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Area Digitization Project

In cooperation with the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, 12 public libraries across nine Northwest Ohio counties and NORWELD are partnering to implement a regional document digitization project.

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Date:3/19/2010
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Cookin' The Books at The Seattle Edible Book Festival
5th Annual
Date:3/19/2010
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PLA 2010 Conference
PLA Award Winners Named
Date:3/19/2010
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Social Media Best Practices for Libraries
A list of “do’s and don’ts”
Date:3/18/2010
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The History Of Food
The food timeline
Date:3/18/2010
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Captain Underpants is back!
Date:3/18/2010
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Manhattan's First Green Library Opens in Battery Park City
Nice!
Date:3/18/2010
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7 Tips for Self-Published Authors
Good tips
Date:3/16/2010
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Designing Space for Children and Teens in Libraries and Public Places
How to carve out a niche that epitomizes service
Date:3/16/2010
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Hemingway's Home Gets Literary Honor
Key West, Florida
Date:3/16/2010
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Two Library Magazines Sold
VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), and Teacher Librarian
Date:3/16/2010
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5 Real Librarians Talk About Their Favorite Fictional Librarians
Find out what real librarians think!
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What Makes A Bad Book Bad?
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Reading In Public
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"Comic Book Literacy" Spotlights Learning To Read Through Love Of Comic Books!
A new documentary film
Date:3/15/2010
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Date:3/12/2010
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3/12/2010 - Friday Funny!
8 Librarian Lightbulb Jokes

3/12/2010 - Collaboration Is Wave Of Future For YMCA, LPS, libraries
Interesting idea

3/12/2010 - Return Library Books or Else
Borrowers Arrested for Failing to Return Overdue Books, DVDs

3/11/2010 - Top Public Libraries on Twitter
A few Ohio libraries on the list

3/11/2010 - The Rebirth Of A Bookmobile
It will be a documentary film.

3/11/2010 - Author
Librarian, cybrarian appreciation is 'Overdue'

3/11/2010 - Literary Love
Singles bring their favorite books to five-minute dates

3/11/2010 - Announcing The LISNews Librarian Joke Contest
Starts on Monday!

3/9/2010 - Judging Books by Their Covers
U.S. Vs. U.K.

3/9/2010 - The World Without Public Libraries
One person's ideas

3/9/2010 - Books Overtake Games As Most Numerous iPhone Apps
It's predicted to be a pivotal year for ebooks

3/9/2010 - 2009 Librarian eBook Survey
New research

3/8/2010 - Why We Just Can’t Get Enough Of ‘Alice’
Almost 150 years after its creation

3/8/2010 - FREE Webinar: Gaming & Libraries
March 13th at 1:00pm EST

3/8/2010 - The Battle Of Britain's Libraries
What is their future?

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Featured News

Drupal Comes to NORWELD

Watch this 20 min tutorial for more details

Drupal is an open source web site publishing framework, distributed under the GPL (“General Public License”) that allows easy publishing, managing and organizing of a wide range of content. Thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power a variety of web sites, including community web portals, corporate web sites, social networking sites, personal web sites or blogs, and more.
NORWELD is working with a number of our regional libraries to develop Drupal web sites that will make it easier for libraries to maintain their content, while implementing more Library/Web 2.0 capabilities than ever before.

Nationally recognized Drupal powered sites
Warner Brothers Records, The New York Observer, Popular Science,
Lifetime Television,
The Onion,
Fox Searchlight - The specialty film division of 20th Century Fox, and
Amnesty International.

"My War"

NORWELD, in cooperation with six of its member libraries, has created a new "web exhibit" about World War II that's been excerpted from over 100 oral history interviews conducted in the region over the past year. "My War: Northwest Ohioans Remember World War II" brings local perspective to a subject that is being brought to renewed national prominence by a Ken Burns documentary, "The War."

The web exhibit covers subjects ranging from military training and combat to communications and censorship, life in the military, and the impact of the war on the home front. The clips are searchable by library where the interviews were shot as well as by subject.

The streaming video interviews can be found at www.norweld.lib.oh.us/
ohnarratives/mywar/ and are best viewed over a high speed Internet connection.

(Best viewed with Media Player.)

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Saving your community's Memories

"Saving your Community's Memories" is a 12 minute introduction to the Northwest Ohio Narratives, a program designed by NORWELD to videotape local oral histories in the communities we serve. Since the program's inception in 2006, almost 100 interviews in 10 libraries on topics ranging from World War II to the impact of the railroad have been recorded.

Click Here to view the video.

(Best viewed with Media Player.)

Listservs @ Norweld

Norweld News - A listserv members can use for general communication purposes.

YS List - A listserv for Youth Services librarians.

Tech List - (New!) A listserv for technology discussions and news.

Black Swamp Memories Digital Scrapbook List - (New!) A listserv for the historical photo digitization project involving the Great Black Swamp Region of Ohio.

Oral History List - (New!) A listserv for the Northwest Ohio Narratives project.

Black Swamp Memories Digital Scrapbook
The BSM project is a cooperative effort of the Wood County District Public Library, BGSU, the Wood County Historical Society and NORWELD to create a searchable archive of historic photos of the Great Black Swamp region. The project is funded in part by the State Library of Ohio and can be found at:
blackswampmemories.org/

Additional information about the project may be obtained by contacting Allan Gray at NORWELD.

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R.B. hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index
A cooperative program among the Center and 36 Ohio libraries where a web-based obituary index is maintained with over 800,000 names in the database and citations to another 1.5 million newspaper sources. The site is currently recieving 800,000 hits per month. NORWELD member libraries are provided an initial subsidy by the system to join the project. The database can be accessed here.

Additional information can be obtained by contacting Becky Hill or Allan Gray.

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