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The next meeting of the WPLC Board will be held

10:00 am on Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Please submit agenda items to me no later than 8:00 am on Monday, May 14.  I’ll get the agenda out by the following day at 4:00 pm. Items already submitted are:·

Review of the recalculation of the funding formula for the buying pool
Discussion of how to proceed with the letter to ebook publishers that I agreed to write
Discussion of BadgerLearn
Discussion of the WPLC gadgets as an agenda item.

With the WPLC/OverDrive website re-design, some browsers need a “hard” refresh in order to unscramble the display. In Firefox and Explorer, do this by clicking on Control-F5; in Chrome click on the little wrench in the upper right-hand corner, then under Tools, click on Clear browsing data.

For more information about clearing the cache: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache

Let me know if you have questions.

The ALA, IMLS, COSLA and other library leaders are advisors on a national research effort studying the changing role of public libraries in the digital age, as well as the experiences and expectations of public library users.  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project to conduct surveys and provide analysis related to reading and e-reading; the changing world of public library