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Your Weekly News from PALINET
February 17, 2009
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Job Postings
Member & Industry News
Product News
Digitization Spotlight
Upcoming Webinar
 
   
 
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Monday + Tuesday, April 6 - 7, 2009
Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey, PA
 
Reference services are evolving rapidly in response to changing customer demands and newly available technologies. To address this evolution, PALINET is holding the REFolution conference to prepare today's reference librarians for the challenges of tomorrow.
 
Join your colleagues for this exciting PALINET event featuring:
  • Pre-Conference QuestionPoint User Group Meeting
  • Keynote Address by Marie Radford of Rutgers University
  • Presentations and panel discussions examining issues shaping the future of reference service
  • Hands-on product "play" time at Reference Recess
  • Electronic Product Showcase demonstrations

To register, click here 

MEMBER & INDUSTRY NEWS
 PRODUCT NEWS & OFFERS 
ARES logoPurchase the newly enhanced Version 2.5 of Ares before August 1 and your implementation fee will be waived, plus you lock in your annual pricing for three years! The Ares system is the fast and effective way to automate library reserve services. For a price quote, click here.
 
Choose high-quality, affordable eBooks for your collection, including new 2009 ebrary Starter Packages in Library Science, Sports & Recreation, and Travel & Tourism or 6,300 + new individual titles. For more information, click here.
EDUCATION 
Learn the characteristics of a successful and cost-effective interlibrary loan and document delivery operation and ways to measure the services in this two-part workshop. 
 
3.9, 3,10 & 3.11 [Live Online] 
In this 3-part workshop, you learn how to attach your local holdings to bibliographic records in OCLC WorldCat and reap the benefits, including maximizing the use of your collection and minimizing ILL requests for items you do not own.
 
DIGITIZATION SPOTLIGHT
OCLC has released CONTENTdm 5, a new version of the popular CONTENTdmŪ Digital Collection Management software, which includes a wide range of digital collection building and discovery enhancements for both libraries and end users. To read more, click here. 
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