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

• 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

Children and Families -- Local --

• Calendar of children's events in Santa Cruz County || Calendar of children's events from Santa Cruz Public Library
• 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 in Santa Cruz
• Health Benefits Program in Santa Cruz
• Preschool books lists from Santa Cruz Public Library
• 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.
• Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties || food banks in this area mapped

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 fulltext 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 --
   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, click on

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
   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 on
4. Click on the boxes 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 periodical title to get to the screen with full information about the article.
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Once you retrieve an article, you can of course read it on the screen. Or, you can print, or email, or save it.

While you are in the classroom doing research, you may print out to the classroom printer for free -- but no more than 20-25 pages per person.

It's often easiest to email the articles to yourself. Look for

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 for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior
• Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
• Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations of Early Learning
• 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
• CYFERnet Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network
• National Childcare Information Center "A national clearinghouse and technical assistance center that links parents, providers, policy-makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information"
• National Network for Child Care
• 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!). If you want to try out a new search engine, go to Exalead.

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

   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