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Explore the Traveler: Enhancing Library Resources in Arkansas

Discover how Arkansas libraries utilize Traveler, a robust online resource, to enhance access to databases and educational materials. Learn practical promotion strategies using in-house tools such as posters and bookmarks, and promote Traveler through websites, emails, newsletters, and listservs. This guide includes essential web addresses of notable resources like EBSCO, Britannica, and Gale, along with step-by-step instructions for setting up access. Join us in maximizing the impact of Traveler over conventional search engines.

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Explore the Traveler: Enhancing Library Resources in Arkansas

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  1. How are you using Traveler? Sally Hawkes Arkansas State Library HSTI 2008

  2. In-house Promotion? • Posters or bookmarks • State Library • Produce yourself • Web site, e-mail, newsletter, listserv • Pathfinders • With Curriculum • Databases & ADE Curriculum

  3. Vendor Materials? Free Materials Posters Interactive Materials Bookmarks

  4. Web Access? • Linked from web page • district • school • library • Setting Up Access • Step One - Icons from vendors • Step Two - Web addresses • Why Traveler instead of Google?

  5. Icons • EBSCO  http://tinyurl.com/yu8ggr  • Encyclopædia Britannica http://tinyurl.com/2ch54c • FirstSearch http://tinyurl.com/26kxss • Gale http://tinyurl.com/3bsjv5 • Grolier http://go.grolier.com/kids Click on For Educators to get to Go Downloadable Icons • Desktop Shortcuts http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/traveler/Desktop.htm

  6. Web Addresses • EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/ • Encyclopædia Britannica •  Academic Edition  http://www.search.eb.com •  Public Library Edition http://www.library.eb.com • Britannica Online for Kids www.library.eb.com/kids •  School Editionhttp://www.school.eb.com •  Planeta Saber  www.spanish.eb.com •  Enciclopedia Juvenil (elementary level)   www.spanish.eb.com/juvenil •  Annals of American History Online    www.america.eb.com •  World Data Analyst Online  http://www.world.eb.com •  Webster's Third International Dictionary, Unabridged Online http://www.mwu.eb.com • Gale Discovering Collection  http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/arstate • Grolier New Book of Knowledge  http://go.grolier.com/kids • NetLibraryhttp://www.netlibrary.com • OCLC First Search  http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip

  7. Sally Hawkes • shawkes@asl.lib.ar.us Next registration deadline : June 20

  8. Lagniappe • www.ila.org/netsafe NetSafe:Using the Internet Safely

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