Academic libraries

Mar 11

Social Explorer for Tech Colleges!

WiLS vendor-partner, Social Explorer is excited to offer a great deal to WiLS’ tech college members. Any tech college member who subscribes by May 31st will get two years for the price of one. That’s 24 months for just $1,050!

This flyer summarizes Social Explorer’s product and offer. And to learn more about what Social Explorer has to offer your college, they’re hosting a live demo on March 23rd at 2:00 PM.

We always like to get an idea of who might be planning to come to these sessions, so if you’re interested please fill out this form.

Social Explorer Web Demo
Date: 3/23/2020
Time: 2:00 PM Central
Link: https://zoom.us/j/5976248953

Feb 24

Statista Web Demo March 24th, 2020

WiLS vendor partner Statista will be hosting demonstration of their fantastic statistics and facts portal. Join us to learn how this resource can benefit your patrons whatever type of library you may be. See session details below:

Going to the PLA Conference? Share with us and win!

If you’re attending the PLA Conference this month, keep an eye out for new or innovative library products that WiLS should know about. We’re always on the lookout for what’s new in the library world for possible inclusion in our cooperative purchasing service. Read more

Feb 20

Bloomsbury Visual Arts & Design

Bloomsbury Digital Resources provides a wide variety of products to support your programs in Visual Arts and Design. We’ll highlight a few of them below! Read more

Feb 17

Potential New Partner: BizMiner

WiLS is once again considering a new vendor partner: BizMiner and we’d like your feedback! Read more

Feb 17

Trueserials, WiLS & Medical Libraries

As you may know, the NIH has recently discontinued support for Link-Out. Libraries using that service to go from citation to full text will need a new option. We think trueserials.com could be the perfect solution! Trueserials is a WiLS vendor partner. They’re offering a great deal on new subscriptions to WiLS Cooperative Purchasing members! Read more

Jan 15

Bloomsbury Architectural Resources + Fashion Central Special

Bloomsbury Architectural Resources
Bloomsbury Digital Resources is highlighting their architecture resources in January. In particular, we’ll be talking about Bloomsbury Architecture Library and eBooks available on Bloomsbury Collections.

Bloomsbury Architecture Library is a new digital platform created for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design across world cultures and throughout history, offering access to a carefully curated collection of fully searchable text and image content.

Bloomsbury Collections delivers instant access to quality research and provides libraries with a flexible way to build eBook collections across the humanities and social sciences. It contains over 6,000 titles, including many architecture titles both standalone and in sub-collections.

Bloomsbury Fashion Central
Bloomsbury is also offering limited-time special pricing on Bloomsbury Fashion Central, their hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. They’re offering discounts for WiLS members that are even better than our usual deal with them.

WiLS is able to offer great discounts on these and all Bloomsbury Digital Resources products. As always, reach out to Jeff Brunner () for trials, pricing or more information.

Jan 14

Infobase offers 20+20 for 2020!

To celebrate the new year, Infobase is offering up to a 40% discount for WiLS Academic members. Subscribe now and you can take 20% off the list price on any product. You’ll also get an additional 20% off (for 40% total) on your second product. Contact Hayley Bloch () or Jeff Brunner () for quotes, trials and more information!

Jan 14

Going to ALA Midwinter? Share with us and win!

If you’re attending the ALA Midwinter conference this month, keep an eye out for new or innovative library products that WiLS should know about. We’re always on the lookout for what’s new in the library world for possible inclusion in our cooperative purchasing service. But no one from WiLS will be at this year’s conference. So, we’re looking to you to share anything cool or innovative you see from the vendors there. Sharing with us will enter you into a drawing for a $10.00 Visa gift card!

Entering couldn’t be easier. If you learn about a new database, eBook platform, streaming service or anything that you think WiLS should know about, snap a picture of it! Then, send the photo to and you’ll be entered into the drawing. Later in November, we’ll select a winner from all of the entries.

Not only do you stand to win $10.00, but you’ll be helping to boost the signal on something new and exciting for WiLS members. It might even lead to a new consortium purchase!

Jan 13

New Year’s Resolutions at WiLS CooP

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash

Statistics tell us that most New Year’s resolutions are abandoned within two weeks of the new year. Today is the 13th day of the new year, so now is the time to offer your patrons some help in keeping theirs! Every month in 2020, WiLS will be highlighting resources that fit a theme.

In January , we are highlighting the theme of New Year’s Resolutions. We’ve hand-picked some resources from our vendor partners that we think fit in with this theme. Learn all about these great products before and don’t hesitate to contact us at with any questions or feedback! Read more

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