DALLAS, Texas, July 21, 2008 – Amigos Library Services, Inc. is pleased to announce a new continuing education course series on marketing in libraries. The Marketing College Series, taught by library consultants Lou Wetherbee and Susan Loving as part of Amigos’ ongoing partnership with Wetherbee & Associates, will be held this fall in Dallas. The course series is for library managers, directors, and marketing staff.
One of the greatest challenges non-profit agencies face is finding grants to support important community services. Help is at hand in the form of the five-day Grantsmanship Training Program to be held September 8 - 12 at the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Road, Norge, Va. 23188.
Data in the report is based on a survey of 55 North American law libraries drawn from law firm, private company, university, courthouse and government agency law libraries. Data is broken out by size and type of library for ease in benchmarking.
LAS VEGAS - Erie Looking Productions proudly announces its new availability to serve in contract consulting capacities. Contract cataloging services will be available as well as audio/video production consulting. Related matters my also be pursued subject to inquiry and negotiation. Costs as well as areas served across the planet are subject to negotiation.
ATHENS, OH--July 21, 2008-- LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries, announced today that the Butte Silver Bow Public Library in Montana has selected a Koha Classic appliance solution for their next integrated library system.
Butte Silver Bow Public Library's collection of 65,000 items will be hosted on a server on site at the library. The Library has also contracted with LibLime for data migration and support on their Koha system.
AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin has received $1.2 million from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) to prepare students for librarianship in a digital world and to research the collection and preservation of complex, community-built digital creations in the video game industry.
ATHENS, OH and FORT WAYNE, IN--July 17, 2008-- LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana announced today that The Edward D. Auer Memorial Library has selected a Koha Classic hosted solution for their integrated library system.
The Fort Wayne Museum of Art's installation will be hosted off-site at one of LibLime's secure data centers. The Library has also contracted with LibLime for support on their Koha system.
Norcross, GA –July 16, 2008
Equinox Software Inc., based in Norcross, Ga., has more than doubled its staff in the last year, and is actively seeking to hire three additional system developers. Equinox is the support and development company for Evergreen, the consortial-quality, open-source Integrated Library System (ILS) originally developed for PINES, the resource-sharing network for over 270 libraries, provided by the Georgia Public Library Service.
Now available: new OCLC membership report -- From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America
OCLC was awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to explore attitudes and perceptions about library funding and to evaluate the potential of a large-scale marketing and advocacy campaign to increase public library funding in the U.S. The findings of this research are now available in the latest OCLC report, From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America.
Are you a librarian into user experience design? Got a website, content delivery service, or really cool idea you want to try out on a diverse professional audience? Want to share ideas and enthusiasm with librarians, information architects, usability engineers, user experience designers, and other information professionals?
You can do just that at InfoCamp Seattle 2008, an unconference for the user-centered information industry! It'll be in beautiful Seattle, in a renovated historic schoolhouse now called the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. Save the date now: September 27-28, 2008.
