December 2010

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• History, State of Ohio Employees

  This Day in History…

  12.29.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  December 29, 1890 -  Massacre of Indians at Wounded Knee From our government documents collections: Wounded Knee massacre : hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, second session, on S. 1147 and S. 2900 … February 5 and 6, 1976. Voices of Wounded Knee, by Wim Coleman Lincoln: University of [...]

• History, State of Ohio Employees

  This Day in History

  12.25.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  December 25, 1776 – George Washington Crosses the Delaware From our collection: The war of the American Revolution: narrative, chronology, and bibliography Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 2004 The American Revolution, 1775-1783. John Richard Alden, New York, Harper [1954]

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

  This Day in History…Dec 19, 1998

  12.19.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  President Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998. From our government documents collection: Impeachment inquiry : William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States : presentations by investigative counsel: impeachment inquiry pursuant to H. Res. 581: Presentations by investigative counsel, Washington : U.S. G.P.O. (1999) From the Library of Congress: The impeachment and trial of [...]

• Children & Youth Services, State of Ohio Employees

  Great Websites for Kids

  12.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has added more recommended websites to Great Web Sites for Kids, its online resource containing hundreds of links to outstanding websites for children.  This list provides access to quality websites for children 14 years old or younger.  These websites [...]

• State Library News

  State Library Board Member Dr. George Paulson Recognized for Years of Service

  12.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  After ten years of service, Board Member Dr. George Paulson’s term concludes at the end of 2010. Dr. Paulson’s tenure included service as President of the State Library Board from 2007 to 2009 and Vice-President from 2003 to 2005 and 2006 to 2007. At the December meeting Board President Lynn Grimshaw read the retirement resolution  [...]

• Ohio IMLS LSTA, Ohio Public Libraries, Ohio School Libraries, State Library News

  State Library Board awards $27,365 in Federal LSTA Grants to Libraries for Choose to Read Ohio Projects

  12.16.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  The State Library of Ohio is pleased to announce that the State Library Board recently awarded $27,365 in special Choose to Read Ohio LSTA grants to eight libraries. Choose to Read Ohio, a project of the State Library of Ohio and its partner Ohioana, is a statewide initiative to encourage the reading of Ohio literature [...]

• History, State of Ohio Employees

  This Day in History… December 16, 1773

  12.16.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773.  To protest the tax and the East India Company monopoly, colonial patriots disguised as Indians boarded British ships and dumped 350 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The event marks the beginning of the American Revolution. From our collection: The Night the Revolution Began: [...]

• History, State of Ohio Employees

  This Day in History… December 15, 1791

  12.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  On December 15, 1791 the Bill of Rights became law. From our government documents collection: 1791-1991 The Bill of Rights and Beyond [Washington, D.C.] : Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, [1991?] The Bill of Rights [Washington, D.C.? : Center of Military History, 1991?] For more information visit the National Archives website [...]

• State of Ohio Employees

  For State Employees…Articles from the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

  12.14.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Moynihan, Donald P. and Sanjay K. Pandey. “The Big Question for Performance Management: Why Do Managers Use Performance Information?.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 20.4 (2010), 849-866. This article proposes that understanding public employee use of performance information is perhaps the most pressing challenge for scholarship on performance management.  Governments have devoted extraordinary [...]

• State of Ohio Employees

  Check Your Facts

  12.14.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  As more and more of our information comes from online sources it becomes increasingly important to verify the source of the information you are reading.  This great blog post, “In the context of web context: How to check out any Web page” offers some simple tips to ensure that the websites you are using are [...]

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