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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Fellowship Selection Committee Volunteers Needed
Call for Speakers - Online Conference
Google's Meebo is OUT
Dare to Compare
Promotions Ending June 30
Save Space and Budget
Alexander Street Press Offers Free Access
OCLC and EBSCO Develop Partnership
OCLC Adds Linked Data to WorldCat

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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS   

At Amigos, we are excited and pleased to welcome our new members! As MLNC members know from the various messages received from outgoing Executive Director Tracy Byerly and members of the MLNC Board of Directors, Amigos members value each new member's contributions to our resource-sharing collaborative. (read more...)

Fellowship Selection Committee Volunteers Needed  

The Amigos Board of Directors is soliciting volunteers to fill three vacancies on the 2013 Amigos Fellowship and Opportunity Award Selection Committee. The committee is comprised of six members plus one Amigos staff liaison. (read more...)
Conference News 

Do you have film? Video tapes? Cassettes? Records?  Reel to Reel Tape?  8-Tracks?  How is your institution working with these collections?     

Amigos announces a call for proposals for our latest online conference:  Fast Forward >> The Future of Audio Visual Materials scheduled for September 7.  We are looking for speakers to talk about how they are working with their audio visual collections.  (read more...)

Congratulations to our winners!     

Those who attended the 2012 Amigos Conference - Plotting Futures were able to visit our virtual vendor fair as well as respond to our conference evaluation. After doing these things, participants were entered in a drawing for prizes.

 

Winners include:  

iPad - Linda Kyprios - Collin College

$100 Amazon Gift Card - Kathy Fulton - Temple College

$100 Amazon Gift Card - Leslie Pardo - Arizona State University 

Member Discount News 

Google's Meebo is OUT, Mosio's Text a Librarian is IN

In July, Text a Librarian will add chat, email, and text messaging through one dashboard as well as support tab widgets for library websites.  (read more...)

Dare to Compare 
Data2 is offering additional savings on new label and new patron card orders.  (read more...

Last Chance - Promotions ending June 30th   

 - 25% Facts on File

 - 15% Films on Demand

 - 25% National Geographic Archive  
Contact Kathy Burbidge at burbidge@amigos.org

Save Space and Budget   

If you currently subscribe to any print journals from Duke University Press, you may save money by moving those print journals to an electronic collection saving your library valuable space for other print materials. (read more...

Alexander Street Press Offers Free Access    

Until August 1, Alexander Street Press is offering free access to all of its online collections. In addition to the databases they've always offered, you can now choose titles to view online in streaming format or order as a DVD. (read more...

OCLC News 

OCLC and EBSCO Develop Partnership to Offer Interoperability of Services and Increased Options for Discovery

Libraries can now elect to use EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) with WorldCat Data for customized collection discovery. OCLC and EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) have signed an agreement to make EDS interoperable with OCLC WorldShare Management Services, enabling libraries to use EDS as their discovery layer and WorldShare Management Services as their library management system.

(read more...)

OCLC adds Linked Data to WorldCat.org

OCLC is taking the first step toward adding linked data to WorldCat by appending Schema.org descriptive mark-up to WorldCat.org pages.

(read more...)

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