1. What’s so great about
Credo Reference?

2. Today’s Workshop will Include..
 Overview
 Demonstration
 Time for Exploration and Questions

3. What is it?
 An Aggregator of full-text online
reference books
(encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases,
thesauri, factbooks.etc)
 600 Titles from 80+ publishers
 Over 3 million entries
 More than 300,000 entries
 More than 200,000 audio files
 Collection grows monthly
APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard Citations on
each entry

5. Sample Publishers

6. Sampling of Content

7. More Content…
 Medical dictionaries (help  Holiday Festivals and
with pronunciation) Celebrations of the world
 Hutchinson Encyclopedia
 Anatomy Atlas
 Latino Literature
 Dictionary of Literature
 CIA Worldfact book

8. Special Features Include…
 Unique URL’s
 Topic Pages
 Resource Links (open door to your other subscribed
resources and online card catalog)
 Easy Access to e-Books in your subject area
 Concept Map
 LibGuides

9. Easily Explore Book Contents

10. Each Book’s Index is Unique
About this book
Contents
Headings
Images

11. Another Book’s Index might “People”
tab:

12. Another Book includes “Dynamic
Tables”

13. Topic Pages
 Specially arranged pages on a particular topic
 One stop shopping – allows you to get topic information
from varied reference sources and formats
 Example:
 Declaration of Independence
 DNA
 Mid-autumn Festival

14. Scroll down Topic Page to see
Journal Articles, Books, Images, News
and more…

15. Unique URL’s
 Use links directly from page on your assignments, syllabi,
reviews, etc. (Mrs. Lynch’s Group Topics)

16. Concept Maps…
 Explore a topic visually
 Get quick information
 Find related terms
 Reshape your focus

17. Make Broader

18. Or Narrower

19. Advanced Search…
Sidebar Facets

20. Other Useful Features…
 MLA CITATION

21. SAVE
 More than one point of access:

22. Gadgets…

23. Multi-lingual Interface

24. Related Terms
 Tag Cloud

25. Ideas for applying Credo to Your
Classes/Curriculum…
 Paste unique URL’s into  Provide Reference Books
homework, syllabus,
curriculum pages.  Use Concept Map to initiate
and explore research topics
 Use topic Pages to introduce
a topic  Use Credo LibGuides to
expand research
 Request a topic page be
made  Play Six Degrees of
Separation with Concept
 Link to primary source Map
documents
 Example: Mrs. Lynch’s Group
Work Topics

26. Define Key Words and Vocabulary
 Add unique URL’s of common vocabulary to your assignment pages

27. Find a Topic Pages Relevant to Your
Classes

28. Request a Topic Page
Credo’s Sales Rep has offered
to take Topic Page Suggestions
from us. They have a goal of
adding 1,000 topic pages to
their current collection of
10,000.
See the example of Mid-
Autumn Festival that I
requested for Mrs. Lee’s
Chinese clas

29. Use Credo Books in Your
Syllabus/Curriculum/Lesson
planning
Medicine Examples Business Examples

30. Use Images/Videos to Jazz up Your
Website

31. LibGuides
http://credoreferen
ce.libguides.com/br
owse.php
HOW TO USE
CREDOs LIBGUIDES
http://vimeo.com/4
8958905

32. Fair Use
http://corp.credoreference.com/terms

33. FOR MORE HELP
 2-minute How-
to’s http://corp.credorefer
ence.com/support/training  Concept Map
/training-videos.html
 Find a Book
 Advanced Searching
 Topic Pages

34. Explore Research Topics
 A Comparison of Harry Potter and Macbeth as Tragic Heroes
 To what extent does the response to Hurricane Katrina expose social
behaviors revealing that America has not fully achieved African-
American equality
 An investigation into the cognitive, biological and social-cultural
aspects of infatuation in human beings.
 To What Extent has Society’s View of HIV AIDS been Influenced by
the Media Sources of Film, Television, and Theater?

35.  Environmental Systems and
Societies: To what extent
do the environmental
benefits of nuclear power
outweigh the harms of its
waste?

36. The Research Process
 http://library.humboldt.edu/ic/general_competency/kuh
lthau.html

37. The Research Process
 http://prezi.com/y7-w4b2rqasy/the-research-
process/?res_nr=3&sis=2324910777

38. School Topics
 Wood sculpture
 Music Theory
 Personal Finance + Web Applications
 Symphonic Movement
 Richard Wright – “Blackboy”
 Wind ensemble
 Homer’s Odyssey
 Keyboard techniques
 Steinbeck of Mice and Men
 Trigonometry
 E.e. cummings
 Discrete math
 Homeostasis
 Pre-calculus
 Genetics
 CAD
 Tayssachs disease
 3-D modeling
 Anatomy
 Culinary Arts
 Space technology
 Colinization
 Environmental science
 Constitutional law
 Forensic Science
 Foreign policy

40. Sample Prezi
 http://prezi.com/4jrranugjj6p/turn-a-powerpoint-to-prezi-
prezihelpcom/