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A special invitation for Unshelved readers: For a while now our good friends at the Shelf have been publishing customized newsletters for several dozen large bookstores (here’s an example). Now they are exploring the idea of doing a similar thing for libraries: a free newsletter customized for your patrons, listing upcoming events at your library, packed with information about upcoming books, with links to reserve them from your ILS. If this sounds intriguing, they’d like to ask you a few questions. I promise they’ll treat you gently. Please drop them a line and tell ‘em we sent you!