Project Development
We would like to thank the library staff at Western Michigan University. Their Searchpath Library Tutorial served as the templete for our initial version of BOLT. We borrowed heavily from them in the construction of our own library and research tutorial. Searchpath's Open Publication License allowed us this opportunity.

Credits


The librarians, staff members and students who are primarily responsible for BOLT are:

A big buckeye thank you for Mark Mace, who provided the php and javascript expertise to make many of BOLT's features run smoothly. Among many other things, Mark's php wizardry allowed us to give students the option of emailing quiz results to their professors.

A special thanks are also due to Kristi Wellman and Laura Schmidt, both of whom provided invaluable assistance in developing all the original images in BOLT. Kristi and Laura both gave the insights of undergraduate students at Ohio University. The web tutorial committee gave great help: Tim Smith, with his great experience as web manager; Renee Geary, in coordinating student input and focus groups; Andrew Stuart in advice and managing the glossary terms. Thanks to Sherri Saines for testing BOLT with her Spring 2003 UC105 distance education class; also thanks to Dr. Norma Pecora and her Winter 2003 TCOM 202 class for editing and content suggestions. Thanks to Emily Marcus and Peggy Satler, both for content and graphics advice, and for letting us "borrow" Kristi after she left the Reference Department for the greener pastures of Alden Library's Instructional Media and Technology Services (IMTS).

Many of the graphics came from the Texas Online Library Tutorial (TILT), others were created by Elaine Anderson Jayne and Judith Arnold at Western Michigan University, or come from free clip art collections such as the Action-Links Clip Art Archive and the Northern Illinois University images. The photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Module 6 is courtesy of WMU Archives & Regional History Collections.

Original BOLT material © 2002-2003 by the Board of Trustees of Ohio University. BOLT incorporates material from TILT, a tutorial developed by the Digital Information Literacy Office for the University of Texas System Digital Library (© 1998-2002, University of Texas System Digital Library), and Searchpath ( © 2001-2002, Western Michigan University Libraries). This material may be reproduced, distributed, or incorporated only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the BOLT Open Publication License.