We would like to take this opportunity to invite you and your staff to participate on a NEO-RLS committee for FY2010-2011....

When:   Tuesday, August 24th @ 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Where:  From your Desktop
Cost:     $15

Participants will learn and begin to master:

• 3 Techniques that they can do with their staff in 2 minutes or less each day to physically reduce stress and anxiety
• 2 Techniques that they can do with their staff in 2 minutes or less each day to mentally and emotionally reduce stress and anxiety
• Ideas and exercises for reducing stress by building your library teams
• Using informal rewards and other stress resiliency techniques to maintain morale

The Summer CE Catalog will be arriving on your library doorstep.  Don't want to wait click here for effective, efficient and econimcal training.

When:   Tuesday, July 27th @ 10 a.m.
Where:  From your Desktop
Cost:     $15
How do you attempt to meet a patron's needs or requests when you find yourself in a challenging situation? How do you honor your library policies while trying to address their issues? In other words, how do you turn a difficult patron into a satisfied customer? In this session, we will delve into some specific scenarios that you may encounter in your everyday interactions with patrons - and how to deal effectively with those scenarios.

NEO-RLS is slashing the prices on its popular Blu Ray and Videogame circuits!!!  If you email me in the next 30 minutes you too can take advantage of these tremendous savings … but act quickly as the circuits are going fast!!!

Old price $500 per year … new price $350 per year (for paid NEO members)  The cost for Geographic members has also dropped from $1000 to $700.  The circuits run from July to June as NEO is on the fiscal year cycle.

Glad you asked!!  What you get are 20 quality items (either videogames [an combination of Wii, XBOX 360 and PS3) or Blu Ray movies) every 3 months (or 80 per year).   

“Come on, Bill, there’s gotta be a catch!!” 

Nope, no catch … just another way for NEO to give back to the library community by offering quality products at a great price!!!   You do have to be on Cargo and you are responsible for any lost or damaged items … so I guess there is catch!

 “Bill, has anyone ever nominated you for Sainthood?” 

Ha, Ha … I get that all the time … but, No.

You betcha!!

So what are you waiting for … email Bill today at bill.martino@neo-rls.org if you are interested or have any questions … and yes, you do have more than 30 minutes to get in touch with me.

The NEO-RLS Board of Trustees, at its April 20, 2010 meeting, approved several editorial and clarification changes to the NEO-RLS Bylaws.  The changes to the Bylaws will become effective 30 days following publication of this notice. 

Summary of proposed Bylaws changes:

The NEO News Network (N3 ) N3 is a new method of getting information about both NEO-RLS and our member libraries out to you in a visual format. Emails are great for communication but they lack the visual impact that we, as a society, are used to today. Thus we will be periodically sending you these visual digests to keep you up to date on happenings in the NEO region. If you have any news items that you would like us to cover please send Bill Martino an email and we will do our best to get the news out there. We are excited about offering you this new service and look forward to hearing from you.