July 2008 Update with Sept. additions
Funding flyer A flier that libraries can use to encourage patrons and board members to support the state aid initiative. You will need to add contact information for your lawmakers. This can be found at www.leg.state.vt.us/legdir/legdir2.htm
VLA Annual Meetings and Board Meetings – Schedule and Minutes
Vermont Public Librarians’ Compensation: A Survey and a Toolkit(VLC presentation 2009 handout)
Increasing Public Library Compensation (updated!)
Increasing Public Library Compensation (older report)
Vermont Academic Librarians’ Salaries and Benefits Survey, 2008: Final Report
From a post by Teresa F. on the VLA Listserv:
Non-profits across the country are getting donations from web searches made through GoodSearch (a Yahoo search engine)and online purchases made through GoodShop (which connects to regular online retailers). The trick is getting your patrons to go through the GoodSearch/GoodShop sites to search or shop.
A number of Vermont organizations are already listed as beneficiaries. If your organization does not care to be listed, perhaps your own searches and purchases could benefit the charity of your choice. Go to http://www.goodsearch.com for more information, including coverage of the service by national media, lists of nonprofits currently enrolled, FAQs, etc. The donation check comes just once a year in December, for activity from the previous October through September.
If it were me, I’d change the library default browser to this browser and explain to patrons why to use it…it may even carry over into their home searching.
Helen
This year the Vermont Library Association’s Government Relations Committee is recommending regional legislative gatherings during November, December and January, when the legislature convenes.
We invite you and your library to participate in these informal gatherings. While the format varies, the gatherings provide an opportunity for Legislators, librarians, and trustees to talk about library issues and the key part that libraries play in Internet access, job searching, and education. It is also an opportunity for us to hear about the legislative process and the agenda before the Legislators.
We need to meet with Legislators this year to thank them for their continued support for the new patron confidentiality law and to remind them that state funding for public libraries continues to be an important issue. Our goal is to keep this at the top of their agenda when state finances are stronger. We also want Legislators to ensure ongoing support for the Department of Libraries’ services to public libraries.
Responses to our Public Library Funding & Technology Access survey have increased significantly in the last week – thank you for all of your efforts!
But we still would like to have a higher response rate, and we also need to allow some extra time for those libraries in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Opportunity Online Hardware program. Right now, nationwide there is a 55% response rate overall. In Vermont, we have about a 20% response rate. 60% is the preferred minimum threshold, but the higher the response rate, the better the data.
As a result, the survey has been extended through Friday, November 13, 2009.
You can log in and complete the survey at: http://www.plinternetsurvey.org .
We know you’re completing your Annual Public Library Reports and Standards Applications, but hope you can see you way clear to participating in this nationwide survey, as well.
Thanks.
Rob Geiszler
The new publication of Fiction Set in Vermont 3, compiled and written by Ann McKinstry Micou. This resource joins Ann’s earlier two volumes, providing annotated and indexed listings of fiction set in our state. Because Ann has personally read every book that she lists, her annotations are especially rich and will delight readers across the state. Whether you give it to patrons for browsing, use it as a Readers’ Advisory tool, or use it to create your own personal reading lists, I encourage librarians to purchase a copy for library collections. The Vermont Department of Libraries has been a proud sponsor of all three volumes.
Association of Christian Librarians 54th Annual Conference, June 7-10, 2010
Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN.
Our theme is “True North: Illumination, Inspiration, Information” with keynote speaker Erin Walsh, National Institute on Media and the Family, presenting “Understanding students who are growing up in a media saturated culture.” ACL is an association of librarians who embrace the Christian faith and has over 500 members! Contact April VanPutten,
conference@acl.org, or 937-766-2255; http://www.acl.org/conference.cfm
Good afternoon! The following classes will be brought to you soon by Lyrasis, online and around the region. For more information about each class or to register, please visit www.lyrasis.org. Keyword: Classes and Events.
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