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INFOhio's Five
Components Curriculum
Resource Catalog assists in collection development and identifies resources
aligned to Ohio's Academic Content Standards. It is a composite of several
catalogs that can be searched simultaneously. These catalogs consist of the Ohio Area
Instructional Media Center holdings (registration for borrowing is required), online
lesson plans, and a Union Catalog of over one million unique bibliographic records of
resources held by over 2,400 Ohio public and private school libraries. These bibliographic
records are used by school library media specialists to download to local online catalogs.
Electronic Resources provides a core
collection of electronic, age-specific, curriculum-related resources for K-12 use in Ohio.
Negotiating a statewide contract for these resources makes them available across the state
without charge to individual schools. INFOhio pays about 50˘ per student
on behalf of the State of Ohio to provide all these resources to the students and
educators in every public and non-public school.
Instructional Development -
INFOhio offers a full range of training, workshops, seminars, in-services and support programs to help
educators throughout the state better understand the expanding definition of literacy and
how to use tools and technologies of the Information Age.
Library Automation makes it possible for
thousands of library card catalogs to be available on the Internet. It also allows schools
to give their students and teacher access to other school, college and public library
collections from the classroom, library or home. More than 2,400 Ohio schools in
480 districts serving over 1,100,000 students have online access to
millions of print resources via INFOhio's standardized library automation
software from SirsiDynix.
 Media Resources
makes it possible for teachers from anywhere in the state to simply point
and click to locate, reserve and book the multi-media educational resources
they need - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The collections of 15 Ohio agencies are online including Area Media Centers, Special Education
Regional Resources Centers, education television corporations and school district central
media centers.INFOhio… for
standards-based education
When you need reliable and authoritative resources for school assignments and research,
turn to INFOhio’s Core Collection of
Electronic Resources. As an Ohio parent/guardian, student or teacher, you have instant
access to thousands of resources online, including popular magazines, trade publications,
scholarly research journals, newspapers from Ohio and the nation, encyclopedias,
dictionaries, speeches, poems, plays, images, maps, satellite images of Ohio and more!
(INFOhio’s Core Collection is funded through a combination of state and federal
taxes.)
Today’s school libraries are much more than warehouses of books – they are knowledge
spaces, where active learning takes place – students build their own
understanding and knowledge. (Ross J. Todd and Carol C. Kuhlthau,
Student Learning
Through Ohio School Libraries: The Ohio Research Study)
The Ohio Department of Education’s Instructional
Management System contains model lessons and
assessments for a variety of Academic Content Standards as well as professional resources
on standards-based education and lesson design. Keeping in mind the five stages of
planning for standards-based education: 1) Content, 2) Assessment, 3) Data
Analysis, 4) Instruction and 5) Materials, INFOhio, the
state's virtual library and information network for all K-12 public and nonpublic schools,
provides resources that support and supplement what students should know and be able to
do. Stop surfing and start finding…
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Available anytime, anywhere, 24/7, from any Internet-accessible computer
at school or at home. |
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Offers electronic databases, instructional resources, standardized
software and technical support. |
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Ensures equity of access and helps ensure that no Ohio child is left on
the have-not side of the Digital Divide. |
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