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Volume 9, Number 2
September 2006

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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.



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.



The 2006-2007 Core Collection Flier and Poster have joined the new bookmark and student card in our Supply List: Core Collection Promotional Materials.



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!



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!

INFOhio installs WorkFlows® upgrade
Proceed to the SirsiDynix Web site.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!