3M Cloud Library Road Shows

If anyone is interested in learning more about the 3M Cloud Library, here are some good opportunities.  RSVP information is at the bottom of the message.

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You are invited to the 3M Products Road Show, with three different locations to pick from Sacramento Public Library, Corte Madera Library and Glendale Public Library, please RSVP and mention which location you would like to attend. 

Learn more about the 3M(TM) Cloud Library, and see a demonstration of the features that make it easy-to-use, and how it simplifies eBook lending.   

We will also provide an informative session on the benefits and results you can realize from 3M's Automated Materials Handling products.

 Sacramento: 

Amy Calhoun, Virtual Branch Coordinator, Sacramento Public Library will speak about her experience implementing the 3M(TM) Cloud Library.  
We will also provide an informative session on the benefits and results you can realize from 3M's Automated Materials Handling products.

DATE and TIME: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 

        11:00-11:55 a.m.  - Amy Calhoun and  3M Cloud Library Presentation 
        11:55 a.m. -12:15 p.m.  -  Lunch (provided by 3M) 
        12:15 - 1:00 p.m.  -  Automated Materials Handing/RFID Presentation 

WHERE: 
Sacramento Public Library 
828 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

RSVP by March 15th: 
Please let us know how many will attend for seating and planning purposes. 

** Lunch will be provided! ** 


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Corte Madera Library 


Amanda Foust, Electronic Services Librarian, Marin County Free Library will speak about her experience implementing the 3M(TM) Cloud Library.  
We will also provide an informative session on the benefits and results you can realize from 3M's Automated Materials Handling products.

DATE and TIME: 
Monday, March 18, 2013 
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 

        11:00-11:55 a.m.  - Amanda Foust and  3M Cloud Library Presentation 
        11:55 a.m. -12:15 p.m.  -  Lunch (provided by 3M) 
        12:15 - 1:00 p.m.  -  Automated Materials Handing/RFID Presentation 

WHERE: 
Corte Madera Library 
707 Meadowsweet Drive, Corte Madera, CA 94925 

RSVP by March 15: 
Please let us know how many will attend for seating and planning purposes. 

** Lunch will be provided! ** 


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Glendale Public Library: 

Learn more about the 3M(TM) Cloud Library, and see a demonstration of the features that make it easy-to-use, and how it simplifies eBook lending.  
We will also provide an informative session on the benefits and results you can realize from 3M's Automated Materials Handling products.

DATE and TIME: 
Thursday, March 21, 2013 
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 

        9:00 - 9:55 a.m.  - 3M Cloud Library Presentation 
        9:55 - 10:15 a.m.  -  Coffee break  (provided by 3M) 
        10:15 - 11:00 a.m.  -  Automated Materials Handing/RFID Presentation 

WHERE: 
Glendale Public Library 
222 East Harvard Street, Glendale, CA 91205 
Please park in Glendale Market Place across from library on Maryland and Harvard.   
We will validate parking. 

RSVP by March 18: 
Please let us know how many will attend for seating and planning purposes. 

** Refreshments will be provided ** 

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Doug Monson
3M Cloud Library Sales Specialist
3M Library Systems
225-4N-14  St. Paul, MN  55144
Office: 651 575 6404 or 800 905 4240
dmonson@mmm.com l www.3m.com

4 months free from Credo Reference

A note from Credo Reference...

At Credo, we develop information skills solutions that combine
authoritative content, innovative technology and customizable
services to prepare users for academic, professional and personal
success. While our solutions are great--we did, after all, just win a
2013 SIIA CODiE award--they hold little value if users are unable to
access them. Collaboration with your consortium is integral to
ensuring that our solutions are available to the greatest number of
users so we want to thank you for your help.

To demonstrate the special place that consortia have in our heart, we
are offering a special promotion to help you demonstrate your unique
value to your members. When they subscribe to Literati, Credo Online
Reference Service or any of our Subject or Publisher Collections by
March 31, 2013 they will receive four months free. That’s
right--sixteen months of award-winning resources, innovative learning
technologies and complementary services for the price of twelve.

While the value we place on your work to provide libraries with
greater access to authoritative resources is timeless, this deal is
not. Respond to this message by the end of March to take advantage of
this limited time offer.

Pronunciator re-release

For those who are checking out language learning databases, Pronunciator has just released a new version with many improvements including:

- A completely redesigned, user-friendly interface

- 72 languages in total

- 10,000 new photographs to complement learning

They have several webinars coming up for Califa members (March 5, 13 and 21).  To register for any of them, click the link below.
http://www.pronunciator.com/webinar-califa.html

California Preservation Assessment Project (CPAP) Guidelines for Application

Funding: 10 awards of collection preservation assessments in FY 2012/13

Application deadline: Friday, March 1, 2013

The California Preservation Assessment Project, managed by the California Preservation Program, is designed to help small and mid-sized libraries and archives plan improvements in care for their permanent and historical collections. All institutions (libraries, archives, museums, parks, and historical societies) in California with library and archival collections and that provide free public access are eligible to apply. Public libraries seeking to preserve their local history collections are encouraged to apply. Permanent and historical collections appropriate for assessment include books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, and digital materials.

A preservation assessment of the collections, including scope and scale of preservation needs as well as recommendations, is an essential first step to create a plan for enhanced collection care. Further, preservation assessments often are a required step preliminary to preservation grant funding. Consequently, CPAP was created to assist California institutions plan programs and projects to meet preservation needs of their collections.

For application and selection process, please see attached or visit: http://calpreservation.org/cpp/projects/cpap

NEH Preservation Assistance Grant announcement

An announcement from NEH:
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Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the announcement for this year’s NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Small Institutions (PAG) guidelines, with a deadline of May 1, 2013.  All of you work directly with small to mid-sized cultural heritage institutions and know the value of this program; and many of you provide consultant services for PAG projects.  We would be grateful if you would circulate the announcement via your list-servs, newsletters, and among your member institutions. 

I look forward to meeting with you at conferences over the course of the next year and for the opportunity to check in on how the PAG program is serving your constituencies.  I will be at AAM in Baltimore (just after the May 1 deadline), at the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums in Albuquerque in early June, and at the AASLH conference in Birmingham in September.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the program.  For applicants, questions should be directed to our general line:preservation@neh.gov and 202-606-8570.

With many thanks for getting the word out!

Mary

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Mary E. Downs

Senior Program Officer

Division of Preservation and Access

National Endowment for the Humanities

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20506

(202) 606-8456

mdowns@neh.gov

Bookflix continues to be supported by the California State Library

In 2011, the State Library took out a subscription to Bookflix from Scholastic for all California Public libraries for two years.  That subscription is set to expire in April, and libraries will need to decide if they want to continue subscribing on their own.

Scholastic is already giving libraries the time between April and July free if they commit to renewing by March 15.  And now the State Library is stepping in to offer an additional subsidy of 25% towards the subscription rate for libraries who wish to continue.  So libraries will receive 25% off the Califa price for Bookflix, courtesy of the State Library.

If you'd like a quote, let me know.  And remember, we need all commitments in by March 15.  For more information about Bookflix go to http://www.califa.org/bookflix.php

Rocks Backpages update

An update from Rocks Backpages, the music journalism vendor that has amazing historical pop music stories, including audio.  

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Rock’s Backpages (RBP) is now on new servers (with a new content management system and access management system, all built in house) and new technology underlying it, for the users experience:

It is quicker

It looks better on screen

Works wonderfully on any mobile device

And…

·         Enhanced Social networking via Facebook (like/share etc), Twitter and Tumbler

follow us on...

Sign up for our NEWSLETTER - what's new on RBP every week!

(Our facebook group has over 1,750 members and is very active)

·         Homepage Genre Quick links: vastly increased – it’s not just Rock!

·         Improved Backpages 365 – it happened on this day in history

·         Guardian News Music link: Every week an RBP archive piece on Guardian music – also links in with the social networking above

·         Academic Charts Online: RBP now links with Academic Charts Online (ACO) allowing seamless linking for ACO users.

·         Images & Tumblr – we often get asked about images and magazine covers etc, but RBP is about the writing, however now you can now see an archive of the relevant materials via tumblr: http://rocksbackpages.tumblr.com/

·         STOP BY RBP's weekly SPOTIFY PLAYLIST, based on our new library pieces.

·         We are delighted to present our brand-new LIBRARIANS' INFO page, complete with account admin facilities, promo and training materials, and licensing and technical info.

·         To our illustrious masthead of contributors we welcome Sounds metal mainstay GEOFF BARTON and Philly-based rockademic DEVON POWERS! See the full list of RBP writers.

To celebrate the New Year and a new Rock’s Backpages we are offering a 20% DISCOUNT* for any institution that places a new subscription order for Rock's Backpages on or before 28th February 2013. 

For those who trialled Rock’s Backpages in the latter half of 2012 we would like to offer a 25% DISCOUNT*, applicable for any institution that trialled RBP between 1^st June 2012 and 31^st December 2012) and places a new subscription order for Rock's Backpages on or before 28th February 2013.