Sally Hawkes

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The Next Traveler Subscription and Getting The
Word Out!

• Sally Hawkes
• Network Services/Arkansas State Library
• shawkes_at_asl.lib.ar.us

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Whats 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
• April 24, May 15 June 19
• 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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Facts about Registration

• Mediated registration through the Office of
  Library Network Services
• This helps when the vendors make mistakes
• This will change when there is a Traveler portal
• Registration is every 4 to 5 weeks
• 3 months of deadline dates are posted
• Entire years schedule listed
• http//www.asl.lib.ar.us/Traveler/dates.htm

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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
• 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

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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
• Ready-made link
• http//www.asl.lib.ar.us/TravelerRemote.htm
• Also linked on AETN Arkansas Ideas page
• 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.ht
  m
• http//www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/TrainingInfo.htm
  
• Traveler handouts, etc
• http//www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/aslpr.htm

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Making Traveler Bookmarks

• Master bookmark
• http//www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/TravelerBookmark
  s.pdf
• Make personalized message for opposite side
• Run master bookmark page through photocopier to
  print personalized message on back
• Cut and distribute

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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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