News from Libraries and RAILS

You won't want to miss the HSLI 2016 Conference being held on November 9-11, 2016 at the beautiful Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, IL. The conference has an excellent selection of continuing education courses being offered on Thursday November 10 and there is no additional cost for the courses...

LLAMA Thought Leaders Webinar will feature R. David Lankes The Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA), a division of ALA, will present a free webinar featuring R . David Lankes , Sept. 14, at 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Central Time. Lankes will talk about his personal perspective on successful...

Danger in the Stacks: How to Deal with Security and Safety in the Library Does your library have to face safety and security issues without the help of security staff? Most of us know, "stop, drop, and roll" for fire safety, and "run, hide, fight" for active shooters. How can library staff be...

Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the new cataloging standard that has replaced the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2). This workshop for new catalogers and para-professionals will focus on what RDA records look like in the catalog and the key ways they differ from AACR2...