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Professional Collection

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Professional Collection materials are available to NORWELD members for loan through our electronic request system.

1.0 Bi-Folkal Kits/Mini-Kits/Slideas

1.1 Kits must be requested through a NORWELD member library. NORWELD will ship the kit to your library via U.S. Cargo or UPS in advance of your scheduled show date. The kit is due back at the NORWELD office one week after your show date. The date due will be marked on each kit loaned and renewals are discouraged.

1.2 Only one kit may be borrowed by an organization at one time.

1.3 Each library should check each kit as it is received against the enclosed checklist. Check the kit again when it is returned. Your library will be held responsible for the cost of any damaged or missing items.

1.4 A kit may be requested up to one year in advance. Kits will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.

1.5 Each kit should be returned in its original shipping carton via U.S. Cargo or UPS.

1.6 Make certain the Report of Use form in the kit is completed by your patron or your library before returning the kit.

2.0 Book Discussion Collection

2.1 Over 100 titles are available from NORWELD.  To reserve a title, please use the online request system.

2.2 NORWELD member libraries may also borrow from NEO. Click here for a listing of the NEO holdings. To reserve a set, contact Bonnie Tyler at NEO 330-847-7744, ext 10 or Tylerbo@neo-rls.org

2.3 Except for the most recent sets, NEO libraries may borrow items from the NORWELD collection.

2.4 If a library is unable to return all books in a set at the same time, the librarian will send a note with the books stating which copies are missing. Any missing books should be returned as soon as possible.

2.5 A member library will pay the cost of replacing a lost or damaged book plus a $2.00 processing fee. NORWELD will bill the library.

Contact Allan Gray, Director or Carl Ballard for more information.

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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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