Hello everyone,
I’d like to invite you to join Nicole C. Engard, Koha Documentation Manager and VP of Education at ByWater Solutions for a free Koha 3.8 introductory demo webinar. If you’re considering and open source ILS or just curious about Koha please join me!
A message from NELA’s president, Mary Ann List:
Dear NELA Members,
Bill Rogers of Google Maps has launched an initiative to provide indoor maps of New England libraries, public and academic, large and small. The project can expand to other buildings on college campuses.
Public libraries in Portland Maine and Hingham Mass were pioneers, discovering indoor maps early on. Several of the rest of us have now worked with the Google team to raise the visibility of our libraries in this way.
Google Indoor Maps are in use in several large retail establishments and in 18 Smithsonian museums and galleries.
There are two levels of mapping, both easy and free to the library.
In Portsmouth we loaded our basic floor plans (the same ones we use in-house) in just a few minutes, and then had a Google team come out to do the live mapping (level 2).
Mr. Rogers explains indoor maps for libraries in his letter, which follows.
If you would like to join this project, contact him for simple instructions.
Mary Ann List, NELA President
Are you familiar with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries?
Did you know that the 2012 Annual Conference will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina on September 27-29, 2012.
And did you read about the scholarships the Department of Libraries is offering to 2 Vermont library staff members?
Read all about it and more in the DOL May newsletter, here, or through links in the upper right of our website at http://libraries.vermont.gov/
The Vermont Library Conference committee would like to thank everyone that took the time to answer our recent survey. A bit over half of the respondents were from public libraries, 34% from academic and the remainder other.
As to the question of preference for future conferences, Burlington area took 39% of the vote, while central was at 19%, southern 6% and move every year 14%. Comments largely followed the numbers. While several stated they preferred Burlington, they would be willing to drive to central Vermont to be “fair.” The two campuses most frequently cited as desired locations were St. Michael’s and VTC in Randolph.
The Center for Cartoon Studies is extending a discount to their summer workshops to librarians in Vermont.
2012 Summer Workshops
Children’s Books, June 25-29
Create Comics, July 16-20
Cartooning Studio, July 23-27
Cartooning Studio: Production & Design, July 30-August 3
Master Class in Comics Narrative, August 20-24
To register online: http://ccssummerworkshops2012.
Enter promotional code: CCSLOVESLIBRARIES
And receive 25% off tuition for any summer workshop
Our purpose: bring people together, of all skill levels, that manage technology in Vermont’s public libraries, to discuss the best tools, how to manage them, and move our libraries forward. Hear what other libraries are doing and to share your ideas.
Turning the Page 2.0 is a unique opportunity for free, in-depth, interactive, online education in public library advocacy. Register for this six week course and get one-on-one attention from professional facilitators as you build a customized Advocacy Work Plan for your library.
Come join us at the ACRL-NEC Access Services Spring Conference
“How Does Your Access Services Garden Grow?”
When: June 8, 2012
Where: Tower Hill Botanical Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, MA 01505
Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm
Cost: $30.00 per person
The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources just announced a free Vermont State Parks App:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oh-ranger!-parkfinder-vermont/id509618668?mt=8
As Parks Passes start to go out, this would be a wonderful thing to promote with the passes for library members with smart phones and tablets.
It might even be a great time to promote certain apps that have to do with the great outdoors, like the Audubon Guide Apps, which are a little pricy but I use them all the time myself and that purchase supports local business (Green Mountain Digital).
http://www.greenmountaindigital.com/
What are your favorite reference apps that you tell patrons about?
Please enjoy these videos of our First Annual Book Cart Drill Team Competition:
University of Vermont Libraries’ Banned On The Run: http://youtu.be/mO2ob44t1sg
Vermont Department of Libraries: http://youtu.be/63dxfzaffmg
If you have pictures of the day that you want added to the conference photo album on our Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/VTLibraryAssociation), please send them to me at vermontlibrarieswebmaster@gmail.com with your full name (so I can give you proper credit) and with the full names/blessings of the people in the picture. If the pictures were taken at a session/meeting/lunch/etc., please include that information, also!