1. Traveler – the Continuing Saga
Sally Hawkes
Network Services/Arkansas State Library

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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
epackage/

8. 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
More than 3,000 videos, podcasts, images, every NPR radio broadcast in audio with transcript from 1990 to present
posted Feb. 2010

9. 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

10. New Registration Form

12. Remote Access Do it yourself (or give it to the IT people)
School page/ Library page
District page
Ready-made link

13. 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

14. EBSCO Embedded URL Creating an embedded URL for EBSCO
Uses your existing ID and password
Cannot be posted on web page
thtype=uid&user=<insertID>&password= <insertpassword>&return=y

15. Gale Widgets

16. 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 bin/ar/home.pl?id=<LocationID>&name=<Libra ryName>

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

21. 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 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

22. 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

23. Try the resources Britannica EBSCOhost Gale OneFile
EBSCOhost
Gale OneFile
FirstSearch – Worldcat