New ProQuest Platfrom Training Webinars – Free

These webinars are an easy way for you and your users to become familiar with all that the new platform offers.

See all of the live and recorded sessions that are available.

Here are just a few of the 60-minute webinars that are being offered:

• Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform: April 7 and April 12
  Learn how the new ProQuest platform can make your life easier—and how users will be able to search, find, use, and share their research in exciting ways. We will also answer questions and show you how to access support, including tutorials, help pages and documentation.
• K-12 Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform: April 6 and April 7
• New ProQuest Platform FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions): April 13 and April 26
  A great way to get answers to the questions we hear most such as: “How do I get started?” … “What has changed?” … and more. An open forum for additional questions will follow.
• My Research: April 5 and April 21
  See how the powerful My Research tool—now on the new ProQuest platform—allows users to create a profile within their institutional account to save and organize search strategies and references, create and save RSS feeds, email alerts, tags, and shared lists.
• See all the sessions available.

Check out these recorded webinars if you can’t attend the scheduled webinars:

• Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform
• Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform (Spanish)
• Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform (French)

Live and recorded sessions in more languages are available. To request on-site or online training for the new ProQuest platform or ProQuest databases, please contact Christa Werle, x7160.

Be sure to also check out our platform demo and the continuously-updated list of databases on the new platform.

Get Ready for the New Ancestry® Library Edition Search Interface

Spring is truly bringing change to us this year!

Release of the new Ancestry Library Edition search interface, with a clean and crisp design that improves the overall user experience is scheduled for release on April 13, 2011.

The new Ancestry Library Edition search interface will include these noteworthy highlights:

• Improved look and feel for a more intuitive user experience
• Location filters allow searching across adjacent counties
• Map filters
• Name filters with Soundex
• Type ahead features
• Improved country and state pages

Documents and Local History in Reference

Government documents (such as budgets and comprehensive plans) and donations of local history material are often added to community library reference collections.

Although many documents are found on the internet, local documents (city and city departments) may be added to your collection if they are final copies, not drafts.  Local history items are reviewed prior to processing and cataloging to determine if they’re eligible for bindery.  And any and all items that could be considered reference should be sent to Terry Beck.

Please do not send things directly to Catalog Services.  Thank you for your eagle-eyes when spotting those local history finds!