July 27, 2012 - 11:52
Vendor Demonstration: Library Aware (EBSCO) - 8/7

Interested in learning how to help your community become aware of all that your library has to offer?  OHIONET members can now sign up for an exclusive vendor demo for EBSCO’s brand new marketing product, Library Aware. 

From the EBSCO team who created NoveList comes an easy-to-use, web-based tool that solves libraries' everyday online and print promotional needs. LibraryAware helps you create, deliver, and measure your promotional messages. With LibraryAware, your community will discover all the programs, products and services you have to offer.

July 6, 2012 - 15:11
Library Aware from EBSCO

Better equip your library to deliver your messages through all free communication channels!

Coming mid-July

From the EBSCO team who created NoveList comes an easy-to-use, web-based tool that solves libraries' everyday online and print promotional needs. LibraryAware helps you create, deliver, and measure your promotional messages. With LibraryAware, your community will discover all the programs, products and services you have to offer.

LibraryAware includes these features and benefits:

July 6, 2012 - 15:10
OCLC adds Linked Data to WorldCat.org

OCLC is taking the first step toward adding linked data to WorldCat by appending Schema.org descriptive mark-up to WorldCat.org pages. WorldCat.org now offers the largest set of linked bibliographic data on the Web. With the addition of Schema.org mark-up to all book, journal and other bibliographic resources in WorldCat.org, the entire publicly available version of WorldCat is now available for use by intelligent Web crawlers, like Google and Bing, that can make use of this metadata in search indexes and other applications.

June 7, 2012 - 13:33
Carrie L. Waibel Joins OHIONET as New Electronic Resources Coordinato​r

Michael P. Butler, Executive Director of OHIONET, and Christine Morris, Director of Member Services, are pleased to announce the selection of Carrie L. Waibel as Electronic Resources Coordinator.  Waibel will negotiate eResources with library vendors on behalf of OHIONET members, specifically for public and K-12 libraries.  

“I am excited to be part of OHIONET, and I look forward to interacting with so many great libraries,” says Waibel.

June 7, 2012 - 07:38
Selover Public Library goes live with COOL and the Evergreen ILS

On Tuesday, June 5th, the Selover Public Library went live with Evergreen on the Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL) shared catalog.

June 6, 2012 - 09:17
EBSCO Small Library Offer From OHIONET

For a limited time, OHIONET is offering qualifying small libraries a discounted DIY focused database package from EBSCO.

Libraries can select four of the following:

June 5, 2012 - 14:40
Mark your calendars for Ohio Library Snapshot Day 2012!

Mark your calendars for Ohio Library Snapshot Day 2012!

 


In Just One Day…

…you can create the story of your library, and how you impact your community.

In Just One Day…

…you can help build the case that will help lawmakers understand the importance of funding & support for Ohio Libraries.

In Just One Day…

…you CAN make a difference.
 

June 4, 2012 - 13:40
OHIONET Special-Honeywell Voyager 9520 Barcode Scanner

Honeywell’s Voyager® 9520 hand-held, single-line laser scanners offer aggressive scanning of all standard 1D bar codes.  The Voyager series of hand-held, single-line bar code scanners have united form with function in becoming the industry benchmark for value and performance.  These sleek scanners feature patented automatic infrared activation and decode all standard 1D bar codes, including GS1 DataBar™ (formerly known as RSS codes).

May 8, 2012 - 10:31
Germantown goes live with COOL and the Evergreen ILS

On Monday, May 7th, the Germantown Public Library went live with Evergreen on the Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL) shared catalog.

Evergreen, the open source ILS originally developed by PINES (Public Information Network for Electronic Services) for the Georgia Public Library Service, is used by over 1,000 libraries across 31 states, 4 countries, and 8 Canadian provinces. This count only includes reported installations, as anybody is free to download, install and try it out for their library.

May 2, 2012 - 12:25
Credo Reference Spring Offer

See why Credo Reference was recently named Library Journal's "Best Overall!"

Credo General Reference is completely customizable by librarians and is a general reference and library discovery tool for patrons. Offering more than three and a half million entries, 580+ highly-regarded titles from over 80 publishers, this high-quality online reference service, provides both credible reference content and a best-in-class technology.