A reminder from TechSoup (http://www.techsoup.org):

Place donation requests before June 30

Make sure your organization gets all of the hardware or software it needs from TechSoup before our fiscal year ends on June 30, 2011.

Why the rush? Most of TechSoup's donation programs limit the number of requests an organization can place per fiscal year - our fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. Don't worry, you can request products again on July 1, but you don't want to miss out on getting your fiscal year 2011 allotment.

For more information, see: http://bit.ly/iXslYk

Sixty-five Illinois public libraries have each been chosen to receive almost $4,000 worth of equipment, hardware and software to help businesses and entrepreneurs in their communities create new economic growth opportunities. The "Business and Libraries: Working Together" technology packages are the result of a $300,000 grant to the Illinois State Library from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

Congratulations to the PALS member libraries that have been selected:

Provide better consumer health information services for your library patrons! At the LaSalle Public Library on Tuesday, July 26 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., a workshop to better enable library staff to answer consumer health questions will be presented by Fran Kovach, MLIS, AHIP President, Health Science Librarians of Illinois. She has been a Reference and Education Librarian in the Department of Information & Communication Sciences at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, and has seen major changes in the consumer health services in the past twenty-five years.

Register on L2:
http://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=11844