Jul 14
We are pleased to share that the coordinators of the Internet Librarian Conference – being held this year on October 26-28 in Monterey, California – are offering a registration discount to WiLS members!
Get $200 off your conference Gold Pass or $150 standard full conference registration by using code 21WILS when you register or use this direct link to automatically add your discount.
Apr 6
If cabin fever has set in, take a short coffee break and join us for an overview of OpenAthens, federated authentication. In this session EBSCO will share the problems it aims to solve for library end users and system administrators followed by a brief demonstration of the end user login experience and administrative dashboard for managing authentication. Finally, they will provide an overview of the additional usage reporting you can leverage when using OpenAthens. Read more
Jul 18
This event has already happened but you can visit all the recordings here!
Join us for the September 2019 Taco Tuesday on August 6th at 11:30 am to see short demonstrations from WiLS vendor partners on valuable products and services! This month we’ll feature the following vendors:
11:30-11:45 TrueSerials
11:45-12:00 FactCite
12:00-12:15 Tales2Go – Join Gwen Mak and Lysa Kenney to learn about how Tales2go, a subscription audio book service for K12 schools can help you add a cost-effective listening component to your students’ reading instruction. The service provides instant, unlimited and simultaneous access to over 9,100 high-interest audiobook titles from leading publishers to use on desktops, laptops and mobile devices in the classroom and beyond. Tales2go is used in a growing number of schools and districts across the U.S., including Los Angeles USD, Berkeley USD, and Heartland AEA.
12:15-12:30 PressbooksEDU – Is your institution supporting the creation or remixing of open educational resources (OER)? Learn about PressbooksEDU (https://pressbooks.com/educational-institutions/), an easy-to-use book formatting platform built with Open Educational Resources in mind that allows educators and faculty authors to easily create and remix open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks (without design staff), and enables universities to showcase the collection of OER and other publications produced by their institution.
The presentations will be recorded and shared as well.
Register to attend or read more about our Taco Tuesday programs.
Jul 18
This event has already happened! You can watch the recording of the whole thing or just the segments here.
Join us for the August 2019 Taco Tuesday on August 6th at 11:30 am to see short demonstrations from WiLS vendor partners on valuable products and services! This month we’ll feature the following vendors:
11:30-11:45: ProQuest’s Academic Video Online: ProQuest’s multidisciplinary video collection will allow you to never worry about overspending our video budget again. With one predictable subscription, get access to 67,000 streaming videos curated for the academic experience. From documentaries to training videos to Broadway performances, Academic Video Online has twice the content of any competitor – it’s far and away the industry’s most comprehensive multidisciplinary video solution. Your subscription includes access to an enhanced cinematic video interface, new virtual reality/360 video, and Build by Choice perpetual ownership credits.
11:45-12:00: AVP’s Aviary: Chris Lacinak will provide an overview of Aviary, a next-generation audiovisual streaming platform from AVP that offers publishers granular access controls to provide intended users with search, navigation, and playback across audio and video archives, collections, and files, pinpointing search results with playback exactly where a search term is found on the audio or video timeline. Aviary can be found at https://aviaryplatform.com/. Watch the explainer video in Aviary at https://weareavp.aviaryplatform.com/r/hm52f7jz70. Read more and watch videos about Aviary by reviewing the How to Aviary and 99 Problems blog series at https://blog.weareavp.com/.
12:00-12:30: Innovative Interfaces SkyRiver Bibliographic Utility: In this session, we will show you how SkyRiver provides high-quality MARC records that are easily accessed from Sierra or Polaris, with no limits on searches or downloads. You will see how SkyRiver can accommodate a variety of workflows – from single searches to batch searches, and how individual catalogers can personalize their own workstations and streamline their work with macro shortcuts.
The presentations will be recorded and shared as well.
Register to attend or read more about our Taco Tuesday programs.
Jan 18
In addition to our vendor partners who have spent more than 1000 days there, there are a number of others who have spent more than 700 on WiLS’ Medalist List, our vendor partners who have kept their yearly price increases at or below 3%. Read more
Jan 2
We are excited to announce our new partnership with ALA Graphics!
ALA Graphics has been a champion for libraries, literacy, and reading for more than 40 years. Home of the iconic Celebrity READ® poster campaign and exclusive art from award-winning children’s book illustrators, ALA Graphics is also the source of the unique authorized promotional materials for of Banned Books Week, National Library Week, Library Card Sign-up Month, and Teen Read Week, among other events.
WiLS Cooperative Purchasing members can get 10% off their $75+ purchase of:
But wait! There’s more! If you are an American Library Association member, you’ll get your 10% WiLS savings off your ALA member price!
Read all about the terms of our partnership with ALA Graphics and how to order here or contact Andrea Coffin () with any questions.
Dec 15
Two WiLS vendor partners, Atlas Systems, Inc. and Recorded Books, have spent 1000 days on WiLS’ Medalist List, the list of our vendor partners who have kept their yearly price increases at or below 3%. And these two vendors are Gold vendors, which means they have kept their increase at or below 1%. 1000 days! That’s two years, eight months, and nine days without asking more than a one percent increase on yearly subscription renewals.
From all of us here at WiLS, thank you. We deeply value these vendors’ commitment to helping our cooperative purchasing service members afford the information resources their communities need. Read more
Nov 9
Our members have been telling us they want to learn more about user experience and we have listened. To that end, WiLS is proud to feature the work of vendor partner, The Team W! Read more
Oct 23
We are so excited to share our new partnership with AVPreserve!
AVPreserve is a data management consulting and software development firm focused on leveraging a deep understanding of technology, information, business, and people to advance the ways in which data is used for the benefit of individuals, organizations, and causes. AVPreserve’s mission is to free people from the burdens of information management. From helping organizations gain physical and intellectual control of their collections to developing the perfect custom application to suit their workflows needs, AVPreserve helps clients in Academia, Government, Corporations, Museums, and more.
Some AVPreserve clients include: University of Wisconsin, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, New York Public Library, Berea College, Wildlife Conservation Society, Harvard University, Independence Community College, Indiana University, Smithsonian Institution, and Yale University.
WiLS members will get a 10% discount on the following AVPreserve products:
To order or for more information, contact AVPreserve at or 917.475.9630. Be sure to mention you are a WiLS member to receive your discount!
Aug 15
We are excited to announce a new partnership with Holder Printworks!
Since opening in 2003, Madison-based Holder Printworks has processed more than 600,000 feet of film and 100,000 slides, scanned thousands of photos, and digitized hundreds of home movies. Now, their services are available to WiLS cooperative purchasing members at a 10% discount!
Read more about Holder Printworks and their products and services here.
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