Amigos Library Services’ 2026 Member Conference, The Ways We Thrive, brought together library professionals to celebrate the innovation, adaptability, and resilience that continue to shape the field. Conference sponsors included Amigos vendor partners LexisNexis, Demco, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, and Diligent/BoardDocs. Materials from the sponsors are available in the conference portal.
Call for Proposals: The Flexible Library September 2026 Online Conference
The call for proposals for our next topical online conference, The Flexible Library, is now open! The Flexible Library will be held online on September 23, 2026.
The Amigos Continuing Education schedule for July through September is now live, offering a variety of courses designed to support library staff at all levels. As a reminder, all courses are free for everyone at member libraries, including administrators, librarians, staff, volunteers, and student employees.
This makes it easy to register multiple team members for the same session and turn training into a shared learning experience. Attending a course together as a team can spark conversation, reinforce key concepts, and provide a foundation for applying new ideas in daily work.
Duke University Press Offers Free Trial of Music and Sound Studies
Containing 221 titles, Duke University Press’s Music and Sound Studies e-book collection pushes at the edges of how music is discussed. Its innovative ethnomusicology titles find new links between music and culture, and its groundbreaking sound studies titles establish a new framework for theorizing the larger context of how we listen. The collection also includes essential works in jazz studies and popular music studies, biographies and memoirs of prominent musicians, and essay collections by important music critics. Addressing musical cultures from around the world, this interdisciplinary collection considers music and sound broadly, taking into account all their social, cultural, physiological, and technological dimensions.
New Cambridge Histories and Companions Now Available
2026 Cambridge Histories and Cambridge Companions collections are available for purchase! Record totals of 28 new Histories and 34 new Companions are anticipated this year. Purchase now, and your institution will receive new titles when they are published - we will automatically add them to your collection.
Pressbooks Around the World: Collaboration Across Borders
Amigos Discount Direct Vendor Pressbooks is inviting members to learn what it takes to bring 85 authors from around the globe together to create a single open educational resource. Join us on June 10, 2026, from 10:00–11:00 AM EDT for the next Pressbooks Around the World webinar: Collaborative Publishing Across Borders.
In June, the monthly live training session from Research Solutions on Article Galaxy will feature a special Article Galaxy MCP (Model Context Protocol) Edition.
MCP lets your AI assistant pull literature directly from Article Galaxy, no copy-pasting, no tab-switching. Think of it as giving your AI a library card.
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