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Registration Open - Access by Touch - New Online Conference
Credo Offers Special Savings
Build Your Own eBook Collection With CRCnetBASE
Palgrave's Subject Collection For May
Mango Introduces Android App
Text A Librarian Offers Special
Trans-Amigos Express Signs Agreement
Museum Disasters: Who Are You Going to Call?
IGI Global Accepts Submissions for Award
Amigos Members Win Awards
Request for Librarian and Patron Input
Social Metadata for Libraries
Get Ready for OCLC Control Number Expansion

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Conference News 

Registration Open for June Online Conference - Access by Touch: Delivering Library Services Through Mobile Technologies    

Are you working on implementing mobile technologies in your library? Whether it's moving to the cloud, circulating e-readers or building mobile websites, it all seems pretty straightforward, until you make the decision to embark on the path.   (read more...

Member Discount News 

Credo Offers Special Savings on General Reference Premium

Credo is offering Amigos members exceptional savings on its General Reference Premium.  The percentage of savings is determined by the number of institutions that join the purchase.  Commit by June 20 to take advantage of savings of at least 15%. (read more...

Build Your Own eBook Collection   

CRCnetBASE provides the ability to customize your eBook collection in specific areas of interest with a minimum commitment of only 25 eBooks. Offer users the ability to personalize their 'book shelf' as well as having mobile access to their chosen information, and the ability to manipulate it.  (read more...

Palgrave's Subject Collection for May 

The Religion & Philosophy Collection is Palgrave Macmillan's subject collection for May. The collection offers a diverse selection of cutting-edge scholarship and modern classics.

 

Review a list of the individual titles and series that comprise this collection by clicking here
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Mango Introduces Android™ App
Mango has recently added an Android™ App. With this FREE app, you and your patrons now have access to language learning wherever you go.
(read more...)

Text A Librarian Offers Member Conference Attendees Special Pricing 

Attending the Amigos Member Conference? Take advantage of  Text a Librarian's offer to waive the implementation fee (a savings of up to $199) for any conference attendee that signs up for the service.  In addition to waiving the fee, the Amigos member discount also applies.

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Trans-Amigos Express  News 

Trans-Amigos Express and the Mid-America Library Alliance/Kansas City Metropolitan Library & Information Network Will Link Courier Delivery Services   

We have exciting news for the libraries participating in the Trans-Amigos Express courier service. Amigos Library Services has signed a Letter of Intent with MALA/KCMLIN to link our courier services effective July 1, 2012.  (read more...

Imaging and Preservation News 

Museum Disasters: Who Are You Going to Call?

The North Texas Association for Art Conservation and the Dallas Museum of Art are sponsoring a lecture by Amigos Imaging and Preservation Service Manager, Gina L.B. Minks. The May 21 lecture will cover disaster recovery and who to call once a disaster has occurred. Whether the disaster is the result of a pipe leaking, damage caused by fire or even a tornado, this 30 minute talk will focus on assistance offered to local as well as national museums and their staff.  (read more...)     

General News 

IGI Global Now Accepting Submissions for Library Technology Excellence Award 

IGI Global announces the Library Technology Excellence Award, a special quarterly recognition given to an individual whose commendable effort and exemplary commitment to the utilization and understanding of technological resources within the academic and research communities has proven fundamental to the advancement of their respective community, society, and/or institution. (read more...)

Amigos Members Win Awards at TLA  

During the recent Texas Library Association meeting, Amigos Members Julie Todaro of Austin Community College and Pat Tuohy of Central Texas Library system were award winners.  (read more...)

Request for Librarian and Patron Input on Pew Internet's E-books Research 

from Karen Perry, Senior Program Officer, Global Libraries, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Gates Foundation is funding a  national research effort to study the changing role of librarians, library users, and the general public in the digital age.  The Pew Research Center Internet & American Life Project is conducting the surveys and analyzing the data as related to reading/e-reading; changes in library services and the choices libraries are making; and if/how the digital age is changing how people use books and libraries.  (read more...)
OCLC News 

Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Reports Available from OCLC Research      

OCLC Research has released the third report of the Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums report series, as well as the executive summary, providing a high-level overview of all three reports.(read more...)

Get Ready for the OCLC Control Number Expansion in 2013

WorldCat continues to grow! The OCLC Control Number is anticipated to reach one billion after July 1, 2013. At that point, OCLC will increase the length of the OCLC number to accommodate a variable length number string.  (read more...

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