The Next Traveler Subscription Sally Hawkes Network Services/Arkansas State Library

What’s New? New start date – August 1, 2009 New registration for schools New databases New remote access page Working on the portal

Traveler Online Database Project Began in 1997 Multi-type library project Provides online research databases to all libraries Paid for by LSTA funds (84%) and ADE (16%) Approx. $635/library Individual libraries would have to pay over $100,000 each to duplicate Over 1200 sites

New Registration? New Registration for schools All schools must register again for FY2009 June 19 is the last registration to insure seamless access to the new subscription Three types ◦ Schools with unique IP numbers ◦ School groups that share IPs but are not districts ◦ Actual school districts

Why the changes? Over 50% of the schools have not updated registration ◦ Any site prompted for an ID and/or password needs to update Cleaning up the school listings ◦ Wrong IP numbers ◦ Dated contact information New connections with Gale ◦ Discovering Collection ◦ General OneFile

New Subscription FY2009/2010 Begins August 1 EBSCO renewed with additional databases  Added Consumer Health Complete; Vocational & Career Collection; MEDLINE; World History Collection Britannica renewed  Gateway to the Classics  Under Research Tools on academic and public editions OCLC FirstSearch adds  CAMIO – The Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a premiere resource of works of art from prominent museums around the world.  ArchiveGrid – The ArchiveGrid service provides access to nearly a million detailed archival collection descriptions from around the world.  OAIster - OAIster is a union catalog of over 19,000,000 records representing digital resources from 1,049 contributors.

New Subscription continued Gale ◦ Discovering Collection ◦ General OneFile  Periodical and news information  Content includes more than 7,900 full-text titles  More than 3,000 refereed journals; five newspaper indexes — a total of more than 11,000 titles in all (70% of which are unique to the database)  More than 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present  Features more than 500 travel guides, including every Fodor title published  More than 3,000 videos, podcasts, images, every NPR radio broadcast in audio with transcript from 1990 to present ◦ posted Feb

What’s on the new School form? New name categories ◦ Individual School example: school does not have the same IP number(s) as any other school in the school district) Example: Pine Bluff High School ◦ School Group example: A group of schools sharing IP numbers, but not with all the schools in the school district, such as Emmet Schools (includes elementary and high school) part of Blevins School District ◦ School District example: every schools in the district shares the IP number range, such as Valley Springs School District -- includes Valley Spring Elementary School, Valley Springs Middle School and Valley Springs High School LEA numbers IT contacts

New Registration Form

What is not renewed? Grolier ◦ New Book of Knowledge Gale ◦ Subsidy to Health and Wellness

Remote Access Do it yourself (or give it to the IT people)  School page/ Library page  District page  Ready-made link   Also linked on AETN Arkansas Ideas page   Under Link Directory

Remote Access Codes Most libraries will keep current codes ◦ Gale will no longer have a generic code Codes originally sent to the libraries after initial registration If you do not know your remote access codes ◦ htm

Promotion Flyers Bookmarks Brochures Table tents Vendor materials ◦ Links on the Traveler page   Traveler handouts, etc ◦

Portal? Simplified access One access point Authentication from each site ◦ College ID ◦ Public library cards ◦ School LEA numbers Update immediately through a computer In process

Try the resources Britannica ◦ EBSCOhost ◦ Gale OneFile ◦ FirstSearch – Worldcat ◦

Handouts for printing 2009 Subscription

Handouts for printing 2009 Subscription ◦ General OneFile additional databases ◦ Database by grade or Databases by subject ◦ ◦ Why use Traveler? flyer & table tent ◦ ◦ Bookmark template ◦