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Web Accessible Data Base Products Available The NNY Library Network is entering its fourth year of offering discounted pricing for a wide range of web accessible data products in partnership with the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization. Annual subscriptions run from August 1 to July 31. Orders may, however, be entered at any time on a prorated basis. Billing through the NNY Library Network for this year’s subscriptions was recently mailed to participating libraries. Examples of available data products include: ABC-CLIO (America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts) Academic Press (IDEAL and APPEAL electronic journals) Accunet (AP Photo Archive) American Mathematical Society (MathSciNet) American Psychological Association (PsychINFO and PsychARTICLES) CQ Researcher/CQ Weekly CountryWatch Docutek EBSCO (EBSCOHost) Facts on File FIS Mergent Hoovers ProQuest (ProQuest Direct including PA Research II and ABI/INFORM) Silver Platter (35 Wilson data bases, ATLAS full text plus) For pricing information or a detailed catalog, contact Bridget Doyle (doyle@northnet.org).

NNYLN Receives Approval For LSTA Grant Project The NNY Library Network has received approval for an LSTA Grant project titled: A Better Way to Share: Contemporary Resource Sharing in Northern New York. This project will provide library staff and library users in Northern New York with significantly enhanced tools for effective resource sharing within the region. This project will let North Country libraries take interlibrary loan to the next step by acquiring and implementing a fully functional, web based interlibrary loan subsystem designed to provide key elements not currently available to library staff or users. Among those elements are: customized lending strings, web accessible statistics and reports, patron and/or staff initiated interlibrary loan requests, real time responses, and interoperability with other interlibrary loan systems such as OCLC. This subsystem will be linked to the Network’s regional web catalog, ICEPAC, thus providing both a contemporary and technologically current online regional catalog and a technologically current online regional resource sharing system. NNYLN will work in partnership with the other seven library systems in the region, its own members, and The Library Corporation to successfully install, implement, train, and support this important initiative. We will take a first step in implementation of this project by making it the centerpiece of the Annual Interlibrary Workshop. The workshop, to be held at the Network’s office in Potsdam on October 18, will provide an opportunity for library staff to see a prototype of the interlibrary loan program and learn how its features and functions will work.