Tag Archives: databases
BCR Closing But Members Have a Great Option
You’ve probably heard that BCR will shut down operations this year. Luckily, we were able to negotiate free Lyrasis membership until June 2011 for our members, so there’s plenty of time to see how much money you’ll continue to save by joining them in … Continue reading
Wichita Presentations
Just in Wichita presenting at the Kansas Library Association Conference and was amazed-it’s such a gorgeous city . I stayed right on the river so my morning walk alongside it was wonderful-sculptures and beautiful foliage everywhere. My presentations on going green at your library, Ever … Continue reading
Public Libraries Advisory Group – 3rd Meeting
We had our third meeting of the Public Libraries Advisory Group (click on the tag to see other posts on this group) this week and I’d love to get feedback from you on the discussion we had about involving the community in … Continue reading
COUNTER and SUSHI for Usage Statistics
Trying to get usage statistics has long been the bane of electronic resources collection development librarians. Some databases are so costly that you want to make sure they are really being used and serving the needs of patrons. And these … Continue reading
Public Libraries Advisory Group – 2nd meeting
We had the second meeting of the Public Libraries Advisory Group at the end of April (for more information on this group see my 1/30/09 blog post). After the first meeting, we did a survey about potential topics and the … Continue reading
