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Magnolia. M A G N O L I A. Mississippi Alliance for Gaining New Opportunities through Library Information Access. What is MAGNOLIA?. M A G N O L I A. Subsidizes access to online databases

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M A G N O L I A

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  1. Magnolia MAGNOLIA Mississippi Alliance for Gaining New Opportunities through Library Information Access

  2. What is MAGNOLIA? MAGNOLIA • Subsidizes access to online databases • Benefits publicly funded K-12 schools, public libraries, community college libraries, and university libraries in Mississippi • Funded by the Mississippi legislature • Funds are used only for database purchase and continuance

  3. What is MAGNOLIA? MAGNOLIA • Administration of the program is performed by volunteers from all types of libraries across Mississippi • In addition to searching the databases in libraries across the state, individuals can access many of the databases from their home or office computers

  4. What is MAGNOLIA’s history? MAGNOLIA • Established during the 1997 legislative session • Mississippi legislators appropriated $568,000 in 1997. The current budget for MAGNOLIA is $1,186,340. • Senator Grey Ferris of Vicksburg was instrumental in bringing the project to the legislature

  5. Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Article1st (OCLC FirstSearch) Business Source Complete (EBSCO) Alt Health Watch (EBSCO) Clinical Pharmacology (EBSCO) Computer Science Index (EBSCO) Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO) Environment Collection (EBSCO) What databases are included?* MAGNOLIA * For a full list, visit http://www.lib.usm.edu/~magnolia/dblist.html

  6. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index (EBSCO) General Science Collection (EBSCO) Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (Grolier) Encyclopedia Americana (Grolier) History Reference Center (EBSCO) Hospitality & Tourism Index (EBSCO) What databases are included? MAGNOLIA

  7. History Reference Center (EBSCO) Humanities International Complete (EBSCO) International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance (EBSCO) Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) New Book of Knowledge (Grolier) Newspaper Source (EBSCO) NoveList (EBSCO) Primary Search (EBSCO) Searchasaurus (EBSCO) Serials Directory (EBSCO) What databases are included? MAGNOLIA

  8. Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO) TopicSearch (EBSCO) Vocational and Career Collection (EBSCO) Wilson Biographies (provide free of charge to K-12 for FY 2006/2007) OCLC WorldCat What databases are included? MAGNOLIA

  9. Databases reviewed by selection committee and steering committee Committee composed of 24 Mississippi librarians from all types of libraries How are the databases chosen? MAGNOLIA

  10. Committee devotes several days to watching live Internet demonstrations of different products Committee sends its recommendations to the MAGNOLIA Steering Committee Committee encourages anyone interested to submit database suggestions How are the databases chosen? MAGNOLIA

  11. MAGNOLIA web site: Overview: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~magnolia/magnolia.html K-12 MAGNOLIA Site: http://library.msstate.edu/magnolia Public Library and Community College Site: http://library.msstate.edu/magnolia/public.asp Contact: Stephen Cunetto 662-325-8542 scunetto@library.msstate.edu (updated November 2006) For more information… MAGNOLIA

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