The videorecording of the June 22 meeting of the PALS Board of Directors is available online at:

http://bit.ly/lGKDCR

The recording includes approximately 30 minutes of pre-meeting connect time. Playback runs more smoothly if you pause your media player as soon as it opens, and allow the recording to fully load before unpausing.

The Merger Transition Board meets at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29. The main meeting location is Metropolitan Library System in Burr Ridge, with videoconference connections with several other locations. Details are available at:

http://www.systemsmerger.info/meeting/437

The first meeting of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System Board of Directors has been scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on July 1, at the RAILS Burr Ridge Building (which will then be the former Metropolitan Library System office).

The Merger Transition Board Nomination Committee met on June 17 to verify and approve the RAILS Fiscal Year 2012 Board of Directors election results and draw terms by a lot process. The committee is pleased to announce the RAILS FY12 Board of Directors:

PrairieCat is one of the LLSAPs now listed as an event sponsor in the Library Learning (L2) calendar.

To view the calendar of PrairieCat training events and meetings, visit http://www.librarylearning.info and select PrairieCat under the "Event Sponsors" tab.