Sally Hawkes

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Traveler Remote Access

• Sally Hawkes
• Arkansas State Library
• 2007

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What I found on School Web Pages

• Internet Search Engines
• About.com
• AltaVista
• Ask Jeeves
• DogPile
• Excite
• Google
• HotBot
• LibrarySpot
• Metacrawler
• Northern Light
• ProFusion
• WebCrawler
• Yahoo!

• Libraries
• Internet Public Library
• Library of Congress
• National Archives
• Online Research
• Encarta
• Biography
• Britannica (not Traveler)
• Websters Dictionary
• Encyclopedia
• Wikipedia

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Do You Have These?

• Research links

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Ideal Situation

• District web page links to each school
• Each school links to the school library
• Library page has links set to Traveler databases
• Database icons for quick access at school
• Traveler Instructions for remote access
• "To access Traveler database from home, you
  need user IDs and passwords. The login
  information can be obtained at the school
  library."
• Bookmarks or flyers at circ desk with user IDs
  and passwords

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Examples

• http//lavacapublicschools.k12.ar.us/10highlibrary
  .htm
• Links for each school library, resources on
  library opening page
• http//green.nesc.k12.ar.us/
• Links on opening page for school district high
  school library page
• http//www.fortsmithschools.org/schools/sside/libr
  ary.htm
• Link to Database Information

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First Step

• Does your school have a web page?
• District level or individual school?
• Have you already requested a place for the
  library on the web page?
• What is your relationship with the webmaster?
• Can this relationship improve?

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Traveler Promo

• How do you promote Traveler now?
• Notices to Teachers
• Orientation letter
• E-mail
• Newsletter during the year
• Notices to Students
• Library Newsletter
• Paper or electronic
• Bookmarks / Flyers / Brochures

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What to Include?

• Library presence
• Hours
• Programs
• Booklists / Book Clubs
• Monthly Theme
• Traveler Links
• Other Resources

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Online Resources

• Traveler
• Direct link from school
• Remote access from home?
• User IDs and passwords
• Login to the server
• Other Resources
• Other subscriptions
• Pathfinders
• Recommendations / Trusted sites

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Making the links

• What you need to know . . .
• Web address for the vendor
• See Access Information for URLs
• Create a Hot Link to address
• Most vendors provide icons (next slide)
• If you arent designing the page,
• provide the information to the IT section

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Icons

• Desktop Shortcuts
• http//www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/Desktop.htm
• EBSCO Logos
• http//tinyurl.com/yu8ggr
• Incorrect on handout
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• http//tinyurl.com/2ch54c
• FirstSearch
• http//tinyurl.com/26kxss

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Remote Access from Home?

• Authentication or not?
• Without authentication, remote access codes
• IDs and/or passwords cannot be posted on an
  unprotected web page

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Resources
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EBSCO http//tinyurl.com/2eywkf

• Customer Success Center Marketing Tools
  Special Event Kits
• History - It's Happening!
• Middle and high school students
• North America's vivid history
• Interactive site
• Browse key primary source documents, videos,
  speeches, selected articles and web sites
• Reading Toolkit It's a Reading Rave
• Young adults,
• Two Flash web sites.
• Librarian portal, with tips and tools to promote
  reading resources.
• Main wing" for young adults, with School Tools,
  Recommended Reading, and Cool Links to quality
  sites. Fun Facts and a Quiz test trivia knowledge
• Library Scavenger Hunt for Youths and Teens PDF
• Library resources with a scavenger hunt,
  investigating everything from online databases to
  the photocopier.
• Library Knowledge Game Word Doc
• Questions relating to core library knowledge
• Create a customized quiz

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EBSCO Print Materialshttp//tinyurl.com/2dd3f6

• Customer Success Center Marketing Tools
  Printable Resources
• EBSCOhost Library Posters
• EBSCOhost Bookmarks - Vertical Layout PDF
• EBSCOhost Bookmarks - Horizontal Layout PDF
• Product Summaries
• Middle Search Plus via EBSCOhost and
  Searchasaurus
• Primary Search via EBSCOhost and Searchasaurus
• Consumer Health Complete Interface
• Teacher Reference Center via EBSCOhost
• Reading Rave Bookmark PDF
• Reading Rave T-shirt Transfer PDF
• History - It's Happening and It's A Reading Rave!
  Flyers PDF
• School Library Mail Insert to Parents Word Doc

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Britannica

• How to Guides
• http//tinyurl.com/2fk96w
• How to Write a Research Paper (PDF)
• How to Write a Book Review (PDF)
• How to Write a Science Report (PDF)
• How to Prepare an Oral Presentation (PDF)
• Logos and Images for Web Site
• http//tinyurl.com/2ch54c
• Training Materials
• http//www.eb.com/training/index.html
• Select Britannica Online School Edition for
  flyers, guided tours and PowerPoint links

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Galehttp//tinyurl.com/32pppq

• Find Yourself in the Library
• English and Spanish Versions

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Gale Resourceshttp//www.gale.com/free_resources/

• Black History Hispanic Heritage Poets Corner
  Womens History
• Activities
• Biographies
• Featured Titles
• Links Literature
• Quiz
• Timeline
• Downloads Wallpaper, bookmarks, calendar . . .
• Lit Kit listed with each group above
• Literary Index
• Glossary of Literary Terms
• How to Write a Term Paper
• Citing Information from Thomson Gale Databases

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FirstSearch

• Add FirstSearch icons to your library's Web site
• http//tinyurl.com/26kxss
• Promotional materials
• http//tinyurl.com/2yozy6
  
• Bookmarks, table tents,
  posters, brochures

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Teaching Materials
http//www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/TrainingInfo.htm

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Print Materials

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EVENTS
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ASL Calendar Selections

• FEBRUARY
• 4  Childrens Authors and Illustrators Week
  begins
• MARCH  
• 1 Return the Borrowed Book Week begins
• 2 Read Across America Day  (Dr. Seuss' Birthday)
•  4-10 Teen Tech Week Get Connected _at_Your
  Library
• APRIL    
• National Poetry Month
• School Library Media Month
• 2 International Childrens Book Day
• 15 National Library Week begins Come
  Together_at_Your Library
• 16 Young Peoples Poetry Week
• 17 National Library Workers day
• 18 Thank You, School Librarian Day
• 19-22 Arkansas Literary Festival
• 30 Childrens Day/Book Day - El día de los
  niños/El día de los libros
• MAY
• Get Caught Reading Month  
• SEPTEMBER

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Childrens Book Council

• Childrens Book Week
• November 12
• http//www.cbcbooks.org/cbw/
• Young Peoples Poetry Week
• April
• Monthly Celebration Posters
• http//tinyurl.com/yshem24 each or 6 for 20.00

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American Library Association

• International School Library Day
• Learning Powered by your school library
• http//www.iasl-slo.org/isld.html
• October 22, 2007

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Teen Library Week

• October 14-20th
• LOL _at_ your library
• http//tinyurl.com/jtn9e

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2008
Banned Book Week September
http//tinyurl.com/28b2ch

• Childrens Day/Book Day
• El día de los niños/
• El día de los libros
• April 30 each year
• http//tinyurl.com/2efelz

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General
_at_School Library Campaign Toolkit
http//tinyurl.com/k3ncd
KidsConnect http//tinyurl.com/
3fpnb I wonder I Find I Evaluate I Share
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• Sally Hawkes
• Coordinator of Library Network Services
• Arkansas State Library
• shawkes_at_asl.lib.ar.us
• www.asl.lib.ar.us
• 501-682-6052