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Attend a 2012 Readex ETC training session

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with web-based historical content unavailable elsewhere, the latest and most useful product features and functionality, and online access and storage support.

In addition, as part of the ETC program we feature regularly scheduled training sessions that are highly valued by many of our customers. These online sessions provide guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. Faculty and students are welcome to attend, and ample time is provided for questions.

Our spring 2012 training schedule is now available. Register for one or more of the sessions today!

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Have you attended a Readex ETC training session yet?

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with web-based historical content unavailable elsewhere, the latest and most useful product features and functionality, and online access and storage support. In addition, as part of the ETC program we feature regularly scheduled training sessions that are highly valued by many of our customers.

Led by experienced product experts, these online sessions provide guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. Faculty and students are welcome to attend, and ample time is provided for questions.

Following is our 2011 Training Schedule. Register for one or more of the sessions today!

America’s Historical Imprints

Including Early American Imprints, Series I and II: Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker, 1639-1819; Supplements from the Library Company of Philadelphia; and American Broadsides and Ephemera, 1760-1900. Sign up for training, or learn more about this collection.

America’s Historical Newspapers and World Newspaper Archive

Including Early American Newspapers, American Ethnic Newspapers, 20th-Century American Newspapers, American Newspaper Archives and World Newspaper Archive. Sign up for training, or learn more about America’s Historical Newspapers or World Newspaper Archive.

America’s Historical Periodicals

Including African American Periodicals—the largest database of its kind and the inaugural collection in America’s Historical Periodicals. Sign up for training, or learn more about this collection.

America’s Historical Government Publications

Largely untapped by traditional research, these collections—U.S. Congressional Serial Set, American State Papers, House and Senate Journals and Senate Executive Journals—enable students and scholars to study, as never before, events as they unfolded and decisions as they were made. Sign up for training, or learn more about this collection.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), 1941-1996

The FBIS Daily Report has been the United States’ principal historical record of political open source intelligence for nearly 70 years. This one-of-a-kind archive of foreign broadcasts and news provides fascinating insight into the second half of the 20th century. Sign up for training, or learn more about this collection.

The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction

This thematic subset of the Archive of Americana features primary materials from America’s Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera, and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Sign up for training, or learn more about this collection.

Other Training Options

In addition to the scheduled sessions above, Readex offers institutions participating in the ETC program the opportunity to request customized Webinars for its staff, faculty and students, as well as on-site training from a Readex expert. Contact bkolcun@readex.com for more information.

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ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content): Overview and 2011 Update 2

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with one-of-a-kind historical content unavailable online elsewhere. In addition, the ETC program ensures that your library receives the latest and most useful features and functionality, and its training component provides guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. ETC also covers online access and storage support.

From the Marietta Journal (September 11, 1890)

Just as Readex is committed to providing its customers with the highest level of ongoing support and maintenance, it is also committed to ensuring that its definitive and comprehensive digital collections continue to grow through the addition of highly relevant new content and features. The ETC program enables you to be certain that you are providing your users and patrons with the most complete and robust digital edition of every Readex collection available at your institution. Through ETC, new content that brings significant enrichment and up-to-date interface functionalities and features will be added periodically. In this manner, ETC will continuously enrich your Readex collections by providing added value and content for your users and patrons for years to come.

The ETC releases for April through August 2011 are complete and include:

  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set: House and Senate Journals from 1969, 91st Congress, 1st session; House and Senate Journals from 1970, 91st Congress, 2nd session.
  • FBIS Reports: Central Eurasia, 1993 (April, May, June): 52 issues, 6,005 pages, 12,064 articles; Central Eurasia, 1993 (July, August): 29 issues, 2,886 pages, 5,596 articles

Releases will continue throughout 2011 on a monthly basis, including additional content for Early American Newspapers, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, and Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996.

A new fall schedule of Webinar-based training sessions for all Readex digital collections is available to ETC participants. See our sign-up page to register for a convenient session.

Questions or comments? Please feel free to post them here or email me directly at bkolcun@readex.com.

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ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content): Overview and 2011 Update 1

Friday, April 1st, 2011

ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with one-of-a-kind historical content unavailable online elsewhere. In addition, the ETC program ensures the latest and most useful features and functionality, and provides guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. ETC also covers online access and storage support.

Just as Readex is committed to providing its customers with the highest level of ongoing support and maintenance, it is also committed to ensuring that its definitive and comprehensive digital collections continue to grow through the addition of highly relevant new content and features. The ETC program enables you to be certain that you are providing your users and patrons with the most complete and robust digital edition of every Readex collection available at your institution. Through ETC, new content that brings significant enrichment and up-to-date interface functionalities and features will be added periodically. In this manner, ETC will continuously enrich your Readex collections by providing added value and content for your users and patrons for years to come.

The ETC releases for January, February and March 2011 were completed and included: 

ETC releases will continue throughout 2011 on monthly basis, including additional content for Early American Newspapers, U.S. Congressional Serial Set and Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996.  Webinar-based training sessions are still available to ETC participants this spring for all Readex digital collections.  See our updated sign-up page for descriptions of each training session.

Questions or comments? Please feel free to post them here or email me directly at bkolcun@readex.com.

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Sign Up for Readex Product Training: Spring 2011

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Beginning February 8 and running through May 17, Readex will be conducting live training webinars on various digital collections. These webinars are open to all librarians, faculty and students at institutions participating in the Readex Enhancements, Training and Content (ETC) program.

While each training session will focus on interface functions and features, it will also provide important background on Readex collections from expert product specialists. Sessions scheduled include:

America’s Historical Imprints (including Early American Imprints, Series I and II: Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker, 1639-1819; Supplements from the Library Company of Philadelphia; and American Broadsides and Ephemera, 1760-1900)

America’s Historical Newspapers and World Newspaper Archive (including Early American Newspapers, American Ethnic Newspapers, 20th-Century American Newspapers, American Newspaper Archives and all World Newspaper Archive collections)

America‘s Historical Government Publications (including U.S. Congressional Serial Set, American State Papers, House and Senate Journals and Senate Executive Journals)

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (including FBIS Daily Reports and Annexes, 1941-1996)

The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction (An Archive of Americana Thematic Collection)

Please see our spring 2011 Training Schedule, and register for a convenient session today. We hope you can join us!

If you have questions of any kind, please contact Brett Kolcun, Readex Product Director, at bkolcun@readex.com.

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ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content): 2010 Update Six

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with one-of-a-kind historical content unavailable online elsewhere. In addition, the ETC program ensures the latest and most useful features and functionality, and provides guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. ETC also covers online access and storage support.

Just as Readex is committed to providing its customers with the highest level of ongoing support and maintenance, it is also committed to ensuring that its definitive and comprehensive digital collections continue to grow through the addition of highly relevant new content and features. The ETC program enables you to be certain that you are providing your users and patrons with the most complete and robust digital edition of every Readex collection available at your institution. Through ETC, new content that brings significant enrichment and up-to-date interface functionalities and features will be added periodically. In this manner, ETC will continuously enrich your Readex collections by providing added value and content for your users and patrons for years to come.

The sixth ETC release for 2010 was completed in December and included:

  • Early American Newspapers: up to 230 additional issues in seven series
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set: House and Senate Journals from 1966, 89th Congress, 2nd session
  • Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS): 23 issues of the Central Eurasia and Soviet Union Report.

Releases will continue throughout 2011 on a monthly basis, including additional content for Early American Newspapers, U.S. Congressional Serial Set and Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996. A new schedule of training sessions will be posted shortly.

In addition, Early American Imprints, Series I and II and American Broadsides and Ephemera transitioned in 2010 to a new America’s Historical Imprints interface that makes searching more productive for novice and experienced users alike. Specifically, the intuitive new platform provides more powerful search capabilities, including the ability to simultaneously search the full text or metadata of any combination of two or more of these previously separate collections.

As part of this update the image viewer page has also been updated for Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. This update enables users to drag and position the image as well as reset the image view.

Questions or comments? Please feel free to post them here or email me directly at bkolcun@readex.com.

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ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content): Overview and 2010 Update 5

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with one-of-a-kind historical content unavailable online elsewhere. In addition, the ETC program ensures the latest and most useful features and functionality, and provides guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. ETC also covers online access and storage support.

From ETC 2010 Update 5

Just as Readex is committed to providing its customers with the highest level of ongoing support and maintenance, it is also committed to ensuring that its definitive and comprehensive digital collections continue to grow through the addition of highly relevant new content and features. The ETC program enables you to be certain that you are providing your users and patrons with the most complete and robust digital edition of every Readex collection available at your institution. Through ETC, new content that brings significant enrichment and up-to-date interface functionalities and features will be added periodically. In this manner, ETC will continuously enrich your Readex collections by providing added value and content for your users and patrons for years to come.

The fifth ETC release for 2010 was completed in October and included:

From ETC 2010 Update 5

Releases will continue throughout 2010 on a bi-monthly basis, including additional content for Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922; U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 and Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996.

In addition, as of June 30, 2010, Readex’s Early American Imprints, Series I and II and American Broadsides and Ephemera have transitioned to a new America’s Historical Imprints platform that makes searching more productive for novice and experienced users alike.

Its intuitive new interface provides more powerful search capabilities, including the ability to simultaneously search the full text or metadata of any combination of two or more of these previously separate collections.

Also as part of this update the image viewer page has also been updated for Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. This update allows users to drag and position images as well as reset the image view.

Questions or comments? Please feel free to post them here or email me directly at bkolcun@readex.com.

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Sign Up for Readex Webinar Training

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Beginning September 14 and running through November 2, Readex will be conducting live training webinars on various digital collections. These webinars are open to all librarians, faculty and students at institutions participating in the Readex Enhancement, Training and Content (ETC) program.

While each training session will focus on interface functions and features, it will also provide important background on Readex collections from expert product specialists.

To register, please select the training session(s) you would like to attend using this ETC Training form. If you have questions of any kind, please contact Brett Kolcun, Readex Product Director at bkolcun@readex.com.

There is still time to sign up for the upcoming webinars. We hope you can join us!

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ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content): Overview and 2010 Update 4

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with one-of-a-kind historical content unavailable online elsewhere. In addition, the ETC program ensures the latest and most useful features and functionality, and provides guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. ETC also covers online access and storage support.

Just as Readex is committed to providing its customers with the highest level of ongoing support and maintenance, it is also committed to ensuring that its definitive and comprehensive digital collections continue to grow through the addition of highly relevant new content and features. The ETC program enables you to be certain that you are providing your users and patrons with the most complete and robust digital edition of every Readex collection available at your institution. Through ETC, new content that brings significant enrichment and up-to-date interface functionalities and features will be added periodically. In this manner, ETC will continuously enrich your Readex collections by providing added value and content for your users and patrons for years to come.

The fourth ETC release for 2010 was completed in August and included:

Early American Newspapers: up to 300 additional issues in seven series;

U.S. Congressional Serial Set: House and Senate Journals from 1964, 88th Congress, 2nd Session;

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996: 25 issues of the Central Eurasia and Soviet Union Report.

Releases will continue throughout 2010 on a bi-monthly basis, including additional content for Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 and Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996.

America's Historical Imprints

In addition, as of June 30, 2010, Readex’s Early American Imprints, Series I and II and American Broadsides and Ephemera have transitioned to a new America’s Historical Imprints platform that makes searching more productive for novice and experienced users alike. Its intuitive new interface provides more powerful search capabilities, including the ability to simultaneously search the full text or metadata of any combination of two or more of these previously separate collections.

Also as part of this update the image viewer page has also been updated for Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. This update allows users to drag and position images as well as reset the image view.

Questions or comments? Please feel free to post them here or email me directly at bkolcun@readex.com.

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ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content): Overview and 2010 Update 3

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

FBIS Central Eurasia Report

ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with one-of-a-kind historical content unavailable online elsewhere. In addition, the ETC program ensures the latest and most useful features and functionality, and provides guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. ETC also covers online access and storage support.

Emporia Gazette (Kansas) - Sept. 1, 1898

Just as Readex is committed to providing its customers with the highest level of ongoing support and maintenance, it is also committed to ensuring that its definitive and comprehensive digital collections continue to grow through the addition of highly relevant new content and features. The ETC program enables you to be certain that you are providing your users and patrons with the most complete and robust digital edition of every Readex collection available at your institution. Through ETC, new content that brings significant enrichment and up-to-date interface functionalities and features will be added periodically. In this manner, ETC will continuously enrich your Readex collections by providing added value and content for your users and patrons for years to come. (more…)

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