Volume 9, Number 2
September 2006QuickLinks
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INFOhio Toolkit
Product Updates for
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SirsiDynix Migration
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Learning Activities
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Think INFOhio campaign
under way
| To help you promote INFOhio's
Core Collection of Electronic Resources, INFOhio has produced several
items linked from our Web site and notes the valuable assistance of Britannica Corp. and
ProQuest Information and Learning for Sweepstakes prizes and EBSCO Publishing for the
screen saver. |
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Three Inservice Overviews are now part of the INFOhio Slide Library.
The PowerPoints make
10-, 20- and 30-minute sessions easier than ever. Use as is, or adapt to your faculty's
needs. |
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The 2006-2007 Core Collection Flier and Poster have
joined the new bookmark and student card in our Supply List: Core Collection
Promotional Materials. |
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INFOhio Educator Sweepstakes 2006
encourages school library staff and other Ohio educators to use the Toolkit for Promoting INFOhio Resources to Parents.
Three Grand Prizes will be awarded: Britannica's Discover America (51 vol.), the
2007 Compton's by Britannica (26 vol.) and a Sony DVD/VCR Combo! Ten gift bags
containing vendor giveaways and the popular INFOhio mug will be awarded as consolation
prizes. The deadline to submit your online entry is October 1. Help us get parents to Think
INFOhio! |
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The bug has been exterminated, and the INFOhio
Screen Saver is ready to download. The screen saver has lots of action
and reminds viewers reasons to Think INFOhio! |
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INFOhio installs WorkFlows® upgrade
 In just over a week in July,
INFOhio Technical Support staff, working with ITC providers, installed the newest version
of the WorkFlows software on servers at the 23 regional Information Technology
Centers. Additional patch cluster upgrades will be applied to systems, as they become
available from SirsiDynix. Read more...
Important News, Stories and More Links
INFOhio Users Council - September 15, 2006, is the deadline for each ITC to
submit two representatives for the 2006-2007 INFOhio Users Council. The
first meeting is planned for October 11, in conjunction with this year's OELMA conference.
To learn more about the Users Council and how you can play a part in representing your
region, read the Users
Council Guidelines. Also available is a list of those educators who helped
establish the Council. The Users Council will help assure grassroots involvement in
INFOhio.
Ohio's Election for
Governor, November 7, 2006 is the newest Spotlight focusing
on INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic
Resources and other useful sites. Stale entries have been deleted from
our Spotlights page.
Check out the newest page and see if the older Spotlights can
still help your colleagues and students.
Learning Activities
Added to Teacher Tools - Just in time for the start of the school year, 18 new Activities
have been produced by Bowling Green State University graduate students, bring the total to
45. Each Learning Activity is designed as a short assignment that uses INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources
and relates to an Ohio Academic Content
Standards indicator statement. In addition, each is based on an essential
question, has a list of search steps, and includes other useful information for the
teacher. Please let your colleagues know about these new teaching materials! |
