Kentucky Virtual Library

11/23/2022

KYVL, as part of state government, will be closed Thursday and Friday this week, 24 and 25 November. We'll see you next week!

11/23/2022

Database Usage Statistics are posted for July through October, FY2022-23.

You can find them here
https://bit.ly/KYVLstats

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives - Kentucky Public Libraries Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

11/17/2022

New theme in NoveList: Dark academia | NoveList

Almost forgot to share this news! New theme in NoveList called "dark academia" for fiction for teens and adults. Find your favorite "dark academia" music playlist and find some title recommendations in NoveList.

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL) KDLA Library Development Branch

New theme in NoveList: Dark academia Elizabeth Coleman 15 November 2022 Do you find yourself drawn to dusty archives? Or daydream about pursuing esoteric studies? Are you, perhaps, into all things tweed? If you can say yes to any of these, you might be a fan of Dark academia. Dark academia is curren...

11/17/2022

Our subscription to EBSCO has been updated recently. You'll find these materials and practice tests updated or added. Create an account in any module. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives - Kentucky Public Libraries Kentucky Department of Education Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL) https://kyvl.org/learningexpress

10/14/2022

Announcing updated Character Identity tags | NoveList

NoveList is expanding character tags. Take a look.

"Here at NoveList, we are in the process of updating our diversity appeal terminology, supplementing the current broad and somewhat vague terms (i.e., culturally diverse, religiously diverse, ability diverse, and LGBTQIA diverse) with more specific and meaningful access points. In recent conversations, the overwhelming feedback we’ve gotten about these terms is the importance of specificity. Readers want to find books with characters that represent their identity or a particular perspective that they may want to explore.

Motivated by what we heard from both our staff and customers, we resolved to do better. We’ve always had a variety of very specific subject headings in NoveList, so our goal in replacing the overly broad terms has been to streamline our more specific identity-related headings. This work will make it so that users can easily find them and more reliably bring in books featuring historically marginalized characters."

An easier way to find underrepresented characters.

09/26/2022

KYVL is at the KDE Continuous Improvement Summit today and tomorrow.

09/02/2022

KYVL will be closed Monday, Sept 5th, in observance of Labor Day.

08/24/2022

The variety of book discussion kits KDLA has available is incredible! You can request them for your school activities through your public library. Take a look.

KY teachers – did you know KDLA has youth book discussion kits that can be checked out for use in your classroom? Each kit includes up to 20 copies of the book, an audiobook if available, and a discussion guide. Some kits include copies in large print and Spanish. Kits must be requested through your local public library. Find more information here - https://buff.ly/3OL5U4z

08/24/2022

Timeline photos

Thompson to kick off statewide tour in Louisville, Elizabethtown, Brandenburg; the tour will bring together employers, campuses & community leaders to address workforce shortages.
Learn more: http://ow.ly/Yo6q50KqyAO.

08/03/2022

New passwords are in place! Any of our members with email domains we have on file can use the Request Password form. https://kyvl.org/pw

Public libraries - if you have an email that is unique, such as hccpl.org, you can use the form. If it's something like srtc.com or icloud.com or gmail.com, you will need to contact us please.

SSO districts - you can still use this & give the login to families. Students & staff will use their school email & password. And if you are not SSO yet, get in touch [email protected]

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)



Kygodigital

07/26/2022

Greetings!

As folks are coming back and getting in the mindset for school to start, be thinking about single sign-on to too.

We do usually issue passwords in July but we are pushing hard to get our member school districts to set up single sign-on. Once it is set up, students and everyone in the district will use their school email and password to sign into KYVL.org when away from the school network.

Please pass on this information to your CIO or DTC. Takes about 5 minutes on each end. We currently have about 30 districts set up. It goes pretty smoothly. We can do Google and Microsoft SSO.

Share this short guide with your DTC on how to pull the metadata we need to set up . https://kyvl.libwizard.com/f/sso

We also offer free training. I could come down on a district PD day and do 3 sessions for elementary, middle and high teachers. We can also set up online training.

One of the great things about is that all the content can be linked to and the links put wherever they are needed for students, faculty, etc. We have content for professional interests as well as students.

Email us if you have questions. [email protected]

07/05/2022

Looking for journals and magazines? We've got many! This is just a snip from a workshop later this summer showing how to link to resources. This is just a sample of what's in KYVL collections.

07/01/2022

KYVL will be closed Monday, July 4th.

07/01/2022

SSO w/MS & Google is here for public school districts. A DTC or CIO can watch this tutorial and send us the file needed. https://kyvl.libwizard.com/f/sso

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)
Kentucky Department of Education

07/01/2022

Now is the time for innovation in higher education

Kentucky Virtual Library is part of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Sharing here so you know the wonderful environment we work in and the mission of the council.

Aaron Thompson In his famous 1961 “moon shot” speech, President John F. Kennedy told Congress, “Now it is time to take longer strides, time for a great new American enterprise, time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways

06/14/2022

Enjoying visits with folks from in the vendor showcase at . Come visit Enid for some swag and chocolate, then talk about how we can help integrate KYVL into the classroom.

06/07/2022

Did you know we are part of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education? Check out the first episode of the Higher Education Matters podcast.

Enjoying some downtime this weekend? Check out our new podcast! Episode 1 features CPE President Aaron Thompson. You can find us on your preferred podcast platform - and don't forget to subscribe to get the latest episodes!
(Can't find us? Listen on our website: http://cpe.ky.gov/news/podcasts.html.)

06/07/2022

KYVL is part of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Check out this Higher Education Matters podcast.

Episode 2 is out, the topics are & , and the guests are CPE's Dawn Offutt & WKU's Martha Sales. Check us out on most podcast platforms! (Can't find us? Listen on our website: http://cpe.ky.gov/news/podcasts.html.)

06/07/2022

If you didn't know, KYVL is part of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. We'll be sharing the posts about the Higher Education Matters podcast.

Available now: Episode 3 - Higher Education's Return on Investment, featuring Brigitte Blom and Grace Dai. Check it out on your favorite platform or on the CPE website: http://cpe.ky.gov/news/podcasts.html.

Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence

06/03/2022

Announcing improved subject headings relating to Indigenous cultures | NoveList

Wonderful news about NoveList!

"We are excited to share that NoveList is now wrapping up a huge project to change more than 2,300 subject headings relating to Indigenous peoples and cultures of the Americas."

Announcing improved subject headings relating to Indigenous cultures Clay Boyer 3 June 2022 What if we told you that NoveList has been making changes to some of its subject headings — you know, those library concept thingies that we use to describe what books are about. Not too exciting, right? Wh...

06/01/2022

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The word is out! School email addresses can be used to login to KYVL!

KY public school districts that are KYVL members can set up SSO with Google SAML.

Your DTC or someone in the IT dept will need to set it up for your district. Find instructions for the Google setup at https://t.co/ffy8gRCVCL

Questions, email [email protected]

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

Kentucky Department of Education

05/27/2022

KYVL, as part of state government, will be closed Monday.

05/27/2022

Looking for a summer read for middle schoolers?

"The Tiger Rising" by Kate DiCamillo is now available in TeenBookCloud. And a movie was released earlier this year. Ask us about direct linking to the book online.

TeenBookCloud is here https://kyvl.org/tbc

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)



KDLA Library Development Branch

05/24/2022

Stranger Reads for Season 4 | NoveList

Check out these read-alikes for the Netflix hit "Stranger Things".

"Stranger Reads for Season 4
We’re back with our favorite roller-skating, spring-breaking, monster-killing teens and tweens and grown-ups (plus some new characters!), now spread across multiple locations and dimensions (cue Journey’s "Separate Ways").
So what to recommend to these Stranger Things now battling evil in 1986? We've got a list for you. 📚"

Stranger Reads for Season 4 Autumn Winters | Molly Wyand 24 May 2022 If you’re stateside this weekend you’re likely in for some hotdogs (or notdogs for our plant-based friends), parades, BBQs, the unofficial kickoff to summer, and most importantly... the first installment of Stranger Things Seas...

05/19/2022

Taking the Praxis soon? We have EBSCO's Learning Express to help with your studies. There are practice tests and materials in the Career Preparation center/module. https://kyvl.org/cp

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

05/06/2022

EBSCO's Explora is getting a makeover with added enhancements! New user experience releases in July, with K12 first and then public libraries, later in the summer. Learn more here https://bit.ly/3MWvvHh

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

KDLA Library Development Branch

04/28/2022

ProQuest has announced enhancements to Search, Results, and Document Pages. Read about the updates here: https://bit.ly/3kjKSx9

KY Department for Libraries and Archives

04/27/2022

Announcing new genre: Book Club Best Bets | NoveList

How exciting! Book Club Best Bets is a new genre search in NoveList.

KDLA Library Development Branch

Announcing new genre: Book Club Best Bets Halle Eisenman 27 April 2022 We know it can be hard to sift through the thousands of titles published each year to identify those books that are going to prompt lively and engaged discussions in your library’s book clubs. Last year I shared a collection of...

04/07/2022

Spring break? Read an eBook with your family from one of our three K-12 collections.

TumbleBookLibrary https://kyvl.org/tblibrary
TeenBookCloud https://kyvl.org/tbc
EBSCO K-8 eBook Collection https://kyvl.org/ekc

Get in touch with questions! [email protected]

04/06/2022

Updates and upgrades coming to from EBSCO, likely late April. The update will be automatic. Read about the details here: https://bit.ly/35JD7N9

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives - Kentucky Public Libraries

03/30/2022

Talking to Susan Young at Owen County High School in the Owen County High School Library Media Center about KYVL usage stats. Searches and full text views/downloads this year will no doubt be much higher than last year.

"Yes, this makes me so happy! I work hard to promote to students and teachers. It's a wonderful resource."

KYVL is glad to have Owen County Schools in our membership and showing strong usage.

03/18/2022

The ACT is April 2nd. Start your test prep now - a little each day. Prepare with the Admissions Test Prep center from EBSCO's LearningExpress, save your progress and come back to it. Study guides in PDF too - put them on your phone, Chromebook.

Find it here: https://kyvl.org/catp

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

03/07/2022

Come see Enid at the KySTE Conference talk about the KAS for Library Media standards, where KYVL fits in, and how to direct link to content in KYVL resources. Thursday, 2pm in Segell, East Tower, 3rd floor.

Kentucky Society for Technology in Education

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

Kygodigital

03/07/2022

It's in Kentucky! Today we have the "Basics of Creative Commons licensing in Open Education" lunch & learn with Naulayne Enders.

Learn more at https://kyvl.org/affordablelearningky



Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education

Kentucky Christian University

03/04/2022

The Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) is the newest partner in the University Press of Kentucky’s Open Access Initiative (UPK OAI), an initiative to make resources freely available to citizens of the commonwealth.

As a result of this partnership, students and patrons of Kentucky Virtual Library participating institutions will now have free and unlimited access to more than 1,300 books published by University Press of Kentucky. Most UPK OAI titles have been in print five years or longer.

Read more in the press release. https://bit.ly/3ttgCnJ

Access the collection at KYVL.org/upressky

KYVL appreciates the opportunity to partner with UPK to add this valuable resource for KYVL libraries and Kentuckians across the Commonwealth. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions.

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives - Kentucky Public Libraries

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

University Press

Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education

03/02/2022

Historic Louisville library puts African American archives online

Great article about the work of the Western Library branch of Louisville Free Public Library digitizing their African American archives. https://bit.ly/3HyLlEL

You can find Rev. Blue's papers here in the
Kentucky Digital Library hosted by KYVL https://kdl.kyvl.org/digital/collection/lfpl-revblue/search

Louisville Free Public Library

About 1% of Western Library's collection is online, so far.

03/02/2022

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints helps you easily navigate curated content on nearly 500 popular and trending issues. Develop informed, authoritative perspectives on contemporary issues.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints offers over 20,000 pro/con viewpoints to help you draw your own valid conclusions. A Multi-media, mobile-friendly database that brings together authoritative content on political and social issues, including:
• major coverage in the New York Times, Newsweek, and more;
• topic overviews and expert analyses;
• video and audio clips;
• interactive maps focusing on trends; and
• charts and graphs.

Access now it at https://kyvl.org/ovic

02/28/2022

We are featuring ProQuest's Alt-Press Watch database today. Alt-Press Watch provides an alternative to mainstream media with diverse views and distinct voices. Find it here: https://kyvl.org/apw

From "Ability" magazine to "Braille Forum," and "American Conservative" to the "Social Justice" journal, to local news and regional reporting, there are many journals, magazines and newspapers offering differing perspectives on current events and a variety of other issues.

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

Kentucky State Library

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives - Kentucky Public Libraries

02/24/2022

Story Time! Sharing a statement from Jennifer Cowan from Pulaski County Schools.

"I just finished a little presentation with a class showing them how to search on KYVL and they were floored! They loved it!

We used Britannica for a basic search of countries. They are each creating a presentation of different countries for their history class. They loved that they had information, pictures and videos all in one place. Then I showed them how it cited the source for them, and one student said "WOW!" They are mostly 9th graders. Only two said they had ever used KYVL before."

Way to go Jennifer for sharing KYVL resources with these students! KYVL resources will be there for them as they continue high school and beyond, in a KY public library, their KY college or university...
Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

02/17/2022

Check out ProQuest's Career & Technical Education database! 700 trade/industry journals in full text, focused on CTE interests.

Are you looking for articles on preventing contact fatigue & spalling?

Interested in what's happening in the hospitality industry?

Curious about the latest innovations in digital arts?

Want to read Accounting Today or Fire Protection Engineering?

Log in with your KYVL ID & password. Ask your local Kentucky public library, university or school district about access.

https://kyvl.org/cte

Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL)

Kentucky State Library

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives - Kentucky Public Libraries