eLibrary Canada & CE Update 
March 2010 | Women's History Essentials & More
March is Women's History Month. Our eLibrary Canada editors have worked overtime to provide you and your students with access to a fresh set of Essential Pages to spur research of famous women in history, and the top issues facing women today.
Plus, a pair of new videos shine a light on eLibrary's integrated instructional support tools and explain how your subscription was designed from the ground up for differentiation.
Your students learn in different ways, and eLibrary helps them all make the grade!
As always, don't miss our full set of related resources at proquestk12.com, our usage-boosting in-school kit, free Web training, lesson-rich newsletters, videos, and more.
eLibrary Essential Pages @ Women's Themes
eLibrary's Essential Pages represent best-of articles and multimedia content culled from the 120 million documents in our expansive vault.
Forget the open web and Google. Every Essential Page contains hand-selected materials that have been organized by skilled editors, saving research time and assures that only quality, authoritative information is used for reports, slideshow presentations, and other common assignments. Essential Pages appear at the top of the results lists for common search queries.
To celebrate Women's History Month, our editors are eager to highlight several dozen of the more than 2,000 Essential Pages found in eLibrary pertaining to famous women and the struggle for women's equality worldwide. Login to your eLibrary subscription (or get a trial) then click a link below:
General Essential PagesAll 2,000+ Essential Pages in eLibrary can be browsed directly by clicking the Publications tab, clicking the letter P, then selecting ProQuest Essentials from the list.
Women's Rights
Feminism
Suffrage Movement
African American Suffragists
Bloomers
League of Women Voters
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Women & Religion
Women Inventors
Famous Feminists
Abigail Adams
Alice Paul
Betty Friedan
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Emmeline Pankhurst
Gertrude Stein
Gloria Steinem
Lucretia Mott
Lucy Stone
Margaret Sanger
Mary Wollstonecraft
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Famous Women
Amelia Earhart
Betsy Ross
Billie Jean King
Clara Barton
Cleopatra
Condoleezza Rice
Coretta Scott King
Dorothea Dix
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Blackwell
Eva Peron
Joan of Arc
Julia Ward Howe
Madame C. J. Walker
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Thatcher
Marie Curie
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Cassatt
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary Shelley
Mary Walker
Phillis Wheatley
Phyllis Schlafly
Pocahontas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sacagawea
Sandra Day O'Connor
History & Mythology
Amazons
Civil War Women
Triangle Fire
Flappers
Rosie the Riveter
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)
Women's Army Corps
Women's Issues
Abortion
Domestic Violence
Eating Disorders
Equal Rights Amendment
Other Essentials
Women's National Basketball Association
Mother's Day
Haiti & Chile: CultureGrams in Focus
CultureGrams is here to help students learn more about Haiti and Chile.
What challenges continue to face its peoples as they recover from recent earthquakes?
View our full 2010 country reports (PDF open access) then watch a short slideshow of "Haiti Before the Quake."
Spring Videos—Instructional Support & Differentiation
Each month, our SIRS team scours the Internet for top-quality websites for classrooms and libraries. Dive into this month's selections: Women in History, Children's Lit, da Vinci.
More Women's History Lessons @ History Happenings
History Happenings is another no-cost ProQuest email publication, one that puts current events into historical context.
The current issue (get your free copy) contains hands-on lesson plans that employ Historical Newspapers, History Study Center, SIRS Decades, and World Conflicts Today (free trials) to power learning for students in middle through high school and beyond.
ProQuest's SIIA 2010 CODiE Awards Finalists
Since 1986, the SIIA CODiE Awards have been the leading honor in recognizing the software and information industry's finest products and services. Every year SIIA peer reviews thousands of entrants across three major categories: Content, Education, and Software.
We're proud to announce that three ProQuest services are finalists in the Education category!
- eLibrary—Best Education Reference or Search Service
- RefMobile—Best Education Solution for Mobile or Hand-held Device
- SIRS Issues Researcher—Best Social Studies Instructional Solution (second year as a Finalist)
Finalists will be judged in a second round of voting over the next two months, with winners announced in May. (Finalist listing.)
Enroll & Save: Vendor of Choice Program
At ProQuest, we know that many of our customers are facing budget cuts (ProQuest CEO message). With each passing month, it's becoming more difficult to afford all of the online research resources you would like to provide to your students.
In response, we've put a program in place to help you during these hard times. ProQuest's new Vendor of Choice program has already helped schools just like yours save thousands of dollars. Find out more and enroll today.
