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Facts on File provides a good amount of free promotional materials for the database Science Online, which is available statewide to all public libraries.  You can check them out at:

http://www.factsonfilepromo.com/drc/promomaterials.htm#Science%20Online

From EBSCO:

With the success of last summer's EBSCOhost 2.0 fully ADA compliant release, you now have an excellent alternative to the EBSCOhost Text Only interface, which will be fully retired in the spring of 2009. For more information and user reviews of EBSCO's 508 Accessibility, please visit this site.

Following on the heels of the Ohio Web Library Facebook application we released last week (http://apps.facebook.com/ohioweblibrary...yes, you'll need a FB account to install it), OPLIN is pleased to announce that we have also created a Facebook application for our new beta service, about:books.

Some of you may have noticed already, but OPLIN has added a couple of useful new features to the Ohio Web Library (http://www.ohioweblibrary.org).  They are:

The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) is pleased to invite their Second Life inworld holiday celebration on December 17, from 8 am to 10 am Second Life Time.  (That works out to 11am to 1pm EST). 

Facts on File Science Online, an Ohio Web Library database that is currently available to all public libraries, has announced several new features and the ability to add a search widget [http://oplin.org/content/adding-facts-file-search-widget] (although the Ohio Web Library search widget [http://oplin.org/content/how-do-i-put-ohio-web-library-search-box-my-library-web-page] includes all of the databases, not just Science Online).  From Facts on File:

Thanks to Missy Lodge, all of the presentation materials from last Tuesday's E-Rate workshop are now posted on WebJunction Ohio, on the E-Rate Resources page:  http://oh.webjunction.org/oheratelinks/resources/bparticles

The two power-point files are probably the most helpful for people who could not attend the workshop. Be sure to view the useful notes included with the Form 470 Step by Step power-point.

Recently we were looking at fixing a broken link in the OPLIN self-service interface, and it got us thinking about the value that self service even added. Here at OPLIN we try to hassle you as little as possible, and we came to the realization that asking you to keep track of a user name and password that you rarely use, just to login and file tickets to our standards is unnecessary.

Just a note to let you know that EBSCO has just added Highwire Press from Stanford to their search results.  Highwire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science in the world, with over 2 million free, full-text articles.  To see what Highwire Press has to offer, go to http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl.  If you have any questions, please contact OPLIN Support at support@oplin.org.