Sample Memo to Faculty
SUGGESTED USES: Customize this memo with your library's
name and the name of a library contact. Then circulate it to
interested faculty and staff. You may wish to offer demonstrations
of the service for teachers and their students.
DATE: (date)
TO: All Teachers and Staff
FROM: (your name and title)
SUBJECT: Web access to LexisNexis® Scholastic Edition
LexisNexis has long been recognized as a leader in the online
information world, offering services used by legal, government,
and business information professionals and researchers who need
quick access to current, comprehensive, authoritative content.
With the recent acquisition of LexisNexis Scholastic Edition,
our students, too, will have access to world-class content from
LexisNexis.
Here are some of the ways you and your students can use LexisNexis
Scholastic Edition: English Writing Assignments, Current
Events Tracking, and Debate Research. For students who need
to write about current events in the context of an English or
Social Studies assignment or for debaters who need the latest
developments, LexisNexis Scholastic Edition provides a rich
repository of news information drawn from more than 200 newspapers,
40 magazines, broadcast transcripts, and wire services. Full-text
from publications such as the New York Times and the
Washington Post date back to 1980. You'll also find Business
Week, ABC, CBS and NBC News transcripts, Associated Press, Business
Wire, and PR Newswire. Finally, statistical tables are included
that can be used to complement debate research or reinforce
claims made in a paper.
Spanish, French, German, or Italian Language Instruction
Foreign language instructors can take advantage of numerous
foreign-language publications to create exciting research projects
for your students. LexisNexis Scholastic Edition lets you search
across the full-text of a variety of papers at one time using
a simple keyword search.
Social Studies
Students can follow the federal and state legislative process
with the legislative materials included in the service, tracking
both bills under consideration and bills passed. There are facts
about members of Congress, the history of voting reports, U.S.
and state bill tracking reports plus full text of the bills,
and the Congressional Record with debates from the House and
Senate floor. Legal research materials are also provided, from
U.S. Supreme Court cases, State High Court cases, Law Review
articles, federal laws from 1988 to present, and state law digests
from all 50 states.
To access LexisNexis Scholastic Edition, [provide login instructions
for your school].
For more information, contact: (name of library contact, name
of library, e-mail or other address.)
