Communication, Collaboration & Commitment – An SLA Event

SLA New England and our Co-Sponsor SLA Rhode Island Present

Communication, Collaboration & Commitment
Saturday October 13th, 2012

While we hope that we have planned a helpful and successful event for October 13th, registration is quite low at the moment and we can’t succeed without all of you! We hope that this post will provide some encouragement to those of you who just haven’t gotten around to registering yet!

Anyone who registers for the conference before midnight next Tuesday, Sept 25th, 2012 will be entered in a raffle to win one of *three free registrations*. Don’t worry, if you’ve already registered, you will be automatically entered. The three winners will have their conference payment refunded in full.

We are pushing back the start time of the conference from 8am to 8:45am. This means that the schedule will be as follows:

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NELA Annual Conference – October 14-16

Fall is fast approaching, and with it the New England Library Association Annual Conference on October 14 – 16 at the Sturbridge Host Hotel, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. It’s three days of excellent educational sessions, informative exhibitor displays and many networking opportunities.

World Book Night 2013 – VT Libraries Sought for Participation!

WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2013 LIBRARY PARTICIPANT APPLICATION

http://connect.ala.org/node/183788

(Form is attachment in this link to World Book Night Group in ALA Connect (New to ALA Connect? Instructions for accessing ALA Connect are below; also attached is a list of participants! Join these participants by October 1!)

WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2013 is a celebration of literacy by publishers, bookstores, libraries and individuals who love books and reading. On WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2013, 25,000 “book givers” will each give away 20 copies of a specially-printed, not-for-resale WBN edition of book they have read and loved (from a list of 25-30 titles selected by librarians and booksellers) to complete strangers – people who may never have owned a book of their own. To promote this literacy event, libraries and bookstores – as organizational participants in the event – form a nationwide advocacy and distribution network.

Young Writers Project

Each year, Young Writers Project (YWP) creates original, weekly writing challenges and invites Vermont teens 13-19 (and younger with parental permission) to respond to the prompts in school and after school on the YWP website, youngwritersproject.org. The best of the students’ writing and visual art is then published in partnership with newspapers across Vermont, on VTDigger.org, in YWP’s monthly digital magazine, The Voice, and annual Anthology. Along with the writing challenges, YWP has a vibrant online community of youth who create their own podcasts, open mic nights, a book club and more. They also participate in monthly writing workshops and other projects and events that revolve around the YWP site.

YWP, which started in Burlington, VT in 2006, is an independent nonprofit with a mission to inspire, mentor, publish and promote young writers and artists. Please encourage the young writers and artists in your communities to sign up for a free account and join the YWP community.

Susan Reid
Executive Director | Young Writers Project
47 Maple St., Suite 216, Burlington, VT 05401
sreid@youngwritersproject.org
(802) 324-9538

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Susan Reid
Executive Director | Young Writers Project
47 Maple Street, Suite 216, Burlington, VT 05401

(802) 324-9538

YWP’s mission is to inspire, mentor, publish, and promote young writers and artists.

Free Library Continuing Education Events for September

Listed below are FREE programs The Accessible Technology Coalition, American Management Association, Booklist, Colorado State Library, Georgia Library Association, Grantspace, Infopeople, Insync Training, Library Journal, NASA, National Library of Medicine, Nebraska Library Commission, Nonprofit Webinars, O’Reilly, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, TL Virtual Cafe, VolunteerMatch, Washington State Library, WebJunction, and the Wyoming State Library will be webcasting during September.

Turning the Page 2.0 Statewide Kickoff!

If you, your staff, your trustees and friends have not yet done so, please consider joining us for the Fall session of Turning the Page 2.0, the 6-week free online course in advocacy from the Public Library Association and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who know the importance of these skills. Many Vermont librarians and trustees have taken this course and used what they learned to help their library.

Whether you have a capital campaign starting up, want to prepare each year for Town Meeting, hope to add staff or programming, or simply want to get a well-focused and well-honed message out to your community with a strong, coordinated voice, this training is tremendous.

Meanwhile, registration is OPEN at: http://www.ala.org/pla/education/turningthepage and closes September 12.

And please register with me to join us in-person or online on September 12 in Berlin, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. You can write (christine.friese@state.vt.us) or phone me (802-828-2714) to register or to ask questions.

DOL Materials Review Session – One Session Only

DOL Materials Review Session will take place Wednesday, October 10, at the Brown Public Library in Northfield at 9:00 am.

An Afternoon with Jane Austen!

You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s September Meeting
An Afternoon with Jane Austen!
Sunday, 23 September 2012, 1 – 5 p.m.
Champlain College, Hauke Conference Center, 375 Maple St Burlington VT

Free & Open to the Public

Vermont Library Conference Planners Want to Hear From You!

It’s time to call for ideas for workshops for the Spring 2013 conference. We offer what librarians tell us they want, so if you haven’t seen the kind of workshops you want at conference in the last few years, now’s the time to let us know what you want to see. Keynote ideas are always welcome as well. Please send proposals and ideas to jnapier@kellogghubbard.org by November 1.

Funding Available to Increase Literacy Resources for Adult ELL – Deadline Aug 26

In May 2012, The ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS) received funding from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to continue the American Dream Starts @ your library, a literacy initiative serving adult English language learners and their families. A primary goal of this project is to help public libraries in Dollar General communities add or improve library literacy services for adult English language learners and their families.