OLIS News and Updates Archive

The next NLS Music Notes Webinar for patrons and network staff will take place Thursday, October 22, at 7 p.m. eastern time. Please join us.

For this NLS Music Notes webinar, we will be joined by NLS Music Section patron Noah Tobias Carver.

The fall lineup of AskRI workshops is now available on the OLIS CE Calendar.

NLS continues to make improvements to BARD. To take advantage of these improvements, patrons’ devices must be running one of the more recent versions of the BARD software.

Listed for each of the platforms or products below is the minimum required version.

The topic for the Tuesday, October 27, 2026, That All May eRead online program will be Care and Use of NLS eReaders: Troubleshooting and Other Miscellany.

On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 7 p.m. eastern time, the NLS Patron Engagement Section will host a Patron Corner.

The topic for this program is Celebrating 20 Years of BARD: Part Two.

The Thursday, October 15, 2026, Smart Speaking to the Smart Speaker online program will be canceled. The program will resume on November 19, 2026.

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