Traveler PortalSally HawkesArkansas State Librarywww.library.arkansas.govsally@library.arkansas.gov

Opening page draft

Federated Searching

One Access Point•One web address

▫Use the master web address▫Create your own link from your web page

Access for all• From the Traveler web site a user selects a database to access• If the IP address that the user is coming from is registered in arsl-agent

▫ The user is granted access to the database• If the IP address the user is coming from is not registered in arsl-agent

▫ The user is directed to the error page (or one that is created by the local web master) and this message: We are unable to automatically authenticate you Please Login in using your zipcode and telephone

number• From this page the user would click on the link “zip code and

telephone number” which send the user to the following page

Zip code/Phone page

• Find Your Library: • Zip Code: • Phone Number:   • If you are an Arkansas resident and your library is

not listed: Try this

*All fields must be completed before clicking Submit

This URL s maintained by A-G since it is accessing a validation database.

Content•Database List

▫Individual titles▫Joint Search

•Digital Collections▫Collections from Arkansas Libraries

•Training Guides•Handouts•What do you want to include?

What you do need to do . . .•Have you registered your school since

April 2009?•If so, is your registration current?•Next deadlines

▫April 8▫May 14

Work in Progress•The page is currently being built•Hopefully ready by May 1•Three workshops at HSTI

▫2 for librarians▫1 for IT

•Workshop at AASL•Talk to Co-ops about scheduling training

sessions about portal and Britannica, EBSCO and Gale

Subscription 2011/2012• Begins August 2011• Renews current database, if funds continue to be available• Britannica Britannica Online (academic edition); Britannica Online Library Edition & link to Britannica for Kids 

(public libraries) Britannica Online School Edition (Encyclopædia Britannica; Compton's Encyclopedia and Britannica Elementary; Learning Zone PreK-2)Annals of American History Online; Spanish Reference Center includes Enciclopedia Universal en Español & Enciclopedia Juvenil; World Data Analyst Online; Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged Online

• EBSCOhost Web  Academic Search Elite; Business Source Elite; Consumer Health Complete; ERIC; Health Source: Consumer Edition; Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; Legal Collection; MasterFILE Premier; MAS Ultra:School Edition; Middle Search Plus; Newspaper Source;Primary Search; Professional Development Collection; Regional Business News;Student Research Center; TOPICsearch; Vocational & Career Collection; World History Collection

Kid’s Search (K-6), Searchasaurus; Student Research Center (6-12)  • Gale -- Discovering Collection; Gale General OneFile  & 25 PowerPak databases; Gale’s Virtual Reference Library   • OCLC FirstSearch  ArticleFirst®;  Clase and Periódica--Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Systems;Electronic Collections Online™ (Index only); Electronic Books (Ebooks) (index only); ERIC--U. S. Department of Education;  GPO Monthly Catalog -- U. S. Government Printing Office;  MEDLINE--U. S. National Library of Medicine; OCLC PapersFirst®; OCLC ProceedingsFirst®  World Almanac Group; WorldCat® (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) 

Added in 2009 - CAMIO – [Catalog of Art Museum Images Online-ID & password separate]  ArchiveGrid – [detailed archival collection - ID & password separate ]  

NetLibrary = EBSCO eBooks• EBSCO IT is working fixing authentication• July 1 introduced EBSCO eBooks

▫ Click on New Features in EBSCO to Preview• eBooks on EBSCOhost

▫ Some noteworthy features of this new design include: View eBook Table of Contents from search Result List Navigate to eBook chapters or sections directly from Result List and

Detail Record Search within a book for specific terms, yielding a list of

hyperlinked pages Create notes and retain links to the eBook pages viewed when notes

were added Users can place a hold on limited simultaneous user books that are

currently checked out, and view place in line• Library’s collection will display first, then Traveler