Get the Best Collections for Your Budget and Help Students Advance with BioOne Complete
Amigos vendor BioOne can help your students by transforming learning and research in various topics and more, all while getting you the best collection for your library’s budget. View their updates below to learn how.
Learn to Maximize Library Resources with COUNTER: A Strategic Approach to Usage Data. Free November Webinar for Amigos Members!
COUNTER is an invaluable usage statistics standard that is employed to collect and analyze usage data for online resources, ensuring accuracy for informed decision making. Explore best practices and strategies for assessing the reliability of gathered statistics and their reporting. Through discussion, case studies, and expert insights participants will discover how to use assessment data from this standard to optimize resource allocation, enhance user services, and align with library and industry goals.
Demco Answers the Queston, “What Can Libraries Learn From Each Other?”
Amigos vendor Demco, which specializes in library products ranging from audiovisual supplies to library security, has observed how libraries can learn from each other, with small libraries benefiting from personal connections and nimble decision-making, while larger libraries excel in strategic planning and economies of scale.
Free Edcetera ICA Webinar on Home Inspection Certification November 13th
With a focus on practical application and lifetime support from expert instructors, Amgios’ new vendor partner, Edcetera provides pre-licensure courses, board examination prep, and continuing education to licensed professions in a wide range of industries. Whether starting, advancing, or transitioning into second careers in architecture, engineering, land surveying, health care, animal health care, or other, students can enroll in Edcetera’s online and in-person courses to gain the tools they need to succeed in their professional career journey.
Apply for the Amigos ER&L Award
As part of its focus on libraries and library staff, Amigos Library Services (Amigos) is funding registration for three people to attend the online aspect of the ER&L 20th Annual Library Conference. Applications are due November 14, 2024.
New Collections and Special Member Discount with Bloomsbury
Amigos vendor Bloomsbury has launched several new collections this summer, with many more forthcoming this fall. Learn about these exciting new collections in the Summer Recap & Fall Preview flyer.
Schedule Announced for “Examining the Library User Experience”. Free Registration for Members!
Register today to explore ways libraries can improve the overall experience of their virtual or physical space at Examining the Library User Experience. Amy Martin, long-time advocate for human centered design and digital empowerment in libraries and government, will present the opening keynote. Following the keynote, attendees have choices of sessions on UX testing, UX surveying, design thinking, and more.
Registration Open for Free Nexis Uni Training
Learn About Subscribe to Open in a Webinar with Project MUSE
Gain a deeper understanding of how the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model has evolved and the challenges and benefits for publishers, librarians, consortia, aggregators, and authors and readers in Project MUSE’s recently recorded webinar, Subscribe to Open: Connecting the Scholarly Community with an Equitable OA Model. To view titles featured in the 2025 S2O program and Frequently Asked Questions, visit their information page.
Just The Essentials: A New Free Learning Series for Amigos Member Libraries
Just The Essentials: A New Free Learning Series for Amigos Member Libraries
Inspire Adventure in the Library for All Ages with Demco
With Demco, an Amigos vendor partner, libraries can create adventure-themed learning for their library’s reading programs and host action-packed programming for youth of all ages!
Learn About Subscribe to Open in Free September 18 Webinar with Project MUSE
Amigos vendor partner Project MUSE is a global platform of multi-disciplinary humanities and social sciences scholarly content from non-profit publishers that is leading the charge toward more open access with their recently announced Subscribe to Open (S2O) program.
Amy Martin to Present Opening Keynote at “Examining the Library User Experience”. Reserve Your Seat Today!
In a service-minded profession like libraries, it is easy to fall into the habit of meeting a user's immediate need without thinking twice. But how often do librarians and library staff consider the entire experience of the user from start to finish? Is there a way to meet or improve the experience of users from the moment their interaction with the library begins?