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CORE COLLECTION

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Preview 2010
Through February 26

INFOhio's Core Collection provides state-funded resources free to all Ohio's K-12 students and teachers for the 2009-2010 school year.

A username and password are required for home access; see your school library media specialist.

Funded in part through an Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grant awarded by the State Library of Ohio.

INFOhio toolkit
What's new for the 2008-2009 school year

INFOhio’s structure supports Ohio’s K-12 learning community through Content, Integration and Access. Use this page to get quick updates about new Core Collection features and updates for other INFOhio products and services.

Curriculum Resource Catalog

Digital Video Collection. Check regularly for new titles. The collection uses the same username/password as INFOhio's Core Collection.

Electronic Resources

New features for INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources for 2008-2009:

General Updates

The home access Username and Password is new this school year.

New fliers and other promotional materials are available on the Supply List.

The Help Resources page for each Core Collection resource has been updated.

The Getting Started Guide for each Core Collection resource has been revised.

Biography Reference Bank. Articles about more than a half-million people, most in full text, from around the world, both living and dead.
 

Digital Video Collection. Check regularly for new titles. The collection uses the same username/password as INFOhio's Core Collection.
 

EBSCOhost
 

Consumer Health Complete

EBSCOhost 2.0 interface
 

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos. Online Spanish language encyclopedia that is appropriate for younger Spanish-speaking students and students just learning the Spanish language.
 

L'Encyclopédie Découverte. Online French language encyclopedia that is appropriate for younger French-speaking students and students just learning the French language.
 

LearningExpress Library
 

Computer skills tutorials. Read more...

Featured Resources for Ohio Libraries, February 2009, complete list [PDF 2 pgs]

LearningExpress Library Version 2.0, Coming in February 2009

Over 50 New and Updated Interactive Practice Tests Now Available on LearningExpress Library, listserv message from State Library's Marsha McDevitt-Stredney, April 8, 2009.

PSAT/NMSQT Practice Tests Now Available [PDF 2 pgs]

Literature Online From Chadwyck-Healey
 

updated.gif (168 bytes)Getting Started Guide, June 2009 [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs]

updated.gif (168 bytes) Interface improved, June 2009. Help Resources for Literature Online From Chadwyck-Healey revised, June 2009.
 

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
 

New timeline: Victorian Britain

New title: The Oxford Companion to Cosmology

New editions: A Dictionary of Nursing, A Dictionary of Earth Sciences, A Dictionary of Biology, A Dictionary of Chemistry and The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

Over 50,000 links between biographical entries in the Premium Collection and to entries in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, American National Biography, Grove Music Online and Grove Art Online

SchoolRooms
 

Regular updates by SchoolRooms Advisory & Maintenance (SAM) Committee members.

Training and promotional materials collected on Help Resources for SchoolRooms including updated FAQs and Content Highlights, summaries of timely content relevant to all users.
   

Science Online. Thousands of essays on major topics and issues in science, math and technology, along with illustrations, experiments, activities and biographies.

SIRS Discoverer
 

World Book Web. Encyclopedias for three levels: World Book Kids (K-5), World Book Student (5-9), and World Book Advanced (high school and college)

Other new information

Landsat 7 Satellite Images is now located with Other Online Resources.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center now has a Help Resources page.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps is now located with Other Online Resources.

Instructional Development

Professional Development Opportunities. Includes webinars sponsored by Core Collection publishers this spring and INFOhio's IVDL sessions that follow the year's theme of Tools to Build Student Success, emphasizing resources for collaborative projects. The sessions are free for all Ohio educators.

Library Automation

New Online Catalog

Media Resources

New Adobe Flash Player implemented; new Our Ohio titles added

Miscellaneous

INFOhio Hugh Durbin Leadership Award 2008 award recipient, Karon Lippincott

INFOhio Spence White Service Award 2007. Awards presented to Dianna Ashburn, SPARCC Manager of Library Automation Services, and the late Christina Schmoll, NOECA Library Services Support Specialist

INFOhio Targets for 2008-2008

INFOhio Training Fees, 2008-2009 [PDF 2 pgs] Includes scheduling procedures, purchase order information, topics and costs.

INFOhio Users Council Representatives, 2008-2009

Internet2® Resources
 

Internet2 and Ohio Schools: A World of Resources - Background information prepared by INFOhio.

Internet2 Instructional Support

Internet2 Technical Support

Preparing 21st Century Ohio Learners for Success: Helping Today's Students & Tomorrow's Teachers
 

INFOhio's "Go Further--Road to Higher Education and Beyond" Campaign. Includes Ohio's Road to Success, Task Force goals and a resource list, March 2009. [PDF 2 pgs]

PreK-12 Education Initiative. Details four key areas where INFOhio transforms teaching and learning by connecting educational resources with the power of information technology, March 2009. [PDF 2 pgs]

School Library Media Month. Promotional resources from AASL and INFOhio.

U.S. Presidential Election 2008, INFOhio Electronic Resources Spotlight, August 25, 2008

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Last Updated on June 4, 2009

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