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Teen Tech Week is a perfect opportunity to entice teens to start using the library. ALA's Teen Tech Week website provides a number of great ideas and publicity tools for getting teens into the library, including sample press release templates, letters to the editor, PSA's and logos you can download. 
In her post about Teen Tech Week featured in In the Library with the Leadpipe, Robyn E. Vittek, the Assistant Youth Services Coordinator for Akron-Summit County Public Library reminds us that "Although teens are familiar with the internet and internet-based gadgets (usually before we are) and feel comfortable using them, they don't always use them to their best advantage. The Pew Internet and American Life Project reports that 71% of teens use the internet as their primary source for school projects, but many of those same students need guidance in using the internet effectively. By promoting Teen Tech Week, you're helping to let teens know that the librarians at your facility are information experts - dynamic, interested, up-to-date adults that they can turn to for help with their information needs, and not just encyclopedia pushers."
One way to celebrate Teen Tech Week in North Carolina this March, is to let teens and teachers know about NC LIVE's PBS Video collection. This collection of more than 400 videos can be streamed online, and is a great tool for teachers to grab visual learners' interest. All NC public k-12 schools can stream these videos in their classrooms without a password!
In March, NC LIVE will add 24 new titles to our current NC LIVE Video Collection, including Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion, Ken Burns's The War, Oliver Twist, King Lear, and more!
In March we'll also be giving the NC LIVE Video Collection website a facelift to give it a more modern look and feel. More information about the new NC LIVE Video Collection website and PBS videos coming soon!
Put NC LIVE Resources to Work for You!
To celebrate this year's National Library Week that runs April 11-17th, NC LIVE is promoting the use of online resources that work for North Carolina citizens, saving them money and time.
Resources like SimplyMap, ReferenceUSA, Morningstar, the Wall Street Journal, and Business Source Premier provide important business information to local entrepreneurs, investors, and small business owners who are looking to get their business started, or grow their customer base.
For those who are job hunting or looking to jump start their careers, LearningExpress Library contains interactive practice tests, a resume builder, and eBooks, and NetLibrary contains more than 200 employment-related eBooks that were added last spring.
In preparation for this year's National Library Week celebration, please distribute this information to all library staff at your library, especially those at public service points, and consider taking part in some of our upcoming training opportunities listed below!
SimplyMap:
ReferenceUSA:
Other Tutorials and Training Opportunities:
Around noon on Thursday, February 11th, EBSCO reported some slowness with connecting to EBSCOhost databases. This problem was resolved shortly after 1:00 pm the same day. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Help Desk. Thank you.
Preview the new NC LIVE website!
NC LIVE staff are excited to officially announce the *beta release* of the new NC LIVE website: http://new.nclive.org
The new website will be available for use in beta through the end of June 2010. In July, we'll make the permanent switch to the new website. Between now and July, we will perform usability testing and gather feedback from end-users and library staff to continue improving the site.
You can access the new NC LIVE website from a link in the News section of our current homepage (http://nclive.org), or through the NC LIVE login page (http://nclive.org/authhome.phtml).
Why we need your help!
We invite you and your library patrons to begin testing and using the new website. As it is still in it's beta form, we realize that the new website may have some unexpected issues that we hope you will help us identify. When we permanently switch to the new website in July, it is our goal to make the change as seamless as possible for library staff and patrons. We welcome any comments, feedback, or suggestions you may have.
We have provided a link from the homepage of the new site where you may provide us with feedback: http://new.nclive.org/?q=feedbackform
The new website features a few key changes, including:
- Improved log-in process. Users no longer need to log-in until
they click on a subscription resource link.
- EBSCOhost Integrated Search box embedded on all content pages * Integrated NC LIVE chat and NC Knows 24/7 online chat service
- A "Top 5 Resources" widget that displays the most used resources
at your library
- "Discover Pages" that surface certain content (articles, books,
videos, etc.) as it relates to specific end-user needs. Content
for these pages was created by librarians to expose end-users to
additional NC LIVE content.
Interested in learning more about the new NC LIVE website?
Take the Tour! - NC LIVE staff will offer several 30 minute online sessions, hitting the highlights of the new website and providing time for open question and answer. Online tours will be given:
- Wednesday, January 27th, 3PM
- Thursday, January 28th, 11AM
- Tuesday, February 2nd, 11AM
- Wednesday, February 3rd, 2PM
To participate, please register here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3NGTP7B
Don't forget: All of our upcoming training opportunities are also listed on the NC LIVE website in the Library Staff Resources > Training Page (http://nclive.org/training/training.phtml).
We are looking forward to hearing what you think!
On January 20th, NC LIVE will release the beta version of it's new website. The new website will be made available for users and library staff to begin trying through a link from the current http://nclive.org homepage, as well as the remote-user log-in page.
The current website will remain the default landing page until July 2010, when the change is officially made to the new website.
Between January and July, NC LIVE staff will gather feedback and perform usability testing with end-users. (Pictured Below: Screenshot of the new website.)
Features of the new website include:
- Users will be able to see NC LIVE resources & content and will only be prompted for a password when they click a link to one of our subscription resources.
- EBSCOhost Integrated Search federated searching capabilities with an embedded search box on all content pages.
- A "Top 5 Resources" widget, highlighting the 5 most commonly used databases at your library, based on usage statistics.
- Integrated NC Knows 24/7 online chat service.
- "Discover Pages" surfacing certain content (articles, books, videos, etc.) as it relates to specific end-user needs and interests.
On January 20th, a message will be sent to the NC LIVE listserv with information on how you can use and provide feedback on the new website.
Interested in learning more about the new NC LIVE website?
Take the Tour! - NC LIVE staff will offer several 30 minute online sessions, hitting the highlights of the new website and providing time for open question and answer. Online tours will be given:
- Wednesday, January 27th, 3PM
- Thursday, January 28th, 11AM
- Tuesday, February 2nd, 11AM
- Wednesday, February 3rd, 2PM
To participate, please register here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3NGTP7B.
Don't forget: All of our upcoming training opportunities are also listed on the NC LIVE website in the Library Staff Resources > Training Page.
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