First, thanks to everyone for such a great conference last week! Â Without all of your help, wonderful presentations, and great attendance, it would not have been possible.
Please be sure to fill out a conference evaluation, available on the VLC website and at the link below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ILuNpEYUge3PeIpbevSX9A_3d_3d
Enjoy the summer!
Barbara Doyle-Wilch and Sara Goldstein
Co-chairs, Vermont Library Conference 2009
The VPR website now has a link so you can listed to the recording of today’s
broadcast:
http://www.vpr.net/episode/46091/
Look for the “listen” link in the options list just to the right of the photograph of the library stacks.
You can also download the MP:
http://www.vpr.net/audio_download.php?id=28329
A great job by Marty Reid, Jerry Carbone, and Cindy Karasinski as well as some great comments by library users.
SAVE THE DATE! (especially those who participated in the IMLS “Connecting to Collections†survey in 2008)
June 24, 2009, 9 am – 12:30 pm
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Since the year 2000, Ashgate Publishing Company in Burlington has devoted a large portion of its annual charitable contributions budget to support libraries around the state.
Through its library donations program, Ashgate makes grants to public libraries in Vermont for special one-time projects and needs (as opposed to standard operating expenses and book budgets) as they arise. Some examples of the grants made in past years include:
Both Leahy and Sanders have signed now the Dear Colleague letter for Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program.
These updated fact sheets for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA ) and and the Improving Learning Through School Libraries (ILTSL) program are helpful when communicating with your members of Congress as they craft the FY 2010 budget.
Hello all,
Just to let you all know about the next Jane Austen Society – Vermont Chapter gathering on June 7 in Montpelier. I append the text – if you would like a proper flyer to post in your library, email or call me [see below] and I will forward it to you. As always, any and all are welcome to attend – if you have any interest in the fashion of Jane Austen’s time, you should not miss this! [more information at the blog: http://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com
Best,
Deb Barnum
Hello all,
Just to let you all know about the next Jane Austen Society – Vermont Chapter gathering on June 7 in Montpelier. I append the text – if you would like a proper flyer to post in your library, email or call me [see below] and I will forward it to you. As always, any and all are welcome to attend – if you have any interest in the fashion of Jane Austen’s time, you should not miss this! [more information at the blog: http://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com
Best,
Deb Barnum
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Hello all,
Just to let you all know about the next Jane Austen Society – Vermont Chapter gathering on June 7 in Montpelier. I append the text – if you would like a proper flyer to post in your library, email or call me [see below] and I will forward it to you. As always, any and all are welcome to attend – if you have any interest in the fashion of Jane Austen’s time, you should not miss this! [more information at the blog: http://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com
Best,
Deb Barnum
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The New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG) is pleased to announce its annual program, which will be held Friday, June 5, 2009 at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. The program, “Tapping into Learning Environments of the Future,†will examine various emerging aspects of the learning environment and how they affect information literacy instruction.
The following resolution will be introduced at the VLA annual meeting tomorrow at 4:45 in the ampitheatre at the Sheraton.
Resolution Honoring Judith F. Krug (1940-2009)
Whereas Judith F. Krug was the public face of our profession’s every effort to preserve, protect and defend the First Amendment right to freedom of expression and the corollary right to receive ideas, information and images so essential to the functioning of a free and democratic society throughout her long and distinguished tenure as director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association since 1967 and as director of the Freedom to Read Foundation since 1969; andRead more