Archive for March, 2007

Tracey and Shana attend national ACRL Conference

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Tracey and Shana will be attending the ACRL Conference Wednesday through Friday. They will be back Monday.

Tracey stayed to attend a preconference workshop on marketing on Thursday. The workshop was presented by MARL, the ACRL group that recognized ZCL for its marketing efforts.

Shana will be staying for the whole conference which ends on Sunday.

Ask them about the conference when you see them.

Have some fun with Google Maps!

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Have fun–go the this site for 50 suggestions for Google map mashups.

Suggestions for using include finding the best beer in Ontario, locating the cheapest gas in your area, or finding the best spots for UFO sightings.
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/12/50-things-to-do-with-google-maps.html

OhioLink adds 8 millionth scholarly research article!

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

The eight millionth scholarly research article was recently added to OhioLINK’s award-winning Electronic Journal Center. The EJC provides students, faculty and staff at participating OhioLINK institutions with instantaneous online access to more than 7,100 journals from 101 publishers.

OhioLINK users downloaded 4.9 million articles from the EJC in 2006. A total of 25 million articles have been downloaded from the EJC since its inception in April 1998.