From: Michael Lissack [mailto:
lissack@lissack.com]
With more than 400,000 full text copyright cleared academic journal
articles, this tool has to be tried to be believed. It is always free for
faculty members.
Learner's Library (http://learnerslibrary.com) provides college students and
faculty with efficient access to high quality educational materials via the
Internet - for coursepacks and for research. The service, now in place at
more than 500 colleges nationwide, and endorsed by the Library Journal, can
help students with research and save them money.
Why the Learner's Library? The Learner's Library helps to bring the most
relevant library resources to the student 24/7 in an easy to use easy to
access tool set. It allows students and faculty to make use of full text
copyright cleared material --backstopped by a citation checker to ensure
that accidental plagiarism does not happen. Faculty can make better use of
their time -- and keep course content more current -- by building their
coursepacks in the Learner's Library. The high quality academic journals in
the Learner's Library database provide for more concise and better focused
search, even for savvy web users. Time, money and paper will all be saved -
from better searches, lower priced coursepacks and from the ability to only
print what is needed. On December 1, the Learner's Library will also include
"live help" - 24/7 chat access to a reference librarian to assist with
queries.The Learner's Library offers 24/7 access to a great library, a
research librarian, and a research assistant at a price attractive to
institutions and their students.
Faculty use the Learner's Library to build and offer coursepacks
(assemblages of outside readings), while students use the Learner's Library
to read the coursepack material and for doing research. These virtual
coursepacks are fully copyright cleared for reading, copying, and printing
without the payment of additional fees based on usage. The virtual
coursepack has flexibility which allows for a more individualized
educational experience. Faculty can change the coursepack mid-semester on
the fly. Students can extend the coursepack with notes and their own
recommended readings. Users can recommend research materials for use in
preparing class assignments. Faculty have access to usage reports telling
them which students are actually doing the required readings. Coursepacks
prepared with the Learner's Library cost $15 each regardless of size or
usage. This can save students $25-$50 or more per class.
To try the service
please go to:
http://www.learnerslibrary.com
user id "harvard" password "student"
Faculty can use the service for free. Just click on "join" and then
"professor join".
For further information please contact Michael Lissack (
lissack@lissack.com)
at 239-254-9648
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Michael Lissack, CEO
Knowledge Ventures
2338 Immokalee Rd #292
Naples FL 34110-1445
phone 239-254-9648 fax 254-9649
for more information please visit: http://www.learnerslibrary.com