eLibrary
TUTORIAL

The eLibrary database covers a broad selection of periodical and digital media content geared to K-12 students; material and answers from magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, web links and audio/video titles are retrievable via a user-friendly search interface. There are also many special features, products and help screens useful to searchers, teachers and librarians. In addition to the alphabetic listing under All Databases, eLibrary may also be located in the Homework Help, Magazines & Newspapers, and Maps categories under the Reference Databases link on the TRL Homepage and the Menus, Staff link on the TRL Intranet.

The first screen allows both simple and advanced search functions in the selected media resources, as well as top menu bar tab links to the many special features and products:

eLibrary has a topic/subject search and a topic tree list of links you can browse; clicking on the TOPIC tab along the top menu bar bring up the following screen:

The Spotlight topic (which changes) was October during the time this tutorial was created. The illustration below depicts the results of clicking on the October link:

The REFERENCE DESK tab makes it possible to look up a word and retrieve results from sources such as dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias and almanacs. You have two ways to access the Reference Desk: if you have JavaScript enabled on your computer, highlighting a word or phrase anywhere in eLibrary and clicking on the REFERENCE DESK tab will take you straight to the Reference Desk results for that word or phrase; the other option is to click on the REFERENCE DESK tab along the top menu.

Say you need to find material on incunabula, but you are not certain of the exact meaning and use. You can actually be in an eLibrary search for incunabula and find out:

you will then see

eLibrary has many interesting and useful features. It is always good to start with the Help screens and the additional links provided to make the best use of the database.

Many great resources and guides are available by clicking on the link to the ProQuest K-12 Website link on the above page.

After clicking on the link above for eLibrary®, a very good beginning resource is the eLibrary Quick Start Guide, but be sure to explore any other linked guides of interest to you. On the following screen, scroll down to the “eLibrary Training & Support” heading (or click on the training and support link) and click on the second link (eLibrary Quick Start Guide):