Building the Digital Citizen [1]
Join KO at Super Conference
Have we got a session or two for you!
If you're heading to OLA's Super Conference in February, you can connect with KO in a dozen different ways. We're offering three pre-conference sessions, a stream of conference sessions, and have a big booth at the expo where you can demo the services and talk to us.
Details are in the last item in this newsletter or you can download KO at a glance [2] here. We look forward to seeing you.
ASK ONTARIO
Interested in becoming an askON partner? The askON team has fielded many inquiries from libraries interested in becoming askON partners for September 2010. To gauge the level of interest and help everybody understand how the service functions we've scheduled the first two information sessions for potential partners:These will be 30-45 minute virtual sessions. The askON project team will review the operational aspects of askON, the toolkit, the technology, outline partner responsibilities and benefits and answer your questions.
INFO SESSIONS
- Tuesday February 16 - 10:30am
- Friday February 19 - 10:30am
Please RSVP to Virginia Roy for either date: vroy@knowledgeontario.ca [3]More dates to come.
KO at a glance here [4].
Super Conference [7], and outlining next steps...
UNCHThe 1812 History Project
Our Ontario is partnering with the 1812 History Project that is designed to make the surviving records and artefacts from the 1812 period available online. Our Ontario is providing toolkit services and a specially scoped hosted site to the collaborating partners:
- Brock University,
- Jordan Historical Museum,
- Niagara Falls Museum,
- Niagara Historical Society Museum,
- Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum, and
- RiverBrink Art Museum
The project's website will launch February 18th from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. at the Niagara Historical Society Museum in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Bookmark the 1812 History website [8] and check back to see some extraordinary documents, objects, and images from Ontario's 1812 era.
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ASK ONTARIO
Internship program keeps askON humming
Last spring, in partnership with U of T's iSchool, askON launched a pilot project to train second year students and recent library school grads to work on askON/ONdemande, the province's collaborative virtual reference service.
Now a pool of close to 30 students volunteer up to two hours a week in the askON service. "Its a winning situation for everyone involved," said Virginia Roy, project manager.
"Despite everyone's best efforts the library partners aren't able to provide enough staff to cover the capacity the service needs, especially in evenings and on weekends. The students help fill slots in those very busy hours and get fantastic frontline virtual reference training and experience," she continued.
The askON management team trained 11 more student interns in January and had interest from over 30 students. A great article [10] on the program can be found in the iSchool News.
Share the link with others who have stories to tell http://www.knowledgeontario.ca/testimonials/ [12]
Read what others [13] have already said (thank you!)
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Download this page [15]
Wednesday February 24
3 pre-conference sessions
- Beyond Ratings and Reviews [16] (BiblioCommons). Session 6: 9:30 a.m-4:00 p.m. (Connect Ontario)
- Knowledge Ontario Databases: Find them. Know them. Use them [17]. Session 7: 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (Resource Ontario)
- Go Virtual: The 23 Skills and Habits of Great Virtual Reference Staff [18]. Session 9: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (Ask Ontario)
4 sessions, booth 813-817
- Ontario Government Documents: Digitization and Online Access [19]. Session #302 9:05 a.m. (Our Ontario)
- Virtual Reference Voice ... the Next Frontier [20]. Session 328 9:05 a.m. (Ask Ontario)
- Breaking down Barriers with BiblioCommons [21]. Session 411 10:40 a.m. (Connect Ontario)
- Community Digitization Program: Collaboration and Capacity Building [22]. Session #623 3:45 p.m. (Our Ontario)
- Expo booth 813-817 for demos and information
2 sessions, booth 813-817
- Are You Atomic? LearnON & the Atomic Learning Pilot [23](Learn Ontario). Session #1025 9:05 a.m.
- Exploration d'Eureka.cc [24] Training conducted in French (Resource Ontario). Session #1204 2:10 p.m.
- Digitizing Community Newspapers: The Our Ontario Experience [25]. Session #1327 3:45 p.m.
- Expo booth 813-817 for demos and information
2 sessions
- Knowledge Ontario on Northern Roads [26] (KO). Session #1722 9:05 a.m.
- Technology Got You Stuck? Help is at Hand [27]. Session #1818 10:40 a.m.
Knowledge Ontario
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