In September of 2020, a second cohort of small, rural, and tribal libraries from around the country embarked on community memory projects thanks to the Accelerating Promising Practices funding opportunity from IMLS. Once again, WiLS is serving as a mentor organization. From September 2020 through August 2022, Emily Pfotenhauer and Community Memory & Digital Archives Consultant Ellen Brooks, with the help of Vicki Tobias, are offering support and cohesion for these projects and their managers.
Join Wolters Kluwer for a conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci
The John Adams Institute in partnership with Wolters Kluwer hosts this conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, followed by an expert panel.
Date: May 25th
Time: 11.30am – 12.45pm EDT; 5.30 pm – 6.45 pm CEST
Dr. Fauci will discuss lessons learned in battling the COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing public health crisis, and varying government responses in the US and Europe.
The live streamed event will include a panel discussion featuring Dr. Denise Basow, President & CEO of Wolters Kluwer Clinical Effectiveness business, and Dr. Marion Koopmans, virologist, and advisor to the World Health Organization. The panel will be open to questions from the audience. Topics of discussion will include:
The acceleration of medical literature and challenges with getting accurate information into people’s hands.
Overcoming inequities in healthcare and barriers to vaccination.
Telehealth – what the future holds to make it effective for patients and physicians.
For the last 6 years, Reprints Desk has been the provider of choice for consortium members for uninterrupted access to scholarly journal articles and book chapters, especially for occasions when libraries do not have an existing subscription or when time to deliver is a factor.
We had a chance to preview their new platform, Article Galaxy Scholar, and liked what we saw—an innovative, cost-effective and time-saving new solution that combines continuity of access, flexible and personalized workflows and data-driven usage insights.
Currently in limited release, WiLS members can avail themselves of a preferred consortium rate, and waived implementation fee if signed up by April 1, 2022. See attached proposal for more details.
If you weren’t able to attend the WiLS webinar on March 17th, you can view it on-demand.
Here a few words from users who’ve used the platform:
“UCSD Library is excited to offer a clean, simple, and improved service to our patrons. Because it is unmediated, AGS is actually relieving some staff time so we are able to focus on other work”
— Judea D’Arnaud, UC San Diego Library
AGS “more closely aligns the work of collection development with the work of interlibrary loan/document delivery.”
— Wil Weston, San Diego State University
Please reach out to Jeff Brunner () or Tony Landolt () if you have any questions and for more information:
Join Statista’s Senior Research Manager along with a panel of Thought Leader Experts from several universities for part two of their webinar series about The Future of Education (May 19th 11:00 AM Central). This edition includes a panelist from UW-Milwaukee.
WiLS vendor partner Docuseek2 is offering additional discounts for WiLS members this Spring! Until July 31st, you get 20% off of list on any purchase of 15 titles or more. If you need to encumber end of year money, their tokens are a great way to spend money now at the sale price and select titles later.
Check out this flyer for more information and reach out to Jeff Brunner () for more information!
…that can provide time and money savings
on important products to consider this year.
EBSCO will be providing 3 30-minute demonstration sessions about some of their resources: DynaMed, OpenAthens and PrepStep. During each of these sessions a product expert will show participants all of the ways that these products can support the teaching and scholarship of your patrons. Learn more about each program and register below.
Latinx communities in Wisconsin reside in urban areas and the smaller cities that pocket the geographic region and are the fastest-growing population in the state.
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