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Library Services Platform Proposal Response

Our library services platform technical response opening took place on Friday, 1/18.  The following vendors responded to our RFP:

  • Auto-Graphics
  • ByWater Solutions
  • Innovative Interfaces
  • OCLC
  • Polaris
  • SirsiDynix
  • VTLS

We will continue our review process through February and March.  As we narrow the group of responses, we will contact selected vendors for on-site demonstrations.

Thank you for your time and consideration,

Sherry Sakovich

Library Services Platform Proposal Opening Rescheduled

Due to inclement weather, the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library is closing at 1:30pm today, Thursday, January 17th. 

As a result, the library services platform proposal opening has been rescheduled to Friday, January, 18th, 1:00pm in the Main Library Boardroom, 915 Monroe Street, Hunstville, AL.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this causes.

Thanks so very much,

Sherry Sakovich

Addenda #21: Demonstrations

Question:

The request for proposal wasn’t too specific on demonstrations.  I’m assuming you will have your top choices in for demos, do you have an idea when that might be, or is it too soon to know? Read more »

Meet the Author: Jeff Norrell

Award-winning historian Robert J. Norrell talks about his first fiction book, Eden Rise.

This critically acclaimed novel depicts a young man embroiled in a civil-rights conflict that divides his family, his town, and his own identity.

William Heath, author of The Children Bob Moses Led, and historian Dan T. Carter both call Eden Rise “gripping.”  Allen Wier, author of Tehano, remarks on Norrell’s “keen sense of place and the nuances of character” and calls the tale “realistic and haunting.” Read more »

How to Do Things: Bollywood Dancing

Richa Singh shows how to dance like a Mumbai film star.  Free and open to the public.

 

Tuesday •March 26 •6:30-7pm

Second Floor Events Room •Main Library •915 Monroe Street

For more information, contact Sophie Young at 256-532-2362.

Learn moves from Shahala Liz

Shahala Liz will teach a belly dancing class at the Madison Public Library on Thursday, February 28, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Read more »

Addenda #20: Sealed Pricing Submittal

Question:

Can you please clarify the submittal requirement for the Sealed Pricing.  How many copies of this do you require and is this required as an electronic copy in addition to the printed copy?

Answer:

For the sealed pricing, we request one printed copy and an electronic copy is not necessary.  

How to Do Things: Publishing 101

Find out what it takes to get your book from your desk to a store shelf during Publishing 101 on Tuesday, February 26, at 6:30 p.m. at the Main Library. Read more »

Civil Rights Bus Tour to Birmingham

Learn more about the civil rights movement in the city where much of the history happened. Join our bus trip to Birmingham on Wednesday, February 20, from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Read more »

Madison Mega-Marathon

Do you enjoy reading? Do you like challenges? Is your New Year Resolution to read more books? Try the Madison Mega-Marathon to whet your reading appetite! Let 2013 be the year you read a book a week.

Throughout the year, we will award various prizes which get bigger and better as we go along! Create an account at www.goodreads.com, and then find the "Madison Mega-Marathon" group to join us. Read more »

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