Traveler – the Continuing Saga Sally Hawkes Network Services/Arkansas State Library shawkes@asl.lib.ar.us

What’s New? Britannia is available EBSCOhost purchased NetLibrary Funding picked in July EBSCOhost purchased NetLibrary Currently overhauling access

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

Have you reregistered? New school registration began in April 2009 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 Preparing for Traveler Portal

New Subscription FY2010/2011 Begins August 1 EBSCO renewed with additional databases OCLC FirstSearch added in 2009 CAMIO – The Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a premiere resource of works of art from prominent museums around the world. Separate log-in – working with OCLC on problems ArchiveGrid – The ArchiveGrid service provides access to nearly a million detailed archival collection descriptions from around the world. Separate log-in -- working with OCLC on problems OAIster - OAIster is a union catalog of over 19,000,000 records representing digital resources from 1,049 contributors. Integrated into WorldCat ContentDM entry level software

CONTENTdm CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software Entry level --hosted by OCLC Three Project Clients for building your digital collections 10GB of storage for up to 3,000 digital items Free Orientation session Sept. 28 http://www.oclc.org/contentdm/firstsearchbas epackage/

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 back file coverage from 1980 to present Features more than 500 travel guides, including every Fodor title published 2006-2007 More than 3,000 videos, podcasts, images, every NPR radio broadcast in audio with transcript from 1990 to present http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/2009Renewal.pdf posted Feb. 2010

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

Remote Access Do it yourself (or give it to the IT people) School page/ Library page District page http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/setup.htm Ready-made link http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/TravelerRemote.htm

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 http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/remoteaccess. htm

EBSCO Embedded URL Creating an embedded URL for EBSCO Uses your existing ID and password Cannot be posted on web page http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?au thtype=uid&user=<insertID>&password= <insertpassword>&return=y

Gale Widgets

Widgets Step 2 Asks for Location ID Go to http//:access.gale.com/ar Go to Access Info and find your school name Find Click Here and then bookmark the resulting page. Location ID is the URL http://access.gale.com/cgi- bin/ar/home.pl?id=<LocationID>&name=<Libra ryName>

Promotion Flyers Bookmarks Brochures Table tents Vendor materials Links on the Traveler page http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/PromotionInfo.htm http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/TrainingInfo.htm Traveler handouts, etc http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/aslpr.htm

Flyer and Table Tent text Traveler searches provide . . . ◊ Thousands of licensed resources from known sources Boy’s Life / Business Week / Christian Science Monitor / Cobblestone / Encyclopædia Britannica / Men’s Health / New Book of Knowledge / New York Times / Prevention / Ride BMX / Outdoor Life for Kids / Time / US News & World Report ◊ No ads—No spam or spyware—No “phishing” for personal data. ◊ Safe resources for students of all ages with easy access for younger students ◊ Users can save, print and e-mail search results with current citation formats ◊ Lexiles Reading Levels help identify materials for specific ages and/or reading levels Google and Yahoo searches ◊ anything that is on the Internet ◊ computer selection of pages at random according to keywords ◊ place some results higher because a fee was paid ◊ do not investigate where the information came from or accuracy ◊ provide a mixture of personal web pages & authoritative studies

Portal? Simplified access from library as well as remote access One access point Authentication from each site College ID Public library cards School LEA numbers Update immediately through a computer The Network Advisory Committee is currently reviewing the response to the RFI

Try the resources Britannica EBSCOhost Gale OneFile http://www.school.eb.com EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com Gale OneFile http://access.gale.com/ar/ FirstSearch – Worldcat http://www.worldcat.org