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What's New 1996 (Archives)

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23 December, 1996

*The Ohio Literacy Resource Center's OASIS site has a great new page, Interesting Education and Technology Grants and Projects. This page lists and gives a brief description about the sites where you can find info on grants.

10 December, 1996

The What's Cool page has been updated with new sites under the Literacy heading. These new cool listings are hosted on some of the M-NET's state literacy resource centers

25 November, 1996

*The What's Cool page has been updated with new cool sites of the month, like Discovery Channel Online and Odyssey of the Mind.

12 November, 1996

*New links to graphics information and clip art sites has been added to the Tools and Utilities page to help design your web sites.

7 November, 1996

* The Michigan Literacy Resource Center has a new layout and an informative site overall. A must see!

30 October, 1996

*The NIFL has funded a fourth regional hub which will be based in Boston. Here is some more information.

2 October, 1996

*The Ohio Literacy Resource Center's OASIS site has a handy New Users' Guide to help those who are new to the Internet and the Oasis site itself. Bookmark it!

19 September, 1996

*The M-Net site has a new design and layout which should load up faster without those long waits for each new page. There is even a new What's Cool page where we have listed some of the sites that help us online or are just interesting. Enjoy!

3 September, 1996

*The NIFL has a new page, Regional Hubs and State Literacy Resource Centers Navigation Map, with a navigation map to help visit the states and their literacy resource centers. Explore it!

20 August, 1996

*South Dakota has a new design as well as many new resources. Take a look!

7 August, 1996

*The Minnesota Literacy Resource Center has a new page, WebPALS, where you can nowsearch for materials owned by the Minnesota Literacy Resource Center through the MnSCU/PALS library data. Have fun searching!

*The U.S. Department of Education has a great site called Picks o' the Monthwhich can be accessed from the Department of Education's main page. Pickso' the Month highlights three new resources from three broad categories each month.


16 July, 1996

*The NebraskaInstitute for the Study of Adult Literacy has a new link to Money Matters, a page of fundinginformation by the US Department of Education.

*The Iowa Literacy Resource Center has an exceptional new addition to their homepage, Student and Tutor Home Pages.Check it out!


9 July, 1996

*New to the M-Net site are two forms,NIFL Programs and Organizations Entry Form and the NIFL/LINCS-Regional Hubs Standard Cataloging Form. Each has a help page to assist you in filling out the forms.

*There is a good site for those interested in jazzing up homepages. Lem Con One has detailed information on making tables, frames, and font changes plus many interesting links on other HTML subjects.


27 June, 1996

*New search tool to search the entire LINCS/Regional Hubs system

9 May, 1996

*The MissouriSLRC has a new look and feel with interesting links onstatistics, annual reports, and publications. Check back often!

*The Wisconsin SLRC homepage has a number of interesting links on literacy in the state of Wisconsin and is being maintained by the Wisconsin Technical College System Board


4 April, 1996

*The North Dakota SLRC site has been newly remodelled by Laura Glasser and colleagues. Has a great setup, check it out!

11 March, 1996

*The KANSAS SLRCpage is now being maintained by Diane Glass and her colleagues in Kansas. It has a new look as well as some new links. Please take a look, and check back often as the Kansas staff has many exciting plans for this site.

29 February, 1996

* Tools and utilities page has been updated with more links to help with web page designing and a new category for imagemap making.

9 February, 1996

*Wisconsin SLRC page is now being maintained by the staff in Wisconsin. This gives it a bit different look and feel. Please take a look!

7 February, 1996

*Search tools from the tools and utilities page have been moved to the LINCS page.

*Tools and utilities page has been updated with links to internet information, internet utilities, and web page designing.

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