SEMLS News

Ebsco, Facts on File and ProQuest (eLibrary) will be demonstrating their science databases at the Middleborough Public Library on October 16. Don't miss out on this opportunity to take a look at what could be the next regional database.

Please sign up if you are planning to attend.

Science database trials are still available through October.

Please join us for the first joint annual council of members meeting being held on Thursday, November 13, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the Warren Conference Center & Inn, Hayden Lodge, Main Dining Room, 529 Chestnut Street, Ashland, MA.

Our featured speaker is R. David Lankes, Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse and an associate professor in Syracuse University's School of Information Studies.

You can register online at http://tinyurl.com/4nvskf, e-mail us at semls@semls.org or call us at 877-923-3531.  The deadline to register for this event is Thursday, November 6.  An agenda and more information about the meeting can be found at http://www.semls.org/news/fy08invitation.pdf.

We will be arranging carpools.  If you would like to participate as either a driver or a passenger, please e-mail us at semls@semls.org.

If you are on delivery service, please take a few moments to answer our survey on delivery service. Both Commonwealth Carrier and SEMLS want to know how the service is working for you.  We know that some of you had transition issues, and we believe that those issues have been resolved.

When answering the survey, if you would consider the last few months, it will give us a picture of how it is working.  It will tell us if there are issues that still need to be addressed.  Thank you for your time and input.  The survey can be found at http://tinyurl.com/3k3236.

The October SEMLS Sightings newsletter is now available.

Since September, SEMLS has offered trials to three science databases as we determine which will be the next subscription for the region. We hope you have been able to try each of the databases under consideration.

Now is the time to tell us what you think! Please fill out our database survey to let us know how you rank the three databases under consideration. The survey should take only two minutes of your time. The trials will be available until the end of October, so please give us your input into this decision.

Join us in this effort! 

At least 3,000 applications (each with a $40 check made payable to the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) must be collected in order for the Registry of Motor Vehicles to begin production of the plate.

If you submit an application before November 30, 2008, your name will be entered into a drawing for the opportunity to communicate with prominent Massachusetts authors Lois Lowry or Gregory Maguire and to be named as a character in a work-in-progress by one of them or help invent a name that suits the story.  Two names will be selected.

Advance applications for a new specialty license plate celebrating libraries in Massachusetts are  now being accepted. 

Information regarding the plate is on the CMRLS Web site.  You can also contact Central MA Regional Library System, 508-757-4110, or e-mail them at libraryplates@cmrls.org.  

Thank you!