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Amigos eShelf℠ Service update: upcoming conferences, webinars

The Amigos eShelf℠ Service has been available to libraries since the beginning of November. Since then, we have been getting the word out by attending conferences and posting to social media. Just this fall, we exhibited and presented at the Missouri/Kansas, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Arizona Library Association conferences, and also attended the Charleston and LITA conferences.

David Shumaker to kick off February 11 Amigos Online Conference

Join us February 11, 2016, for the next Amigos Online Conference, "Going Out of Bounds with Reference Services." During this conference, we will be hearing from librarians across the country regarding innovative reference outreach, programming and integration with other departments in the library.

IGI Global offers free December access to article on growing market for artificial organs

The Amigos eShelf℠ Service has been available to libraries since the beginning of November. Since then, we have been getting the word out by attending conferences and posting to social media. Just this fall, we exhibited and presented at the Missouri/Kansas, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Arizona Library Association conferences, and also attended the Charleston and LITA conferences.Our bodies and "selves" have come to be physically and mentally meshed with external artifacts and objects, and this fact sets the stage for a variety of philosophical and moral questions related to the role of culture in our technological world. Artificial organs are not as recent a development as you may think. As early as 3000 BC, Egyptian mummies testify that missing limbs and fingers were replaced with wooden prostheses.

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