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June 27, 2013 
In this Update
Have a Safe and Happy Summer!
eBook Project Update
askON TEXT Pilot Project
RDA Training Success
Have a Safe and Happy Summer!
OCLS staff would like to wish you a safe and happy Summer. Our next issue of OCLS News will be published in September 2013.

eBook Project Update
 The Colleges eBook Consortium Project continues to progress according to plan. Read the full update on the project status in the June eBook newsletter and learn more about the project activities and the people involved, from the perspective of a college that is part of the process.
askON TEXT Pilot Project
  askON TEXT logo The askON TEXT Pilot Project is an askON initiative to offer an additional channel of channel of reference service via SMS or TEXT alongside the askON chat service. There are 6 colleges and 8 public libraries participating in the pilot service which will run from September to December 2013. askON TEXT training has already begun and will be offered to pilot participants during the Summer.
 
Welcoming the Summer with RDA Training Success
  RDA training logo On Tuesday, June 18th and Thursday, June 20th a who's who of Ontario college library cataloguing staff gathered to learn about the new cataloguing standard from RDA superstar Trina Grover of the Pan Canadian Working Group... Learn more
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*The Agenda has recently completed a series called 
"Learning 2030" and recently broadcast a segment live from Cambrian College on June 3. The broadcast and the other parts of the series can be found online here.  
 
*OCLS would like to congratulate Centennial College &
Nipissing University and Canadore College for being two recipients of the 2013 OLA New Library Building Awards!
 

*OCLS is looking for photos of your library spaces for our new website. The ideal size for these photos would be minimum 430px wide by 380px tall. Please submit photos to [email protected].