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The Next Traveler Subscription Sally Hawkes Network Services/Arkansas State Library shawkes@asl.lib.ar.us
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What’s New? New start date – August 1, 2009 New registration for schools New databases New remote access page Working on the portal
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 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. 2009 http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/2009Renewal.pdf
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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
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New Registration Form
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What is not renewed? Grolier ◦ New Book of Knowledge Gale ◦ Subsidy to Health and Wellness
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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 http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/setup.htm Ready-made link http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/TravelerRemote.htm http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/TravelerRemote.htm Also linked on AETN Arkansas Ideas page http://ideas.aetn.org http://ideas.aetn.org Under Link Directory
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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
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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/PromotionInfo.htm http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/TrainingInfo.htm http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/TrainingInfo.htm Traveler handouts, etc ◦ http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/aslpr.htm http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/aslpr.htm
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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
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Try the resources Britannica ◦ http://www.school.eb.com http://www.school.eb.com EBSCOhost ◦ http://search.ebscohost.com http://search.ebscohost.com Gale OneFile ◦ http://access.gale.com/ar/ http://access.gale.com/ar/ FirstSearch – Worldcat ◦ http://www.worldcat.org http://www.worldcat.org
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Handouts for printing 2009 Subscription http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/2009Subscription.pdf http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/GaleOneFile2009.pdf http://msweb01/traveler/Databasesbygrade.pdf http://msweb01/traveler/Databasesbysubject.pdf http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/Why.pdf http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/Tent.pdf
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Handouts for printing 2009 Subscription ◦ http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/2009Subscription.pdf http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/2009Subscription.pdf General OneFile additional databases ◦ http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/GaleOneFile2009.pdf http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/GaleOneFile2009.pdf Database by grade or Databases by subject ◦ http://msweb01/traveler/Databasesbygrade.pdf http://msweb01/traveler/Databasesbygrade.pdf ◦ http://msweb01/traveler/Databasesbysubject.pdf http://msweb01/traveler/Databasesbysubject.pdf Why use Traveler? flyer & table tent ◦ http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/Why.pdf http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/Why.pdf ◦ http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/Tent.pdf http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/Tent.pdf Bookmark template ◦ http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/TravelerBookmarks.pdf http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/TravelerBookmarks.pdf
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