Master Popular Software with Learning Express

Wisconsin residents can now access LearningExpress “Popular Software Tutorials.” These are self-paced online tutorials on the most commonly used applications including Microsoft

Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Outlook, and more...

The tutorials, available for basic to advanced levels, include fully interactive multimedia; sound, animation and visual demonstrations, along with quizzes and hands-on practice lab simulations.

Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) purchased the tutorials using funds awarded through a Library Services and Technology Act grant. To make the materials easy for patrons and librarians to find and use, they’ve been integrated with the LearningExpress Library available on the BadgerLink website: (http://www.badgerlink.net).

Technical support will be provided by Resources for Libraries & Lifelong Learning’s BadgerLink Technical Support Team. Contact information for support can be found here.

--from Channel Weekly

Badgerlunch Spring Training : Health Resources in Badgerlink

Thursdays 12-12:45 April – May 2013

BadgerLink is available to ALL Wisconsin residents at http://www.badgerlink.net/ 
Links on the Affinity Library Intranet site.     
Learn to use these FREE health resources over lunch with these April webinars.

4.4 AHFS Consumer Medication Information and Consumer Health Complete
AHFS provides education on medications for patients including information in Spanish.
Consumer Health Complete provides consumer health content, covering all areas of health.
Click Here To Join

4.11 Health Source: Consumer and Nursing/Academic Editions
Consumer Edition is a collection of consumer health information, including full text, consumer health magazines on many health topics.
Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Click Here To Join

4.18 MEDLINE
An authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Click Here To Join

4.25 Encyclopædia Britannica
A reference site synthesizing images, video, editorially reviewed websites, and the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Click Here To Join

5.2 PubMed
Brought to you by the US National Library of Medicine, PubMed has more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Click Here To Join

More information including a FAQ with technical info.  Registration not required.
*  Can’t make the live sessions? All sessions will be archived for later viewing.
*  Need a computer? Stop by the MMC Library computer lab to sit in on a session.
*  Need help with any of these databases, ask Your Librarian, Michele Matucheski.

BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Division for Libraries and Technology. The project is funded through the Wisconsin Universal Service Fund with partial support provided by the Library Services and Technology Act using funds received from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Badgerlink on the Radio!

BadgerLink staff have been working to get the word out about BadgerLink’s terrific information resources to a larger audience. Starting this month radio listeners around Wisconsin will hear ads on popular radio stations for BadgerLink. These ads were created by the marketing team at EBSCO in cooperation with the staff of Wisconsin's Reference and Loan Library, as part of the company’s package of services. The spot, although created by EBSCO, discusses ALL the information resources and not only those provided by EBSCO. The spot will initially run for the next few weeks.

For a preview go to: http://www.ebscohost.com/custom/uploads/topicFile-363.mp3 .

The ads will appear on the following Fox Valley radio stations:

Station Name City Station Type Radio Frequency

WAPL-FM Appleton Album Oriented Rock 105.7
WIXX-FM Appleton Contemporary Hit Radio 101
WNCY-FM Appleton Country 100.3

WAPL-FM Green Bay Album Oriented Rock 105.7
WIXX-FM Green Bay Contemporary Hit Radio 101
WNCY-FM Green Bay Country 100.3

Go to the Affinity Library Services website to find a link to BadgerLink.

--Adapted from Channel Weekly

Consumer Health Complete (Badgerlink*)

Since the recent updates and upgrades in Badgerlink, we as Wisconsin-ites now have “free” access to a new tool : Consumer Health Complete (CHC).

Consumer Health Complete offers comprehensive consumer-oriented health information, including
· Full-text reference books like :
o AMA Complete Medical Encyclopedia
o Complete Guide to Prescription and Non-prescription Drugs
o Cornell Illustrated Encyclopedia of Health
o Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and many more …
· Evidence-based practice reports
· Fact-sheets and handouts
· Video animations
· Articles, and more.

Watch an introductory tutorial about Consumer Health Complete.

Where to find it on the Library Pages :
Affinity Intranet > Library > Most Popular Links > Consumer Health Complete
Or
Library > Find Patient Education Handouts > Consumer Health Complete



* Badgerlink is a project of the Department of Public Instruction’s Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning for the citizens of Wisconsin. Funding is provided through the Public Service Commission Universal Service Fund. Try it : Full-text access from work, school, or home!