The application for the New England Library Leadership Symposium (NELLS 2011) is due next week. Please postmark your application by May 17th if you are mailing it, or email it by May 18th if you are submitting it electronically. Please contact the co-Chairs at the emails listed below for more information.
Here is more information about NELLS:
Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, June 14th, for this year’s College & Special Libraries section gathering:
What’s New Under the Sun: Innovation in Vermont Academic and Special Libraries (maybe there will be some sun by mid-June!)
Tuesday, June 14th, 10:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m.
Castleton State College
Castleton, Vermont
Tuesday, May 3 – 12:00-2:15 pm
Webcast Event; the live webcast of this event will be available at the following URL: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast at 12 pm on 5/3
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development & Diversity at Harvard and the Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs
Social media — from blogs to wikis to tweets — have become academic media, new means by which scholars communicate, collaborate, and teach. Hear from a distinguished faculty panel, moderated by John Palfrey, about how they are adopting and adapting to new communication and networking tools, following a keynote by social media thought leader danah boyd.
The archives from the February Gale/Vermont Online Library webinars have been posted. They can be found at:
http://libraries.vermont.gov/libraries.ce/voltraining
Direct links to the individual webinars:
Vermont Online Library and Gale Resources Update:
http://www.vermont.gov/portal/media/video.php?mid=156
Job Help Tools From Vermont Online Library:
http://www.vermont.gov/portal/media/video.php?mid=154
New Vermont Online Library Databases: Foreign Languages and Job Help:
http://www.vermont.gov/portal/media/video.php?mid=155
UPDATED 3/16
On Friday, March 18, Gale will be activating VOL access to the updated VOL e-book collection.
At that time the upgrades to new editions and the new titles that Martha Reid announced in the message below will be available.
For a time, access to the older editions/titles will continue to be available and we will be in contact with you before those older e-books are removed.
The VLA Awards committee is looking for names of librarians who have retired or who are planning to retire this year so we can honor them at the annual conference in May. The criteria are:
If you know anyone who fits these criteria, please send me their name and their library affiliation. Thanks so much for your help!
Grace Worcester Greene
Chair, VLA Awards Committee Youth Services Consultant
Vermont Department of Libraries
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05609
Tel.: 802-828-6954
Fax: 802-828-1481
Email: grace.greene@state.vt.us
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Marriott Springfield, 2 Boland Way, Springfield, Massachusetts
Librarians’ and Teachers’ Day provides the opportunity for professionals to learn how genealogy can serve them in their dual roles as curators of their unique collections and as ambassadors of genealogy resources for their schools and libraries.
Librarians’ and Teachers’ Day is directed at librarians, teachers and local history curators who may or may not be genealogists. Learning a few new genealogical skills could be the way to broaden your library’s patron base, excite your students and showcase parts of your local history collection that may not have seen the light of day for decades.
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Vermont librarians and any Vermonters with basic computer skills are welcome at the Citizens in a Connected Age Internet Technology workshop, March 5, 2011at Lyndonville State College. Vermont public librarians attending will receive 5 DOL technology certification credits after completing an evaluation. Joanna Cummings of the Snelling Center for Government organized the workshop as the e-Vermont Community Coordinator. Libraries do not need to be part of the e-Vermont grant to attend. For more information, including the registration link, http://www.snellingcenter.org/public-policy/e-vermont/workshops/
Vermont NPO Legislative Day is next Wednesday 2/9 at the Statehouse. Lauren-Glenn Davitian of Common Good Vermont invites libraries to come along too. Directions and advice at http://blog.commongoodvt.org/2010/12/vermont-legislative-2011-day/
Posted on behalf of Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media & Democracy, by Amy Howlett
www.cctv.org
www.CommonGoodVT.org—
WASHINGTON (Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday introduced legislation to extend expiring provisions authorized by the USA PATRIOT Act. The provisions are set to expire on February 28.