Learn About B&T’s CATS





Join Marin Foster and Elizabeth Duffy at SALS to learn about Baker & Taylors’ Children and Teen Services (CATS)

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CATS provides distinctive and reliable services for libraries around the world. A leader in supplying public and school library materials in print and digital formats, CATS has over 700,000 titles available for children and teen collections.

To keep up with the exciting world of libraries, books, authors, graphic novels, publishing, and teen movies, children’s music, conferences, and much more check out The CATS Meow. This monthly e-newsletter provides reviews, interviews, and a refreshing view of what is happening with CATS.

Collection development support is maintained by our staff librarians and with a multitude of notification services: Booking Ahead, First Look, Fast Facts, and more. DVDs, CDs, books, graphic novels, videogames, kits, electronic and downloadable formats are easily accessible using Baker & Taylor’s TitleSource3 (TS3) database. Materials can be delivered shelf-ready through the value-added services department.

Fresh Practices for the Community Focused Library





Please join us for the workshop Fresh Practices for the Community Focused Library presented by national library consultants Joan Frye Williams and George Needham. This workshop is part of the 2010/2011 LSTA grant series aimed to help library staff and trustees obtain the skills to best work with the many diverse groups of people who are using their libraries daily.

You’ve worked hard, tried to maintain quality services, but nowadays everybody is talking about doing “more with less.” In this lively, interactive session, library consultants Joan Frye Williams and George Needham will offer an alternative: how to do “different with less.”
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