CLA Spring in the District Info

From Carol Simmons, Executive Director of the California Library Association:

Spring in the District is here and it’s time to meet with your legislators about restoring state funding to California’s libraries. To make these meetings as easy as possible, CLA is providing:

• Talking points
• Tips for lobbying your legislator
• List of lead contacts and appointment schedule
  

Please refer to the appointment lists for State Assembly and State Senators and contact the lead to join the appointment and receive further information. Check this page often as appointments are being scheduled and added daily!

http://cla-net.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=397

This is the time to get involved! Without $15.2 million in State matching funds, California will lose its Federal Funding ($16 million) for libraries. Prevent a double whammy!

Thanks!

Carol Simmons, Executive Director
California Library Association

iPod-compatible eAudio from Ingram

For those of you attending CLA this weekend: on Sunday, we will have a sneak-preview of the new iPod-compatible eAudiobook product from Ingram. Not officially launching until ALA in January, the Sales Director is anxious to work with Califa, and will be at our booth (#410) most of the day on Sunday giving demos of the product and showing it work with an ipod. The collection is starting off with 6,000 titles from Penguin, but will be building as Ingram completes contracts with other publishers.

If you are interested in the development of iPod content for libraries, you'll want to stop by the Califa booth on Sunday to meet with Linda Vendreys of Ingram and learn about this new product. Let us know if you have any questions.

Califa welcoming GoLibrary and Counting Opinions to CLA

If you're going to be attending CLA this year, make sure to stop and see a GoLibrary machine in action. Califa has set up a booth for two of our International vendors - Counting Opinions and GoLibrary at booth numbers 619 and 617 respectively.

Check out this video of the GoLibrary machine in Yuba County and make a note to stop by the booth and see it in person!

CLA Recap

Like most California librarians, we're getting back to work after a fun and busy weekend at CLA. If you were there, we hope you stopped by our booth and said hello.

We were "bubbling over" with Halloween festiveness - our bubble machine, and small halloween character bubbles were a hit. As always, we loved being part of the Statewide Projects area, which InfoPeople so wonderfully decorated. We spoke to several new potential vendors, too, so hopefully we'll have some new discounts in the new year.