Cabrillo College Library    http://libwww.cabrillo.edu

Cabrillo College Children's Center 

ECE Dept. at Cabrillo

Web site for Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

What's on This Page

Local Resources

Periodical Articles

Newspaper Articles

More Web Resources

• Laws
• Advocacy groups
• State & National
• Literacy
• Health
• Education

Translation Service

Books in the Library

Search the Web
on Your Own

To Get to This Page on the Internet

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Before we get started

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links
2. Select Early Childhood Education
3. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials and click on ECE 32, Child, Family, and Community.
4. Make this page a Favorite. Towards the top of the screen, click on Favorites, then on Add to Favorites, then on Add. To come back to this page during this class session, click Favorites at the top of your screen

Finding laws that apply to your topic

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Law and Legal Resources

Finding local advocacy groups

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Libraries, Other
4. Click on Santa Cruz City/County Public Library
5. Click on Local Information, then Community Information Database

Children and Families -- Local --

• Calendar of children's events in Santa Cruz County
• CASA program in Santa Cruz.
• Child Health and Disability Prevention in Santa Cruz
• First 5 Santa Cruz County One interesting report is Geo-mapping Children's Vulnerability in Santa Cruz County (on the left; scroll down to find it). The maps start about half way through the document..
• Foster Care and Adoptions Programs in Santa Cruz
• Health Benefits Programs in Santa Cruz
• Preschools in Santa Cruz County, from SantaCruzKids.com || preschools mapped
• Santa Cruz Office of Education Click on Search to bring up a search box.
  If you know what you're looking for, that's the easiest way to get there. For example, if you wanted the Web pages for Migrant Head Start you would just type that in.
• Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County

Searching for Periodical Articles
The library offers a variety of databases for finding information in magazines and journals.

Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisicplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) database of full text newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.

To get to Ethnic NewsWatch

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
2. Click on Ethnic NewsWatch -- it's listed under News, over on the right --
   If you are coming in from somewhere off campus, you'll be asked to type in your library card number.
   
3. It's probably best to use the Advanced Search mode

Notice that you can change the interface language to Spanish -- over on the right

Here's a search using the Spanish interface for Watsonville as a topic:

If you retrieve articles in English, you can translate them to another language. Once you have the article on your screen, set the option box.


These are computer translations, so they may not be wonderful. But, you can get the information.

Proquest Newspapers is a database that offers the contents of New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. It works like Ethnic NewsWatch -- you can search in languages other than English, and once you have found an article in English, you can translate it from English to Spanish. To get to Proquest Newspapers

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
2. Click on Proquest Newspapers -- it's listed under News, just above Ethnic NewsWatch
   If you are coming in from somewhere off campus, you'll be asked to type in your library card number.
   
   
3. It's probably best to use the Advanced Seach

Another large database is Academic Search Premier

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
   
   
2. Select Academic Search Premier (listed under General, top left), which is one of the largest general periodical databases. If you are coming in from somewhere off campus, you'll be asked to type in your library card number.
   
   
3. Click to bring up the Advanced Search mode:
   
   
   
4. Click on the box to limit your search to Full Text articles
   
   
   
   
5. Type in your search terms and hit SEARCH

For example, if I were interested in finding articles about poverty and single parents, my search might look like this:





Search for articles on a topic of your choice. When you get your search results, click on a article title to get to the screen with full information about the article.


.You can click to print, click to email, and even click to get your article cited!!

Other databases -- The Library subscribes to 31 databases. You might want to explore using some others, for example:

• MasterFILE Premier -- more popular periodicals (e.g., Parents)
• ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) -- educational resources

More Web resources

State and National

• A Place of Our Own -- program devoted to the needs of family child care providers
• Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships from Johns Hopkins
• Child & Family WebGuide from Tufts University. Describes and evaluates Web sites that offer research-based information about child development.
• Child Development Resources from the California Department of Education
• National Childcare Information and Technical Assistance Center "A national clearinghouse and technical assistance (TC) center that provides comprehensive child care information resources..."
• National Network for Child Care
• Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children
• ZeroToThree

Literacy

• Read to Me
• Reading is Fundamental

Health

• Healthy School Communities
• Kid'sHealth Aimed at parents, kids and teens, not educators, but still useful.

Education and Professional Resources

• Educational Resources Information Center
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
  

Want to have some text or words on a Web page translated?

Use Google Language Tools.
Keyboard shortcut for copy is Ctrl and c. Keyboard shortcut for paste is Ctrl and v.

Searching the Web on Your Own

Since anyone can publish on the Web, and sometimes it seems as though everbody does, you need to be able to evaluate Web pages that you find. You'll probably use Google (everyone does!). Google has two nifty new features worth learning about.

Click on Show options and Google will group your results by type or some other characteristic.

The second nifty new feature is Wonder wheel -- click on that, and Google will suggest words and phrases you might use in future searching!

Searching for Books in the Library

1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage  (If you are at an Information Workstation in the library, just click on HOME at the top of the screen)
2. Click on  Library Catalog
3. Try a keyword search. It will present your results in our new catalog interface.

   Here are some topics you could search for:

Find a book?  Note down information about it! 

Book title_____________________________Year published__________

If it's an electronic book, you can click through to read it. Otherwise, note this information:

Location_______ Call number_____________  Status______________(If it says "NOT CHECKD OUT," that means it should be on the shelf.  If there's a date, that means it's out and due back on that date.) 

To get to this page on the Internet: 

1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage   http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Select Early Childhood Education
4. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials and click on ECE 32, Child, Family, and Community