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This includes The Accidental Systems Librarian, so if you were waiting for a good deal, now’s the time!

It’s time to collect data for the 2012 edition of the survey. This is an opportunity for libraries to register their perceptions of the ILS product they use, its vendor, and the quality of support delivered. Is support getting better or worse? The survey also probes at considerations for migrating to new systems and the level of interest in open source ILS. While the numeric rating scales support the statistical results of the study, it’s the comments offered that provide the most insight into the current state of library automation satisfaction.

Please help your fellow libraries who might be in the process of evaluating library automation options by responding to the survey. Any information regarding vendor performance and product quality can be helpful when making strategic decisions regarding automation alternatives. A large number of responses strengthen the impact of the survey and the subsequent report.

Make sure that your library participates – and participates honestly because the results of this survey help your colleagues make decisions about their future automation changes. Participate here.

• Amazon Kindle
• B&N Nook
• OverDrive
• My iLibrary
• ebrary
• Blio
• Chegg

I’ll be pretty busy (as you can see) but if you’ll be there, find me because I’d love to chat! My full schedule is here.

My husband held up the box and said – what’s this? Facing me was the label!

Inside were my copies and the copies for my blurbers and co-author:

Check it out!

One of the best ways to learn to program, besides tinkering with scripts yourself, is to take a look at others’ code examples. TheCodePlayer has a great take on that, with video walkthroughs of cool stuff being created from scratch.

The videos show the code being written on the left side of the page and the changes happening on the right. You can also change the code yourself and see how that affects the scripts.

Thank you Lifehacker! I will be keeping an eye on TheCodePlayer which is still in Alpha to see if it adds some languages that I’d like to learn soon!

• Bananatag
• Send from Gmail [Chrome]
• Rapportive
• Snooze [Chrome]
• Mail Timer [Chrome]
• Boomerang
• KeyRocket [Chrome]
• Attachments.me [Chrome]
• Taskforce

Learn more about each of them on Mashable.