With few exceptions Cubberley Education Library looks much today as it did when it opened in 1938. (Photos from when the School of Education building opened are available on Flickr and on our website.)

You have a unique opportunity to help us shape what it will look like after the seismic retrofit scheduled for next summer. Please let us know what you think by completing this brief survey (ed. The survey is now closed. Thanks to all who participated!). The survey should only take a few minutes and will mean a great deal for the future of SUSE.

For a week there will be a daily drawing for a $5 MoonBeans or Jamba Juice card –your choice. Please take the time to help us by filling out the survey.

Questions? Ask us.

Thanks for your time!

We’ve scanned in some photos of the School of Education building from the 1938 book, New Building of the School of Education and a History of the Work in Education, 1891-1938, published by the Stanford University Press.

Take a look at how things have (or haven’t) changed in 70 years in this Flickr photo set.

We’ve posted several new RefWorks Tutorials on the Cubberley website. RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool, similar to EndNote or Zotero, that is available to any Stanford affiliate for free. Our tutorials cover:

• Creating a Free RefWorks Account (2:26, 3.4MB)
• Exporting Records from ERIC to RefWorks (3:37, 5.1MB)
• Exporting Records from Socrates to RefWorks (2:43, 4.2MB)
• Managing and Editing Records within RefWorks (2:33, 3.9MB)
• Creating a Bibliography (0:58, 944KB)
• Using the Write-N-Cite Plugin (4:11, 3.9MB)

Check them out and let us know what you think!

We’ve moved the Cubberley blog to a different server. Please update your bookmarks to http://www.stanford.edu/group/cubberley/blog/. We’ve got the redirects working, but there’s some funkiness with the RSS feeds, so you might want to update your feed URLs for RSS .92, RSS 2.0, and Atom. Give us a shout if you notice any problems.

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality is publishing a new journal called Pathways, a magazine on poverty, inequality, and social policy.  The first issue features remarks from Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards on the question of “A New War on Poverty?”  You can subscribe for free and/or download a pdf of the issue.  To learn more about the Center go to inequality.com.

We’ve added new book pages to each of the major STEP pages and Resource Topic pages.  You can check them to see what we’ve added recently in each of these areas.  You can also use the RSS link to stay up-to-date.  If you need help setting up an RSS reader, let us know.

Jay Matthews of the Washington Post has published his Favorite Education Blogs of 2008. Check them out and see what you think.

Cubberley’s own John Bickar has an article entitled “Making Field Trips Podtastic!” in the latest (March/April 2008) issue of Learning & Leading with Technology on pp. 18-21. Written with two other graduates of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, this article describes “a wireless, hand-held field trip” to the Boston Museum of Science that they designed. “By supplementing the podcast with the capabilities of the handheld computer, students can increase their interaction, enhance their engagement, and customize their learning experiences at the museum.” Learn more about this research by reading the article. Learning & Leading with Technology is shelved in the Main Reading Room of Cubberley Library and check out the video John made of the project.

We have access to Cultural Studies of Science Education, an online journal from Springer. Here is how the first issue in 2006 introduced it:

“We are pleased to introduce with this volume the inaugural issue of a new journal, Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE), which was designed to provide new perspectives and new approaches to science education. In many ways, this new journal departs from the trodden paths in our discipline. CSSE is unique in focusing on the publication of scholarly articles that employ social and cultural perspectives as foundations for research and other scholarly activities in science education and studies of science. The journal encourages empirical and non-empirical research that explores science and science education as forms of culture, enacted in a variety of fields that are formally and informally constituted. The editors seek to publish cutting edge scholarship to provide unique perspectives to ongoing problems associated with studies of science and science education and appropriate methodological advances that are salient to scholarly activities in these fields.”

LibX is a Firefox plugin that helps you conduct your research more quickly and efficiently. It features:

• Socrates author, title, keyword (and more) searches from the toolbar
• Embedded links on sites like Amazon and NY Time Book Review to Socrates
• Drag-and-drop citations onto a “magic button”, that will then pull up the article or book for you from Stanford-accessible database(s)
• Right-click selected sites to “reload via EZProxy” - no more setting up one browser for proxy browsing!

Although LibX may not change your life, it does have the potential to make your research dramatically faster and more productive. We have created a QuickStart Guide for you on the Cubberley website.