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RM Living Library Subscription Offer: Expires 30 June 2009 new

Living Library puts over 4 million primary resources at your fingertips. It's got pictures, quotes, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, news feeds, maps, handpicked web links, videos, and much more, all from leading educational publishers.
              
Instead of endlessly trawling Google for free videos or pictures, you can use Living Library's own search engine to save you time as you make lesson plans. You can also be sure that the content they find is safe, friendly, and easy to use. Pupils can use it for homework, projects, or to revise for tests.

The LA has secured a special price on behalf of all Hertfordshire schools, to enable you to continue benefitting from this resource.

• OFFER PRICE: £111.46 per year
• OFFER EXPIRES: 30th June 2009

Download Offer Form:

• Word 2003, 33kb/1 page, 07/05/2009, living_library_offer_may09.doc

Any queries regarding the renewal of Living Library, please contact:
Renee Taylor at RM
Tel: 0845 121 3347

RM Living Library Subscription

The subscription for Living Library has now finished. All schools that have renewed their subscription for Living Library will receive a letter from RM which will give their new log-in details.

RM Living Library Subscription

The contract we have for RM Living Library comes to an end on 31 March 2009. Unfortunately we are unable to renew the contract centrally due to changes in funding mechanisms.

The good news is, that we have been able to secure a special price for Hertfordshire schools, to enable you to continue using this resource if you wish.  The price per school agreed is the same as the price paid under the central contract, available for a limited period only.  The offer expires on Friday 20 March 2009.

If you have any queries, please email Patsy Woodward:
Email: patsy.woodward@hertscc.gov.uk or
Tel: 01438 844813

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Living Library is an excellent resource for all children to use. It brings together thousands of reference articles, pictures and multimedia clips from the UK's most respected publishers, all within a protected site. This means that you really can let children search for resources, and know that they will find ‘safe’, reliable information.

Furthermore, as the site is designed for children to use, all articles are written in appropriate language. This means children will be able to assimilate and sort knowledge, not merely regurgitate useless facts that they don’t understand!

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Using Living Library

You can find information by using Search, Browse or Explore.

When you have got your results, you will also see a bar graph next to the title indicating the suitability rating of each article. This gives you an idea of the difficulty of the article, or the level of the subject matter.

The more bars filled in, the harder the challenge!

Using Search

You can find information by typing in a key word.

To refine your search, if you are only interested in pictures or text etc, click on Search Option, you can then limit your search by selecting the required result option.

Use Search Click on Search Options to limit your search...	Search Results... These search results are organised by media types ie all weblinks are together, all film clips are together etc	Example of Detailed Resource Page
The same search (Henry VIII) can be used to look for just Pictures...	...or search for relevant Media...	...or look for relevant Web Links on any subject.

Using Browse

Find information using the following options:

Explore

Newspapers Search using keywords and dates to find newspaper articles relating to your topic.	Multimedia You will need to subscribe and pay for this.

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