April 2012

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• Continuing Education, FrontPage, State & Federal Documents News, State of Ohio Employees

  Join Us for a Free Census Webinar

  04.24.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  The State Library of Ohio invites you to our training room on May 4 to view a North Carolina Library Association-sponsored webinar on data in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The American Community Survey replaced the decennial census long form in 2010. The ACS has a very different methodology than the decennial census and [...]

• Continuing Education

  Source for Video Tutorials

  04.24.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the desk of … Katie Campbell, Library Consultant State Library of Ohio Grovo is an online education and training platform that helps people find and use sites, and helps sites reach and educate users. Before Grovo, there was no single, centralized location for Internet education and training. Grovo produces free and Premium Business video [...]

• FrontPage, History, State of Ohio Employees

  This Day in History: April 24, 1948

  04.24.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  April 24, 1948 -  The Berlin airlift begins to relieve surrounded city. To save a city : the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949 D 301.82/7:B 45   Federal Documents Compact Shelving

• FrontPage, State of Ohio Employees

  Free Visits to National Parks

  04.23.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is National Park Week, and entrance to all national parks is free through April 29th. If you need to plan ahead, June 9th will be Get Outdoors Day, and entrance fees will once again be waived. Additional free entrance days are planned for September and November. Ohio is the home of ten National Park [...]

• FrontPage, State of Ohio Employees

  From the Reference Desk: A Question I Can Finally Answer

  04.23.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the Reference Desk… As a librarian, I get satisfaction from finding answers, and the questions that I cannot answer can stick in my mind for years. Today I found the answer to a question I received a couple of years ago: What was the first Baptist church congregation founded in Ohio? I have bookmarked [...]

• Continuing Education

  Free Online Education Opportunities for April 2012

  04.23.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the desk of … Katie Campbell, Library Consultant State Library of Ohio Listed below are FREE programs American Management Association, Booklist, Colorado State Library, Common Knowledge, Education Week, Grantspace, Harvard Business Review, Infopeople, InSync Training, Library Journal, National Library of Medicine, O’Reilly, San Jose State University – SLIS, SirsiDynix , TechSoup, TL Virtual Café, [...]

• Children & Youth Services, FrontPage

  PLA Conference session notes: A Wealth of Words

  04.23.12 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  By Janet Ingraham Dwyer, Youth Services Library Consultant I’m sharing notes from the sessions I attended at the 2012 Public Library Association Conference in Philadelphia last month, in hopes that this information will be useful to the youth services community and others. An excellent program, A Wealth of Words: Helping Families Build Young Children’s Language [...]

• FrontPage, History, State of Ohio Employees

  This Day in History: April 23, 1969

  04.23.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  April 23, 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Senator Robert Kennedy. Why Robert Kennedy was killed; the story of two victims E840.8.K4 J36  Stacks

• FrontPage, History, State of Ohio Employees

  This Day in History: April 22, 1954

  04.22.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  April 22, 1954 – The Senate Army-McCarthy hearings begin.  They are broadcast on television. Joseph McCarthy : reexamining the life and legacy of America’s most hated senator. E748.M143 H47 2000   Stacks

• FrontPage, History, State of Ohio Employees

  This Day in History: April 21, 1918

  04.21.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  April 21, 1918 – German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, “The Red Baron,” is shot down and killed. The day the Red Baron died TL540.R5 T5 1970 B   Stacks

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