SouthWest Ohio and Neighboring Libraries is a cooperative of area libraries organized to promote library services among and through member institutions. SWON Libraries consists of academic, public, school and special libraries in Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky.
Have you been interested in programs from SWON Libraries but just don't have the time to travel all the way to the locations where they are usually held? Would you like to see more programs from around the State of Ohio? Thanks to the new video conference equipment that SWON Libraries recently finished installing, we can make this happen.
This week, SWON Libraries hosted a video conference that was broadcast to several sites throughout the southern half of the State of Ohio. In cooperation with SERLS, the Regional Library System in southeast Ohio, SWON Libraries presented Glen Horton's very popular program on improving your results when searching Google.
SWON Libraries will be using several locations throughout the region for broadcast of future programs that are suitable for the video format. All of these events will be listed on our regular events calendar. In addition, some video events that are offered from the other Regional Library Systems in Ohio will also be broadcast to multiple sites within southwest Ohio when there is interest.
SWON Libraries announces the winners of its Teen Reading Challenge. The Challenge is an annual event that invites library staff at member libraries and area teachers to read as much teen literature as they can during a set period of time. The readers are asked to rate the materials. All submissions and ratings are included in the Teen Reading Challenge Database.
And now, the winners for the 2008 SWON Libraries Teen Reading Challenge:
Winning Team (with Most Pages Read by a Team--64,409, as well as Average of Most Pages Read by Each Team Member--10,735): REGIONAL READING ROCK STARS: Jill Burket-Ragase, Amy Schardein, Susanne Wells, Laura Lazaraton, Elizabeth Cornwell, and Jessica Johnson (Elizabeth and Jessica not pictured).
Individual Winner (with Most Pages Read--21,627, as well as Longest Book): CHARLOTTE DECKER from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all of those who participated. We look forward to next year's challenge.
StoryCorps will be making a visit to the Cincinnati area in May and June. StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project with a mission to honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening. People are invited to interview family and friends through StoryCorps. Since 2003, tens of thousands of individuals have participated throughout the country. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD and is archived at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind.
The StoryCorps van will be in Cincinnati from May 15 to June 7. Reservations will be taken starting May 1st. Recording session are by appointment only. For more information, visit the StoryCorps website.
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