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Strode College becomes a member of SWRLS shimAdd News167 to Scrapbook
We are pleased to welcome Strode College, based in Street, Somerset  as a new member of SWRLS.

Angela Leavens, Head of Learning Resources & E Learning tells us the FE college has a special local history collection about Clarks, the shoe retailers, which is based in the town.

Bristol opens new Junction 3 Library shimAdd News166 to Scrapbook
A new library, Junction 3 opened in Bristol today. See the news items here:
Devon Libraries short-listed for a Bookseller Award shimAdd News165 to Scrapbook
Devon Libraries ( a SWRLS member) have been short-listed for a Bookseller Industry Award in the "Library of the Year" category.

See the details here: http://tiny.cc/nfe7tw 

The winners of the awards will be announced at a Gala Dinner on the 13th May
World Book Day is tomorrow, 7th March shimAdd News164 to Scrapbook
Find out more about what is going on here
Regional Council meeting Agenda 14th March 2013 now available shimAdd News163 to Scrapbook
The next SWRLS meeting for members will include a visit to Bristol City Library, which is currently hosting a new exhibition "Writing Britain", in partnership with the British Library.

The agenda can be accessed here: /assets/RC%20Agenda%2014.3.13.pdf
 

Government Response to DCMS Select Committee on Library Closures is published shimAdd News162 to Scrapbook
The response to the DCMS 2012/2013 Select Committee Report on Library Closures can be seen here: http://tiny.cc/776etw 
Extra supplier will be attending the LMS Blue Sky thinking day on 11th March shimAdd News161 to Scrapbook
Still time to book for this free event by clicking here:

The revised agenda can be seen below, please note end time is now 4.30pm:

LMS "Blue Sky Thinking” Event 11th March 2013

University of West of England


10.00 -10.30       Registration and Coffee

 10.30 -10.40       Welcome and Introduction

 10.40 -11.15       Capita - Paula Keogh

 11.15 - 11.50      Eos International – Tim Twine

 11.50 – 12.25     Infor - Ian Manson

 12.25 – 13.00     Innovative Interfaces – Colin Carter

 13.00 – 13.45     Lunch      

 13.45 - 14.20      OCLC – Elizabeth Robinson

 14.20 -14.55       PTFS - Keith Shell or Jonathan Field

 14.55 -15.30       Solus Apps – Neil Wishart

 15.30 – 16.10     Axiell – Kevin Hill

 16.10 - 16.30      Round up, tea and depart

Jiscmail moved servers, are you still receiving mail? shimAdd News160 to Scrapbook

JISCMAIL  moved to a new organisation – and new servers – at the end of last year.

 

Since then there has been a number of emails that have ‘bounced’. JISC tell me that the main issue is that some email servers have not been reconfigured to allow emails from JISC servers to be received.

 

Please could you check that your email service allows receipt of emails from JISC – these are the servers from which mail is being sent:


Primary Servers: 212.247.25.55 and 212.247.25.56
Secondary Servers: 212.247.25.59 and 212.247.25.60
In case of technical problems you could also be getting mail from this range 212.247.25.0/25


With thanks to John Vincent, "The Network" for this infomration

IFLA launches webpages on libraries and development shimAdd News159 to Scrapbook
The new webpages look at how libraries are furthering development worldwide as well as highlighting the role of public libraries as agents for development. They share links to information resources on development projects and research, highlight what IFLA is doing to further development through libraries and how you can get involved in the process. For further details see here:
http://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-launches-webpages-on-libraries-and-development

DCMS Response to Library Closures Report shimAdd News158 to Scrapbook
The DCMS response to the Report on Library closures has now been issued here:

For various comments see here:


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