Thursday, January 28, 2010

State Budget Cuts Mean Fewer Databases on POWER Library

While POWER Library’s EBSCOhost database subscriptions officially ended on December 31, 2009, EBSCO has ensured that access to the affected resources was uninterrupted for the standard one-month grace period.

Please be advised that this grace period will end on January 31, 2010. This means all schools and public library sites in Pennsylvania will no longer have access to EBSCOhost databases. This is in addition to the POWER Library databases that have already expired.

You may or may not be aware that CCLS has three representatives working with other librarians in the Capital Area Library System to determine, based on what we are losing and the prices we can negotiate, how some of these resources may be replaced at the local level.

You will see these databases disappearing from our Databases tab on HIP and the Searchable Resources page of the web site.

For a limited time, you will find specific database information and the names of our Reference Database team members on the Computer Services News site (Intranet login required.)

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