. So let me just show you a quick search here. Nebraska, I know that's done a very exciting search but I did want to point out again, I'm going to limit it to full text. Over here on the right there's source types and I just want to point out that there are different source types available in this database so it's easy to go maybe if you want to see some of the primary source documents. So you can see now we have the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln-Douglas debates so that could be useful. In the other search I wanted to do I was talking with my nephew last night and he was doing something with Minecraft. So I just wanted to point this one out because I thought librarians who are maybe doing story hour or working for things with kids also could find this useful because the first article that I pulled up was you can make some Minecraft ornaments so just keep that in mind to don't think of it as just a children's resource. Adults who work with children may also find it useful. It's a little bit fun to make. I'm going to go ahead and jump back again to the preview and I'm not going to take the time to get into it but right now we do have a link right here for the Funkin' Wagonal New World Encyclopedia so if you have students that want to jump right into the Encyclopedia and just search that you can obviously do that by clicking that button and following the link. I'm going to go ahead then and scroll back up the screen here and the next two databases I want to talk about are going to be the Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection and the Science and Technology Collection. These two databases are also going to be in that same EPSCO interface. I'm in right now, I'm on the Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection. This one offers a full text coverage with broad range of subjects in the field of Psychology, Behavioral Sciences and Related Discipline. There are, excuse me, more than 530 scholarly journals with an extensive bad file included in here. Now at first just hearing that name, Psychology and Behavioral Science, you may think, okay now how would I use that and actually the more I think about it the more uses I have for this database. Obviously if you have students in high school or college who are taking those site classes they may need to do some research but there's also maybe community members or even teachers in the school system or counselors that could benefit from research in this database and also think about parents who maybe have their children has been diagnosed with having ADHD or dyslexia or things like that and they want to do more research about those particular topics. This is a great resource to go to. I didn't recognize a lot of the titles in the list but a couple that it stood out to me were there's the elementary school guidance and counseling is one of the titles in there. There's also one about professional school counseling so I think those both could be helpful. I'm going to go ahead and do a search on bullying in schools. Again you can see I got a number of results and now again this is a mixture of resources that are available in full text and some that are just abstracts and indexing and again there is that full text limiter so if that's important to you. I'm just going to go ahead and use this choose database link right now. I'm going to go ahead and uncheck psychology and I'm going to jump right into science and technology collection. So the science and let me get rid of that search here. Science and technology collection, it has the full text from over 830 leading scholarly journals and covers many scientific and technology subject areas including things like aviation, biology, chemistry, computer technology so I was thinking about those topics and again I thought oh now what do I want to know about those but one thing that's in the news way too much lately are drones. Whoops are drones. If I could type drones maybe I don't know. That's why they have the suggestions for you. I think I should have never drive for me. So you can see here now who controls drones. Here's just a full text story about them. So I really do think this database will get a lot of views. Like I said don't be kind of scared off by that title of science. I'm going to jump back to the preview page here again and I am not going to jump into it but again Debra had mentioned the biography reference bank that is the database we currently have and the link is here and it will take us just the same interface we have now. Then the last database I want to point out before turning things over to Susan is my heritage and this is the genealogy resource that is available now from EFSCO and I have to say trying to talk about this database in three or four minutes I think is impossible because there's just so much cool stuff in it. I don't know where to begin. They have more than five billion historical records from 48 countries and billion with a B and 48 countries. So the genealogy resources we have had access to in the past really have focused on the United States. So this really is international. Like a lot of the genealogy products that are offered to libraries, my heritage, we have the MyHeritage Library Edition. They also have a version that the public can buy for access to for themselves at home. In that edition a lot of users can make family trees and so this library edition will actually search those family trees. So I was searching for Kovotny which is a Czech name if you didn't know that and I was coming up with family trees that were in Czechoslovakia because they were done by people who live in Czechoslovakia. So you could make out the names. I can't read Czech very well but I mean just so that really showed me just how international the coverage of this database is. So I'm really not going to try to find any one person here. I just want to show you a few things in the interface. So I'll search for John Novotny. You may want to check out the advanced search screen just because it kind of lets you control how the matching is exactly or not exactly. That's something more we'll cover when training information but so doing a search off this main screen is really just casting a very wide net. It's going to get you something from everything. So you can see over here in the left hand side it tells me how many hits I'm getting in the census and the birth records and photos and it goes on and on. You can also just have a nice summary that kind of groups them together. This I didn't mention it yet but it does include the U.S. Federal Census like we've had access to in the before in the past so that's all there. What I find helpful to do on this database is I'm going to jump back to the main screen here and it's not quite clear but you can see over here there are these 14 categories along the side. So if I want to look at census information I can click on it and now I'm searching across all census and you can see I'm listed here and you can see one of them here is actually the UK census and again all of these are links that I can click on and this will just narrow down what I'm searching in but the other thing I find useful is up here these descriptions. It will tell you exactly what these items are because looking at some of them by name I had no clue what they really were and what I was searching so especially the international things we've never had access to. Yes I yeah so going back here there are other interesting things that I found birth marriage and you know death records so there's England births and christinines let me jump back under immigration and travel I wanted to point out that there are some passenger lists which could be helpful so again 1500 to 1900 yeah and this one they're going to tell you how and how it's organized where the information come from so I I just wanted to point that out because I think it's easy to miss that information I think that really will help the genealogists out there kind of navigate this and the other thing I did want to mention I like I said I'm not going to be able to cover all these here but don't limit your thoughts to this only being useful for genealogists this also could be useful in schools if the students are studying people historical people I know I've been able to look up some of the first governor of Nebraska in here and find him in different places so it has a lot of wide possibilities if you just kind of go past the genealogy aspect of it so those were the databases I wanted to cover first here I want to turn it I'm going to turn it over to Susan now and let her carry on here with some more okay thank you and I'm going to go ahead and this might be dangerous but I'm going to start with novelist plus and novelist k8 plus because I really like them they're my favorite databases and it's probably uh my uh what's dangerous is I could probably talk about them too long um so I'm going to go ahead and start with them though because I like them um I'm going to go ahead and go into novelist plus first and I will just say um just to give you back on information on novelist plus it is really marketed as a reader's advisory tool it covers fiction and nonfiction for all ages and grades and I will say this about the nonfiction the nonfiction is nonfiction that appeals to readers reading for pleasure so that means things like biographies or narrative nonfiction you're not going to get things like textbooks or knitting for dummies or cookbooks things like that in here so that's one way to think about the type of nonfiction that's included nonfiction that people read for pleasure I think this is a database it's going to be really useful to us as librarians who have to do readers advisory service and also I think your patrons who really love books and love to read would really love this database too you could really get lost in it following links and getting ideas for what to read next um novelist plus was also recently updated with audiobook recommendations so those of you who have patrons who really love audiobooks um can highlight that to them novelist k8 plus as far as I can tell it truly is a subset of novelist plus meaning that everything that's a novelist k8 plus is also in novelist plus the value of the novelist k8 plus is that you can use it for students and they will then have to wade through all of the adult content as well one thing about novelist k8 plus is there is not audio but book coverage in that particular database yet so the other thing I want to mention about this database is there's lots of obviously you can find information about books in this database but there's lots of proprietary content that was written just for this database that is designed to help you with readers advisory so I'll try to point out that as we go along also um I'm going to go ahead and start out and just do a search for a book and I'm going to do a book that I know is in a series so this is going to be a good way I think for us to see what kind of information you can get in this database so I'm going to do bandcock eight and this is a record for this book and you will see you've got author it's an adult fiction title that is looks like it's an award winner if a book is in a series it will tell you that it's in a series and which place it is in the series if I click on this link it will take me to a series record that will list all the titles in the series in series order you will usually have a description or synopsis of the plot of the book so that's helpful if patrons are trying to get an idea if it's interesting to them or if they've read it before or maybe I might remind them if they've read it before true um and then this is something else it's fairly unique to novelist they use something called appeal terms to help them determine or help them recommend titles to patrons or help patrons find additional titles that they might like to read appeal terms go beyond things like subject matter or genre of the book so um it tried that the appeal terms try to tease out what it is about the book that really made you like it you could have books on the same subject but they're not going to necessarily appeal to a patron and I'm going to go ahead and just click here quickly and I would encourage you all to take a look at this screen at some point um this describes appeal terms and then I'm going to go to the appeals appeal terms page and this shows you all the kind of characteristics that you can use to search for books or that they assign to books to describe the sort of um flavor of the book so all of these different types of terms to uh assign to the characters in the book there's even snarky or uh relatable spirited um it's yeah information about storyline paste do you want fast paste do you want leisurely paste tone bittersweet body angst filled you can see these are not really describing the subject matter of the book or the genre but other characteristics that determine maybe why a patron liked a particular book so I would really encourage you to take a look at those terms later and you'll see how they're used throughout um so here again you've got these are the appeal terms that have been assigned to this book and the genre so it's a mystery story it's intricately plotted plot driven fast paced funny strong sense of place suspenseful etc writing style gritty so scrolling down you've got reviews from through from four different review sources here and then at the bottom of the page again you've got um different uh characteristics and terms that you can check if you want to perform a search for other titles that show the same characteristics so you can pick among the subjects the genres the appeal terms um going up again I want to point out to the right you've got read-alikes and if you hover over them it will tell you a little bit about the recommendation and it will tell you why it is considered a potential read-alike in this particular case this recommendation was made by a human and so it will tell you the name of the human that made this recommendation and it will tell you why it's similar these thrillers feature exotic settings taught suspense and unusual main characters etc so you'll understand why why is this similar and is that the similar is that the part of the book that really appealed to me um here's another one that I think has a human written reason for why it's related um going down here some of these are generated automatically using algorithms that I'm sure use those appeal terms in this particular case you'll see the reason um novelist recommends this uh let's see that was not as good of an example but some of these will tell you what appeal terms they have in common um and I'm like striking out here here we go these books are suspenseful plot driven fast paced they share the genre mystery stories and the subject murder investigation I think that's still auto generated I'm not created by a person but it tells you why they're similar one really nice feature if you're helping a patron is you have this view all option you can click on it and you have a list of all the suggested read-alikes along with the reason they're suggested and you can easily print it off and hand it to the patron and they can take it away with them also for each book uh it's not in all cases but some cases you'll get a link to first chapter and there will also be a link to goodreads uh which many of you might be familiar with um a site that you as any as an end user can create an account with and you'll get reviews from um readers uh they're not professionally used but they can still give you a good idea of whether it's a book that might interest you so I think that's a plus um I'm gonna go ahead and go back home now and obviously you can see lots of additional links around here that you can click on um you've got recommended reading lists and just notice that uh you can specify fiction adult teens ages 9 through 12 ages 0 through 8 or nonfiction and things aren't showing up um and this is something that I really want to point out well I would recommend that you click on all these links and see what's their lists and articles um spotlight on this is where you get some of that proprietary content that's written by um staff ebsco staff members who are assigned specifically to novelist they also contract with um people in the profession who are known as uh for their readers advisory um specialization under spotlight one of the things that I really really like is um they have information about different genres and they will for for um they list more genres than you would ever think existed um for example for thrillers and suspense you get uh page that has all kinds of information about this genre why do people read it um who are some of the most uh well known authors in this genre what are some recommended titles in this genre so um that can be really useful um let me go ahead now let's try um there's just one thing I'm going to show you in novelist k8 uh as you can see it looks very similar to um the uh regular novelist and I just want to point out here it defaults to ages nine through 12 I'm going to go ahead and go to teen this is one of those things that I just think is um a neat characteristic for example under here it says four fans of you click on that and here they have even like television like musical groups and television series and they say if you have student if you have uh you know kids who like One Direction these might be books they'd like or if you like kids who like um games game of thrones um here are books that we'd recommend for them so that's a whole different way of doing readers advisory so um that's what I like about this database okay hopefully that's the uh database that I will spend the most time on um biography reference center is the other biography database that we have access to um it has a close to half a million uh let's see a half a million full text biographies uh it's got content from biography today and biography magazine uh there's several ways you can find content you can do a basic search by um the name of a person an occupation a country or nationality they have a nice carousel with images of people whose biographies they're featuring so you can click on one of those images to get a biography I'm going to go ahead and just click on Steve Jobs image just to get you to a basic record this is what they call their biography landing page and each individual will have one it's got some basic information about the person down below you'll see a section on detailed biographies so I can go ahead and um access the full text for one of these biographical articles in this case it's nice and lengthy and then also there will be a section with more concise biographies these would be maybe biographical entries in a biographical uh reference book what you might expect just a you know half a page or something okay going back I want to do a quick search to show you how the search works I did a search on Patrick Stewart in this case um if I clicked on this record I would get to the biography landing page which is the type of page we landed on with Steve Jobs over at the left I have some other options however again I could go to those detailed biographies listing the concise biographies listing I also have um a link that says interviews and you'll see now I've got um biographical articles from a number of different magazines and journals that I could access about Patrick Stewart so that is some supplemental material I do want to point out the advanced search screen this is a screen where you can kind of build a search to to describe the type of person you're interested in without necessarily knowing the name of the person so I could say um I want I want Canadian Canadian female authors and I swear swear some of these uh limiters are wrapping differently and showing up in different spots than they were upstairs but okay what did I do wrong female I'm having trouble seeing so I can't even see if I'm spelling things incorrectly okay female Canadian author so now I've got a list of 77 um female Canadian authors so that's the way you can use that moving along um another one of my favorite databases in the new package is points of view reference center um I think it would be of interest to anybody but realistically it's probably going to be used most by students upper middle school and high school um it's going to be a great resource for students who need to uh study a controversial topic um understand both sides of the issue write a persuasive essay participate in debates etc um there's several ways you can search content here you can type in a search term they have a carousel where they list controversial topics that are in the news and they also let you browse by category so I'm going to go ahead and go down to um crime and punishment and capital punishment there are over 370 topics topic areas covered by points of view and for each topic area you can expect to get at least an overview essay which is written specifically for this database and it's going to give you background information on the issue um and what what the history is uh so you'll have a the background article over to the right then you'll have a link you'll have a point article and a counterpoint article so one will um so these articles or essays will take uh different sides of the issue and lay out the argument for or against a particular topic and again these are written specifically for the uh this database there's also something called um guide to critical analysis uh for each topic and again it's going to kind of walk students through how to analyze and think about the issue uh one of the things that I think is interesting is they give the difference between facts and opinions so they'll make a factual statement and an opinion statement and kind of show how why one's opinion one's fact and these are tied to the issues finally for any particular issue um if you look over on the left uh in addition to the content that's written specifically for points of view you also have magazines newspapers books biographies etc so I'm going to go ahead and just click on magazines here and now I will get um magazine articles on capital punishment um that would also help support a student writing uh persuasive essay or preparing uh to debate a particular issue so not only is there unique content in this database it's a great way to get your students seeing all sides of an issue um getting backup support material for them so again I think this would be really useful for schools switching gears again we have um some what they call their reference centers so I'm going to start with the legal information reference center this is obviously not going to take the place of a patron needing to talk to a lawyer but at least it'll give them background information of what some of the legal issues are that they may be dealing with and ways to think about it so there are several ways to find information you can do a search you can browse by category or you can browse popular sources and you can see here that under the popular sources carousel they highlight these no low guides um this is not an this is not a comprehensive uh display of sources included but these are some that they are highlighting and if a page and clicks on one of these titles they'll get into a pdf version of the full book I'm going to go ahead and just do a quick search for overtime so anyone who has employees might be interested in this issue at some point so you can see that the results come from the different um full text guides and handbooks employers legal handbook essential guide to federal employment laws etc leave and time off so this is one way to get into the full text content you can also browse by categories and drill down like I said under family affairs and divorce for instance you've got some subcategories picking parenting and you've got several guides to IEP so again parents who have students who have IEPs in the school system might be interested in these guides again as you open them up Alanis frowning IEP is individual education program or or something like that so um you've got uh the pdf version of the uh document here uh you can scroll through the chapters on the left in order to access the whole thing so um one individualized education program um individualized to that child yes okay so that is the legal information reference center we also have the small business reference center which is something that I think would be really easy for public libraries to promote um in their community for community development purposes um again it's got the option for searching the option to browse categories or browse popular sources and again um the popular sources that they highlight are those no low uh guides the full text that are available um can I throw in one thing I'm sorry before we get too much further on the legal information center there's also many many legal forms from all the states so if your patrons are looking for legal forms that that could be a source also okay um again I'll give you examples of how you can search this you might do a search for crowd uh crowdfunding and one thing I didn't mention with the legal um most of the full text content in the legal reference center comes from full text publications there are a few magazines that are included full text but not many small business center is different there are lots of full text publications and guides like those no low guides but there are also a number of um I think over 500 full text magazines and journals that are represented and so when I do this search for crowdfunding you can see some of the publications that the articles come from food manufacture I'm sorry my eyes entrepreneurship I can't read the small starting and building and on starting you know business mag you know organ business magazine business week etc so you can find lots of um trade publications business magazines etc um under the uh browse by category um I would encourage all of you to explore these categories I'm going to go ahead and go to industry information by small business type um you can go to for something like bakeries and then you have an option you can search for articles and magazines and journals or you can search for industry information so if you've got someone who is wanting to start a business you can see how this would be really useful here's a an industry profile obviously this is something that business students in a college or university class might find interesting also so you've got all more information than you ever want to know about the business of bakeries and market overview etc so hopefully that gives you a sense of what you can find in this database um it also does include a number of videos from the harvard business school so um you know if you've got people who want to do that sort of sort of professional development um watching uh lectures on things like um marketing or um or I can't think sorry um finally um I want to go into my last one um health health sorry um consumer health reference center um this is obviously aimed at uh not medical professionals but your everyday average person who maybe has been diagnosed with a particular condition who who wants to be proactive about their health or understand a diagnosis um on this main screen you'll see these different categories basically represent different types of publications that are included so evidence-based reports back sheets and pamphlets news and magazines alternative sources so it not only standard medical health publications but also more alternative and complementary um procedures and and um publications are included as well these categories you will see them represented in result lists in the form of uh tabs that patron that um users can click through so I'm going to go ahead and do a search I can remember what my search was I lost my hand out because that information on it here we go um so I'm going to go ahead and do COPD and do a search and you'll see it looks like I got one result but basically what it means is I got one result that is in the category of evidence-based reports now you'll see tabs representing all those different source types so I can find encyclopedia articles on COPD reference books um fact sheets news magazines etc and these are all uh I believe all of these are full text so you can find lots of different types of information um you can even find information on what sorts of uh drugs might be uh prescribed to someone who has COPD so um other ways you can find information in this database uh you've got a quick find over to the right that lets you search an alphabetical list of diseases conditions injuries etc so just picking uh letter at random you can see um a list that you can browse through if you don't remember how to spell it but you know what the word starts with right um you've also got uh search by topic area so I could for instance say okay I'm interested in children's health it will show me subtopics under children's health so I could perhaps say teenagers age 11 through 16 if I check that and then I do a search up here my search is going to be limited to that subcategory so I could say something like depression and my results will uh be uh focused on that subcategory finally at the bottom they do highlight a few uh sort of popular sources uh that they include content from so for example men's fitness magazine um they give you I I'm not sure I think this is probably uh content from the current issue you can also search within that publication I imagine this is mainly going to be of interest to people who um just kind of want to browse periodically and see what the latest in that magazine is so here's a way that you can do a search for articles about crossfit that occurred in men's fitness so um that's uh my overview of the databases and so I think Alana's got two more things that she's going to talk about briefly I know time is short so I will make this quick that's okay um just so everyone know we are at 11 o'clock but we did start about five minutes after um we'll go as long as it takes for them to finish up and we get a few questions here as well um so if you do need to leave because you your hour a lot if this is done that's fine we're recording you can always watch it later and catch up on the bit you might have missed at the end I'll still try to make it short the last two databases I want to mention are more of what I like to think of interfaces as opposed to data databases that is the explorer that you'll see highlighted here across the top and that's the explorer for what they epsom epsco refers to as public libraries and explorer down here the primary school version of explorer I'm going to start with the explorer primary schools and what this is it is an interface that actually brings content together from multiple resources so in this explorer primary source you will have access to the primary search database that I showed you earlier um that funk and waggles new new world and psychopedias in here um again the american heritage children's dictionary and you also will be searching across biography re uh biography reference center that susan showed you earlier um what I really like about these interfaces however is the fact that they as you can see are much more colorful looking and they let students browse which I think can also be helpful you can see here we have um these main categories I'm going to go ahead and jump into the animal category and you can see here it's broken down alphabetical um let's go ahead and take a look at alligator and you can see here at the top the screen the first thing it gives me when I'm in the explorer interfaces or what they call these topic overviews this is from the Salem press primary encyclopedia so you can see here it gives me just you know a lot of basic information on elevators and I do want to point out by default both explorer interfaces will limit your search results to full text so that way if you have that you know elementary kids in here doing searching they are going to get those full text results right away you can see there are other reference books that are coming up here magazines there's plastic news that made the cover story so well I'm glad you started this is that was actually one of our questions that you've already answered so I wanted to know about explorer because they were seeing it yes screen and the question was is it a federated search engine that allows you to search multiple databases yes yes and then and I don't even sure if it does this if so are there limiters to the number of databases you can search can you even control that actually they're preset by okay so it's a preset okay actually we have and preset by ebsco it's preset by ebsco it's not preset I mean we have we have a list of databases that we that they give us that we can include in it and then we can choose from those which ones we want in case you can't pick and choose I don't want to search these databases and we have included everything yeah so okay cool we we've given you everything that ebsco allows us yes and on our help pages we I'm assuming we spell out which database yes it does so I'm gonna go ahead and jump back to the page again and I do want to show you then this is the explorer the public library edition is if ebsco calls it you can see the graphics are a little more adult looking I like to search them I do too now this database when you search explorer you are searching across the master file complete that I showed you earlier you are also searching across primary search there's also biography reference center consumer health complete legal information reference center and again this is going to have those topical overviews that I just showed you in that my search for elevators so I'm going to go ahead and browse let's go ahead and go to let's look at some of the current events and I'm going to Amazon deforestation I can't see it there we go good thing I'm done talking almost so again you can see here you know we have that topic overview again a variety of different resources again being limited to full text and you can see here again we have academic journals magazine books news etc so the advanced search screen here you can see there are some limiters that do apply specifically to some of the different databases but I will let you explore that on your own some more when you have time it is Susan mentioned if you click on the little question marks here it will tell you everything that's included in those two explorer interfaces so I think that's all we want to cover and show on the databases I will turn it back over to Deborah and there were a couple at least a couple questions. The other question which is specific to database but I think might apply to other ones too someone says our library currently subscribes to consumerreports.org via EBSCO since master file complete includes consumer reports magazines can I cancel my standalone subscription to consumerreports.org or is the content between the two products unique enough that I should maintain my standalone subscription I think we'd had that question before and the answer was that the consumerreports.org subscription includes a lot of additional content more than what's in it includes more than just the online version of the print publication so again it's going to be a judgment column the part of the library but it's not there is more in the subscription database than just the full text magazine articles so it might be something where you'd have to look and see what it says is included what yours has figure out what people might be trying to use and see if you could save somebody cancelling yours now and going with this one instead kind of like what you do with any database yeah it's not a one-to-one sort of situation okay that's another question that we actually have anyone does have any questions last minute you want to get in in the last few minutes we're here type it in quick otherwise of course you could ask him contact you guys at any time yes contact us at any time and as we said here later this morning or within the next couple hours we will be sending out the email that gives you the link to this preview page and the password so you can get in and play with the databases yourself okay are we done all right we just have some thank yous coming in it looks like somebody else had any urgent questions at the moment all right thank you very much guys I'll take the mouse um thank you very much Alana Susan and Deborah for taking us through this I've been you know let's see it's been a busy time in the last few months or so figuring this out maybe a stressful time for people here figuring out what works what's not what's in there um so yeah people are very excited to try it out thank you very informative very informative so yeah um look for that chess stuff so that you guys can uh check it out yourself and start playing with what's in there all right so that will wrap it up for this week's Encompass Live um it's being recorded so um also maybe later today the recording will be available so if you want to watch it again you need to share it with a colleague who wasn't able to join us this morning you'll be able to do that send the um recording off to people um the recording will be available here on our website as they always are under our archived Encompass Live sessions which is right below our upcoming sessions so it'll be added here and I will send an email out to everyone letting you know and announce it on our mailing list so thank you very much for attending everyone um I hope you join us next week when our topic is cataloging a very popular topic always on Encompass Live whenever we have anything cataloging related um metadata manipulations is the title using mark edit and open refine to enhance technical services workflows something I know absolutely nothing about uh not being a cataloger at all Debra might understand this top the title um the Emily Nimsacant who up until last week was the cataloging librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission she is now as of Monday I just see here the head of cataloging and resource management at the Schmidt Law Library at University of Nebraska Lincoln so elsewhere in town she will be on the show with us talking about these cool cataloging things that you can use to help um your workflow so uh definitely sign up for that join us for our next week's show um this mouse is a little jumpy you need a new battery all right so um also if you are a big Facebook user there we go um Encompass Live is also on Facebook go ahead and like us there you'll see announcements of when new shows are coming when um recordings are available here as you can see our top um thing I just posted up this morning reminder to log in on the fly for today's show so if you are big on Facebook definitely go ahead and like us over there to keep up with what you're doing what we're doing other than that that will wrap it up for this morning thank you very much and we'll see you next time on Encompass Live bye bye