[OPLINLIST] Ancestry Library Edition and Mango Languages

[Stephen Hedges]

Ancestry Library Edition and Mango Languages will be part of the Ohio Web Library statewide databases for another year.

Libraries Connect Ohio requested LSTA funds for these databases at this morning's State Library Board meeting, and the request was approved. Watch for a full official announcement from the State Library sometime tomorrow, but I wanted to update you on the current status of these two databases ASAP, since I know many of you have been waiting for news before you make budget decisions.

In the current fiscal year (ending June 30) Libraries Connect Ohio used LSTA funds for a trial subscription to these two resources to gauge the amount of interest and use in K-12, academic, and public libraries for these types of databases. That trial has been successful, and after receiving indications from the State Library that there might be enough LSTA funds to support one more year, Libraries Connect issued a formal RFP for a genealogy and a foreign language database for the period July 2012-June 2013, which eventually resulted in the decision to pursue renewal of the Ancestry and Mango subscriptions.

More details will be in the official announcement from the State Library.

Stephen
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Stephen Hedges, Director
Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)
2323 W. Fifth Ave., Suite 130, Columbus, OH 43204
614-728-5250  ::  hedgesst at oplin.org