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We invite all school librarians/media specialists to meet print media vendors coming this year to the Collection Fair:
For more information please contact Susan Whitworth.
An all-day vendor showcase of the latest in electronic resources for libraries.
Thank you to everyone who made the 2008 DataFest such a success! There are photos posted in the Image Gallery. Here's a blog post from Diane Chen (Past-president, AASL) with her take on the day: Tenn-Share and consortiums
Vendor list:
CQ Press
Political Reference Suite
Voting & Elections Collection
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
Gold Rush
eBrary
eBooks
EBSCO
NoveList / NextReads
American Government
International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center
Encyclopedia Britannica
Britannica Online
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
AP Interactives
Books & Authors
Virtual Reference Library
Global Issues in Context
Greenwood Publishing
Pop Culture Universe
American Indian Experience
Ingram
MyiLibrary
NewsBank
America’s Newspapers Featuring 30 Tennessee Sources
OCLC
netLibrary
Oxford University Press
Oxford Islamic Studies
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
ProQuest
CultureGrams
eLibrary Science
Scholastic
Grolier Online
BookFlix
SOLINET
WorldCat.org - using this free resource
WorldCat through FirstSearch - for subscribers and potential subscribers
Springer
eBook Collection
H.W. Wilson
Art Museum Image Gallery
Graphic Novels Core Collection
Current Issues: Health
WorldBook
WorldBook Online
TEL Training:
EBSCO - Points of View Reference Center
Gale - all databases
Learning Express Library
NewsBank - Tennessee Newspaper Collection
ProQuest - Heritage Quest
Tennessee Innovative Users Group Exploratory Meeting
Everyone is welcome to attend this meeting. We will be discussing the possibility of setting up a group for Tennessee administrators and users of the Innovative integrated library system. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday September 11, 2008, at 4:00 PM in Room 2, Nashville Public Library. The meeting coincides with the TENN-SHARE Datafest and Conference. Please help spread the word to other Innovative libraries.
For more information on this meeting, please contact Jennifer Watson, jenniferwatson@tennessee.edu
Reception showcasing Tennessee’s first state-wide digital history project, Volunteer Voices.
Come visit the Special Collections Room at Nashville Public Library and see the displays and presentations about the project. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be provided.
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We invite all school librarians/media specialists to meet print media vendors coming this year to the Collection Fair:
For more information please contact Susan Whitworth.
Tennessee's Digital Debut
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Ebsco Gets You There!
School Librarians and K-12 Teachers
Apply for up to $150 in scholarship funds
To pay registration and transportation to Tennessee’s Digital Debut.
Enter by marking the box on your registration form.
Keynote: The Power of Primary Sources
Sherrie Galloway, Library of Congress Educator in Residence
Tennessee’s Best Digital Stories
Crossroads to Freedom
The Memphis Civil Rights Digital Project
Suzanne Bonefas & Stacy Pennington, Rhodes College
Volunteer Voices
Tennessee History Project
Tiffani Conner—Lincoln Memorial University
Digital Storytelling: Linking Maps, Artifacts and Images
Tim Henderson—Humanities Tennessee Story Mapper Project
Lunch Courtesy of Gale Group
Digital Collections Breakout Sessions
Using Web 2.0 to Promote Digital Collections
Jason Griffey, UT Chattanooga
Facilitator: Tiffani Conner, Lincoln Memorial University
Educators Using Digital Collections
Sherrie Galloway, L.C. Educator in Residence
Facilitator: Nancy Kemp, Heritage High School
How to Execute a Digital Project
Mayo Taylor, MTSU, Steve Cotham & Sally Polhemus, Knox Public Library
Facilitator: Ken Middleton, MTSU
Need a place to stay? Check out the list of hotels in Nashville.
Door Prizes!
Great Food!
Networking!
Learn and Discover!
Tenn-Share sponsors the session Library 2.0, presented by Kyle Cook and Jenny Ellis of Nashville Public Library, at the TN Association of Independent Schools Biennial Conference .
Tenn-Share will be helping out at the TEL booth at the TN Association of School Librarians conference, and sponosoring the program session Library 2.0, presented by Kyle Cook and Jenny Ellis of Nashville Public Library,
The 2009 Tenn-Share Board Retreat starts Thursday, February 5 at 1:00 p.m. and concludes on Friday, February 6 at 12:00 p.m.
Have lunch with local legislators and thank them for all they do to support libraries.
The 2009 TLA Conference focus "Customer Service is our Heart" promises to be a great event!
Discussion of current and future uses of WorldCat and related products. Led by TN librarians and OCLC representative.
I am pleased to announce Cooperation on a Grand Scale: OCLC WorldCat in Tennessee, a Tenn-Share sponsored session at the Tennessee Library Association Conference. In this session, Tennessee librarians from Academic, Public, and School libraries will share their experiences with WorldCat.org and the future directions of cooperative efforts to provide more access to our collections and to share physical materials. Representatives from OCLC and SOLINET will be present to answer questions, and we will discuss pricing for the Tenn-Share WorldCat renewal.
Cooperation on a Grand Scale will be held on Thursday, April 9th from 12:00-1:30. This is a no-conflict time except for exhibits. OCLC is graciously sponsoring a limited number of lunches for session attendees. To register for a lunch, please e-mail me at databases@tenn-share.org soon.
Presenters include: David Atkins, Univ of TN, Knoxville; Melissa Brenneman, Knox Co. PL; Tiffani Conner, Lincoln Memorial Univ; Wendy Cornelisen, Brentwood Library; Pam Dennis, Lambuth Univ; Katherine Libby, East TN State Univ; Theresa Liedtka, Univ of TN, Chattanooga; Danny Overstreet, OCLC; Rob Aaron, SOLINET; DeAnne Luck, Tenn-Share
Nominations should be sent to Suresh Ponnappa, Past-President of Tenn-Share.
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