1. Traveler Portal Sally Hawkes Arkansas State Library

2. Opening page draft

3. Federated Searching

4. One Access Point One web address Use the master web address
Create your own link from your web page

5. Access for all
From the Traveler web site a user selects a database to access
If the IP address that the user is coming from is registered in
arsl-agent
The user is granted access to the database
If the IP address the user is coming from is not registered in
The user is directed to the error page (or one that is created by the local web master) and this message:
We are unable to automatically authenticate you
Please Login in using your zipcode and telephone number
From this page the user would click on the link “zip code and telephone number” which send the user to the following page

6. Zip code/Phone page Find Your Library: Zip Code: Phone Number:
If you are an Arkansas resident and your library is not listed: Try this
*All fields must be completed before clicking Submit
This URL s maintained by A-G since it is accessing a validation database.

7. Content Database List Digital Collections Training Guides Handouts
Individual titles
Joint Search
Digital Collections
Collections from Arkansas Libraries
Training Guides
Handouts
What do you want to include?

8. What you do need to do . . .
Have you registered your school since April 2009?
If so, is your registration current?
Next deadlines
April 8
May 14

9. Work in Progress The page is currently being built
Hopefully ready by May 1
Three workshops at HSTI
2 for librarians
1 for IT
Workshop at AASL
Talk to Co-ops about scheduling training sessions about portal and Britannica, EBSCO and Gale

10. Subscription 2011/2012 Begins August 2011
Renews current database, if funds continue to be available
Britannica Britannica Online (academic edition); Britannica Online Library Edition & link to Britannica for Kids  (public libraries) Britannica Online School Edition (Encyclopædia Britannica; Compton's Encyclopedia and Britannica Elementary; Learning Zone PreK-2)Annals of American History Online; Spanish Reference Center includes Enciclopedia Universal en Español & Enciclopedia Juvenil; World Data Analyst Online; Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged Online
EBSCOhost Web  Academic Search Elite; Business Source Elite; Consumer Health Complete; ERIC; Health Source: Consumer Edition; Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; Legal Collection; MasterFILE Premier; MAS Ultra:School Edition; Middle Search Plus; Newspaper Source;Primary Search; Professional Development Collection; Regional Business News;Student Research Center; TOPICsearch; Vocational & Career Collection; World History Collection
Kid’s Search (K-6), Searchasaurus; Student Research Center (6-12)
Gale -- Discovering Collection; Gale General OneFile  & 25 PowerPak databases; Gale’s Virtual Reference Library 
OCLC FirstSearch  ArticleFirst®;  Clase and Periódica--Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Systems;Electronic Collections Online™ (Index only); Electronic Books (Ebooks) (index only); ERIC--U. S. Department of Education;  GPO Monthly Catalog -- U. S. Government Printing Office;  MEDLINE--U. S. National Library of Medicine; OCLC PapersFirst®; OCLC ProceedingsFirst®  World Almanac Group; WorldCat® (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) 
Added in   CAMIO – [Catalog of Art Museum Images Online-ID & password separate]  ArchiveGrid – [detailed archival collection - ID & password separate ]  

11. NetLibrary = EBSCO eBooks
EBSCO IT is working fixing authentication
July 1 introduced EBSCO eBooks
Click on New Features in EBSCO to Preview
eBooks on EBSCOhost
Some noteworthy features of this new design include:
View eBook Table of Contents from search Result List
Navigate to eBook chapters or sections directly from Result List and Detail Record
Search within a book for specific terms, yielding a list of hyperlinked pages
Create notes and retain links to the eBook pages viewed when notes were added
Users can place a hold on limited simultaneous user books that are currently checked out, and view place in line
Library’s collection will display first, then Traveler