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Welcome summer with Bibliotele's gripping entertainment and films that open doors to other cultures and ideas. This new Amigos vendor partner is popular with member libraries looking to serve their Spanish-speaking communities.

Amigos members can receive an 8% discount on English-language cataloging services through discount direct vendor partner Backstage Library Works(BSLW), and this summer, the queue is open to knock out some projects before the start of the 2026-2027 school year. What do you have lined up in the processing queue?

In this webinar, Casey Cheney, vice president of automation services at Backstage Library Works, will explore the why and how of authority control, and guide you through options for maintaining control while optimizing search in your catalog. 
 

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.

Learn How To:

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.

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: