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The first four volumes of the Encyclopedia of Camps & Ghettos, 1933–1945 (ECG), published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, are now available online in a fully searchable, open access digital format.

With fall just around the corner, this is a great time to refresh skills and invest in professional growth and development. The Fall Continuing Education schedule offers a diverse selection of workshops, trainings, and conversations designed to support staff across all types of libraries. 

Did you miss the recent session all about Amigos Member Benefits? You can still learn about them in the recording of Know & Go: Unlocking the Benefits of Membership in Amigos Library Services. 

The NISO Plus 2025 Global/Online conference is coming up September 16–17, 2025, and Amigos members can take advantage of the extended early bird discount. NISO Library Standards Alliance membership is included with Amigos membership.

The schedule for the Libraries Cultivating Community conference on September 10th is now available.

Learn to extend the life of your library’s hardcover collection with hands-on book repair training. Join preservation expert Rebecca Elder for a practical, in-person session designed to equip library staff with essential repair techniques like reattaching pages, mending paper, and tightening hinges.

Coming soon to HeinOnline, a rnew Amigos vendor partner, is the first-ever fully digitized and searchable collection of official publications, reports, and records from the Organization of American States (OAS).

Amigos vendor partner ConsortiaManager invites members to a free webinar introducing Open Journal Finder (OJF), a new powerful discovery tool designed to simplify Open Access (OA) publishing for researchers, librarians, and institutions.

The library occupies a unique role, whether in a city, town, or on an academic campus. Within this third space, library staff have an opportunity to recognize and meet needs in a way that few other organizations can.

Join us for the inaugural session of The Hive, where panelists will share practical tips and tricks for using generative AI in everyday work.

Amigos Library Services has joined the Samvera Community, a vibrant open-source coalition of information and technology professionals building world-class digital repository tools.

Being an Amigos Library Services member opens the door to valuable savings and benefits from dozens of vendors.

Interested in offering bilingual programs for adult learners but unsure of where to start? Reaching a new audience in your library doesn't have to be intimidating. 

In addition to sparking creativity, makerspaces encourage collaboration, creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking. By highlighting these lesser-known benefits, libraries can turn every makerspace moment into an opportunity for growth, learning, and community connection.

Amigos members benefit from having a reciprocal membership in the NISO Library Standards Alliance and the opportunity to attend events as members.  The August monthly roundtable webinar series, titled Understanding Research Integrity – Challenges and Frameworks will be offered in two parts.

Strategic foresight is a set of approaches that help explore, imagine, and anticipate the future in an open but structured way. Dr. Larry Nash White, CEO of INAMACS™ and CEO and President of The Corner Storyteller™, will discuss how strategic foresight can help identify and explore challenges and opportunities that emerge from the signals and drivers of change that shape the future.