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Amigos Partners With Gale
Oxford University Press Offers Spring Promo
Get McGraw Hill's eBook Library
Ovid Offers Webinars
Disaster Planning with Confluence - Free Webinar
Carla Stoffle Wins Lippincott Award
Amigos, OCLC Present Session
Making the Case for Virtual Reference

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Amigos Members Still Have Time to Register for the 2012 Amigos Member Conference

 "Plotting Futures" is the theme of the 2012 Amigos Member Conference, Online May 9-10. Over two information-packed days, our speakers will challenge us to think widely and wildly about what the future holds. The conference includes the Amigos Member Business Meeting on May 9, at 2:00 p.m. (read more...)

Access by Touch: Delivering Library Services Through Mobile Technologies - June 8 Online Conference 

From computers to the Internet, libraries have successfully met the challenge of adapting their services to changing technologies. Today's challenge is delivering services to smartphones, eBook readers, and tablets to users on the go who now view more content on mobile devices than desktop and laptop computers.  (read more...

Member Discount News 

Amigos Partners with Gale - Check out National Geographic Magazine Archive 1888-1994

Amigos is partnering with Gale to bring you their newest database,   National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994. This databaseprovides 106 years of publishing history in a complete, full text electronic format that is a great resource for researchers of all ages, as well as an interesting collection for general readers.(read more...

Oxford University Press Offers Spring Promotion 

Back by popular demand, OUP is extending their special spring promotion to Amigos members for new subscription orders.  (read more...

Get McGraw Hill's eBook Library
The McGraw-Hill eBook Library is now available to Amigos members. Bringing a trusted information to library's users, the McGraw-Hill eBook Library is a stand-alone resource that complements the line-up of McGraw-Hill's Access digital subscription products.
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Ovid Linking Strategies Drive Customers to Content 

Interested in driving your users to content they need to help their research projects? Find out how with Links@Ovid & Ovid's Linksolver. It expands the power of linking to a wide variety of resources, while giving you complete administrative flexibility in defining, organizing and displaying links for your end-users. Click here to register.


Imaging and Preservation News 

Disaster Planning with Confluence - Free Webinar

The Galveston-Houston Area Alliance for Response is presenting Disaster Planning with Confluence. This is a free webinar hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It will be held on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. CST.   (read more...)     

General News 

Voting Reps, April 27 is the Deadline for Return of Mailed and Online Proxy Ballots

Amigos wishes to remind those persons designated as official Voting Representatives for their institutions that ballots recently mailed to them must be returned to Amigos by 5:00 p.m., April 27, 2012, either by mail, fax, or online.  Please advise  Trisha Mooney at Amigos as soon as possible if you did not receive this mailing, Administrative Memo A12-03.  (read more...)

Carla J. Stoffle Wins Joseph W. Lippincott Award 

Amigos Director Carla J. Stoffle, Dean of Libraries and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, an Amigos member, is the 2012 recipient of the American Library Association's Joseph W. Lippincott Award.  This prestigious award was established in 1938 and is given annually to an individual who has provided distinguished service to the profession of librarianship.  It is made possible by the award founder's grandson, Joseph W. Lippincott, III.  (read more...)

OCLC News 

Amigos, OCLC to Present Free WorldShare™ Management Services Session May 30 in Austin     

OCLC and Amigos are pleased to present a free event, "OCLC WorldShare™ Management Services: Unlocking Efficiency, Cooperation and Collaborative Innovation." Join us for this informative session on May 30, 2012, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Cepeda Branch of the Austin (TX) Public Library. (read more...)

Making the Case for Virtual Reference in Tough Times

It's no secret that libraries everywhere are making difficult choices due to the current economy. Newer programs like virtual reference are often the first to face the chopping block. Making the case for funding virtual reference might be easier than you think. (read more...

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