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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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From Wisdom to Wi-Fi
A library is no longer a mere home for books. It is a wired-up information center.
Date:2/9/2010
From:The Wall Street Journal
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A World of Words Reinvented in Pictures
Graphic novels
Date:2/9/2010
From:The New York Times
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Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight
Could book publishers suddenly be in the position of telling Google what to do?
Date:2/9/2010
From:New York Times
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Percy Jackson
My boy's own adventure
Date:2/9/2010
From:Guardian
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USDA Funding for Rural Libraries
For libraries serving communities of 20,000 and less
Date:2/9/2010
From:Library Grants
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Police Stations To Open In Chicago Libraries
A pilot city program
Date:2/9/2010
From:Huffington Post
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British Library To Offer Free ebook Downloads
More than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction
Date:2/8/2010
From:Times Online
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Vote For The 2012 Summer Reading Slogan
Be part of Ohio's suggestions
Date:2/8/2010
From:CLSP
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Here's To Librarians
Saviors of the data-weary
Date:2/8/2010
From:Star-Tribune
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Libraries Offers Eager Job-Hunters More Help In Difficult Economy
Date:2/8/2010
From:Mercury News
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Did You Meet The Love of Your Life @ Library School?
A Facebook page from Clarion University
Date:2/5/2010
From:LisNews
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New Reality Show For Book Readers?
Last Gasp Productions
Date:2/5/2010
From:Seattle.pi
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The Beginning of the End...
of Paper Books
Date:2/5/2010
From:Huffington Post
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Benefits of Reading to Children
How reading books will have your kids reading earlier and better.
Date:2/5/2010
From:Suite 101.com
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For Jerry Pinkney's Bunch, Books Bind A Literary Dynasty
The first family of children's literature.
Date:2/4/2010
From:USA Today
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10 Largest Health And Medical Libraries In the World
Important information
Date:2/4/2010
From:Natural Health
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Libraries Together announces the 3rd annual YouTube Video contest
Cool contest!
Date:2/4/2010
From:Quad Cities Online
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Teens Prefer Reading News Online To Twitter
62% of them
Date:2/4/2010
From:Guardian
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Otomen Book 5
Recommended
Date:2/4/2010
From:Manga Worth Reading
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Several Libraries Now Testing Redbox DVD Rental Kiosks
<$1 rentals
Date:2/2/2010
From:Library Journal
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2/2/2010 - Wall Of iPads Could Be Used In Libraries To Display iBooks
Just like this conceptual rendering

2/2/2010 - The Literary Side of the Best Picture Oscar Nominees
Of the ten nominated, four are based on books

2/2/2010 - Book Patrol
Books Into Best-Picture Oscar® Winners To Highlight 2010 California Antiquarian Book Fair

2/2/2010 - Authors Vie For 'Lost' 1970 Booker Prize
See the long list

2/1/2010 - Librarian Library Book Charm Bracelet
It's very cute!

2/1/2010 - Social Media Play Part In Haiti's Recovery Efforts
Homeland security

2/1/2010 - 'Terabithia' Author On Reading In A MySpace World
She is the new Ambassador for Young People's Literature

2/1/2010 - Three Common Myths About Reading Disabilities
Helping Teachers Better Understand Students with Dyslexia

2/1/2010 - Help My Child Read
Reading Resources

1/29/2010 - How to Read More
Tips and ideas

1/29/2010 - How To Publish Your Own Book Online
And make money

1/29/2010 - Michelle Obama's Call to Action has the Library Weighing in on Childhood Obesity
With children's Author Irene Smalls

1/28/2010 - Twelve Tips for Reading More.
Want to read more? Start with a book you enjoy!

1/28/2010 - Six Libraries Win John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Awards
Creative use of social media and web marketing cited

1/28/2010 - Book Buzz
What's new in publishing and on the list

1/28/2010 - Resignation of the Chief at Borders Adds to Unease About Book Sales
1/28/2010 - Calgary Library Ads Target Grocery Shoppers
Right in with the bananas and pastrami.

1/26/2010 - Laura Cummings
Are the children's classics in danger of becoming obsolete?

1/26/2010 - Mixtape
10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians

1/26/2010 - Libraries Without Borders Stands with the People of Haiti
Partnership programs

1/26/2010 - National Leadership Grants
Applications available now

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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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