
	December 2005 Welcome to the December 2005 issue of the Daily Life Online newsletter, your source for information about the latest additions to Greenwood’s Daily Life Online group of products. Please note that you are receiving this email as a supplement to your organization’s Daily Life Online subscription. If you are not the primary user of this service, feel free to forward this email to the relevant person, or to any of your colleagues who may be interested in Daily Life Online products. Contents Free Teacher Resources: lesson plans and more! New Content World Cultures Today RSS Feed Counter Compliancy ALA Midwinter

	Free Teacher Resources Packed full of curriculum-based lesson plans on History, Civics, Geography, and Economics, the Teacher Resources site is now available at dailylife.greenwood.com/teacher/. Simply click on the link to access the site — no user name or IP authentication is required. Designed to help teachers learn how to make the most of Daily Life Online, the site is easily searchable by keyword or subject strand, or users can browse the complete list of lesson plans. Each lesson plan is supported by graphic organizers and assessment rubrics. New Content Forthcoming in March 2006, the third enhancement to Daily Life Online will add around 1,000,000 words of full text content and 200 images from more than a dozen titles, including The Daily Life of Jews in the Middle Ages; Culture and Customs of Morocco; Sports and Games in the Ancient World; and The History of Ghana. New articles and special features continue to be included to complement the existing content base. The Reviews for World Cultures Today are in! "An essential addition to all public and high school libraries.... Also highly recommended for academic libraries." Library Journal, October 1, 2005 "World Cultures Today is equally useful for checking quick facts, compiling introductory material, or conducting in-depth research, and users will appreciate the breadth of information and ease of access.... Highly recommended for senior-high, academic, and large public libraries." Booklist, November 1, 2005 Starred Review To find out more about World Cultures Today go to dailylife.greenwood.com RSS Feed We are pleased to announce that as of mid-December 2005 subscribers will have the option to choose an RSS feed in place of the e-newsletter. The feed will be available from the dailylife.greenwood.com site. COUNTER Compliancy New and improved usage statistics are now available, so that subscribing institutions can check total searches and sessions by database and month. Greenwood is listed at www.projectcounter.org as a compliant vendor, and we’re already hard at work to ensure that we stay compliant when the revised code releases in March 2006. To find out how to access your usage statistics, contact techsupport@greenwood.com. ALA Midwinter, January 20-23, 2006 Visit the Greenwood booth to find out what’s forthcoming for 2006! *For more information on Daily Life Online* go to dailylife.greenwood.com Ideas? Suggestions? Praise?** As part of our effort to ensure that Daily Life Online really does provide users with the information they need, please feel free to take advantage of our new dedicated email: dailylife@greenwood.com. We welcome all your comments—glowing praise, constructive criticism, suggestions for how we can help you promote this resource to your patrons, or requests for additional content.

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