Outline for MeL for Kids

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Midwest Collaborative for Library Services, MeL Training Materials

This service is funded in part by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan. Additional project support comes from the Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) via the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

MeL For Kids Outline

Draft 9/7/2010 SR

Class outline (times are approximate)

1. Set up and introductions - approximately 20 minutes

Trainer – introduce yourself

Teach the webex functionality (we will have a separate document for this to refer to for all classes)

Class introduction – find out who is in the class

Review what we will cover – outline of the two days’ content and goals

Ask them to have the printouts that were emailed to them on their desks for reference.

2. SIRS Discoverer Deluxe – demo for 35-40 minutes, then move on. This is the best K9 database we have so it’s

worth a few more minutes

3. eLibrary Elementary – 30-35 minutes

4. NoveList - 20 minutes

break time

5. Kids InfoBits – 30 minutes

6. LearningExpress Library – 15 minutes

7. InfoTrac Junior Edition (mention other PowerSearch databases for kids who are ready for more) – 30 minutes

8. Educator's Reference Complete (Gale) (for teachers/parents) - show and tell – 10 minutes

9. MORE (for teachers/parents) - demo – 10 minutes

10. Wrap up and evalutations