OLIS News and Updates

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Barrington Children's Librarians Pat and Lisa chatted with Overdueing It about engaging youth with a Jeopardy style book discussion ahead of a special v

Explore what the Census Bureau data tools have to offer in our CE workshops on November 2 and 9.

Join Nicole McKenzie, Data Dissemination Specialist at the US Census Bureau, as she demonstrates how to use a variety of Census data tools.

On Thursday, October 29, 2026, NLS will make NLS HumanWare Braille eReader software version 3.1 available to patrons.

Devices connected to Wi-Fi will tell the user that a new update is available for downloading and installation.

The topic for the Thursday, November 12, 2026, Many Faces of BARD program will be An Overview of the Many Faces of BARD.

After the presentation, we will take your questions about all things BARD for the remainder of the hour. 

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.