Call now to support library funding!
Please call your Representative in Washington today and ask him/her to sign onto two letters circulating around Congress. The deadline has been extended to March 17, and it is critically important that they sign-on to this letter in the next forty-eight hours.
The Vermont Library Trustees Association (VLTA), the trustees section of the Vermont Library Association, in conjunction with the Department of Libraries will again offer a series of workshops for trustees and librarians during the spring Town Officers Educational Conferences. TOECs are sponsored by the Vermont Institute for Government, with organizational help from the UVM Extension Service which will mail a registration packet to each library in spring, 2010.
To register for any of the TOECs, find the form online at http://2010toec.eventbrite.com/ $55 online cost includes morning coffee and lunch. Many towns send carloads to the sessions. Contact your town clerk for details.
Dates/ locations:
Monday, April 5-St. Michael’s College, Colchester
Thursday, April 8-Lyndon State College, Lyndonville
Tuesday, April 13-Lake Morey Resort Fairlee
Tuesday, April 20-Grand Summit, Mt. Snow
Wednesday, April 28-Holiday Inn & Conference Center, Rutland
Hello public librarians!
I am the public library representative on the VLA Board. I’m putting together a panel discussion called Librarian as Social Worker, which was how I described my job after arriving at work and finding a young adult (who was a recently discharged veteran) sleeping on the library steps. After discussions with colleagues, I realized I wasn’t alone in feeling overwhelmed by the increase in our patrons’ needs. In the past year or so, patrons have needed more information relating to health and human services, rather than reader’s advisory. Whether it’s a question about emergency heating assistance or a child you fear is being abused, librarians are increasingly working with patrons who are in crisis.
The panel will be made up of members of local and state agencies who will discuss their organizations and how librarians can best use their resources. VT 211 will have a representative on each panel. There will be time for Q & A.
Panels will be held at two locations: Friday April 9th at the Aldrich Public Library in Barre and Monday April 26th at the Hartland Public Library, 10:00 –1:00 PM (coffee at 9:30.) Please bring a bag lunch. I’m also looking for real-life examples to provide to the panelists. RSVP to lucinda.walker@norwichlibrary.org or 802-649-1184.
Thanks,
Lucinda
The VLA Awards Committee is once again looking for people who have retired or are planning to retire in 2010, or who retired any time since the last VLA conference. To be eligible for a retirement award a Librarian must:
Please let me know of anyone you know so we can honor them at the May VLA Conference.
Thanks so much for your help.
Grace Greene
Chair, VLA Awards Committee
Grace.Greene@state.vt.us
Rock & Roll Library Tour! THE HIGH STRUNG are coming!
Are you looking for a high-energy, summer reading program?
For the past six years the quirky, carefree, energetic music of Detroit’s
The High Strung has been electrifying patrons across the nation with sunny three-part harmonies and witty, lyrical bravado. This year the guitars are roaming the country again, headed in your direction, and the show is only getting better.
Rock & Roll Library Tour! THE HIGH STRUNG are coming!
Are you looking for a high-energy, summer reading program?
For the past six years the quirky, carefree, energetic music of Detroit’s
The High Strung has been electrifying patrons across the nation with sunny three-part harmonies and witty, lyrical bravado. This year the guitars are roaming the country again, headed in your direction, and the show is only getting better.
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Grad School Assistance Available
Deadline to apply is March 15, 2010
Need money for library school? NELA offers scholarships for New England residents working on a Master’s degree in Library Science: two scholarships each for full and part-time students, $2,000 and $1,000 respectively.
Interested? Complete details and an application form are at:
http://nelib.org/educationalassistance/ScholarshipForm-200901.pdf
Be sure to submit your completed application form to your graduate school’s Dean’s office by March 15 (the Educational Assistance Committee cannot accept direct applications.)
If you have any questions, please contact
Vickie Turcotte,
Chair of the Educational Assistance Committee
educationalassistance@nelib.org
In case you have not heard, the Vermont Department of Libraries recently published the February 2010 Newsletter in a new email format. We hope you will like the new look. Please make sure that this message gets to library directors and library trustees. I encourage all Vermont library employees and trustees to subscribe to the newsletter so that you can receive every issue directly in your inbox.
Don’t miss a single issue!
To read the newsletter – and to subscribe to future issues — go to the DOL website: http://libraries.vermont.gov/news/janfeb2010
Or to be connected directly to the newsletter:
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs038/1102928001760/archive/1103059528491.html
Just click on the “subscribe” button and add your email address.
We invite your comments and feedback.
Marty
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Martha Reid
State Librarian
Vermont Department of Libraries
802-828-3265
martha.reid@state.vt.us
In case you have not heard, the Vermont Department of Libraries recently published the February 2010 Newsletter in a new email format. We hope you will like the new look. Please make sure that this message gets to library directors and library trustees. I encourage all Vermont library employees and trustees to subscribe to the newsletter so that you can receive every issue directly in your inbox.
Don’t miss a single issue!
To read the newsletter – and to subscribe to future issues — go to the DOL website: http://libraries.vermont.gov/news/janfeb2010
Or to be connected directly to the newsletter:
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs038/1102928001760/archive/1103059528491.html
Just click on the “subscribe” button and add your email address.
We invite your comments and feedback.
Marty
_____________________________
Martha Reid
State Librarian
Vermont Department of Libraries
802-828-3265
martha.reid@state.vt.us
Want to attend ACRL-NEC this year, but can’t make it down to Worcester, MA? Want to network with other Vermont librarians? Tough economic times making travel difficult?
Then sign up for the ACRL-NEC Vermont Virtual Conference on May 14th!
Head to http://bit.ly/VTvirtualConference for more information and registration.
The Conference Theme this year is: Embracing Our Electronic World: Challenges and Promises for Academic Libraries.
Join other Vermont librarians at Champlain College in Burlington, VT to watch and participate in the ACRL-NEC conference virtually. In addition to watching the regional conference streamed live you’ll be able to meet and talk with other Vermont librarians about the theme of “Embracing Our Electronic World.”
Email Andy Burkhardt with any questions at aburkhardt@champlain.edu