With the move of Morningstar to only online access, Valueline is once again pushing their virtual product as well.
We have been given a free trial – I would appreciate it if you would take some time and give it a whirl (especially if you know anything about stocks/stockmarket):

Go to our website at www.valuelinepro.com

At the client login tab type in boydco and at the password tab type in valueline

When you scroll over the research hub, you will be able to login to all of our products

Health & Wellness Resource Center With an intuitive and customizable interface providing easy-to-find answers, Health & Wellness Resource Center quickly and accurately leads users to targeted, authoritative medical information. Use this webinar to sample the navigation that supports thousands of full-text journals, magazines, newspapers, reference works, multimedia and more. December 4, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (ET)

History in Context History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results. Learn about extensive online collection of scholarly analysis, award-winning full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents. December 10, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET)

Opposing Viewpoints in Context From climate change to immigration, find thousands of thought-provoking pro/con arguments in Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Balanced overviews and opinions from curriculum-focused references combine with multimedia resources to deliver an engaging way for students to develop the critical-thinking skills vital to 21st Century learning. Join this webinar to see how you can integrate Opposing Viewpoints in Context into your library or lesson plan. December 14, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (ET)\

Free Webinar training  brought to you by Gale – the above databases are ones BCPL subscribes to – learn more about your databases today!

We are pleased to announce that in the next few days, some important enhancements will become part of yourFold3 search experience:

Filtering

The most significant change to the Fold3 user interface involves the ability to filter on the key facets that customers have requested:  Documents Categories and Titles in the left column; Dates, States, and Added in the Past (how recently the document was added to the collection) in the center column. It will also be much easier to decide to include or exclude documents that have no specific date or state associated with them.

Viewing           

During the beta test for these enhancements, respondents overwhelmingly chose to group pages from a single document into one result, rather than showing them as individual hits. This enhancement will allow for quicker visual scanning of results to find the most relevant documents.

Mini-viewer

An addition to the current Fold3 viewer (which has not changed) will be a mini-viewer to make it faster for researchers to decide if a document is worth exploring further. The mini-viewer will let the user view all the pages of the document, rotate the document, and zoom in and out. The «View Larger» button on the mini-viewer will take the user to the full Fold3 viewer with all of its features, including printing and downloading an image. In addition, users will still be able to access the full Fold3 viewer by just clicking on a document thumbnail, without going through the mini-viewer.

Check out our new offering: Rocket Languages

Rocket Languages is a different platform than Mango – Rocket Languages has courses that you read through and videos that users can either stream or download (and keep).

One of the big reasons we added Rocket Languages is that it offers American Sign Language as one of the choices — read a little more about it Here and then try it out!

Remote Access   In-house Access

 Rocket Languages allows users to visually learn a foreign language.  With 11 languages to chose from (including American Sign Language) Rocket Languages allows our users to download video tutorials they may keep – permanently.

Simply create your account and you can learn:

• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• German
• Hindi
• Ingeles (English for Spanish speakers)
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Sign Language (ASL)
• Spanish
• ロケット英語 (English for Japanese speakers)

Review and Reccomendation from PCMagazine

Please watch this brief video for an overview of MyGovernment and how it’s different resources work: https://www.brainshark.com/cengage/vu?pi=376212875 - it’s right at 5 minutes – and of course, no need to ask for a free trial at the end as we’ve subscribed to it

MyGovernment is only currently available in-house, so you’ll need to check it out while at work – here’s the access link:

http://www.mygovernment.us/index.asp

Boyd County Public Library is proud to present a new resource that will help you find out the Who, What and Where of our government – MyGovernment

MyGovernment will show you all your elected politicians, from the President to the local munipialities.  It provides contact information, in-depth biographies and much more.  MyGovernment’s interface is available in both English and Spanish.  With MyGovernment you have access to the same information as professional lobbyists.

Want to know what bills your Senator is voting on? MyGovernment can tell you.

Want to know who to contact about your local concerns? MyGovernment can tell you.

MyGovernment’s “HOME” tab provides a Tips & Resources box that provides quick and easy access to basic government information including:
• Basic Guide to U.S. Government
• How Laws are Made in Congress
• How to Contact your Legislators
• Guide to Becoming a U.S. Citizen
• Useful Links & Websites

WHO. The ‘Who’ tab provides candidate data including basic information from address and phone number to more in-depth material including:
• religion
• number of children
• military service
• past occupations
• committees and caucuses

WHAT. Users can search for legislators and executives that work directly on issues that matter to them.

WHERE. A complete list of elected officials is available based on zip code. From the President down to local county or municipal officials, users get contact information, background and biographical data, photos for many legislators and elected officials, and which bills they sponsor and their stance on key issues.

Try MyGovernment today!

MyGovernment can currently only be used at one of our library branches.  Remote access is not yet available.