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The Discovery Diaries

By Gwen Evans on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 2:15pm (updated Friday, October 10, 2014 - 9:31am)

Ask college librarians how prepared they think incoming freshmen are for college-level work, and their answers are sadly consistent: today’s students aren’t prepared. Bridging that gap is a common interest for OhioLINK, Ohio’s academic library consortium, and INFOhio, Ohio’s PreK-12 digital library. Drawing on their 20-year history of working together–along with public libraries and the State Library of Ohio–to cost-effectively provide research resources to all Ohioans, OhioLINK and INFOhio are now investigating the next step. Using a common tool–EDS–but two different approaches, OhioLINK and INFOhio are transforming research with search and discovery and helping ease the transition to college for Ohio’s students.

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‘Lawbrarian’ Helps Patrons Understand Copyright Issues

By Susan Mantey on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 11:45am (updated Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 12:07pm)

Editor’s note: This column showcases the extraordinary talent and leadership of the librarians and staff at OhioLINK’s member institutions. If you have suggestions for a library staff member who should be featured in this series, please email Meghan Frazer at mfrazer@ohiolink.edu (link sends e-mail).

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Music Librarianship: In Tune with Patron Needs

By Susan Mantey on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 11:30am (updated Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 12:33pm)

Editor’s note: OhioLINK is launching this column to showcase the extraordinary talent and leadership of the librarians and staff at OhioLINK’s member institutions. If you have suggestions for a library staff member who should be featured in this series, please email Meghan Frazer at mfrazer@ohiolink.edu.

A specialty niche among libraries, music librarianship enables people to combine passions for music, information and helping others.

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Ch-ch-changes! 1224 Kinnear Road

By Jamie Abel on Friday, June 13, 2014 - 9:15am (updated Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 1:37pm)

These days, as modern philosophers like to say, the only constant is change. With that thought in mind, I decided to document some of the changes currently underway at 1224 Kinnear, but also to take a "deeper dive" into how that particular piece of property had evolved over the last century. What I found was far more interesting that I had suspected!

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Review: IUG 2014 conference takes a deeper dive

By Emily Flynn on Monday, May 19, 2014 - 2:08pm

Each library conference has a different feel, which is usually determined by the number of attendees. The bigger the conference, the broader the discussions and less detailed the presentations. Recently, two OhioLINK co-workers and I attended the Innovative Users Group (IUG) conference in Detroit, MI. Even with the size of 1000+ attendees, topics focused on workflows, processes, and system implications of proposed changes, and many presentations took a walkthrough approach.

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Celebrating OhioLINK Librarians

By Meghan Frazer on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 4:52pm

More than 1,600 librarians and support staff work at OhioLINK’s 91 member institutions. While I’m impressed with their dedication every day, I’d like to express my admiration this week in particular, as April 13-19 marks National Library Week.

Librarians and staff at our member institutions teach. They code. They blog. They painstakingly explain over and over again why Wikipedia is good for some things but not for others.

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National Innovation Day: Go Forth and Invent

By Tom Walker on Friday, February 14, 2014 - 9:15am (updated Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 1:38pm)

The first thing I did when the opportunity to write this blog presented itself was to Google National Innovation Day—and what I found made me smile.

National Innovation Day, which is observed annually in the United States every February 16, was created to encourage children and young people to be creative and innovative.

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Four Simple Rules of Internet Safety

By Mark Beadles on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 1:45pm (updated Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 1:38pm)

It's no secret that the Internet has become a dangerous place. The privacy of our personal information is threatened by criminals seeking financial gain. Far from victimless, these crimes affect us all. Hackers stole 70 million credit card numbers from a major retailer in a recent data breach. Two million users of popular social networks had their passwords stolen in 2013 by online criminals. Security experts have estimated that up to one out of every three of us has been the victim of some sort of privacy breach.

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Digital Learning Day in Ohio

By Verda McCoy on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 11:30am (updated Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 1:38pm)

You might wonder, “What is Digital Learning?” According to Ohio Senate Bill 316, “Digital learning, means learning facilitated by technology that gives students some element of control over time, place, path or pace of learning.” Digital learning encompasses the effective use of technology to empower teachers and students. Digital Learning Day (DLD) allows schools a set time to discuss and share ways to provide every child the opportunity to learn in a robust digital environment every day, with the goal of success in college and a career. It is a day to celebrate and empower teachers, showcase innovative usages of technology and share resources.

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Privacy in the Internet Age: Dogs, Phish and Wolves

By Mark Beadles on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 4:00pm (updated Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 1:39pm)

In the early years of the Internet, there was a cartoon that depicted a dog sitting at a computer. The caption read, “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” Today, that caption might instead read, “On the Internet, not only do we know you’re a dog, but we know your breed, your pawprint and your preferred dog food.” As the Internet has grown, it’s become harder to protect our personal information from prying eyes.