We are excited to announce a new FREE member benefit we hope will make a huge difference to you and your students!

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1 March 1, 2012 Dear FAPSC Members: RE: FAPSC Launches New Member Benefit We are excited to announce a new FREE member benefit we hope will make a huge difference to you and your students! FAPSC has partnered with LearningExpress to offer tools that prepare your students for general tests in math, reading and writing, and to take state licensing exams. And, most importantly, services to help you place students upon graduation and prepare them for employment! To get this implemented we NEED YOUR HELP! Each campus primary contact will receive a call from the LearningExpress team. Be sure you connect with them to get your FREE member benefit started today! Briefly, let me explain. As a FAPSC member your students will receive FREE and unlimited access to online courses, practice tests, and LearningExpress, LLC Job & Career Accelerator. The Job & Career Accelerator is a fully integrated online career and job search platform that offers the following tools: Career and Occupational Exploration Resume and Letter Builder Real-Time Job and Internship Opportunities Job Tracking Dashboard Access to over 60 computer training courses You can see exactly what you are getting with your FAPSC membership on our website On the right side of our homepage under Member Corner there is a link to Job & Career Accelerator. Click that link and log into the FAPSC Members Only Center to preview this new service. If you need help logging in please contact me directly. Please read reverse side

2 Learning Express, LLC is a leading provider of print and online educational and professional resources that are used in over 4,000 libraries and 5,000 schools, and benefit over one million students, teachers, administrators, and career professionals around the county. We are extremely excited to offer their services for FREE to our members! We hope you are as excited about this NEW member benefit as we are! In order to get your institution set up with these great online resources, LearningExpress will need your institution s authentication information. For institutional/on-site use, they accept IP ranges and Firewall address. For remote and on-site use, they accept Codabars, Referring URLs and EZProxy/RPAs. Inside your packet is a document that explains each method of authentication and provides space to enter the requisite information. Please forward this document to your technical support team or webmaster to complete. The completed document can be sent directly to LearningExpress Technical Support at libraries@learningexpressllc.com. LearningExpress will contact you directly to complete your account setup. If you have any technical questions, feel free to contact LearningExpress Customer Service directly at Ext. 2 or at libraries@learningexpressllc.com. Again, FAPSC is thrilled to offer this FREE member benefit to you! We hope you share our excitement. If you have basic questions about this new service, please don t hesitate to contact me directly at (850) or via Wanda@FAPSC.org. Best regards, Wanda Minick Deputy Executive Director/Member Services

3 Welcome to LearningExpress Library and Job & Career Accelerator, our online test preparation, skill building and job preparation platforms! In order to establish user access, we will need your institution's authentication information. There are 4 methods of authentication we accept: IPs, Codabars, Referring URLs, and EZProxy/RPA. You can utilize one or all methods. Please review the information on the following tabs to determine which methods are most appropriate for your account. See the "Sample" tab for reference. Once you have reviewed the information and determined what you will provide, fill out the appropriate tab or tabs and this entire workbook back to us at: libraries@learningexpressllc.com If you need assistance, please contact LearningExpress Customer Service: Phone: , Ext. 2 libraries@learningexpressllc.com Account Set Up Instructions IP ADDRESSES (for institutional access) Please click the RED tab below to view basic information regarding IP's and to add your institution's IP ranges to our system. CODABARS (for remote access) Please click the BLUE tab below to view basic information regarding Codabars and to add your institution's Codabars to our system. REFERRING URLs (for institutional & remote access) Please click the GREEN tab below to view basic information regarding URLs and to add your institution's URLs to our system. EZPROXY/RPA (for remote access) Please click the ORANGE tab below to view basic information regarding EZProxy/RPA and to add your institution's EZProxy/RPA to our system.

4 Institution Name: Sample Library Consortium Name (if part of one): ABC Library System State: NY Person completing form: Mary Jones Phone w/ area code: address: Account Set Up Sample Page IP Addresses Institution Name Library Branches (if any) IP Ranges Sample Library South Branch Sample Library North Branch Codabars Institution Name Library Branches (if any) Codabars String (ex: 14) Sample Library South Branch Sample Library North Branch ABDD 14 Referring URLS Institution Name Library Branches (if any) Referring URL The URL for your site should be: Sample Library South Branch Sample Library North Branch EZProxy/RPA Institution Name Library Branches (if any) EZProxy IP Domain Name of Website Sample Library South Branch Sample Library North Branch

5 IP Addresses An IP (Internet Protocol) address uniquely identifies a computer to an IP network. System administrators or network designers assign IP addresses to workstations. An IP address is a number represented as 4 fields, each representing numbers in the range 0 to 255 (sometimes called octets) & separated by decimal points. For example: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx If you only have 1 or 2 computers that will be using our product, we only need the IPs of those machines. If you have RANGES of IPs, please clarify the range with a dash. For example: (for a total of 256 IP addresses) If your institution has a firewall, we must also have the IP of the firewall so that the computers on your network will be able to access our site. To submit your IP addresses, please fill out the information requested below. For an example, refer to the "Sample" tab. Institution Name: Your Institution's Name Consortium Name (if part of one): Your Library System/Consortium State: Your State Person completing form: Your Name Phone w/ area code: address: your@ .com Institution Name Library Branches (if any) IP Ranges

6 From outside the library, when patrons visit the site directly (not through the library's URL), the only way they can access LearningExpress Library is with codabars (Library Card Numbers). Our platform utilizes the National Codabar System; the library card can be 14 alphanumeric characters or less with characters 1-5 representing the library's unique code. Key Codabar Points: We must know the total number of characters including the codabar (total string). For example, a codabar with 9 additional characters would be a 14-character string (14-character library card number). This is different from a Codabar with 7 additional characters, which would be a 12-character string (12-character library card number). The minimum and maximums are as follows: Common alphanumeric characters : Min: 2 Max: 5 String: Min: 3 Max:14 Codabars (Library Card Numbers) To submit your Codabars, please fill out the information requested below. For an example, refer to the "Sample" tab. Institution Name: Your Institution's Name Consortium Name (if part of one): Your Library System/Consortium State: Your State Person completing form: Your Name Phone w/ area code: address: your@ .com Codabars Institution Name Library Branches (if any) (Common Numbers) String (ex: 14)

7 A referring URL will allow users to access LearningExpress Library through a link on your institution's website. To take advantage of referring URL access, please place the following link on your site : where " would be replaced by your actual domain name, as generated below. To register your URL(s), please fill out the information requested below. For an example, refer to the "Sample" tab. Please be sure to provide the correct domain name. Once uploaded into our system, users will gain immediate access to LearningExpress by clicking the link. Institution Name: Your Institution's Name Consortium Name (if part of one): Your Library System/Consortium State: Your State Person completing form: Your Name Phone w/ area code: address: your@ .com Dummy Username/password*: UN/PW Referring URLS *If your website is authenticated, please provide a dummy username & password so that we may login for testing & quality control purposes. Institution Name Library Branches (if any) Referring URL The URL for your site should be: EXAMPLE LIBRARY EXAMPLE BRANCH Type your URL in this column (include and next column will generate To add entire URL to your site, right click on appropriate cell and click copy. Then paste to your site. entire combined link. Institution Name Library Branches (if any) Referring URL (Type Here) The URL for your site should be:

8 EZProxy/RPA EZProxy is a web proxy server used by institutions to give remote users access to restricted-access websites, essentially allowing users to login from home or anywhere outside the institution's computer network and access the resources to which the institution subscribes. To submit your EZProxy/RPA information, please fill out the information requested below. For an example, refer to the "Sample" tab. Please Note: If your institution uses EZProxy/RPA, you'll need to enter the following in your configuration file: Institution Name: Your Institution's Name Consortium Name (if part of one): Your Library System/Consortium State: Your State Person completing form: Your Name Phone w/ area code: address: your@ .com Dummy Username/password*: UN/PW *If your website is authenticated, please provide a dummy username & password above so that we may login for quality control purposes. Institution Name Library Branches (if any) EZProxy IP Domain Name of Website

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