SEMLS News

As a member of SEMLS, your library can receive many benefits through our membership to Nelinet. http://www.semls.org/what/coop/nelinet.html

The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners is pleased to announce that it has awarded contracts to Thomson Gale, ProQuest CSA and EBSCO Industries for statewide, online magazine, newspaper and reference book databases to begin on July 1, 2007. More info...

SEMLS is offering trials for databases that are part of our group database subscription program. We are currently coordinating group subscriptions for Ancestry Library Edition, Ebsco Auto Repair Reference Center and Xreferplus. Several other trials are available to solicit feedback from members. If you think SEMLS should coordinate a group subscription for one of the other databases, please send an e-mail to klussier@semls.org.

SEMLS Support E-mail Addresses
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Sending an e-mail directly to a SEMLS staff person may not be the best way to get a quick response because that person may be on the road or on vacation. To ensure that your message gets to a staff member right away, use one of our support e-mail addresses below.

delivery@semls.org – Use this e-mail address to report delivery problems or to report a library closing that will require a stop or change in delivery.

ce@semls.org – Use this e-mail for any registration questions or to cancel participation in a class.

helpdesk@semls.org – Use this e-mail for any database troubleshooting or access questions, including IP updates.

info@myowncafe.org – Use this e-mail address for any My Own Cafe questions or to request admin status for a teen volunteer.

semls@semls.org – Use this e-mail for any other general questions.

As always, you can also contact us by phone at 877-923-3531 (members only) or 508-923-3531.

SEMLS has added the Providence Journal to the ProQuest newspaper collection. ProQuest had made this title available in eLibrary for several years, but this new subscription will make it easier for your patrons to search it among other newspaper titles.

Be sure to update your database descriptions and links so that they reflect the current statewide and regional offerings.

SEMLS is mailing out database access reports for all libraries containing current user names and passwords. You can also get your access information by sending an e-mail to helpdesk@semls.org.

SEMLS has funds to subscribe to a new regional database this year. We have set up several trials to science and health databases under consideration. Please help us select a new database by testing these databases, using our evaluation packet as a guide, and providing us feedback in our online survey. Survey results are due by May 31, 2008.

Just a reminder that we have set up several trials to science and health databases. Please help us select a new database by testing these databases, using our evaluation packet as a guide, and providing us feedback in our online survey. Survey results are due by May 31, 2008.