| INFOhio's Five
Components Curriculum
Resource Catalog assists in collection development and identifies resources
aligned to Ohio's Academic Content Standards. It is a composite of several
catalogs that can be searched simultaneously. These catalogs consist of the Ohio Area
Instructional Media Center holdings (registration for borrowing is required), online
lesson plans, and a Union Catalog of over one million unique bibliographic records of
resources held by over 2,400 Ohio public and private school libraries. These bibliographic
records are used by school library media specialists to download to local online catalogs.
Electronic Resources provides a core
collection of electronic, age-specific, curriculum-related resources for K-12 use in Ohio.
Negotiating a statewide contract for these resources makes them available across the state
without charge to individual schools. INFOhio pays about 50¢ per student
on behalf of the State of Ohio to provide all these resources to the students and
educators in every public and non-public school.
Instructional Development - INFOhio offers
a full range of training, workshops, seminars, in-services, and support programs to help
educators throughout the state better understand the expanding definition of literacy and
how to use tools and technologies of the Information Age.
Library Automation makes it possible for
thousands of library card catalogs to be available on the Internet. It also allows schools
to give their students and teacher access to other school, college and public library
collections from the classroom, library or home. More than 2,400 Ohio schools in
480 districts serving over 1,100,000 students have online access to
millions of print resources via INFOhio's standardized library automation
software from SirsiDynix.
Media Resources makes it possible
for teachers from anywhere in the state to simply point and click to locate, reserve and
book the multi-media educational resources they need - 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The collections of more than 30 agencies are online including Area Media Centers, Special Education
Regional Resources Centers, education television corporations and school district central
media centers. |