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ODCE 2008 Preliminary Program, Registration Now Available

Are you interested in teaching and learning, student success, moving Ohio forward or transforming technologies? Then you should attend Ohio's premier higher education conference, the Ohio Digital Commons for Education 2008: The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology Conference, on March 3-4, 2008. View the preliminary program and register online today. ODCE 2008 will feature 45 engaging sessions, technology demonstrations at Innovation Island, a keynote session by Chancellor Eric Fingerhut, vendor exhibits and more. Six pre-conference workshops will be offered on Sunday, March 2: Creating Accessible MS Word, MS PowerPoint and PDF Documents Second Life Bootcamp Introduction to Multimedia Production for Classroom, Web-based and Distance Instruction Redesigning Courses Using the NCAT Approach Integrating Quality Matters in the Course Development Process Social Networking for Dummies! Registration fees are $325 for the entire two-day conference, or $200 for only one day. There is a reduced fee for college students. Register by February 7 and receive $50 off regular registration fees. New this year is a special, underwritten one-day rate of $75 for high school teachers or students (sorry, no early bird rate for this option).

New Reference E-Books Cover Adoption, Illegal Immigration, the Internet and Society and More

Need a quick fact, illustration or overview of a topic? Try a reference e-book. Fourteen new electronic reference books, including encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections and guides, have been added to the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center. These latest additions brings the total number of available titles in the Electronic Book Center to 8,800 (516 are reference e-books from ABC-CLIO, 1,302 are from Oxford University Press and 6,982 are scholarly books from Springer).

The recently added reference e-books are:

• Adoption: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition by Barbara A. Moe
• Artillery: An Illustrated History of its Impact by Jeff Kinard
• Chemical And Biological Warfare: A Reference Handbook Second Edition by Al Mauroni
• Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Reference Handbook by Karen L. Kinnear
• Conflicts Over Natural Resources: A Reference Handbook by Jacqueline Vaughn
• A House Divided during the Civil War Era edited by Rodney P. Carlisle
• Illegal Immigration: A Reference Handbook by Dr. Michael LeMay
• The Internet and Society: A Reference Handbook by Bernadette H. Schell
• Jamestown Colony: A Political, Social, and Cultural History by Frank E. Grizzard
• Manifest Destiny and the Expansion of America edited by Rodney P. Carlisle
• Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook by Donna R. Kemp
• Milestones in Archaeology: A Chronological Encyclopedia by Tim Murray
• Submarines: An Illustrated History of its Impact by Paul E. Fontenoy
• U.S. Military Service: A Reference Handbook by Cynthia A. Watson

Looking for more e-books? Try OhioLINK's other e-book collections: the History E-Book Project, netLibrary, and the Safari Tech Books Online Collection. Your library may provide additional e-books, so be sure to ask what is available.

Love OhioLINK? Enter Our Video Contest!

Help us celebrate OhioLINK's 15th anniversary! We want to know what OhioLINK means to you, how it has helped you or how you'd explain OhioLINK to your peers. But don't just tell us, show us, in five minutes or less, your OhioLINK story or commercial in a creative video and you could win a new digital video camera or a 160 GB iPod classic.

The Basics:
Current students, faculty and staff members at all 87 OhioLINK member institutions are welcome to submit one or more videos. Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. EST on January 18, 2008. A panel of judges will narrow the entries to three finalists, then your votes will determine the grand prize winner and runner up. The grand prize winner will receive his/her choice of a digital video camera or a new 160 GB iPod classic and the runner up will receive the remaining prize.

Visit the contest Web site for complete details.

Update: Catalog Keyword Searching Fixed

The problem with keyword searching in the OhioLINK Library Catalog that was reported earlier today has been fixed and keyword searching is again working properly.

Celebrating 15 Years - Fall 2007 OhioLINK Update Newsletter Now Online

The special 15th anniversary edition of the OhioLINK Update newsletter is now online. Both PDF and HTML versions are available, or ask for a print copy at your library. Highlights: Celebrating 15 Years: Need for OhioLINK Remains Stronger Than Ever The main article provides a synopsis of how the OhioLINK program has changed the way Ohio faculty, staff and students teach, learn and research over the past 15 years, as well as some of the program's future plans. This is MY OhioLINK Video Contest As we celebrate OhioLINK's 15th anniversary, we'd like to know what OhioLINK means to you, how it has helped you or how you would explain OhioLINK to your peers. But don't just tell us, show us, in five minutes or less, your OhioLINK story or commercial in a creative video and you could win a new digital video camera or a 160 GB iPod classic.