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PrairieCat has facilitated a contract for opt-in IT services and support provided by Office Specialists, Inc. (OSI). If you are interested in learning more about how OSI could support your library's IT needs, contact OSI representative, Trent Pearson.
OSI can help your library get started with Microsoft 365. Did you know that…
PrairieCat is currently seeking nominations for the Administrative Council, Circulation Committee, and Technical Services Committee until April 28, 2023. The election for all open positions will be held from May 8-19, 2023. Details on the open seats for each committee are below. You may nominate yourself or others by emailing Carolyn Coulter,…
Congratulations to the Rock Island Public Library, Watts-Midtown Branch on their soft opening of the new branch location. The grand opening celebration is scheduled for Saturday, March 11.
This location will start filling system-wide holds on February 28, 2023.
Delivery Code: RIZG
Sierra Code: RZ
This branch complements Rock…
Innovative was unable to complete PrairieCat's server migration last night (2/22/23) and the migration was rolled back. PrairieCat staff will be meeting with Innovative staff to reschedule.
January is always a time of planning for the new year - What craft will we doing for the spring holidays? What is this year’s summer reading theme? What does our budget look like for the rest of this fiscal year?
In your planning for this year - consider an collection comparison project (aka an inventory) with PrairieCat this year.
Have you done…
ACTION: Informational
Because so many of our member libraries are impacted by the coming winter storm, PrairieCat has added 12/22/22 and 12/23/23 as universal closed dates for ALL PrairieCat libraries. Entering these dates will prevent the accrual of overdue fines if applicable.
Al items due 12/22/2022 through 12/23/2022 will have a new due date…