Happy New Year! 
askON is pleased to announce that our college partners have added the askON click-to-chat button to their online catalogue interfaces. Thank you to Alex Eykelhof and his staff at OCLS for making it happen. This enhancement makes the askON service more accessible and convenient for college students.
Check out Episode 5 of Biblio Tech Podcast to listen to askON’s Project Manager Jan Dawson talk about the askON service with Kayhan Boncoglu, Doug Mirams, and Erin Anderson
A big thank you to our talented, dedicated interns for the interim college schedule.
askON College Fall service resumes Saturday September 24:
Mon to Thurs 11am – 10pm & Fri to Sun 11am – 5pm.
An interim schedule of askON research chat help has been created for 12 participating Ontario colleges for the duration of the labour dispute involving support staff.
Students can get help from college staff 9-5 through regular college channels, including through their college library service website.
In the evenings and on weekends, askON interns (with the leadership of Seneca college staff), will offer research help.
askON and Knowledge Ontario are glad to serve Ontario college students with research help . We do this in anticipation of a fair resolution of the labour dispute that will restore full askON service.
Twelve Ontario colleges offer their students research chat help from wherever they are working their courses.
Need a resource, help with a topic, or to figure out how to get started? Get help from an info pro at askON.ca
Knowledge Ontario wishes a happy Back to School to learners and educators across the province. The eResources Portal is your online knowledge buddy — a treasure trove of information, research help, encyclopedias, historical collections, newspapers new and old, tech help … and so much more! May it be a terrific year!
This month, Hamilton Public Library updated their collection in the OurOntario.ca portal with another 2500 records. The HPL’s PreVIEW collection includes more than 9000 images and collections. Historic images, genealogical information, and more make up the preVIEW collection. Take a look, explore, and see where it takes you!
From the July 2011 edition of KO News.
The July 2011 edition of Knowledge Ontario’s e-newsletter, KO News, is now online. The newsletter discusses the transitional process that KO is currently working through, and provides updates on Ask, Connect, Our, and Resource Ontario, as well as the eResources Portal.
Digitization Facilitators Brigitte Campeau and Stephanie Cann have completed their contracts with the CDP and are moving on to other endeavours.
Brigitte’s work over the last eight months with the West Nipissing partnership included launching an absorbing and beautiful online collection, and galvanize a long-standing partnership between the regional public library, an historic museum and local historical and genealogical societies, all in French and English. The West Nipissing project continues in the capable hands of three Digitization Assistants and the project partners.
Stephanie has been with us since the beginning of the CDP in August 2009, working first at Haldimand County, then Prince Edward/Hastings County and finally with the Seguin & Township area. Stephanie brought three partnerships’ collections online, trained four assistants as well as staff from over 20 cultural organizations of all sizes, and has seen a lot of the province in the process.
We are amazed by and grateful for the excellent work, the endurance, and the experience of all our Digitization Facilitators during this project, including past DFs Morgan Peachey-Dupon, Krista McCracken and Dominique Dufour, and Mauricio Flores Guarneros who is presently working with the North Shore partnership out of Schreiber. The project continues to be a great success thanks to you!
See the latest Notes from the field newsletter for updates and the CDP webpage for information and links to all the collections created over the last two years.
The new and improved Academic Onefile.
Gale Cengage, which provides Academic Onefile, InfoTrac Junior, Gale PowerSearch, and other products through Knowledge Ontario’s eresources portal, has just made several upgrades, enhancing its products’ interface and search functionality. Users can now create personalized accounts to save and manage citations and documents, access additional language options, see trending topics, and more.
Learn all about the new features.
(Disregard the statement on Gale’s website that says that the updates are coming on August 1, 2011. They were made on June 20, 2011.)
