February 26, 2008

Hi folks,

1-We are planning to publicly debut OSLIS 2 by March 10^th.  I’ll send out specifics a few days before so you are prepared.  The old website will still be available at old.oslis.org when we do the transition! 

Since OSLIS 2 incorporates so much of the Web 2.0 technologies and we are using the most current version of Plone, Plone 3, this has been a longer process than anyone could have imagined! We are currently in the final stages of testing with some users both adult and student.  If you are one of those, please be sure to complete your tests by the end of this week!  Your testing ensures that we have minimal issues when we go public!.  Thanks for your help.

2- Be sure to check out the new EBSCO resources but hold off printing to be able to add the new OSLIS website addresses to these customizable items. There will be three different addresses to use for elementary, secondary, and educator!

                     A- Posters for Student Resource Center:  http://support.ebsco.com/customer_success/promo.php  Click on School libraries, then promo

                     B- K-8 Resources Brochure/Poster for KidSearch and Seachasaurus  http://support.epnet.com/images/posters/K-8_Poster_lg.jpg

Thanks to Blake Albretson for keeping us in the loop of these new PR resources!