Thursday, August 23, 2007
Weighty Web Sites
PC Magazine's Top 100 Classic Web Sites in 2007 may be the very sites you need to speed you on your way in research, keeping current, making plans, or taking time out for music, movies, and other leisure pursuits. Check out the best of the Internet in list, in slideshow, or by downloading directly as bookmarks. For the curious, see the criteria applied to select Web sites recognized as superior in their categories.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
New libraries join OhioLINK
OhioLINK has grown! Nine new libraries are joining the current band of OhioLINK libraries, for a grand total of 93 institutions.
Three seminaries have just joined, and already have their collections available for borrowing:
Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Pontifical College Josephinum
Trinity Lutheran Seminary
Six public libraries will join and become operational in September:
Cuyahoga Falls Public Library
Greene County Public Library
Portage County District Library
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
Warren-Trumbull County Public Library
Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County
That will be a lot more materials to browse through, order to have on hand in 3-4 business days, and hang on to for up to 15 weeks!
Three seminaries have just joined, and already have their collections available for borrowing:
Six public libraries will join and become operational in September:
That will be a lot more materials to browse through, order to have on hand in 3-4 business days, and hang on to for up to 15 weeks!
OhioLINK Electronic Book Center debuts
OhioLINK has made the following announcement regarding the new Electronic Book Center. This is an exciting addition to our resources:
"The new Electronic Book Center is now available at http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu
We have loaded 5000 e-books from Oxford University Press and Springer.
Additional books are coming from these publishers, but we want to make the E-Book Center available now, even without 100% of the books loaded.
We currently access the Oxford books through Oxford Scholarship Online. We will continue to have access to Oxford's OSO interface, but our own interface makes the same books available within a multi-publisher environment.
We have had access to Springer books at springerlink.com, but this was an interim solution until our own E-Book Center is available.
For the time being, ABC-CLIO reference books remain on a separate interface
at: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/home
We will move ABC-CLIO books over to the new system in September, and then the old "Electronic Reference Books" system will superseded.
These e-books will be accessible from the catalog. From the catalog record for each book, a "rave" URL links to the e-book itself. Catalog records for Springer and Oxford books are in process. Existing "rave" URL's for ABC-CLIO books will point over to the new system, once that migration is complete."
"The new Electronic Book Center is now available at http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu
We have loaded 5000 e-books from Oxford University Press and Springer.
Additional books are coming from these publishers, but we want to make the E-Book Center available now, even without 100% of the books loaded.
We currently access the Oxford books through Oxford Scholarship Online. We will continue to have access to Oxford's OSO interface, but our own interface makes the same books available within a multi-publisher environment.
We have had access to Springer books at springerlink.com, but this was an interim solution until our own E-Book Center is available.
For the time being, ABC-CLIO reference books remain on a separate interface
at: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/home
We will move ABC-CLIO books over to the new system in September, and then the old "Electronic Reference Books" system will superseded.
These e-books will be accessible from the catalog. From the catalog record for each book, a "rave" URL links to the e-book itself. Catalog records for Springer and Oxford books are in process. Existing "rave" URL's for ABC-CLIO books will point over to the new system, once that migration is complete."
Region-free DVD Players Available
The Library has added two region-free DVD players for use in playing DVDs produced in any region in the world. One is set up with a monitor in our IMC room. The other is available at our Circulation Desk for checkout (on a 7-day loan).
We added the region-free DVD players to increase our community's ability to use DVD materials produced worldwide. We also hope to free ourselves from United States release delays of international films. For a brief overview of the whole region issue, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code.
If you would be interested in ordering DVDs that are not available in our region, please be sure to contact the library.
We added the region-free DVD players to increase our community's ability to use DVD materials produced worldwide. We also hope to free ourselves from United States release delays of international films. For a brief overview of the whole region issue, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code.
If you would be interested in ordering DVDs that are not available in our region, please be sure to contact the library.
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