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The Author Ann Patchett will be talking about her work and signing copies of Bel Canto at 7 p.m. on April 12th, at St. Mark's High School in Delaware, as part of the New Castle County Community Services-sponsored New Castle County Reads program.

More details available at the link:
http://library.blogs.delaware.gov/2010/03/31/author-ann-patchett-comes-t...

Alliance Library System and Learning Times Offer Innovation for
Libraries in the 21st Century!

Innovation…change, novelty, cutting edge, revolution, transformation, transition, invention pioneer. Antonym of innovation…custom, habit, old, rut, tradition, idleness, sameness.

Alliance Library System and Learning Times are pleased to announce the “Innovation for Libraries in the 21st Century!” online conference to be held May 12, 2010! More information about the conference can be found at http://www.learningtimes.net/innovation.

SOMERDALE, NJ, March 18, 2010: Library Automation Technologies, Inc. (LAT), a leader in library automation products, is pleased to announce strategic alignment with iTeam Resources, Inc. (iTeam) a respected leader in time and print management and Fee & Fine solutions for libraries. Not only has this cooperation resulted in a number of new ongoing product developments and options, but it has already extended the capabilities of existing LAT products to allow any device to become a print/time/Fee & Fine manager via LAT-Total™ option.

March 17, 2010 - 10:33am — Anonymous Patron (not verified)

Alliance Library System and TAP Information Services Announce
Trendy Topics 2010: Teens and Technology

~As eBooks become mainstream, NetLibrary users to benefit from
expanded eContent integration~

DUBLIN, Ohio/Ipswich MA, March 17, 2010 — OCLC and EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) have signed an agreement whereby EBSCO will purchase the assets of the OCLC NetLibrary Division and the rights to license a select number of vendor-owned databases currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch service. The purchase includes the NetLibrary eBook and eAudiobook platform as well as operations and infrastructure in Boulder, Colorado.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

On March 10, 2010 appropriations committees in the Florida House and Senate adopted positions eliminating all funding for Florida’s State Aid to Public Libraries program.
http://flstateaid.blogspot.com/

We are now looking for Volunteers to protest at the Florida State Capitol Building,
400 South Monroe Street in Tallahassee on Tuesday March 16, 2010. If you are interested in holding a sign in protest of the State Aid to Libraries being reduced to zero dollars please contact me at systemslibrarian@gmail.com

~ Databases Merged to Create Two Resources for Fish & Aquatic Biology Studies and International Water Research ~

March 4, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
staff@bywatersolutions.com

ByWater Solutions Celebrates One Year of Providing Open Source Services to Libraries

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, celebrated their one year anniversary for providing quality implementation and support services for open source ILS’s such as Koha and Evergreen.

I invite you to order my new book, On the Strand, published by World Audience Publishers, New York City. Strand picks up in a memoir where my first book, Waking Up in the Studebaker, of the two-book series, left off.

The Delaware Association of Environmental Education’s Child in the Wild conference will take place on Saturday, February 27th at the historic Blue Ball Barn. The conference is for both formal and non-formal educators, and will present tools and case studies on introducing environmental concepts into classroom education...a program entitled "No Child Left Inside".