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A Reference Renaissance 2010: Inventing the Future
August 8-10, 2010 – Denver, CO
Conference website: http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance
Sponsored by BCR

AURORA, Colo., January 26, 2010 — A Reference Renaissance 2010: Inventing the Future, co-chaired by Marie Radford and Rivkah Sass, will be held August 8-10, 2010, in Denver, Colorado. This exciting event will feature numerous presentations showcasing the latest reference trends and techniques that will give you new ideas and tools to better serve your customers. Also included are vendor exhibits, presentations specifically focused on products and services of interest to reference and information staff and plenty of opportunities for networking and sharing with colleagues.

January 25, 2010, Medford, NJ—Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced the publication of The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher, Third Edition by award-winning author and internet trainer Randolph “Ran” Hock.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
13 January 2010

Media Contact: Terri Maguire Mertz, Amigos Library Services
972.340.2855
mertz@amigos.org
www.amigos.org

Amigos Library Services Offers Online CONTENTdm Conference

DALLAS, TX, January 13 – Amigos Library Services will present “CONTENTdm: an Amigos Online Conference” on February 19. The one day conference will include sessions focused on the practical side of CONTENTdm, as well as how to increase use of CONTENTdm collections.

Sisters in Crime is pleased to announce the first "We Love Libraries" lottery. Monthly grants of $1,000 will be awarded from January through December 2010. At the end of each month, a winner will be drawn from entries received at our website. Only U.S. libraries may enter the drawing. To enter, simply complete the entry form and upload a photo of one or more of your staff with three books in your collection by Sisters in Crime members.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2010

Media contact: Larry Godwin
Phone: 1-800-843-8482, ext. 2847
Email: godwin@amigos.org

Amigos Partners with Fearless Future to Offer Online Library Marketing Course

The final and goodbye issue of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn178/irn178.html

No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text newsletter at the above site.

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A-Z New & Notable Web Sites:
About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories,
search engines, publishers, social networks, government sites, booksellers,

Aurora, CO, November 30, 2009 — BCR is partnering with Mosio, Inc., to bring its Text a Librarian service to BCR member libraries. Using mobile phone technology, patrons can text questions to reference services from their mobile phones and librarians can type answers on a web-based interface.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 30, 2009

Media contact: Larry Godwin
Phone: 1-800-843-8482, ext. 2847
Email: godwin@amigos.org

Amigos to Observe Employee Learning Week December 7-11

The new issue of the Code4Lib Journal is now available. Issue 8's contents are as follows:

Openness [Editorial Introduction]
by Andrew Darby
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2282

On openness and the Code4Lib Journal.

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Infomaki: An Open Source, Lightweight Usability Testing Tool by Michael Lascarides
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2099