News

March 5, 2010

City of Redding Approves Extension of LSSI Library Operations Contract
Library Systems & Services, LLC (www.lssi.com), the nation's leading provider of library management services, today announced that the Redding City Council voted unanimously to extend its library operations contract. The vote, which was taken at the February 22 city council meeting, extends LSSI's operations of the Redding, Anderson and Burney libraries in Shasta County for an additional three years.
Marketwire
 

March 4, 2010

Riverside County Library System Begins 'Print-on-Demand' Book Printing
Library Systems & Services (LSSI), operator of the Riverside County (California) Library System (RCLS), has announced that an innovative new on-demand book printing program begins today at the Grace Mellman Library in Temecula.
PRNewswire
 

March 3, 2010

Outsourcing in California? Local Libraries in Shasta Benefit from Operations Partnership
Libraries may not be thought of as the coolest places to be, and in light of the Internet age, doubts have surfaced about the role of public libraries in a city’s community, but that’s clearly not the case in the county of Shasta, where library usage and support has soared.
Rob Seitz
 

February 11, 2010

Oak Park Library honored for transgender resource collection
Oak Park Public Library is pleased to announce that it has won this year's Gordon M. Conable Award for the Transgender Resource Collection and related work. The Public Library Association ( PLA ) issues the Conable Award to a library staff member, library trustee, or public library that has demonstrated a commitment to intellectual freedom and the Library Bill of Rights
Windy City Media Group
 

February 10, 2010

The California Council for the Humanities goes mad for Libraries
A new CCH program, Making A Difference (*MAD), is designed to help libraries foster thoughtful, informed and civil community dialogue and supported by funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services-provided through the California State Library-and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
California Council for the Humanities
 

November 19, 2009

San Diego's Channel 10 highlights Riverside County Library System
10News learned how Riverside County was able to turn its own budget woes into a thriving library system.
10News
 

November 18, 2009

Jackson County Library System
After a full fiscal year of private operation, Jackson County libraries are nearly back to the same level of operation they were before closing in 2007.
 

October 14, 2009

Sarah Long talks with Judy Pezzanite (Podcast)
Sarah Long, Director of the North Suburban Library System, an organization of over 650 academic, public, school, and special libraries in the north/northwest suburbs of Chicago talks with Judy Pezzanite, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Library Systems and Services (LSSI) about how and why LSSI was founded in 1981. They also talk about why the firm's business related to managing libraries has attracted controversy.
 

August 18, 2009

Riverside County (Calif.) Library Systems & Services to host 2010 Arbuthnot Lecture
CHICAGO - The Riverside County (Calif.) Library Systems & Services has been chosen to host the 2010 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) announced recently.
Laura Schulte-Cooper
 

May 27, 2009

LSSI HELPS FLORIDA COMMUNITIES LEVERAGE PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO KEEP PUBLIC LIBRARIES OPEN
St. Augustine, FL—(May 27, 2009)—Library Systems & Services, LLC (LSSI), the nation’s largest provider of outsourced library management services, will be meeting with city and county leaders from across Florida at the Florida City & County Management Association’s 2009 Annual Conference which begins today in St. Augustine.
 

December 30, 2008

JACKSON COUNTY HAS RAVE REVIEWS FOR LIBRARY OPERATORS
Officials and citizens had almost nothing but praise in interviews about the job Library Systems and services has done running the local library and 14 others in the Jackson County system.
 

October 6, 2008

LSSI SUCCESSFULLY TRANSITIONS LANCASTER, TEXAS LIBRARY SYSTEM
LSSI has announced the successful transition of the management of the Lancaster Veterans Memorial Library to the City of Lancaster.
 
Upcoming conference schedule
LSSI participates in a full schedule of library industry and municipal management conferences across the country.
If you or your community representatives plan to attend, we welcome the opportunity to meet with you and discuss your current challenges and vision for your library's future.