PRECONFERENCE: Managing Vendor Relationships (April 6th): Panels and speakers will address multiple dimensions of managing relationships with library vendors. Topics for the day will include building an understanding of how a software company works and why library vendors behave as they do; thoughts on how to “fix” a “bad” relationship with a vendor; the pros […]
As you’ve probably seen from a variety of listservs, the Museum and Library Services Act (S.3984) is going to vote TOMORROW in the House of Representatives! This act provides the funding necessary to keep the Institute of Museum and Library Services afloat, including all of those LSTA projects. As a reminder you can check out […]
After 16 years as Director of Library Services at Columbia Gorge Community College, Rosemary Ross retired on November 30. When she began, library services were provide through The Dalles-Wasco Public Library, and she took on the challenge of developing the on campus library. More recently she oversaw its remodeling into an information commons and led the implementation of library services at the new […]
I just received this month’s SPARC Open Access Newsletter in my inbox. It contains a hefty and thorough look at November’s election and the effects of it on public access initiatives that are underway, such as FRPPA (the bill that would extend the NIH Public Access Policy to 10 other funding agences). Public access to federally […]
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