Jul 19
Each month, WiLS highlights a product to raise awareness of our many group and consortium purchase offerings. We’ll tell you about the offer, about the product and even provide some information that you can drop right into your own newsletters, blogs or websites. This month, we’ll be talking about the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read more
Jul 19
Long-time WiLS vendor-partner Infobase is offering a great deal expiring on August 31st. Between now and then, WiLS members can get any three Infobase databases for the low low price of $2,018. Check out the list of amazing resources available:
Jun 19
Since 2016, Backstage Library Works has been a proud WiLS vendor partner and we are happy to share a profile of Backstage’s products and services with our community!
Services Spotlight: Backstage Library Works
It’s all about access. Everything in your library aims to connect patrons to the materials and content they need. Backstage helps libraries like yours build and enhance pathways to patron access.
Our services are tailored to fit your goals across a range of disciplines:
WiLS members qualify for a 5% discount on most Backstage services. Contact Jocelyn Dunlop () to get started.
If you’re attending ALA in New Orleans, come see us at booth 2558 to pick up your Backstage conference swag.
Jun 11
The Ontario College Libraries have launched their new Open Educational Resources Toolkit. The OER Toolkit aims to improve equitable access to open learning resources and services to college students by providing a province-wide academic support platform for faculty to use while designing courses and assignments. The Toolkit is a one-stop guide to open educational resources, providing faculty and library staff with tools and information to understand, engage with, create, and sustain OER in their work and practice. The Toolkit is designed to be used by anyone involved with OER at an academic institution, whether you are part of a team that is collaborating to create OER, a library staff member who is supporting OER development and use, an advocate for OER at your institution, or an instructor seeking to incorporate OER and open pedagogy in the classroom. The primary purpose of this Toolkit is to support faculty and library staff at Ontario colleges; however, it is openly available for use beyond the Ontario college community.
You can learn a lot more about the toolkit (and try it out!) at https://www.ocls.ca/news/ontario-college-libraries-launch-oer-toolkit
May 21
In case you haven’t yet heard, WiLS and Overdrive are partnering on a shared ebook collection for our academic library members. We’re still recruiting members for this amazing opportunity build a custom ebook collection shared among all participating libraries. Learn more from our recorded webinar and contact Jeff Brunner () for more information about how your library can participate!
May 10
Schedule in brief
Keynote Address: Promises and Pitfalls of 21st Century Resource Sharing
Conference Rates:
Join your resource sharing partners in charting our course together.
For hotel reservations and other information, visit the conference website.
May 4
WiLS recently announced our partnership with PowerNotes to offer a new academic research tool to our members at a discount. Now they’re offering two web demos to show off this innovative product. Session details are below. Read more
Apr 24
Don’t forget that the first of two webinars to kick off Cambridge Univeristy Press’s Ebook EBA program is today. You’ll learn all about the EBA offer, Cambridge’s content and have the opportunity to ask questions. Details about the meeting are below. See you there!
Apr 17
WiLS vendor-partner, Cambridge University Press, has made an exciting evidence-based acquisitions offer. WiLS will form a buying group for member libraries interested in CUP’s Full ebook collection or either of their sub-collections. At the minimum, EBA participants will get 10% off the list price, but depending on group size, the discount could reach as high as 60% off! To kick off the program and to showcase the product, Cambridge will be hosting webinars for WiLS members on April 24th and May 3rd. Read more
Apr 13
WiLS member St. Norbert College is hosting their 5th Annual Transformative Teaching and Technology (T3) Conference on May 22, 2018.
The T3 conference focuses on ways that technology is being used to transform the teaching and learning experience. They are happy to announce that Robin DeRosa, Professor and Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University, will be joining them again this year to kick off the conference!
They hope you will consider joining them and submitting a proposal. They are especially interested in faculty sharing innovative teaching practices – successes as well as failures! Please share this invitation with your colleagues that would enjoy sharing their experiences. It is great event to spark some new ideas.
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