Past Taco Tuesdays
March 1st, 2022
11:30 – Newsbank
Access World News Research Collection: 2022 Edition sets a new standard for digital research resources. With an unprecedented combination of international, national, regional, and local news, the 2022 Edition supports a diverse range of research needs across many subject areas. With access to more than 13,000 sources from over 200 countries and territories, researchers can easily discover multiple perspectives, track issues over time and identify the impact at the local, national, or global levels. The ability to explore multiple perspectives is also an essential element in the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills.
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11:45 – EBSCO – CINAHL Ultimate / Medline Ultimate
MEDLINE Ultimate offers medical professionals and researchers access to unmatched evidence-based and peer-reviewed full-text content from more of the top biomedical journals. It also offers more international journal coverage than any other MEDLINE database.
CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
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12:00 – Capstone PebbleGo Create
Join us to learn about the expanded content and access in Capstone’s PebbleGo K-5 suite.
Including the exciting new PebbleGo add-on for your students: Create with Buncee.
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12:15 – AWE Platinum 2
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February 1st, 2022
11:30 – Scholastic presenting on TrueFlix
For students transiting from learning to read to reading to learn. Offering more than 200 complete social studies and science units of study. TrueFlix is a highly-engaging multimedia resource that can be used in the classroom, the library, on mobile devices, or at home. Beautiful, authentic eBooks are enhanced with a deep and diverse reservoir of related content in a variety of text types and media—including primary sources, fiction, videos, audio clips, images, and related websites. TrueFlix helps students improve literacy skills, build content-area knowledge, read across a range of text types, and cultivate the critical skills necessary for academic success and college and career readiness.
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11:45 – World Archives presenting on NewspaperArchive
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12:00 – PowerNotes
PowerNotes was designed to unify the steps of finding, reading, gathering, saving, annotating, organizing, outlining, tracking, and citing research into a single, efficient workflow that feeds directly into the writing or study process.
New Features
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- Library Search: Sends Google searchers to library content by running concurrent library searches.
- Automated Citations: Automatically grab formatted citations just by highlighting text and easily export to your paper or bibliography.
- Source Notes: Facilitate information literacy instruction by attaching templates and notes to specific sources used in your projects.
12:15 – ClassHook
Learn about using popular media clips to engage learners and increase retention. Media clips pique interest, illustrate concepts and ideas, supplement content, fuel discussion, support diversity, and help grow vocabulary. You will gain practical tips for finding, integrating and sharing media clips for instructional impact. ClassHook provides thousands of curated, standards-aligned educational video clips to save you hours of time each week searching for engaging content and accompanied with questions and tools to facilitate discussions.
January 4th, 2022 Special Edition 11:30 am – 12:00 pm
11:30 Infobase Access Video on Demand and Just for Kids
Access Video On Demand provides instant access to world-class documentaries, award-winning educational films, and helpful instructional videos covering a wide range of subjects, such as business, career planning, health, history, travel, and more. Access Video videos can be viewed on PCs, Macs, iPads, and other internet-enabled mobile devices through the AVOD App.
Unlimited access streaming video is available as either a library system purchase, or as a single library purchase as an annual subscription rather than a pay purchase model for up to 70% off list prices.
December 7th, 2021
11:30 Rosen Social Emotional Learning: Self-Care, and the Power of the Calm Room
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11:45 Tumblebooks
Welcome and ‘tumble’ into our presentation on our famously fun and educational online collections of ebooks for kids. TumbleBookLibrary is for k-6 and includes animated, talking, picture books; TumbleMath is also for k-6 and includes the same TumbleBooks’ format but all books are math related; TeenBookCloud is for middle/high school and include an impressive collection of ebooks, enhanced ebooks, graphic novels, videos and more!
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12:00 Kermode
Software and inquiry-based evaluation of online content.
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12:15 ScholasticGO
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November 2nd, 2021, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 Bloomsbury
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11:45 FactCite
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12:00 SAGE
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12:15 Mango
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October 5th, 2021, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 ABC-CLIO
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11:45 BioOne
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12:00 JSTOR
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12:15 Kanopy
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September 14th, 2021, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 Infobase Infobase Quick Hits – Tools to promote critical thinking in academic research. In this 15 minute presentation we’ll explore three Infobase resources that can aid new academic researchers in their critical thinking skill building.
- Credo Reference: A research starting point, exploratory search tool and resource portal specializing in providing fact-based background information on any topic.
- Issues & Controversies: Teach students to look for alternate points of view as they build early research papers or prepare debates on newsworthy topics.
- Polling the Nations: 750,000 Original Poll Questions and Results from 18,000+ Surveys Conducted in the U.S. and 100+ Other Countries from 1986 to the Present
11:45 Baker and Taylor
Healthy communities need access to inclusive library collections where people can find material that lets them see a reflection of themselves, offer a window to the world around them, and celebrate the differences that drive cultural, economic and social innovation. Yet creating and managing a collection that encompasses the wealth of human experiences can be complex and time consuming. According to ALA’s State of Libraries Special Report-COVID19 edition, most libraries are “Overrepresented in challenges, and underrepresented on the shelves”. This was Baker & Taylors motivation behind creating tools to help libraries evaluate existing collections, suggest future development using a data-driven approach, help communicate a library’s diverse collection to its stakeholders, and make it discoverable by its community and patrons. Please join Sammy Khurkur as they share how Baker & Taylor can work with you to make this a reality at your library!
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12:00 Transparent Language
Transparent Language Online is a digital language learning platform with over 118 languages (including ESL/ELL courses). Reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities help patrons learn the words and phrases needed to communicate effectively in a foreign language.
This subscription also includes KidSpeak, which is an animated, immersive language learning system for children for these languages: Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Italian, and English.
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12:15 MyWiLS
Our own Lisa Marten will demo some of the recent enhancements to MyWiLS.
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JUNE 1ST, 2021, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 IGI Global – Brittany Haynes will join us to talk about IGI Global.
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11:45 Omnigraphics – Sue Maniloff will join us to talk about Omnigraphics’ excellent offerings for libraries and schools.
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12:00 Mango – Mariah Moore will show us all how to order tacos in various languages using Mango’s intuitive language learning tools.
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12:15 American Chemical Society – Alea Giordano will demonstrate some of the vital resources from American Chemical Society.
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May 4th, 2021, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 Statista
Now schools and public libraries can utilize the power of Statista to find statistics, consumer survey results industry studies and Infographics from over 22500 sources on over 60000 topics on the internet’s leading statistics database.
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11:45 Wolters-Kluwer OVID
Access and delivery of information are at the core of your digital library. Ovid’s SilverPlatter platform offers the integrated, reliable, and easy-to-maintain solutions that are key to the successful delivery of information for your institution. Whether your operation involves a small network or a large number of remote users, SilverPlatter has the access tools and features to deliver fast, accurate results within an easily manageable environment.
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12:00 AWE Platinum Online
AWE Learning provides literacy-focused digital learning solutions for early learners to public libraries and our mission is to inspire an enthusiasm for learning by supporting school readiness and literacy in the community. AWE Learning’s Platinum Online brings more than 175 educational titles to your learners, ages 2 -12, with the ease of one login! Content spans all STREAM content areas (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art and Music, Math), plus Social Emotional Learning (SEL).
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12:15 Scrible
Over 50% of secondary students struggle with research and aren’t ready for college level writing. We’re changing that! Scrible Edu is the most advanced research/writing platform ever built. It lets students curate, annotate, manage and collaborate on articles online. It supports writing with citation capture, bibliography and outline editors and Google Docs and Microsoft Word integration. Students use powerful tools to scaffold and organize their work. Educators get real-time access to student work and progress monitoring that enables timely instructional feedback and support. Scrible is partnered and integrated with Google, Microsoft, Canvas, ClassLink and Clever.
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April 6th, 2021, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 SpringerNature
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11:45 LexisNexis
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12:00 Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library
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12:15 ProQuest One Business
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March 2nd, 2021, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 EBSCO Prenda Coding
EBSCO Information Services and Prenda have partnered to help transform libraries into community learning hubs by supporting computer science education for youth. Prenda Code Club through EBSCO now offers a self-paced learn-to-code software platform for ages 8-18. Coding languages, platforms, and devices incorporated in Prenda’s platform include Scratch, HTML, CSS, SQL, Javascript, Python, Sphero, Ozobot, Raspberry Pi, and Makey Makey. Whether you offer a self-paced program, use the software to run a code club, or both, libraries and media centers can enhance their age appropriate digital programming and support STEM and STEAM learning.
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11:45 Traliant Library Suite
Traliant offers regulatory online compliance training including preventing workplace discrimination, sexual harassment training, and diversity training. Traliant is revolutionizing the compliance training experience with modern, bite-sized episodes served in a news-style format. Courses immerse learners in interactive videos that let them choose alternate endings, while learning to handle difficult, real-world situations. By influencing behavior and culture, employees learn to act ethically, speak up and prevent harassment and discrimination, and promote a positive, respectful workplace.
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12:00 Newsbank Black Life in America
Black Life in America provides comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day. The information is sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications. Black Life in America can provide an easy-to-use online resource—updated daily—for every institution working toward social justice and racial equity.
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12:15 Nearpod Flocabulary
Flocabulary is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across subject areas like social emotional learning, global citizenship, English language learning and vocabulary building. Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and student creativity tools to supplement instruction and develop core literacy skills.
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December 1, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 Mackin ComicsPlus
ComicsPlus allows schools to bring the most popular format for reading to your schools. With the continuing explosion in popularity of comics, graphic novels, and manga as sources of reading and entertainment for kids, titles like Dog Man, New Kid, Guts, Avatar, My Hero Academia, March, and They Called us Enemy are flying off shelves in bookstores and libraries. They’re also receiving critical acclaim and winning major awards—including the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Newbery Medal.
Free trial: https://www.mackin.com/hq/digital/databases/database-free-trials/
Databases info: https://search.mackin.com/search-results/7721399
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11:45 Capstone PebbleGo Health
PebbleGo Health – new for 2020-2021 School Year Introduce your K-3 students to fundamental health, safety, and social-emotional concepts. With over 150 age-appropriate articles connected to state and national health standards—from body systems and safety to self-awareness and relationships and more—your students will never run out of new topics to spark curiosity about health, wellness, and safety. You’ll always have a safe and comprehensive health resource you can rely on to boost learning and engagement with all your students on cross-curricular subjects they want and need to know. PebbleGo Health is available in English and Spanish: easily add on to your existing PebbleGo subscription. Special features include: • Activities that provide students an opportunity to develop foundational health skills required to adopt, practice and maintain health-enhancing behaviors • Articles aligned to state and national health standards to help students learn functional health information and develop foundational health skills • Content promotes personal, family and community health. Includes a wide range of topics to help build positive social emotional skills: supports Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework Capstone’s PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next platforms have been combined and upgraded for the 2020-2021 School Year. A new, connected PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next experience makes it easier than ever to find nonfiction content at appropriate reading and interest levels for Grades K-5. Capstone is adding 300 new articles to your existing subscriptions in Fall 2020: 100 more in PebbleGo, 100 more in PebbleGo Next, 100 more in PebbleGo Spanish. Access matters: PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next are accessible to students of all abilities and are Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 AA compliant. PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next are fully mobile-responsive, ensuring students can access the database on smartphones, tablets, and computers, any device, anywhere. Capstone provides Free Remote Learning Resources, Lesson Plans and Activities, Promotional Content, Video Tutorials, Content Maps, Blog Posts, LMS Connections, regular Webinars hosted by Capstone’s National PebbleGo Specialists, and more. www.pebblego.com/health www.pebblegonext.com
PebbleGo Articles Lists: https://www.pebblego.com/resources/content-maps
For more information, contact Marty & Morey Dambekaln by phone at 262-628-1926 or by email at
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12:00 Springshare LibGuides products
We help libraries thrive in a digital-first world by empowering librarians to shine and provide amazing service to users. Curate resources and share knowledge, provide answers, engage your community, deepen relationships with users, analyze the use of library services – all with Springshare’s #librarianfirst software platform.
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12:30 Data Axle Reference Solutions
Reference Solutions (formerly RefUSA) offers access to 44 million current businesses in the United States for market research and sales, millions of historical and new businesses for understanding trends, as well as residential, consumer, and lifestyle listings to grow your business.
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October 6, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 Docuseek K-12 Collection
The Docuseek collection https://docuseek2.com/ includes award-winning films on sustainability, social justice, anthropology, STEAM, global studies, literature, and much much more! Learn how Docuseek can help you continue online learning with affordable streaming media that is appropriate for K-12 classrooms. Hear the best licensing options for your school and gain knowledge about the Docuseek streaming platform features, films, and tools to use for a successful school year! For a free 2 week trial please contact Julie at
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11:45 Joann Fabrics CreativeBug
Creativebug offers online video arts and crafts workshops and techniques. Learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, screen print, and more. For a free trial please see: https://www.creativebug.com/lib/creativebuglibrary and enter your email address in the Library Card Number section.
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12:00 InfoBase Feature Films in Education
The Feature Films for Education Collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes. Brought to you in partnership with Global Eagle, this outstanding collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more. View the PDF brochure here
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12:15 PowerNotes
PowerNotes: Maximizing your library resources. Improving digital reading, research, and writing processes. Learn more here: https://www.blog.powernotes.com/evaluation
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August 4, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 EBSCO ELI: Entrepreneurial Mindset Training Course
The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI) Entrepreneurial Mindset Training Course provides budding entrepreneurs with access to individuals like them who have turned innovative ideas into profitable businesses. Available through EBSCO and accessible from any device, this eight-module course enables prospective entrepreneurs to learn (at their own pace) the underlying beliefs and behaviors that empower ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things and achieve richer lives. View the information sheet here. Watch the recording.
11:45 FactCite Milestone Documents Online
Milestone Documents Online from FactCite. Take a quick tour of this affordable and accessible collection of primary source documents. Milestone Documents Online features:-1500 primary source documents from US and World History (all time periods and regions), with quizzes for many-Original commentary and analysis written by a named scholar for many significant documents-350 scholarly overviews, covering frequently researched topics, events, and issues, such as WWI, Trench Warfare, The Great Depression, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, Early Civilizations of the Americas, and more -Supplemental teaching material, such as Key Terms, Arguments, and Concepts, Short-answer Questions, Map Exercises, and Essay Questions. Watch the recording.
12:00 The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle.com is the Web site of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the number one source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The Chronicle Online, updated daily, includes News. Opinion & Ideas. Facts & Figures. Topics. Jobs. Advice. Forums. Events. Watch the recording.
12:15 AtoZdatabases
AtoZdatabases is the premier reference and marketing database marketed to Library, Academic, and Government institutions throughout the U.S. This simple, user-friendly, web-based solution provides details on businesses and households within the U.S. Watch the recording.
June 2, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
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11:30 AtoZdatabases
AtoZdatabases is the premier reference and marketing database marketed to Library, Academic, and Government institutions throughout the U.S. This simple, user-friendly, web-based solution provides details on businesses and households within the U.S.
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11:45 Gale Access Program
Empower users at all academic levels through your library with the Gale Access Program. Offer high-quality, authoritative, and unique database content at an affordable price to suit the needs of constrained library subscription budgets.
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12:00 ProQuest Nursing in Video
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12:30 FactCite
Milestone Documents Online from FactCite. Take a quick tour of this affordable and accessible collection of primary source documents. Milestone Documents Online features:-1500 primary source documents from US and World History (all time periods and regions), with quizzes for many-Original commentary and analysis written by a named scholar for many significant documents-350 scholarly overviews, covering frequently researched topics, events, and issues, such as WWI, Trench Warfare, The Great Depression, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, Early Civilizations of the Americas, and more -Supplemental teaching material, such as Key Terms, Arguments, and Concepts, Short-answer Questions, Map Exercises, and Essay Questions
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May 4, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 D&B Hoovers
Business Databases from printed directories dating back more than 100 years all the way up to today, have relied on ‘structured’ data: knowing the name of the business, their location and/or what the business does to begin a search. In an innovative twist on business reference D&B Hoovers gives users the ability to use ‘natural language’ to begin a search and connects to ‘unstructured’ data; delivering a deeper, more comprehensive set of results. Watch the recording.
11:45 First Research
First Research provides industry profiles covering over 900 industry segments. Updating on a quarterly basis, the industry profiles contain critical analysis, statistics and forecasts. Watch the recording.
12:00 LibraryH3lp
LibraryH3lp is a library chat software offering real-time chat, screen sharing, knowledge bases, email interactions. Subscribers can also offer their patrons texting contact, or even professional backup staffing for those hours when you don’t cover the desk. Watch the recording.
April 7, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 NewsBank
Access World News: Research Collection is an unparalleled collection for academic libraries, featuring thousands of U.S. and global news sources, most available online exclusively through NewsBank. Watch the recording.
11:45 Britannica
Britannica ImageQuest brings lesson plans, assignments and projects to life with over three million images from 62 leading collections…and growing!
The Bridgeman Art Gallery, Getty Images, the Science Photo Library, Ingram Publishing, the National Geographic Society and other trusted image sources have joined with Britannica to provide the best and broadest offering of curriculum-relevant imagery and clip art materials (infographics, signs and symbols, graphic concepts and cool vector illustrations), all rights-cleared for educational, non-commercial use. Watch the recording.
12:00 New York Times
The NYTimes.com Program for Public Libraries is a seamless and cost-effective way of providing direct, digital access to NYTimes.com, NYT mobile/tablet apps and our exclusive features, to your library patrons and community.
Patrons would have access to all of the features found on NYTimes.com, including all video, personalization features, and archive access dating back to 1851, with access being available for both onsite and remote use. Watch the recording.
March 3, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Libraries of all types gather usage data on their electronic resources. This data can be important in making purchase or renewal decisions, fund allocation and justifying the library’s importance. But the data can be difficult to gather and interpret. This Taco Tuesday Potluck Edition discussion was all about usage data.
February 4, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 Infobase
This webinar will take WiLS members on a guided tour of the new and improved Films On Demand platform, which recently launched with a fresh, new look, enhanced functionality, and a greatly improved user experience. We’ll shine a spotlight on all of the recent enhancements, including the improved top menu navigation, new featured series pages, and so much more! Watch the recording.
11:45 Association for Computing Machinery
Josh Horowitz, Digital Library & Advertising Sales Director for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will be discussing ACM OPEN: a new transformative Open Access (OA) model that allows for an institution’s corresponding authors to publish their research OA with ACM. Josh will discuss the model and how it was developed with a number of U.S. academic libraries. Watch the recording.
12:00 Newspaper Archive
NewspaperARCHIVE.com is one of the largest collections of historical and current newspaper archives containing content over 400 years from 32 different countries! We have been providing institutional access to many of the top libraries in the world for many years. We specialize in digitizing and microfilming newspapers for online use. At this time, our collection has almost 300 million images on our easy-to-use searchable database. Watch the recording.
12:15 EBSCO
Join this webinar to learn how Faculty Select can make OER selections seamless. Watch the recording.
January 7th, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
This Taco Tuesday Potluck Edition was all about the accessibility of electronic resources. We were joined by Meghan Haddad-Null from Recorded Books, Inc. to talk about the emphasis that their company has placed on accessibility of the resources they provide. Following Meghan’s presentation was a robust discussion about accessibility of e-resources.
December 3, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30 World Trade Press’ AtoZ Food America
AtoZ Food America™ is a single-source digital library reference that covers regional (6), state (50), and ethnic (35) cuisines for the entire country. AtoZ Food America™ also contains large-scale historical, ingredient, and reference modules of great use to cooks, culinary students, and historians. Watch the recording.
11:45 Backstage Library Works
This presentation will cover a brief overview of the Backstage services provided by two national offices in Provo, Utah, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Backstage core services include metadata services such as traditional cataloging, multi-format digitization, preservation microfilming, data clean-up for MARC and XML schemas, and on-site services for collection management such as inventory and weeding. Watch the recording.
12:00 Primal Pictures’ Primal Human Anatomy
Primal Pictures will present Primal’s digital anatomy & physiology to deliver enhanced student outcomes. View this short video. Watch the recording.
12:15 EBSCO’s Discovery Service
Are students and patrons confused on how to find all the great digital information you provide? How do you direct students and patrons to the right digital resource? Do you constantly battle Google in the fight against fake news and want a better way?
If so, say goodbye to frustrated users! For many users, conducting research is often similar to navigating an obstacle course. Those brave enough will face a gamut of challenges. These challenges may impede successful research outcomes and potentially undermine your library’s mission. EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) is an all-inclusive search solution that makes in-depth research easy for users. Video; free Onsite consultation and needs analysis. Watch the recording.
October 1, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
On Tuesday, October 1st at 11:30 am we held the LibGuides edition of Taco Tuesday Potluck! This was an opportunity to connect with other libraries using LibGuides to share best practices and practices that could be improved. In this open and informal conversation, libraries shared innovative things they are doing with their library pages and responded to audience questions.
September 3, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30-11:45 TrueSerials
How can Trueserials help you reach your patrons and make the most of your e-journal subscriptions? Join for this quick tour of the Trueserials hosted electronic resources management platform. Watch the recording.
11:45-12:00 FactCite
Join FactCite’s Susan Gall to learn how students succeed with FactCite Lincoln Library Online, named “Best Overall Reference K-12.” Hear success stories from Appleton, Muskego-Norway, Tomahawk, and more. Watch the recording.
12:00-12:15 Tales2Go
Join Gwen Mak and Lysa Kenney to learn about how Tales2go, a subscription audio book service for K12 schools can help you add a cost-effective listening component to your students’ reading instruction. The service provides instant, unlimited and simultaneous access to over 9,100 high-interest audiobook titles from leading publishers to use on desktops, laptops and mobile devices in the classroom and beyond. Tales2go is used in a growing number of schools and districts across the U.S., including Los Angeles USD, Berkeley USD, and Heartland AEA. Watch the recording.
12:15-12:30 PressbooksEDU
Is your institution supporting the creation or remixing of open educational resources (OER)? Learn about PressbooksEDU, an easy-to-use book formatting platform built with Open Educational Resources in mind that allows educators and faculty authors to easily create and remix open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks (without design staff), and enables universities to showcase the collection of OER and other publications produced by their institution. Watch the recording.
August 6, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30-11:45: ProQuest Academic Video Online
Join us to learn about Academic Video Online. ProQuest’s multidisciplinary video collection will allow you to never worry about overspending our video budget again. With one predictable subscription, get access to 67,000 streaming videos curated for the academic experience. From documentaries to training videos to Broadway performances, Academic Video Online has twice the content of any competitor – it’s far and away the industry’s most comprehensive multidisciplinary video solution. Your subscription includes access to an enhanced cinematic video interface, new virtual reality/360 video, and Build by Choice perpetual ownership credits. Watch the recording.
11:45-12:00: AVP Aviary
Chris Lacinak will provide an overview of Aviary, a next-generation audiovisual streaming platform from AVP that offers publishers granular access controls to provide intended users with search, navigation, and playback across audio and video archives, collections, and files, pinpointing search results with playback exactly where a search term is found on the audio or video timeline. Aviary can be found at https://aviaryplatform.com/. Watch the explainer video in Aviary at https://weareavp.aviaryplatform.com/r/hm52f7jz70. Read more and watch videos about Aviary by reviewing the How to Aviary and 99 Problems blog series at https://blog.weareavp.com/. Watch the recording.
12:00-12:30: Innovative Interfaces SkyRiver Bibliographic Utility
In this session, you will learn how SkyRiver provides high-quality MARC records that are easily accessed from Sierra or Polaris, with no limits on searches or downloads. You will see how SkyRiver can accommodate a variety of workflows – from single searches to batch searches, and how individual catalogers can personalize their own workstations and streamline their work with macro shortcuts. Watch the recording.
July 9th, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
This month’s Potluck featured Wisconsin users of Innovative Interface’s SkyRiver, a full-service bibliographic utility for cataloging. Learn about SkyRiver from those who are using and those who have considered using it. Watch the recording or view the slides.
June 4, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
11:30-11:45 Gale’s Small Business Builder Suite – Is it a goal of your library to support small business and entrepreneurship? If so, you won’t want to miss this session as we explore how the Gale Small Business Builder can help position the library as THE go-to resource for your business community. From ideation to fruition, this tool offers a step-by-step approach to starting and managing a business or nonprofit. Watch the recording.
11:45-12:00 BiblioBoard Creator – Hyper Local Community Publishing with Roy Serrao, Library Relations of BiblioBoard. History is yesterday. Learn how BiblioBoard Creator software and program support helps libraries develop a more fluid and modern approach to archiving and community engagement. Community engagement is at the heart of everything a public library does and we help public libraries excel at engaging their local community, local creators, and local community partners. Watch the recording.
12:00-12:15 AWE Learning is Back! Partnering to enhance 21st-century skills in your young patrons – AWE Learning partners with libraries to help meet the educational and cultural needs of the community by establishing a compelling vision around 21st-century skills. This partnership helps strengthen overall literacy and cognitive skills and is designed to help library leaders play a catalytic role in this key initiative. Watch the recording.
12:15-12:30 Credo’s Instruct: Health Sciences – As the health sciences continue to rank among the fastest growing occupations in America, Credo has created instructional content to help you meet the needs of your students in these fields. Instruct: Health Science provides librarians and faculty with the tools to teach invaluable foundational skills to students within the context of their discipline, freeing class time for active practice and high-impact learning. Topics covered include: Evidence Based Medicine, PICO/T method, Using Medical Databases, and more! Watch the recording.
May 6, 11:30 am – 12:30 am
Watch the full recording of the May 2019 Taco Tuesday Potluck Edition on interlibrary loan.
Even in an increasingly digital environment, resource sharing is still a vital part of the library ecosystem. There are a myriad of ways to manage interlibrary loan and the options can be confusing. We hope you will join us for a Share & Tell session about the systems and workflows that various member libraries use to provide ILL services to their patrons.
April 2, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Watch the full recording of the April 2019 Taco Tuesday or watch the individual segments below.
11:30-11:45: Coding and Compassion: A healthy and productive society and its citizens depend on the cultivation of social and emotional intelligence, and the development of technical knowledge and skills. Miriam Gilbert, Director, Rosen Digital, will preview Rosen’s rich Interactive Learning resources, with embedded instructional support: Spotlight on Social Emotional Learning, Grades 3-7; Spotlight on Kids can Code, Grades 3-7; and Spotlight on Coding and Computer, Grades 7-10. Trials available. Watch the recording.
11:45-12:00: Morningstar Educational Components: Fani Koutsovitis from Morningstar provides an overview of investment education content available in the Morningstar Investment Research Center. Learn about taking courses in the Investing Classroom and content that’s available to learn about Personal Finance, Retirement Planning, or Saving for College. Whether you’re a novice, an experienced investor or somewhere in-between, we can help you make better investing decisions with knowledge. Watch the recording.
12:00-12:15: Mackin: Sheri Omernik, Educational Consultant for Mackin Educational Resources, will provide a brief introduction to mackin.com to highlight some of the free support tools available to Wisconsin libraries. Mackin offers collection development support, product recommendations, and subscription services. In addition, Sheri will discuss makerspace products and strategies put the maker tools to work. Watch the recording.
12:15-12:30: Magazine Archive: Jaye Hess from EBSCO Information Services will present an exclusive offer on their Magazine Archives. Members stand to benefit from great savings on deep archives of the nation’s most important magazines. Watch the recording.
MARCH 5, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Watch the full Taco Tuesday Potluck presentation from March 2019.
Taco Tuesday: Potluck Edition!
Ebooks and digital audiobooks are becoming increasingly commonplace in schools across Wisconsin. Making an investment in ebooks is just the first step in building a robust digital library. Figuring out where digital books fit in the lifecycle of learning is something we are all curious about. We hope you will join us for a Share & Tell session about how you and other media specialists are integrating ebooks into your schools.
FEBRUARY 5, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Watch the full Taco Tuesday presentation from February 2019.
11:30-11:45: Gale Support Site and WiLS Promotion with Chris Gordon: Chris will share information about the Gale Support Site and then showcase the current promotion via WiLS.
11:45-12:00: Demco Makerspaces Website with Kurt Zastrow: Kurt will introduce the Demco Makerspace Solution and highlight popular tools and resources, including MakerHub, a new site for maker projects.
12:00-12:15: HeinOnline Academic with Lauren Mattiuzzo: The HeinOnline Academic package was specifically created so universities may replace existing resources for a fraction of the cost. The academic research package features more than 100 million pages of content and covers more than 100 subject areas. With more historical content than any other database, HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Unveil the history of America with the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, equipped with unique tools to help users quickly locate specific content.
12:15-12:30: Sage’s Lean Library with Robert Lisiecki: The Lean Library browser extension is a browser plugin for users of an academic or research library. It makes library services available right in the users’ workflow – where and when they are needed. Lean Library is committed to providing a secure, private and convenient tool for libraries and their users.
