In Celebration of National Library Week 2012

From Proquest – SIRS Knowledge Source, CultureGrams™   Historical Newspapers, The New York Times 1851-2008 and Los Angeles Times 1881-1988

ProQuest is happy to join you in celebrating National Library Week. Here’s what we’re bringing to the party April 8-14, 2012.

Sweepstakes: Start here…for a chance to win.
During the week, visit the ProQuest Facebook page to enter our drawing for a chance to win a $1,000, $500, or $250 donation to your library. Your institution can use it to promote the library, purchase resources, support programs, or whatever. Ask your colleagues and friends to enter to improve your library’s chance of winning. Official rules are available here.

Each day during National Library Week, we’ll also post fun questions on our Facebook page about creative ways to promote libraries. We hope you’ll share your ideas with us.
Open access: Start here…to explore.
National Library Week is the perfect time to test-drive some of ProQuest’s most popular online resources. Starting April 8, go to www.proquest.com/go/celebrate to access:

CultureGrams™
ebrary® Public Library Complete™
ebrary® School Collection
eLibrary®
ProQuest® Historical Newspapers-American Jewish Newspapers
ProQuest® Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers
SIRS Discoverer®
SIRS® Issues Researcher

During the week, you’ll also have access to the 2010-2011 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics & Buying Behaviors Annual prepared by Bowker Market Research and Publishers Weekly, and a special 30% discount offer on the 2012 issue of the Annual.

Promotional items: Start here…to market your library.
When you go to www.proquest.com/go/celebrate during National Library Week, you’ll find a new digital commercial that you can use on your website to promote the value of your library. You’ll also find links to complimentary marketing toolkits that contain posters, bookmarks, and more to help you get the word out about your reliable online resources.

Thanks for the work you do to support your community and library users. Enjoy the special recognition that you and your library so deserve this week.

New Proquest Interface

You have about 10 days to get familiar with the new interface for our historical newspapers and Las Vegas Review Journal.   There are many changes to the site so it is important that you take a look at it.

Currently, only the newspapers are included in the interface.  Later this year Culture Grams will be added under Student Resources.  We can delete some of the subject boxes if the majority agree.  We will continue to link to individual databases but they will have the new interface as well.  I’ll let you know when the change goes live at the end of the month.

If you have any questions or comments about the interface please post them here so other library staff and see them.

 

 

Update to Digital Microfilm

Yesterday I reported that Firefox 3.6.x had an issue with accessing Proquest Digital Microfilm. Today we have a fix for it.

 

1. Download IE Tab 2 plug-in for FireFox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/92382
2. Once installed restart FireFox when prompted
3. When FireFox restarts click on the Tools link
4. Then IE Tab 2 Options
5. Add the following 2 URL’s to the Site Filters list:
   1. http://0-digitalmicrofilm.proquest.com.ilsweb.lvccld.org/*
   2. http://0-digitalmicrofilm1.proquest.com.ilsweb.lvccld.org/*
6. Click Apply then OK.
7. Restart FireFox

 

ProQuest Gets a New Look

New Results Page Gets You to Content Quickly

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View the New Platform Demo

This interface is coming in early 2011.