KnowItNow -April 2007

THE STATE LIBRARY OF OHIO’S Board continues committment to KnowItNow

During a recent State Library Board retreat, the Board made a commitment to fund KnowItNow for the next two years using LSTA funds. The KnowItNow service suite (KnowItNow, HomeworkNow, and ReadThisNow) will continue. The Live Homework Help service from tutor.com will be discontinued once the current contract runs out. HomeworkNow will still be staffed by librarians. They will not be able to transfer students to the online tutors at tutor.com. However, less than 15% of all HomeworkNow calls have ever been transferred to a tutor.

Included below are some tTestimonials from KnowItNow users:

“This is great, now I don’t have to bombard dad with questions all the time!...."

"I used this for the first time and it helped more than you could believe, I will use this very often"

“This site rocks I really was stuck and someone was right there to help me THANKS!!!”

"I had a very good time when I got on this site and I would recommend it to others!!!!!"

“I am a parent of six children, five school age. This is awesome!”

“Our on-line librarian completely understood what we were looking for. And, I got to be a hero in my daughter’s eye (at least for that moment!)”

“Thanks for all of your help! I really appreciate it. I will be
sure to come back if I need you again!”