ALA and Evanced Adventures

ALA 2009 has been an exciting and busy conference.

The GoLibrary materials vending solution has generated a great deal of interest especially with libraries seeking to expand the number of branches they have on a limited budget. GoLibrary is a vending solution much like an ATM machine. Books and media can be loaded into a machine and library card holders can check them out. There are three types of machines - including one that can be installed into an exterior or interior library wall and two stand-alone units.

Our Twitter Hunt has been immense fun and has caused random outbreaks of high-speed sprinting as conference attendees tried to find Christine Ayar, our Coordinator of Customer Experience. In case you haven't heard, anyone who follows us on Twitter (we're @evanced) can win prizes. Once a day between July 11 - 14, Christine will tweet a picture and clue to her location. The first person on location wins a great prize. We've had two winners so far - including @netmom (Jean Armour Polly - Liverpool Public Library, NY) and @laguz28 (Allen Bettig - Glenview Public Library, IL) are our first two winners. Jean won gourmet brownies (they are incredible brownies and well worth the hunting) and Allen won a $100 gift card for Amazon. Want to see what we give away next? Follow us and find out!

There have been a ton of great events but so far one of our favorites was a Book Mobile Parade! We haven't been able to download our pictures yet, but will share them when we do. In the meantime, check out great book mobiles here.