The Poster Contest

• Grab your colored pencils, markers, crayons, finger paints or watercolors and design a handmade poster showing how you and your family benefit from the freedoms embodied in the U.S. Constitution.
• Use an 8 ½” x 11″ paper to create your design
• Your poster can feature any aspect of the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights & other Amendments
• Make it colorful! Be creative!

Questions about the Constitution?

• The National Archives www.archives.gov
• The National Constitution Center www.constitutioncenter.org
• ABA Conversations on the Constitution www.abanet.org/publiced/conversations/constitution/home.html
• GovDoc Kids Group www.govdocs4children.pbwiki.com

Sponsored by the Gov Doc Kids Group: Kansas Government Documents Roundtable, Johnson County (KS) Library, Muskingum

University, Visiting Librarian Service (OH), National Archives at Kansas City, Wichita State University, University of Kansas, Kansas

State University, Kansas State Library, State Library of Ohio, Government Documents Round Table of Ohio, Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT), a division of the American Library Association

National corporate sponsor: ConstitutionFacts.com, Naperville, IL | Government Partner: Defense Commissary Agency

For more information and to download the entry form visit: http://oh.webjunction.org/ohconstitutiondayposter

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set is your primary source for history and genealogy questions.  Every aspect of American history is included in the Serial Set.  Genealogists use the Serial Set to locate land patents, pension records, compensation claims, military registers and much more.  Very detailed information is included in 19^th century and earlier federal publications.

The 30 minute online PowerPoint presentation will show you where to locate the LexisNexis Serial Set Digital Collection at the State Library website and introduce you to a wealth of historical and social information available.

The online class will take place at 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 25.  To register go to the State Library of Ohio Events Calendar at http://host6.evanced.info/ohio/evanced/eventcalendar.asp

• The U.S. Congressional Serial Set
  When: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 – 10:30 AM
• The U.S. Congressional Serial Set
  When: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 – 2:00 PM

Online access to the digital Serial Set is available free to all Ohio residents who have a State Library of Ohio card.

For more information about the U.S. Congressional Serial Set go to: http://library.lexisnexis.com. You may also want to read this White paper on the Serial Set: An Insider’s View of the LexisNexis^® U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection.

As a federal depository library, Kent-Tuscarawas Campus Library will select and receive United States Government publications best suited to the needs of the patrons of the library and of the local population. Access to government publications is available to residents free of charge.

Kent-Tuscarawas joins Kenyon College and Muskingum College as federal depository libraries in the 18th Congressional District.

In October 2008, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the Government Printing Office (GPO) undertook a pilot to provide free public access to federal court records through PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records] at 17 federal depository libraries. The pilot has been suspended pending an evaluation. Once the evaluation is complete, the judiciary and the GPO will determine what steps need to be taken in order to move forward. The pilot is part of GPO’s efforts to increase public access to government information as well as the judiciary’s continuing effort to expand public access to court records.