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Thank you for the reassurance, John! Apologies for not responding sooner. I need the books for the next year. Ideally, surviving 5 years on the stacks would be good. It sounds like I can let the books be and all will be fine! ------------------------------ Mary Snyder Convener for ACRL - Librarianship ...

We are an online academic library and no longer maintain relationships with GOBI for purchasing, processing, cataloging of physical books. Our provost has asked for a special physical book display in advance of internal meetings this year. The provost's office has kindly ordered the requested books for ...

Hello! Our library does not loan technology like this but I do have info to share. Kajeet & Premier Wireless are two companies that provide hot spots, laptops, and tablets to libraries to lend. They also work with universities and other groups. They'll handle the project from start to finish so that ...

I have not noticed that! Interesting We buy eBooks only and use EBSCO's ECM. I've seen mostly pop culture topics. Thanks, Mary Mary A. Snyder, MLS University Librarian Strayer University – Wilkes Library 1133 15th Street NW, Ste 200 Washington, DC 20005 Call/Text: (202) ...

I'm curious if there's anyone who has uploaded their MARC records to EDS and eliminated their catalog. Obviously there would be the loss of borrower and circulation records - but I'm more concerned with search/discovery of titles. I'd just want the titles to appear in search results. Then if someone ...

Hello! We How often do you send overdue notices and in what format (email, physical letter, text message, etc.) We send them at the same frequency and pattern as student borrowers. How do you hold faculty accountable for overdue or lost items when they leave the institution? ...

Thank you! Did you create the item records in LibraryThing or did you import MARC records from elsewhere? ------------------------------ Mary Snyder Convener for ACRL - Librarianship in For-Profit Educational Institutions DG University Librarian @ Strayer University -------------------------- ...

I would love to hear opinions on TinyCat and LibraryThing. I'd be interested in other low cost ILS too. Currently we use Horizon and are down to less than 100,000 item records for physical items. We've been aggressively weeding and purchasing electronic copies over the past 5 years. We're working ...