Update

The BadgerLink team recently updated our proxy recommendations in the BadgerLink Set-Up Guide. We were able to determine that, when set up correctly, a proxy both works with and overrides our own authentication. This is good news, as it ensures that usage is attributed to your institution’s account for the purpose of collecting accurate statistics, and also ensures that your users don’t need to both log in to your institution’s platform and the BadgerLink authentication. Special thanks to Katherine Fish of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Sue Crouch and the IT department at Southwest Wisconsin Technical College for giving us an inside look at their proxy configurations.

The BadgerLink team recommends sharing the IP address of your proxy server via the Contact Us form, and using the authenticated URLs listed in Column E on the BadgerLink Resource URLs Google Sheet to build your proxy URLs.

Please contact us with any questions, and check out the BadgerLink Set-Up Guide for more information on integrating BadgerLink with your technology to provide better access, whether you’re at a K12 school, public library or library system, academic or technical college library, health science library, or other organization.

More than 100,000 pages of early newspapers from six Wisconsin communities can now be discovered in the Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers. The Belleville Public Library, Black River Falls Public Library, Dwight Foster Public Library, Eager Free Library, Prairie du Chien Public Library and Stephenson Public Library worked together with BadgerLink, the Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC) and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) to add this content to the Archive.

Wisconsin residents can now access the following titles through BadgerLink:

• Belleville Recorder 1887-1923
• Badger State Banner 1868-1926
• Banner Journal 1931-1938
• Evansville Badger 1898-1906
• Evansville Enterprise 1895-1911
• Evansville Review 1899-1932
• Evansville Tribune 1899-1908
• Jackson County Banner 1867-1868
• Jefferson County Union 1870-1918
• Prairie du Chien Courier Press 1852-1922
• Marinette and Peshtigo Eagle 1871-1896

These titles join the list of historical newspapers added to the Archive in 2016 thanks to an LSTA-funded pilot project. To explore the full collection, visit the Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers and click on Search Historical Newspapers.

The Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers is an ongoing collaboration of WHS, WPLC, WNA, and BadgerLink. For more information about how your library can participate, visit http://www.wplc.info/newspapers.

Access NewspaperARCHIVE has recently made some changes to their newspaper resource, including upgrading their search index, which means a better user experience! You may notice searches moving faster than usual in Access NewspaperARCHIVE, and returning better and more relevant results.

If you’re a longtime fan of Access NewspaperARCHIVE, we hope you’re enjoying this recent update. For those who haven’t used the resource yet, visit Access NewspaperARCHIVE today and find historic US and international newspapers dating back to the 1600s!

Please contact the BadgerLink team with any questions.

The LearningExpress Library Computer Skills Center is no longer available through BadgerLink.

While we are unable to provide the Computer Skills Center, we know how important computer skills training is. We can recommend some free online computer training resources:

• GCF LearnFree.org
• Wisc-Online Basic Computer Skills Mooc​
• Wisc-Online Computer Science Courses (includes sections on career skills, programming, IT skills, and web development)

Contact Us if you have any questions.

Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference
Wednesday, February 8 - Friday, February 10
Milwaukee
Exhibits on Wednesday evening, Thursday, and Friday morning

Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association Conference
Sunday, March 19 - Tuesday, March 21
Wisconsin Dells
Exhibits on Monday and on Tuesday morning
Presentation Monday, March 20 from 3:45 to 4:45 in Crown Palm, “Beyond Access: Developing Deep Knowledge of BadgerLink Resources”

Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers Conference
Thursday, March 16 - Saturday, March 18
Oconomowoc
Exhibits on Thursday evening & Friday
Presentation on Thursday at 3pm, “BadgerLink, Your Online Laboratory!”

Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit
Tuesday, April 4 - Wednesday, April 5
Madison
Exhibits on Tuesday, April 4

Stay tuned for more updates on conferences from April on, and as always, contact us with any questions!

UPDATE: As of noon on 2/7, EBSCO Multimedia Search is back up and running! Thanks for your patience.

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EBSCO Multimedia Search is temporarily unavailable. Our apologies for any inconvenience! All other resources are available during this period, including all other EBSCO resources.

We do not currently have a timeline for when EBSCO Multimedia Search will be available again, but we are hoping for a short outage period.  Please contact us with any questions.

UPDATE: As of 9:20am, access has been restored and all BadgerLink resources are available once again. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

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BadgerLink resources are currently experiencing an outage and are unavailable at this time. We are hoping for a quick fix and will update this article as more information becomes available.

The BadgerLink website and any related training materials are still available.

Our apologies for any inconvenience, and please contact us if you have any questions!

BadgerLink's authentication provider, AutoGraphics, will push out updates on Tuesday, January 10th between 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight. During the updates, there may be downtime to BadgerLink's resources and Super Search, but the BadgerLink website and any related training materials will still be available.

Please contact us if you have any questions!

TeachingBooks.net, a BadgerLink-licensed provider of multimedia on K-12 fiction and nonfiction books, integrated Google Classroom into their sharing tools, making content accessible within your instructional spaces. It is now easier than ever for educators to share engaging, high quality content with students!

Google Classroom is a free web-based platform that allows educators to integrate their Google Apps for Education account with other Google Apps services, including Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Calendar. Google Classroom provides educators with an easy way to distribute assignments, communicate, and stay organized.

The BadgerLink team put together a tip sheet to help educators use this valuable resource: Using Google Classroom with TeachingBooks.net

Are you already using BadgerLink resources with Google Classroom? Do you have other ideas for using BadgerLink in the classroom? Share your success stories with us!

BadgerLink's authentication provider, AutoGraphics, will push out updates on Tuesday November 1st between 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight. During the updates, there may be downtime to BadgerLink's resources and Super Search, but the BadgerLink website and any related training materials will still be available.

Please contact us if you have any questions!