Educational Opportunities
Common Good Vermont Presents: Leadership Development for Small & Medium Organizations in Tough Times
Date/Time: Monday, November 22nd 10 – 12 p.m. (ET)
Format/Locations: Channel 17 Studios in Burlington and Online Live Webcast
Fee: $35.00
To register: http://www.cctv.org/civicrm/event/register?id=296&reset=1
Saint Michael’s College Library invites Vermont librarians and library staff to join us for the NISO webinars on performance metrics and measures.
Location: Saint Michael’s College
Dates: Part One – September 8, 1:00-2:30 pm
Part Two – September 15, 1:00-2:30 pm
Cost: Free
To register: Email Laura Crain at Saint Michael’s (lcrain@smcvt.edu) with your name, institution, and an email address.
We will contact you to confirm the location of the webinar on the Saint Michael’s campus
Specify whether you will be attending Part One, Part Two, or both
Primarily these webinars will appeal to folks working in academic libraries.
The Society of American Archivists’ Rare Book Workshop
December 16 and December 17, 2010
Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Two-day workshop, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Early-Bird Registration Deadline: Wednesday November 17, 2010
Maximum Enrollment: 15
Cost: Early-Bird/Regular
SAA Members: $295/ $385
Employees of Member Institutions: $335/$385
Nonmember: $375/395
We all know that people stay up at night thinking of questions to ask us — or so it seems some days.Reference inquiries and research questions are always in the queue, and the “who?” “what?” “where?” “when?” and “how?” of handling reference and research is a core consideration of our libraries and information services. But who can keep up with all the latest approaches and technology? Yikes!
Greetings from hot and sunny Washington, DC! I am happy to report on American Library Association activities for Vermont. After a long train ride I made it to DC last evening.
I attended my first meeting of the Chapter Relations Committee this afternoon. The Chapter Relations Office at ALA in Chicago is the office that helps state associations work with the ALA office. At this meeting various board and committee members report on their initiatives and activities that benefit state chapters. Joseph Egan, a member of the executive board mentioned that there is a virtual ALA conference on July 7th and 8th. More information may be found at the ALA website. This is a good opportunity for folks who can’t make it to national conferences.
Keith Michael Fiels, executive director of ALA, mentioned that the organization may be very close to getting funding to states for advocacy. ALA has made a huge commitment to training library advocates.
I will have more to report tomorrow.
Nancy Wilson, Vermont Chapter Councilor
Tools to Support Teaching and Outreach: A Mix of the New and the
Tried-and-True
Friday, October 15, 2010
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The fourteenth annual October Conference for New England academic librarians, sponsored by the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/OctCon2010/
We seek presenters for the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries’ annual October Conference for New England academic librarians!
This year’s conference will showcase practical applications of new tools – and innovative uses of tried-and-true tools – that support learning, outreach or reference. The day-long event is scheduled for Friday, October 15, 2010 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (an easy two-hour drive from Boston, Springfield, and many other New England locations).
(post received from Ted Albers)
I am Ted Albers, a Community Relations officer with the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) in Burlington Vermont. USCIS is the immigration-benefit and service branch of the Federal Government.
You may be aware of some of the hard-copy and online resources that
USCIS produces for immigrants who are preparing for the citizenship test. These materials are helpful to ESL and Civics educators as well. These resources are detailed on the websites below.
For libraries, the “Citizenship Toolkit” is probably the most useful. It is free if a library or non-profit organization registers for it online ($73 if purchased through the Government Printing Office).
Even if a library does not serve many immigrants, the Toolkit is helpful
for social-service providers, students and others as it helps in understanding the legal immigration and citizenship process and requirements.
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DO YOU NEED PRESERVATION TRAINING?
HAS YOUR TRAVEL BUDGET BEEN CUT?
The Northeast Document Conservation Center is proud to present. . .
PRESERVATION 101
The Online, Instructor-led Introduction to Preservation
JANUARY 26, 2010 – JUNE 17, 2010
NERCOMP Shifting Models of Information Discovery and Access SIG
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA February 1, 2010
Deadline for proposals: October 20, 2009
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Libraries continue to migrate from out-of-the-box interfaces that search single collections to new products that promise, in various ways, to do a better job connecting people with the information they desire. OPACs are applying layers of lipstick, going open source, or fading away altogether, supplanted by new types of discovery tools. Federated search is mounting a comeback. Next-gen discovery tools promise to deliver the fabled single search box. Massive digitization projects are opening up the contents of books for discovery and–sometimes–retrieval. At the same time, proprietary, centralized projects like Google Books and OCLC’s WorldCat Local are developing alongside less centralized, more open initiatives like the Open Content Alliance, eXtensible Catalog project, VuFind, and LibraryFind.
“Staff Development on a Shoestring”
Libraries are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn and fewer of us have resources to attend national meetings. We’re also grappling with the changing roles of libraries and library staff as technologies develop and our users’ needs evolve. This year’s October Conference will explore innovative, affordable staff development initiatives.
Date: Friday, October 9, 2009
Location: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Registration fee: $80 (includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch)
Please register early to avoid disappointment; attendance is capped at 120.
To register or for more information, please visit the Conference web site at <http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/OctCon2009/>.
If you have a question about registration, please call Erin Branch at (603) 650-1661 or email her at erin.branch@dartmouth.edu.