The Akron PTRC, this last year has been a combination of new things and the traditional “business as usual” activities. Our patent team is myself and Michele McNeal. Our newest librarian, Stephanie Jolliff is currently learning to teach the two IP classes we have on a monthly basis. Those are “Introduction to Intellectual Property” and “Introduction to Patents & Patent Searching”.
We have a new staff member, Chad Weaver who started this past year and he is attending the PTRC conference with Stephanie Jolliff. Continue reading
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Georgia Tech Library becoming a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), we organized a patent exhibit on campus in Oct. 2016. This exhibit was also highlighted during the day-long seminar: Patents and Trademarks: Get the Information You Need to Protect Your Intellectual Property, 
I think I will consider this year a transition year. I continue to do many of the same activities, but there are some new projects and programs that will come to fruition next year. So stay tuned. Here are some highlights from April 2016 – March 2017:
Things are going quite well at Detroit Public Library.
Aloha, and welcome to the Hawaii State Library Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC). The Hawaii State Library has been a patent and trademark resource center since December 18, 1989. The PTRC is located within the Federal Document Section of the library.
Here at the Hennepin County Library I continued to do my monthly patent workshop, alternating between the downtown Central Library and the suburban Southdale Library where I work two days a week.