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At the April 30, 2025, Delegates Assembly meeting, the Delegates approved changing the bylaws to allow for multiple in person meeting locations for the Delegates Assembly meetings going forward. The next meeting is scheduled for July 30, 2025. You will be able to choose one of the following locations to attend in person: RAILS Service Center,…
PrairieCat will be closed on Monday, May 26th for the Memorial Day holiday. There will be no on-call support on that day. Support issues will be addressed on the next business day. There will be no RAILS delivery on May 26th. 
Ecommerce is now available in the Vega Discover catalog and has been configured in the PrairieCat Mobile App. For more information on the new eCommerce payment method in Vega Discover, check out this video.  The ability to pay fines and fees in Encore will be disabled on May 19.  If your library’s website has any links to Encore (…
The FY26 election for the PrairieCat Administrative Council, Circulation Committee, and Technical Services Committee is now open. The election is open until Friday, May 16 at 5 pm. To vote, the library's Delegate needs to log in to the PrairieCat website at http://support.prairiecat.info.  Your login is your L2 login.  If you have not…
The new Vega Discover eCommerce changes have been enabled on the PrairieCat Mobile app. Please recommend patrons to update the app to the most current version. 
Registration is open for PrairieCat Member Updates scheduled in May. Hear the latest from PrairieCat staff and your colleagues from across the consortium. Register for one near you or online via Zoom.  Tuesday, May 20, 2025 PrairieCat Member Update | Highland Community College (Clarence Mitchell Library) | 10:00am - 11:00am…
Update: All Vega Discover collection and kiosk sites have been switched over to the new eCommerce platform.  PrairieCat staff will be switching the eCommerce links from the “link out” to Encore we use currently to the integrated Vega eCommerce interface.  This means that patrons will not have to log into Encore to make their payment.…
It's that time of year again, and Paging Lists for school member libraries will be turned off as of Monday, April 14, 2025.  Beginning on that date, school library materials will not be holdable until schools resume in the fall. Schools will still be able to request materials to fulfill their students' needs to the end of the school year.…
This issue has been resolved.  PrairieCat has discovered a large number of failed email deliveries for patron notices. This appears to only be affecting patrons with yahoo.com email addresses. We are investigating the issue.
The week of April 21, PrairieCat staff will be switching the eCommerce links from the “link out” to Encore we use currently to the integrated Vega eCommerce interface.  This means that patrons will not have to log into Encore to make their payment. The entire process will take place inside the Vega software from now on.  You can…