Following a keynote by 2012 Boucher Award winner Cyril Oberlander on the future of ILL, attendees will find sessions on everything from e-books and ILL to direct delivery by bicycle! Other topics include "Free (or Mostly Free) Software for Streamlining ILL," "The Get-It-Now Experience," "Rising to the Challenge of International ILL" and many more. The sessions will feature speakers from Washington State, New York and many locales in between.

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The Amigos Fellowship and Opportunity Award Program supports library innovation, development, and research. Through a competitive selection process, up to $10,000 is available annually to Amigos member libraries and their staffs.

Join Amigos staff online October 29, 2012, at 1:30 p.m. CST to learn about the award program, how you or your library can apply for funding, and what types of projects may qualify. Also, get tips on writing a successful proposal and ask questions about the process. This one-hour session is open exclusively to Amigos members, and registration is free of charge. Registration is open until 10:00 a.m. October 29.

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The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums invites you to propose a workshop, session, keynote, or poster for the 2013 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums to be held June 10-13, 2013, at the Santa Ana Pueblo-owned Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa near Albuquerque, NM.

The four-day conference brings together cultures from across the nation and around the world to exchange best practices for indigenous archives, libraries, and museums. The conference features a minimum of six pre-conference workshops, two pre-conference tours, 50 concurrent sessions, two general sessions, three keynote luncheons, and a post-conference Town Hall-style meeting.

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Is your library looking to reach out to library patrons on their mobile devices? Want to learn how to develop a mobile web app? Join Jason Clark, Montana State University Libraries, and Chad Mairn, St. Petersburg College, FL, in this hands-on webinar to learn about mobile web development and get you started.

By the end of 2012, it is expected that more than 80% of the world's population will have access to a smartphone. Your library users will assume that your library can be accessible from anywhere, any time, on any device. Now is the time to be ready!

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The first global, fully online CONTENTdm User Group Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 7, 2012. This virtual user group meeting will provide the opportunity for networking, sharing of CONTENTdm best practices among colleagues, and the chance to interact with the CONTENTdm product manager. The meeting will be hosted by Minitex and OCLC Digital Collection Services, and is open to all current and prospective CONTENTdm users at no charge. More information about the program and registration will be posted next week at https://www.minitex.umn.edu/Events/Conferences/CONTENTdm2012.aspx.

For more information about this event, contact Sara Ring at Minitex, ring0089@umn.edu.

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A free workshop co-sponsored by Amigos and OCLC

Join OCLC, Amigos and your colleagues for three hours of interactive learning about the concept of Webscale. With library users' increasing reliance on popular consumer services-like Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook-we'll discuss how libraries can leverage Webscale capabilities to transform both back-office operations and user services.

Here are a few of the discussion topics we'll cover:

• What Webscale is and what it can mean for you and your users
• Current user behavior and technology trends
• How libraries can innovate and collaborate at Webscale
• How the OCLC cooperative is responding to Webscale

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Amigos is offering two informative Know & Go sessions in the coming weeks: Basic Disaster Preparedness, and The New WorldShare ILL.

Basic Disaster Preparedness is scheduled for October 22 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CDT. Join Gina Minks, Amigos' Imaging & Preservation Service Manager, for this informative hour and learn the basics of creating an emergency plan for your organization and for your own personal well-being. Disaster planning and risk management resources will be discussed as well as links to other free resources. Register on the Amigos website.

The New WorldShare ILL is scheduled for November 26 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CST. Join Tim Prather, Amigos' Continuing Education Librarian, for this informative hour and learn about OCLC WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, a new service that is replacing WorldCat Resource Sharing. This new service centralizes workflows now managed in multiple systems and will provide new functionality that speeds fulfillment of interlibrary loan requests while saving time for library staff and library users. Register on the Amigos website.