The following free NOVELny online training sessions have been scheduled for
the summer.
Grolier, Databases for NOVELNY: June 25, 2009 2 pm (one hour)
Ebsco, Using Searchasaurus: June 29 at 2:00 pm (45 minutes)
Cengage-Gale, Health and Wellness Resource Center Database: July 14 at 10:00 am (one hour)
Cengage-Gale, Health and Wellness Resource Center Database: August 3 at 2:00 pm (one hour)
Information on how to register/participate in these sessions is available at:
http://novelnewyork.org/training.php#online
New York State Librarian, Bernard A. Margolis announced the electronic products that will constitute the NOVELNY (New York Online Virtual Electronic Library) statewide collection for April 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010.
Beginning April 1, 2009 the following products only will be offered through NOVELNY:
- EBSCO Primary Search (with the Searchasaurus/Kid’s Search interfaces) Primary Search includes Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Animals and the American Heritage® Children’s Dictionary*, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin
- Gale Business and Company Resource Center, including Business ASAP
- Gale Newspapers (InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, National Newspaper Index, and New York Custom Newspapers),
- Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center, with Alternative Health
- Grolier Encyclopedia Americana
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- New Book of Knowledge (Grolier)
- ProQuest Platinum (contact the SLS office for a list of the titles included in ProQuest Platinum)
Not included after April 1, 2009:
- Health Reference Center Academic
- Nursing and Allied Health Collection
- General Science Collection
For information on how the databases were selected go to http://novelnewyork.org/09dbfaq.php
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELNY is a pilot project for the Statewide Internet Library connecting New Yorkers to 21st century
information. NOVELNY is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
The NOVELNY Electronic Collection Advisory Team (NECAT) of the NOVELNY Steering Committee is seeking your help. They are interested in feedback on your NOVELNY experience. The survey is composed of only 11 questions.
The survey is available at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=LLoVlH2tZa_2fyIDADdhtRpQ_3d_3d
Your participation is important as your feedback is an integral part of the selection of NOVELNY content. Information on the NOVELNY pilot project can be found at http://novel.nysed.gov/.
The New York State Library is offering the following online training sessions or “webinars” on the following databases:
- June 9, 2008 - Nursing and Allied Health Collection (10:00 am) - This session will preview the new EBSCO host 2.0 features which will debut this summer.
- June 20, 2008 - EBSCO Publishing content included in NOVELNY (1:30pm) - This one-hour session will offer librarians and library staff the opportunity to learn search strategies for the Nursing and Allied Health Collection, and will also preview Cengage-Gale’s Power Search Plus search interface, which allows cross-searching of Cengage-Gale databases.
Online registration for the webinars is available at http://www.novelnewyork.org/training.php
For more information about this webinar, contact David Fiske at the State Library, Division of Library Development by calling 518-486-4857 or by email at dfiske@mail.nysed.gov.
School Library System | June 23, 2009
