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Presenter: Marty Rossi, Region 20

There are some great new tools available to help us promote the online resources offered by the state. One of these is a great video in the style of the Mac vs. PC commercials featuring the Open Internet vs. the K-12 Databases.

In addition to these new videos, there are also some training modules called Mini 10s. These provide materials that you can use when presenting information about the databases to parents, teachers and administrators.

A recent survey found that 92% of librarians feel that the state databases contain the content that students need. Comments on the survey also emphasized the feeling that having databases provided by the state helps to address the equity issue and gives the same resources to student across the state.