Mississippi Alliance for Gaining New Opportunities through Library Information Access

MAGNOLIA

Magnolia

MAGNOLIA

• Subsidizes access to online databases

• Benefits publicly funded K-12 schools, public libraries, community college libraries, and university libraries in Mississippi

• Funded by the Mississippi legislature

• Funds are used only for database purchase and continuance

What is MAGNOLIA?

MAGNOLIA

• Administration of the program is performed by volunteers from all types of libraries across Mississippi

• In addition to searching the databases in libraries across the state, individuals can access many of the databases from their home or office computers

What is MAGNOLIA?

MAGNOLIA

• Established during the 1997 legislative session

• Mississippi legislators appropriated $568,000 in 1997. The current budget for MAGNOLIA is $1,186,340.

• Senator Grey Ferris of Vicksburg was instrumental in bringing the project to the legislature

What is MAGNOLIA’s history?

MAGNOLIA

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

• Article1st (OCLC FirstSearch)

• Business Source Complete (EBSCO)

• Alt Health Watch (EBSCO)

• Clinical Pharmacology (EBSCO)

• Computer Science Index (EBSCO)

• Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO)

• Environment Collection (EBSCO)

What databases are included?*

* For a full list, visit http://www.lib.usm.edu/~magnolia/dblist.html

MAGNOLIA

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)

• Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index (EBSCO)

• General Science Collection (EBSCO)• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (Grolier)• Encyclopedia Americana (Grolier)• History Reference Center (EBSCO)• Hospitality & Tourism Index (EBSCO)

What databases are included?

MAGNOLIA

• History Reference Center (EBSCO)• Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)• International Bibliography of Theatre and

Dance (EBSCO)• Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)• New Book of Knowledge (Grolier)• Newspaper Source (EBSCO)• NoveList (EBSCO)• Primary Search (EBSCO)• Searchasaurus (EBSCO)• Serials Directory (EBSCO)

What databases are included?

MAGNOLIA

• Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO)• TopicSearch (EBSCO)• Vocational and Career Collection (EBSCO)• Wilson Biographies (provide free of charge to K-12 for

FY 2006/2007)

• OCLC WorldCat

What databases are included?

MAGNOLIA

• Databases reviewed by selection committee and steering committee

• Committee composed of 24 Mississippi librarians from all types of libraries

How are the databases chosen?

MAGNOLIA

• Committee devotes several days to watching live Internet demonstrations of different products

• Committee sends its recommendations to the MAGNOLIA Steering Committee

• Committee encourages anyone interested to submit database suggestions

How are the databases chosen?

MAGNOLIA

• MAGNOLIA web site:– Overview: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~magnolia/magnolia.html– K-12 MAGNOLIA Site: http://library.msstate.edu/magnolia– Public Library and Community College Site:– http://library.msstate.edu/magnolia/public.asp

• Contact:– Stephen Cunetto– 662-325-8542– scunetto@library.msstate.edu

(updated November 2006)

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