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• Digital Media, FrontPage, Genealogy, History, Ohio Memory, Rare Book Collection

  Now Online: Ayduth Lachayim: Witness to Life

  04.26.13 | Permalink | Comment?

  Digital Items in Ohio Memory by Shannon Kupfer Digital/Tangible Media Cataloger Librarian, State Library of Ohio During the Holocaust, Sonja Marsh, a Polish Jew, lived by “staying one step ahead of the Nazis” and carrying false papers.  By 1980, however, she was a smiling grandmother in Cleveland, Ohio, seeking to document her experience for her [...]

• Genealogy, General, History, Ohio IMLS LSTA, State Library News, State of Ohio Employees

  State Library of Ohio awards $2,758,000 federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) LSTA grant for Libraries Connect Ohio to purchase statewide databases.

  06.02.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  The State Library of Ohio Board recently approved a $2,758,000 federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) LSTA grant for Libraries Connect Ohio to purchase the Ohio Web Library core set of electronic databases for the approaching year. “Using LSTA funds to support this statewide collection ensures access to critical information and resources for [...]

• Genealogy, History, State of Ohio Employees

  This Day in History

  05.16.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  May 16, 1868 – Senate acquits President Andrew Johnson Trial of Andrew Johnson President of the United States … on impeachment … for high crimes and misdemeanors Y 6.1:J63/3 federal docs

• Genealogy, State of Ohio Employees

  Stay Calm: Three Books to Squelch Stage Fright

  05.13.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  On March 31, NPR ran a story entitled Stay Calm:  Three Books to Squelch Stage Fright.  After you’ve read the article and listened to the story, you can check out all three titles from the State Library of Ohio.  The three books are:  Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln, Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes, and The [...]

• Genealogy, State of Ohio Employees, Technology

  Mobile Website Design

  04.29.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Thinking of designing a mobile website for your agency?  The web has gone mobile with more and more people searching for information from their smartphones on the go.  According to a new report by Forrester Research, 1 in 5 employees are using smartphones to perform work duties.  Can they easily find information about your agency [...]

• Genealogy, State & Federal Documents News, State of Ohio Employees

  Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue

  04.22.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Government Accountability Office recently released a report entitled “Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue”. This is GAO’s first annual report to Congress in response to a new statutory requirement that GAO identify federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives, either within departments or government wide, which have [...]

• Genealogy, State of Ohio Employees

  Check out this website for a new way to go green.

  11.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Go Green! Aptly entitled Print What You Like, this free, easy-to-use online editor lets you format any web page before printing. Print What You Like was created by Jonathan Koomjian and Cassie Schmitz, two web developers from Des Moines, Iowa, “ who were frustrated that there was no way to print web pages without wasting [...]

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