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Amigos Library Services’ 2026 Member Conference, The Ways We Thrive, brought together library professionals to celebrate the innovation, adaptability, and resilience that continue to shape the field.

The call for proposals for our next topical online conference, The Flexible Library, is now open! The Flexible Library will be held online on September 23, 2026.

Containing 221 titles, Duke University Press’s Music and Sound Studies e-book collection pushes at the edges of how music is discussed.

2026 Cambridge Histories and Cambridge Companions collections are available for purchase! Record totals of 28 new Histories and 34 new Companions are anticipated this year. Purchase now, and your institution will receive new titles when they are published - we will automatically add them to your collection.

Amigos Discount Direct Vendor Pressbooks is inviting members to learn what it takes to bring 85 authors from around the globe together to create a single open educational resource.

In June, the monthly live training session from Research Solutions on Article Galaxy will feature a special Article Galaxy MCP (Model Context Protocol) Edition.

MCP lets your AI assistant pull literature directly from Article Galaxy, no copy-pasting, no tab-switching. Think of it as giving your AI a library card.

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Amigos Library Services is pleased to announce the following individuals have been elected to three-year terms (2026-2029) on the Amigos Board of Directors: 

Organizational Resilience through Collaboration, a training series from NISO, is now open for registration.

Getting ready for summer? Our June upcoming Continuing Education schedule has learning opportunities focusing on a wide variety of practical library areas. Topics of interest include:

Whether creating a collection development policy or revising your library’s current policy, our Creating a Collection Development Policy live online class offers support and assistance throughout the process.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia (ORE) of Gender & Women’s History, published by Amigos Vendor Partner Oxford University Press, is a premier digital reference resource that brings together a cutting-edge scholarship on the histories of gender, women, feminism, and sexuality across the globe.

Most research databases are built to help students search. Very few are built to help them start.  Before a student can search effectively, they need vocabulary, context, and a clear research question. Without that foundation, they may default to whatever's readable — not whatever's rigorous.

The month of May brings together a rich tapestry of global voices, highlighting the cultural diversity that defines both our societies and Amigos vendor partner Bibliotele’s catalog.

Amigos vendor partner Research Solutions recognizes that the news of CCC discontinuing its Get It Now service by June 30 needs to be addressed directly. For institutions that have relied on it for instant, 24/7 access to articles, the question of what comes next is a practical one, not a theoretical one.

Public libraries continue to play a vital role in strengthening communities - and data is helping make that impact more visible than ever.

Oxford Research Encyclopedias has announced the addition of three new research modules.   Perfect for refreshing knowledge or exploration beyond expertise, each article in the new modules can be accessed within the user-friendly Oxford Academic platform, which is designed and optimized to meet researchers' needs.