<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello Friends, <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In May, 2018, Woodlands Library Cooperative’s Continuing Education Committee offered a workshop titled, “The care and feeding of our library buildings.” Discussion continued that fall at luncheon during the MLA annual conference, about how public libraries could better share facilities-related information. As it often happens, the discussion grew into the larger issue of how libraries can share a wide variety of vendor information with each other without redundancy, and the concept on which we settled was to offer a moderated website where directors can provide contact information for companies with whom they’ve had a positive experience. Thus “<b>No Reservation Recommendations</b>” (NRR) was born!  <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Over the years, the website has evolved to include <a href="https://nrr.ninja/search-programs/">programming recommendations</a>, and the vendor category options are growing regularly with community-based suggestions - <b>thank you </b>for making this site the useful tool that it is today! <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best of all, we’re still here and we want your contributions!  <a href="http://NRR.ninja">NRR.ninja</a> continues to provide librarians with more vendor options in an ever expanding area of categories and arranged by cooperative boundaries. However, in order to ensure that we continue to have a robust database, we need all of you to submit those positive recommendations.  Visit <a href="https://nrr.ninja/">https://nrr.ninja/</a> today to submit your vendor OR programming recommendations!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Thanks so much!</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">kate</div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><a href="https://namedrop.io/katepohjolaandrade" target="_blank">Kate Pohjola Andrade</a> (she/her/hers)<br></span><a href="https://woodlands.lib.mi.us" target="_blank">Woodlands Library Cooperative</a><br>517-629-9460 / 586-801-0725 - cell/text<br></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></div><div><a href="https://nrr.ninja" target="_blank"><b>No Reservation Recommendations</b></a>: your source for colleague-approved vendors!<br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://doodle.com/bp/katepohjolaandrade/meet-with-me" target="_blank">Schedule a meeting</a><br></span></div></div></div></div>