New York Archives Jr! is a companion publication to New York Archives magazine for grades 4-8. Each issue features one article from New York Archives magazine rewritten at an upper elementary level, community connections, related facts, and learning activities focused on primary source analysis.
Free classroom sets of the Spring 2024 issue and past issues of New York Archives Jr! are available to all teachers throughout NYS by completing this form.
For more information on New York State Archives Jr! please visit the Consider the Source webpage.
Please contact the NYS Archives at 518-473-7091 or via email at archedu@nysed.gov if you have any questions.

Kid's Discover NY History Units of Study FREE for rest of school year

New York: Early History of the Empire State

New York: Establishing the Empire State

As native New Yorkers, these resources were so cool to develop with our Editorial Team, and Ted and I could not be more proud of how they turned out.

We've made both of these Units of study entirely free for the remainder of the school year, with no account required to view. So please feel free to pass along and give a heads up to all of your component districts, even if they're not current subscribers.

Let us know if you have any questions or receive any feedback, thanks!

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Alec Grotenstein

Director, Operations & Marketing

Children's Book Week Resources

Is your library celebrating Children’s Book Week this year from May 6-12? Access many free resources to promote the event, including an official poster in English and Spanish by award winning illustrator and author, Sophie Blackall, promotional tools and materials, bookmarks and activities, and a NEW Book Week jingle!

Wishing you many successful library events celebrating No Rules.Just Read in 2024.

Sharon B. Phillips

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Library Development Specialist/Youth Services

New York State Library

Cultural Education Center

Albany, NY 12230

Page-Turning Picture Books

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Abdo Reference Library Free Trial

I want to share an exciting new offer!! ABDO is sharing their entire digital Reference Library as an annual subscription. By subscribing to ABDO Reference Online, you can get unlimited, simultaneous, multi-user access to all 62 ABDO Reference eBook titles for just $195 per year, per building.

Abdo Reference engages readers with research through high-interest products that naturally build academic skills. Explore the Reference Library with a Free Trial through May 15th, 2024. You can easily access the Reference Library through your library catalog, learning management system (LMS), or any smart device.

Share this free trial with teachers and students by adding it to your library catalogue or Learning management System!

CLICK HERE for directions!

Let me know if you want more details or a quote!

~ Sara

Gale Onefile: High School

Gale OneFile: High School Edition is a database of periodicals. It is a subset of Gale: Academic OneFile and Gale: General OneFile. Gale pulled out the periodical content most applicable to High School Students for easier exploration.

Because you’ve had Gale: Academic OneFile and General OneFile for the past 20+ years via NOVEL, the content in OneFile High School has always been available. It’s just now that it’s being pulled out to search the HS content separately.

Gale in Context: High school sits on the same In Context platform your students and teachers are most familiar with and was created for schools. Our Gale OneFile resources were created for colleges and universities.

In Context provides:

Ways to level content: by selecting content level in search results or by toggling between Lexile levels at the article level.
Content to build background knowledge, engagement through multimedia, and is more suited to support both high school research and curriculum/classroom needs.
Offers more multi-modalities supporting different learning needs and allows students a much more diverse content set so they can see themselves in what they find to help them find relevancy and make connections between the past and present.

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ILL Cutoff dates

General cutoff April 26, 2024- no more outside the region
Internal- May 3, 2024- no more within the region loans
All ILLS need to be returned by June 3, 2024

Novel NY 2024/2025 YEAH!!

Gale has set up a trial site that includes a separate tab for the new NOVELny databases. Here is the link: https://www.galepages.com/boces_dream/new_novel_databases

This can be shared with your librarians, and trial expires on May 31. Hooray for NOVELny!

DT+ Tip of the Week

This week, we have published two workbooks as part of the Interviews with Wise Children series. Emma Rice discusses the formation of the theatre company Wise Children, her style of theatre-making and the importance of storytelling, key themes featured in her work and her approach to adapting text for the stage.