c.o.d. library esl/abe/ged faculty newsletter august-september 2012
resource of the month
http://www.cod.edu/library/resources/ databases.htm
welcome back! Welcome to the fall semester and the 2012-2013 year’s first newsletter from your ABE/GED/ESL librarian. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Jennifer Kelley and I’m the liaison to the Academic ESL and Adult Education and ESL programs. I am your personal contact in the Library and a resource for you and your students.
Here are just a few things I can do for as your liaison librarian: ● Help you to identify and locate ESL and ABE/GED resources for The Testing & Education Reference teaching and student use. Center (TERC) is a new addition ● Support your students’ Library instruction via customized group to the COD Library’s subscription sessions, library tours, and library card acquisition. database collection. Like the oft-used ● Collaborate with you on the design and development of student assignments. Learning Express Library, TERC ● Find information to answer basic reference questions as well as assist offers a wide range of college and you in locating information for ESL and ABE/GED curriculum related career testing preparation tools. projects. While some resources mirror those ● Assist you in finding and securing library materials from other libraries offered in LEL, TERC has a number through Interlibrary Loan. of unique features you won’t find anywhere else. I also keep you up-to-date on Library resources, services and other information with this monthly newsletter. The newsletter will come to you via email and is also available online via the faculty page of both the ESL In TERC, you will find: and ABE/GED Research Guides. The research guides also provide useful ● Over 300 practice tests and information on library resources for you and your students, plus information courses on scheduling library instruction sessions and orientations. More on that ● Dozens of ebooks containing later. valuable study material and practice tests library renovations ● Information on over 4,000 If you haven’t been to the Library recently you might be in for a bit of a accredited schools surprise! This month construction began on the major renovation process ● Scholarship search featuring that will result in an amazing state-of-the art facility that will support the needs of our students, faculty, staff and community members. The renovations are $8 billion in available beginning with the upper level of the Library-- this phase should run through scholarships the 2012-2013 academic year. During this phase, the General collection ● Resume builder with over of the Library (also known as “most of the books”) will be housed in closed 1,000 brainstorming phrases stacks in the OCC building. While all of our materials will be available, to get you started anything over in the OCC will need to be paged-- patrons can pick up books ● Career modules covering at the Library Annex in OCC or at our Circulation Desk in the Library. For subjects from career change more information, visit our Library Renovation page: http://library.codlibrary.org/renovation and to salary negotiations Requesting Library Materials page: http://library.codlibrary.org/request/cod. I will also be offering several renovation Q&A sessions online in the library’s virtual classroom. Visit http://library.codlibrary.org/sos/online and look for “Where Are the Books: Library Renovation Q&A” dates and times as well as the link to join the session. What does this all mean for you and your students? Here are a few things to think about as you plan assignments and syllabus for the year:
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Most useful to our ESL, ABE and GED students are TOEFL, TOEIC and U.S. Citizenship tools; GED preparation in English and Spanish; as well as a variety of college prep tools. Getting started with TERC requires a brief New User registration wherein students must enter their name and email address then create a login. TERC will then keep track of the student’s progress and allow students to save and return to tests later.
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Your students will not be able to browse our collection in order to check out books. They will have to request books and have them paged. Library tours and orientations will be limited to the lower level of the library, which will include the Reference Collection, Periodicals, New Books, Graphic Novels, Paperbacks and our College and Career Information Center (CCIC). The Library will have only two of our six classrooms available for library instruction this year. If you plan on bringing your class to the Library this semester, please plan ahead. Keep in mind that I, or another librarian from our ABE/GED/ESL librarian instruction team can visit your classroom as well. If you would like to work with a librarian in a computer classroom, you can also schedule one through your division office. My office is now in the BIC! You can find me in BIC 2814e. Feel free to stop by or send your students my way. I will also be at the Reference Desk in the Library approximately 10 hours each week.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about the Library’s renovation.
Cambridge & Macmillan readers Thanks to the tireless work of a lot of people, the Library now has several class sets of Cambridge and Macmillan English readers available for instructors to checkout from the Circulation Desk.
Each set has 25 copies of a single book and is packaged in an easy-to-carry drawstring backpack. We have several sets at each of the levels available I highly recommend that you create from these publishers. For more information about Cambridge and Macmillan an account of your own in TERC and readers, visit the websites of Cambridge English Readers and Macmillan take a moment to survey the great Readers. resources available.
additional resources ABE/GED Research Guide http://library.codlibrary.org/abe ESL Research Guide http://library.codlibrary.org/esl Library Services for Faculty http://www.cod.edu/library/services/ faculty/services.htm Job, College & Career Info http://www.cod.edu/library/services/ jobscollege.htm SOS Workshops http://library.codlibrary.org/sos/online Graded Readers @ COD Library http://library.codlibrary.org/esl/ eslreaders
We are still in the process of adding these sets to the Library’s online catalog- if the title you are looking for is not in the catalog, feel free to contact me or the Technical Services librarian, Mary Konkel, to have the set held for you. TITLE
LEVEL
PUBLISHER
Why?
STARTER
Cambridge
Book Boy
STARTER
Cambridge
Just Like a Movie
1
Cambridge
Big Picture
1
Cambridge
Photo Finish
1
Macmillan
Alissa
1
Macmillan
The Umbrella
1
Macmillan
Picture Puzzle
2
Macmillan
Truth Machine
2
Macmillan
One Day
2
Cambridge
ESL Library Orientations http://library.codlibrary.org/esl/ orientations
Circle Games
2
Cambridge
Don't Tell Me What to Do
3
Macmillan
ABE/GED Library Orientations http://library.codlibrary.org/abe/ orientations
Black Cat
3
Macmillan
The Lost World (Holmes)
3
Macmillan
Strong Medicine
3
Cambridge
Eye of the Storm
3
Cambridge
Nothing but the Truth
4
Cambridge
Matter of Chance
4
Cambridge
The Woman Who Disappeared
5
Macmillan
Sign of Four (Holmes)
5
Macmillan
Found a resource you’d love to have in the Library? Request it for the collection!
Schedule a Library tour, orientation, activity or librarian visit for your class-- just contact Jenn
Visit the ESL and ABE/ GED Research Guides for student and faculty resources
Jennifer Kelley, ESL/ABE/GED Librarian * kelleyj@cod.edu * BIC 2814E * 630.942.2383