Vermont Cataloging Roundtable Fall Meeting
We’re pleased to announce the Vermont Cataloging Roundtable Fall Meeting on Thursday, Nov. 8th from 9:30am-12:00pm at DOL Midstate Library!
This revival meeting will be somewhat informal, but we are looking for topics to discuss and issues to address. Please reply to the list with ideas, or feel free to email Amber Billey and/or Helen Linda directly.
If you haven’t already, join our GoogleGroup:
https://groups.google.com/
And visit our website:
Look forward to seeing everyone in November!
Banned Books Week – Vermont Edition
It’s Banned Books Week!
Libraries around the state have Banned Books Displays. Take a picture and send it to us at vermontlibrarieswebmaster@gmail.com or share on facebook or twitter!
We created a video for the 50 State Salute – 50 State Salute-Vermont Librarians
Rockingham Free produced an hour long special for cable access – A Talk About Banned Books
We’ve asked as many VT politicians as we could find to tweet about their favorite banned book. Check out #VTLibraries and/or #bannedbook to see the replies!
Free Library Continuing Education Events for October
Listed below are FREE programs The Accessible Technology Coalition, American Association of School Librarians, American Management Association, Booklist, Colorado State Library, Grantspace, Infopeople, Insync Training, Library Journal, National Library of Medicine, Nebraska Library Commission, Nonprofit Webinars, O’Reilly, School Library Journal, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, TL Virtual Cafe, VolunteerMatch, Washington State Library, and WebJunction will be webcasting during October.
e-Vermont Internet Basics Toolkits and Webinars
As many of you already know, materials from the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project are now openly available to everyone (beyond the 24 e-VT towns) through thehttp://e4vt.org website.
Part of my role with this federal grant project was assembling and creating Internet basics toolkits to help citizens and staff in adult learning centers, public libraries, senior living facilities, and other community learning centers. You can find the Internet Basics for Beginners and Teaching Internet Basics Toolkits listed here:
http://e4vt.org/programs/e-
October Workshops from the Department of Libraries
There is still room for you if you’d like to attend a workshop in October. Clicking on the workshop title will take you to the registration form.
- Legal Reference for Librarians
- Working with Koha
- Materials Review Session
Got Perspective? Playing with Others in the Higher Education Sandbox
The Leadership Development Committee of ACRL/NEC is pleased to announce the opening of registration for our November Workshop:
“Got Perspective? Playing with others in the higher education sandbox”
Friday, November 16, 2012 at the College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Center, Worcester, MA, from 8:30AM-3:30PM
Facilitated by Dr. Leslie Hitch, Senior Faculty Fellow in the School of Education, College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University, our morning panel discussion will address the the challenges facing educational institutions today. Bringing together higher education experts representing diverse perspectives, they include:
Communication, Collaboration & Commitment – An SLA Event
SLA New England and our Co-Sponsor SLA Rhode Island Present
Communication, Collaboration & Commitment
Saturday October 13th, 2012
While we hope that we have planned a helpful and successful event for October 13th, registration is quite low at the moment and we can’t succeed without all of you! We hope that this post will provide some encouragement to those of you who just haven’t gotten around to registering yet!
- Anyone who registers for the conference before midnight next Tuesday, Sept 25th, 2012 will be entered in a raffle to win one of *three free registrations*. Don’t worry, if you’ve already registered, you will be automatically entered. The three winners will have their conference payment refunded in full.
- We are pushing back the start time of the conference from 8am to 8:45am. This means that the schedule will be as follows:
Communication, Collaboration & Commitment – An SLA Event
SLA New England and our Co-Sponsor SLA Rhode Island Present
Communication, Collaboration & Commitment
Saturday October 13th, 2012
While we hope that we have planned a helpful and successful event for October 13th, registration is quite low at the moment and we can’t succeed without all of you! We hope that this post will provide some encouragement to those of you who just haven’t gotten around to registering yet!
- Anyone who registers for the conference before midnight next Tuesday, Sept 25th, 2012 will be entered in a raffle to win one of *three free registrations*. Don’t worry, if you’ve already registered, you will be automatically entered. The three winners will have their conference payment refunded in full.
- We are pushing back the start time of the conference from 8am to 8:45am. This means that the schedule will be as follows:
NELA Annual Conference – October 14-16
Fall is fast approaching, and with it the New England Library Association Annual Conference on October 14 – 16 at the Sturbridge Host Hotel, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. It’s three days of excellent educational sessions, informative exhibitor displays and many networking opportunities.
World Book Night 2013 – VT Libraries Sought for Participation!
WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2013 LIBRARY PARTICIPANT APPLICATION
http://connect.ala.org/node/
(Form is attachment in this link to World Book Night Group in ALA Connect (New to ALA Connect? Instructions for accessing ALA Connect are below; also attached is a list of participants! Join these participants by October 1!)
WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2013 is a celebration of literacy by publishers, bookstores, libraries and individuals who love books and reading. On WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2013, 25,000 “book givers” will each give away 20 copies of a specially-printed, not-for-resale WBN edition of book they have read and loved (from a list of 25-30 titles selected by librarians and booksellers) to complete strangers – people who may never have owned a book of their own. To promote this literacy event, libraries and bookstores – as organizational participants in the event – form a nationwide advocacy and distribution network.