Library Leadership
You may be one of only 30 selected participants to have the opportunity to attend the Library Leadership Ohio Institute (formerly known as Library Leadership 2000). To learn more about the program go to: www.camls.org/llohio.html.

A few opening are still available. If you are interested, an application may be obtained from the NOLA office.

Carnegie Program Planned
Want to more about Ohio’s Fabulous Carnegie Libraries. Through the generosity of Andrew Carnegie, called by some the Patron Saint of Libraries, he helped fund construction of 2,509 libraries in the English speaking world all with a similar design. The Warren-Trumbull County Public Library invites you to attend a free slide presentation on Sunday, April 9, 2000 at 2 p.m. at the Mail Library, 444 Mahoning Avenue NW/ Warren.

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NOLA Regional Library System

View the report - http://winslo.state.oh.us/services/LPD/lpdreport.html

Read more - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34940,00.html

View the collection - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html

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NOLA Regional Library System

A use for web errors
Most web users have experienced the dreaded 404 error (page not found). Until now these 404 errors have generally served up millions of useless pages – telling users only that what they wanted was not found. Well a Dutch ISP has formed an interesting partnership through which users stumbling across 404 errors will receive advertising messages, not a traditional 404 error page. Impact for library sites? Why not create 404 error pages that helps to redirect your users to valuable library resources, such as the catalog and community information?

Biometrics Primer
Now that Windows2000 supports various add-in authentication mechanisms, many of which involve the use of biometrics, expect to hear much more about the use of these technologies. ABCNews has developed a very good primer for users new to the concept. Be sure to click on the InterActive section of the story of a brief description and analysis of the various technologies.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CuttingEdge/cuttingedge.html

Clearing up Computer Text
It’s not any secret the computer text can be difficult to read. Numerous studies have shown that users read much more slowly from the computer screen and that most users will print long documents, rather than read them from the screen. The reason is based in the inability of the computer to render text on the screen in the same fashion as text can be placed on a page. Technically speaking - computers work in the land of pixels (small squares). Thus any rendered text is actually composed of these small squares arranged into various shapes, of course it can be difficult to make the letter "o" from a series of squares, but the computer tries.

Two inititives (ClearType – Microsoft and CoolType – Adobe) have been recently introduced that allow computers to display text in a much more readable manner. These technologies manage the information on your screen differently (actually working at the "sub-pixel" level) allowing much greater resolution and significantly improved readability.

Want to know more?
The Clear Type Resource Page - http://grc.com/cleartype.htm
An excellent article discussing the basics of the technology http://idm.internet.com/articles/200003/ia_03_05_00a.html
ClearType home page - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/default.htm
CoolType press release - http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200002/20000208pdfm.html

New Technology Watch – Viewlets
Imagine your website providing users with tutorials demonstrating various technical activities (such as adding bookmarks, downloading files, etc.) With Teach2Earn’s Viewlets technology libraries can quickly and easily add hundreds of these mini-tutorials their web pages for free (in fact they may even pay you!) and with a minimal amount of effort. Visit the Teach2Earn site to view the list of existing tutorials, get instructions on how to add Viewlets to your site and to download the authoring software so you create your own custom Viewlets. Still not sure how libraries could use the technology take a look at a viewlet from Hubbard Public Library

See another demo: http://www.clearlight.com/~jtrosen/viewlets/netscape8_viewlet.html
Visit the Teach2Earn site - http://www.teach2earn.com/

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NOLA Regional Library System

"Beans, Beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. The more you toot, the better you feel. Let's eat beans for every meal!" If you're a fan of legumes (or any other veggie), check out Reflinks 635:Garden Crops for bushels full of information on planting, cultivation and harvesting. Get down and dirty in the Compost sites! Even the kiddies can play in the mud at KinderGARDEN! And for all you "fruitaholics - don't forget- an apple a day may keep the doctor away, but Ohioline-Fruit Crops will have your orchard bursting with pears, cherries, peaches and grapes!

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