“More than 60 percent of all respondents, regardless of geographic region, are extremely familiar, very familiar or somewhat familiar with search engines. Just 1 percent of all respondents surveyed have never heard of search engines.

In the 12 years that search engines have been in existence, they have achieved a familiarity that is slightly high than that of physical libaries and considerably higher than that of online libraries.”

This is from OCLC’s newest publication “Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources,” which reports the findings of an extensive research study of consumers. Read this report. It is informative and important as we consider delivery of library services to our users and those we hope will be our users in the future.

We are pleased to welcome aboard the Phase 3 participating libraries to LiLI Unlimited Resource Sharing. There are now 115 libraries in Idaho participating in this fantasic program.

Participating libraries have raved about the faster processing times and the increased access for resource sharing–all resulting in better service for library users.

To see which libraries are participating, see the list (with their OCLC symbols) on the LiLI Website at http://libraries.idaho.gov/lili-u-participating-libraries.