10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

• InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
• HRC/Health and Wellness Resource Center
• General Reference Center Gold

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

• Associations Unlimited
• Ready Reference
• Biography Resource Center

September 10th staff training on children's literature held, September 11th events cancelled
The State Library's Rural Initiative offered "From Potter (Beatrix) to Potter (Harry)," a special staff training videoconference on children's literature featuring Michael Cart. Santa Maria and Paso Robles hosted the event on September 10th from 1:00-4:00 p.m.
The following day, Ventura County was scheduled to host the children's literature video event from 9am to noon and the young adult literature event in the afternoon but, due to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, both events were cancelled.

Horrormeister John Saul misses videoconference by an hour
John Saul, best-selling author of Nightshade, Guardian and Brainchild was scheduled to speak to Ventura County Library, Paso Robles Public Library and Santa Maria Public Library audiences on August 16, 2001 at 6:00 p.m. Due to a scheduling error, the event was cancelled.

Ventura County Library hosted LAN Management videoconference
On July 31st and August 7th, E.P. Foster Library hosted a two-day LAN Management videoconference. The conference covered such topics as network driver, protocols such as TCP/IP, network security and troubleshooting. There were 11 attendees at the first session and 12 at the second session. Attendees enjoyed the conference overall and particularly liked the interactivity of session 1.

Cat-A-Link Gold user training held
On June 25, 2001, Cat-A-Link Gold, the Network's virtual union catalog had its debut at a training session held at Ventura County's E.P. Foster Library. Member library staff from the three counties attended the hands-on session, which covered the ILL life cycle as handled in Cat-A-Link Gold. Click here to see the invitation.

Luncheon at University Club counted a success
Featured speakers Bessie Condos-Tichauer, Region VII Liaison with the Library of California, and David Dowell, Core Planning Group Chair for Region VII, spoke about the Library of California and resource sharing in the state of California.
When: June 8, 2001 from 11:30a.m. to 1:00p.m.
Where: The University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Photos of the event are posted at http://goldcoastlibraries.org/photos/luncheon/photoplate.htm

CalPoly presented web directory training sessions. Two sessions were held in Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties. Sessions scheduled for Santa Barbara county were cancelled. More information is available at http://goldcoastlibraries.org/webdirectory/training.htm.

The final demonstration of Gale Biography Resource Center was held at the Santa Barbara High School library on March 14, 2001.

Information Partners, Inc. has presented six seminars on the electronic readiness of region libraries. For dates, times and locations go to http://goldcoastlibraries.org/seminars.htm

Cuesta College hosted the Gold Coast Library Network's 2nd demonstration of URSA (Universal Resource Sharing Application), the software being used to develop Cat-A-Link Gold. For more information, please go to http://goldcoastlibraries.org/flyers/URSAdemo.htm. Visit http://goldcoastlibraries.org/URSAdemo101900.pdf to see slides of the demo from October 19, 2000.

The Network Council held its historic 1st meeting on November 30, 2000. Photographs of the meeting are posted at http://goldcoastlibraries.org/photos/Council-113000.htm

News of the Network was published in the Ventura County Star on November 24, 2000.

News of the Network was published in the Santa Maria paper. This article is available to view in JPEG format at http://goldcoastlibraries.org/SMarticle.jpg

The Gold Coast Library Network, Region VII, Library of California, was granted Network Status by the Library of California on August 18, 2000. You can read the application by clicking on network status application.

Library of California has funded grants for the Gold Coast Library Network. You can read all grant applications by clicking on grants.