The Science & Technology department at the Akron-Summit County Public Library, home of the Akron PTDL, enjoyed a busy 2010. We serve a very diverse population, from university students to tinkering inventors and entrepreneurs to attorneys and engineers, as walk-in, phone or email patrons. In celebration of our fifteenth year as a PTDL, we hosted … Continue reading “Akron, OH”
In collaboration with the PTDLP Office at USPTO, Georgia Tech PTDL held a free “Patents and Trademarks 101” Workshop (http://libguides.gatech.edu/patentsworkshop) on campus in November 2010. This full-day workshop brought together about 120 enthusiastic participants, including inventors, students, faculty, researchers, librarians, business owners, and IP professionals both on campus and throughout the state. Tom Turner, Librarian … Continue reading “Atlanta, GA”
The Wyoming State Library (WSL) became a PTDL in 2005. I am the sole staff member within the PTDL, and additionally manage the Federal Depository Library program here at WSL. We are the only PTDL in the state and consequently, serve the entire population of Wyoming. Our state population is approximately 544,000. As you can … Continue reading “Cheyenne, WY”
Greetings from sunny Clemson SC. As I write this, spring is beginning to become evident on campus. It’s my favorite season here, because it means that the PTDL Training Seminar will begin soon.
Jim Miller and Bob Kackley are still the main “patent folks” at College Park, though we try to get other people involved. Nevenka Zdravkovska and Nedelina Tchangalova are loyal PTDLA members. As in all libraries, there are increasing demands on staff time. We have gotten valuable assistance from our iSchool grad student Francy Stilwell, notably … Continue reading “College Park, MD”
The Paul Laurence Dunbar Library has been a PTDL since 2000. Our PTDL collection is stored in the Information Commons area of the main library. We set new record for patent and trademark reference interactions with over 700 patent and trademark information requests. I continue to provide 2 basic intellectual property classes, 4 patent and … Continue reading “Dayton, OH”
Hi Readers! My name is Eileen Fischlschweiger, and I’ve been the Fort Lauderdale PTDL Representative for fourteen years, having worked at the PTDL in the capacity of Patent and Trademark Librarian for sixteen years. I have been a librarian with the Broward County Library System for over 22 years. My undergraduate degree is a Bachelor … Continue reading “Ft. Lauderdale, FL”
A big warm sunny aloha to everyone from our corner of the world. Stewart Chun and Arlene Nagamine are holding down the fort while Carole Suzui is on secret mission to our Office of the State Librarian to compile library statistics for the various reports on our library system’s activity. In Carole’s place, we are … Continue reading “Honolulu, HI”
The PTDL at Rice University is located in Fondren Library’s Kelley Center for Government Information and Microforms. Three of our eight staff members (Siu, Linda and Esther) teach patent searching classes to area inventors and offer individual training to inventors and researchers. Six staff members (Ann, Ericka, Esther, Linda, Sarah and Siu) provide assistance at … Continue reading “Houston, Texas”
March 15 will mark the second year that the Arkansas State Library (PTRC since 1983) has been at our new location at 900 W. Capitol Ave in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Arkansas State Library continues to evolve and change. We are currently in the midst of making changes to the location and layout of our … Continue reading “Little Rock, AR”
Let me introduce myself. I’m Rae Shepherd-Shlechter and I have been the PTDL Librarian since 1998 for the Louisville Free Public Library. I’m also the Business Reference Librarian and the Government Documents Librarian at the library. I take a very small-business oriented approach in helping my intellectual property clients. The vast majority of them are … Continue reading “Louisville, KY”
Wendt Library serves the departments of Engineering, Computer Science, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, and Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The PTDL representative is Nancy Spitzer. Amy Kindschi, Head of Faculty and Student Services, also provides patent searching expertise. Amy will be attending the training seminar in April this year. Other Wendt librarians who help … Continue reading “Madison, WI”
It was pretty much business as usual at the Minneapolis Central Library of the Hennepin County Library system. I presented my patent talk each month, and although the audience is smaller than it used to be, the attendees are very focused and eager to learn about patents and patent searching. A local patent attorney was … Continue reading “Minneapolis, MN”
Evansdale Library at West Virginia University has been a depository since 1991. The Evansdale Library serves Engineering, Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences, Education, Creative Arts and Physical Education. Independent as well as university inventors come to the Evansdale Library for assistance. I continue to work with the WVU Office of Technology Transfer who routinely sends … Continue reading “Morgantown, WV”
The Chester F. Carlson Patent and Trademark Depository Library (a PTDL since 1999) has been pretty busy this year. Aside from our regular walk-in patrons, we have seen an increase in the number of users who have requested information to be sent to them at home, followed by an hour or two of one-on-one IP … Continue reading “Rochester, NY”
The Salt Lake City PTDL is one of the collections of the University of Utah’s Marriott Library. The Marriott Library was first designated a PDL in 1984 (Note –Trademarks were not yet deposited at that time, so there was no ‘T’ as in ‘PTDL’). In addition to our PTDL depository, the Marriott Library has been … Continue reading “Salt Lake City, UT”
