Open Source Office Software and Your Library: A hands-on approach!
With no up-front costs to your budget, the newest versions of Open Office and Google Docs provide many innovative features as well as compatibility with Microsoft Office. Plan on attending this fast moving, hands-on, interactive class centered around exploring and using these free software packages.

Hello.  I trust that everyone has managed to get by these past few weeks given the rather interesting weather that we have had.  I was in a minor fender bender two weeks ago (not my fault) and had to wait three hours for the police to arrive.  When I got home, I couldn’t get in my driveway and had to park on the street.  The next morning (no surprise) my car was buried due to the combined efforts of Mother Nature and the city snow plows.  In dark hours such as these my mind drifts back to happier things like a plate full of Chocolate Chip Pancakes at the Pancake Pantry in Gatlinburg, Tennessee or a nice cold Conway’s Irish Ale at Great Lakes Brewery.  I hope you were able to find your comfort zone these past few weeks as well....

Once again NEO-RLS will be providing a bus to take interested individuals to Legislative Day in Columbus on March 16....

We are once again pulling together the purchasing power of NEO member libraries to make a group purchase of Dell computers and equipment.  Our last purchase saved members up to 18.5% off state and local government pricing and we expect to realize similar, if not better savings with this next group purchase. 

The Computers in Libraries Conference will be held in Arlington, Virginia from April 12 -14, 2010.  NEO-RLS is offering those planning on attending the opportunity to pay for the conference at the group rate price of $244 (as opposed to the $489 single person price).  If you are interested (or for more information) please send an email to Bill Martino at bill.martino@neo-rls.org  Payment will be due March 10, 2010 with checks payable to NEO-RLS.  This offer is available only to dues paying members of NEO-RLS. More information on the conferences is available at the conference website:  http://www.infotoday.com/CIL2010/

NEO-RLS would like to introduce their new Fiscal Officer, Rebecca Blackson, who joined the NEO-RLS staff January 11, 2010. 

Rebecca graduated in 1999 from Hiram College with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with emphasis in accounting. She is currently attending the University of Akron School of Law and will graduate with her Juris Doctorate in May, 2010.  She was an Accountant at Ursuline High School in Youngstown, Ohio prior to coming to NEO-RLS.   She is also a co-owner of a small business and has held positions of Accounting Manager in the manufacturing industry.

Rebecca currently resides in Champion with her husband and two children. 

You can contact Rebecca at 330.847.7744, extension 21 or via email at rebecca.blackson@neo-rls.org.   

Please join us in welcoming Rebecca to the NEO-RLS team!

Laid off - those dreaded words. Those of us who are employed can only imagine the fear and frustration that must face the many people who have lost their jobs in recent months. At the same time nobody knows what tomorrow will bring either.

What can we do? It's never too early to prepare. Let's start with the resume. Do you have one? Is it updated?   This workshop is to help your patrons and yourself.

The CE catalog has been sent in US Cargo to your library. The catalog contains the first three months of the year.   Click here to print your copy.