Community College Library Consortium News

Bas relief of scribes at work from the Alexandria LibraryContributed by Sarah Raley, Consortium Director

ProQuest has introduced the new Research Companion. Pricing is available on the consortium website. ProQuest Research Companion is a new, intuitive, and self-guided product that supports information literacy, writing, and research skills instruction occurring in today's libraries, classrooms, and online learning environments. It provides a new foundation and companion to "one-shot" sessions, allowing librarians and educators to focus on teaching the more complex research and writing principles. Developed by writing instructors and librarians, ProQuest Research Companion is comprised of nine Learning Modules and seven interactive Tools—all designed to automate the basic parts of the research process. The responsive design means it's adaptable to all devices—laptops, tablets, and smart phones. See the description at http://www.proquest.com/products-services/rescomp.html

Informational Literacy Course has now been introduced by Credo. The cloud-based multimedia materials provide a comprehensive information literacy curriculum to meet your accreditation needs. Created by librarians and educators, course sections include videos, tutorials, online activities, course notes, guides and promotion materials. This course is available for purchase. See the announcement on the consortium website. For more information and to attend a webinar see [Info at: http://corp.credoreference.com/solutions/information-literacy-course-module.html ]

Spring Orders: When we negotiate the consortium pricing, we agree to place our orders by the vendor due date to qualify for the pricing.  If you are unable to place your orders with the consortium by the due date of May 9, 2014, we will try to place your orders late.  Orders will be assessed a late fee of an additional 5%, or whatever additional fee the vendor assigns to late orders.