Transcript Slide 1

May 2015 Liaison Meeting
May 06, 2015
Announcements & Discussion
Summer Upgrade – to Symphony 3.5
If WF installed under (each) user login to the
computer, library staff member perform update.
Unsure how installed? Ask your Tech Support staff
to uninstall, remove Sirsi folders, and reinstall
under each user login for that computer.
In anticipation of Blue Cloud …
(coming soon) to Symphony!
Announcements & Discussion
4
April 8, 2014
Announcements and Discussion
Beach Bags
 Explore the World of Work : Police Officer
 Explore the World of Work : President
 Explore the World of Work : Veterinarian
 Where Does the Garbage Go?
Camp INFOhio
 Locate from INFOhio homepage  What’s New?
Announcements and Discussion
 End of year checklist
 Calendars
 Patron update forms
 Mitinet
 New Users Council Representative
Announcements and Discussion
Next Year’s Meeting Schedule:
 Wednesday, August 12, 2015 (PD Day)
 Thursday, October 8, 2015
 Tuesday, December 8, 2015
 Wednesday, March 9, 2016 (PD Day)
 Wednesday, May 11, 2016
(AASL Conference – November 5-8, 2015)
Announcements & Discussion
 Training schedule for 2015-2016 posted.
 Magazine records – please submit requests
before summer break so we can load them over
the summer.
 August Professional Development day.
 OELMA news and update.
INFOhio Updates
 Ebsco
 WorldBook
 Learning Express Library
INFOhio Updates – Recognize this?
INFOhio Updates – Recognize this?
INFOhio Updates
…and of course you recognize this:
EBSCO Interface Changes
Ebsco retiring
Searchasaurus,
Kids Search, and
Student Research
Center interfaces
6/30/15.
13
April 8, 2014
EBSCO Interface Changes
 New Explora Interface
 Released
in February
 Available via INFOhio web site in mid-May
 Resembles the Literary Reference Center and Points
of View Reference Center
14
April 8, 2014
EBSCO Interface Changes
 New Explora Interface
 Let’s
take a look:
 Grades
9-12 (Explora Secondary Interface)
 Grades 6-8 (Explora Secondary Interface)
 Grades K-5 (Explora Primary Interface)
Available statewide by mid-May
15
April 8, 2014
World Book Student & Advanced
 New Interfaces released March 22
 Streamlined
appearance
 Content remains largely the same
 Most items available from ‘Take me to’ or ‘Find it by’
 Articles contain navigation tabs similar to iSearch
 ‘My Research’ account should carry over to new site
16
April 8, 2014
World Book Student
 What is missing?
 Surf
17
the Ages discontinued
April 8, 2014
World Book Student
 What is ‘hidden’?
 Explore
18
Ohio
April 8, 2014
World Book Student
 What is missing?
 No
19
longer search “Student + Kids”
April 8, 2014
World Book Student & Advanced
 New Interfaces released March 22
 Roll-out:
 Statewide implementation mid-May
20
April 8, 2014
And that’s not all!
 LearningExpress Libraries
 Improvements
to interface
 Device
agnostic
 New search engine
 Enhanced design to improve workflow
 April
21
release
April 8, 2014
Cherwell Overview
 Cherwell customer guides are available at:
http://www.nccohio.org/support/
 Create/manage tickets via the online customer
portal or via email from your school email
address.
 If you wish to use the online customer portal,
login prior to the end of the school year;
otherwise, your portal access will be revoked for
security purposes.
Time for a break
ISearch Local
You Search!
I Search!
We All Search With ISearch!
OverDrive
 We welcome Stephen Reyes, OverDrive
Acknowledgements
Retiring:
 Yvonne Morbitzer, Rocky River High School
 Laurie Scriven, Berea-Midpark High School
Materials
Materials from today’s event
will be posted to:
www.nccohio.org/library/liaison