Traveler – the Continuing Saga

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

2. What’s New? • Britannia is available • 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 • http://www.oclc.org/contentdm/firstsearchbasepackage/

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 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

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 • http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/setup.htm • Ready-made link • http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/TravelerRemote.htm

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

14. 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?authtype=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 http://access.gale.com/cgi-bin/ar/home.pl?id=<LocationID>&name=<LibraryName>

20. 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

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 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

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