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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>We are pleased to announce that children have their own space in the library catalog of the Central Library Consortium (CLC). Each member library provides access to children’s library material using the especially customized series of menus that make up the Children’s PAC, which is designed to enable folks to search the library catalog for only juvenile materials. While our ILS vendor, Polaris, provides a children’s PAC, the CLC libraries decided it needed extensive customization to be truly useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>A committee of children’s librarians chose eighteen top-level topics and divided them into a wide variety of subtopics and search targets each highlighted by a button that combines words and graphics. Subtopics for example, might lead children from Animals to Zoo Animals to Lions. In other areas, such as “Good Reads” the Children’s PAC yields librarian-selected reading lists.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>The Children’s PAC is geared toward school-age children, parents and teachers. Parents, teachers, and other professionals use it to quickly pull up information about children’s books, videos, and other material. The PAC was aimed, however, primarily at children in the younger grades. Early readers find visual cues to information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>It has been rolled out on the individual public catalogs of all eight Central Library Consortium member libraries. Staff from all eight contributed to its development. Take a look <span style='color:#548DD4'><a href="http://catalog.clcohio.org/polaris/Children/default.aspx?ctx=17"><span style='color:#548DD4'>here</span></a></span>!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>We expect the Children’s PAC to continue to evolve as we respond to school-assignments and changing interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>The CLC member libraries are the Alexandria Public Library, Fairfield County District Library, Grandview Heights Public Library, Marysville Public Library, Pickaway County District Public Library, Pickerington Public Library, Plain City Public Library, and Wagnalls Memorial Library. For more information about the CLC visit <a href="http://www.clcohio.org"><span style='color:#0070C0'>www.clcohio.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Edwardian Script ITC"'>Carol<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>Carol Lynn Roddy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>Central Library Consortium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>ph: 614-837-8533 x111<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>cell: 614-725-7724<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>fax: 614-829-0043<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'><a href="mailto:croddy@clcohio.org"><span style='color:blue'>croddy@clcohio.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>