ALA Councilor's Report
Hello from sunny Anaheim! I am happy to again be reporting from annual conference. At the first Council meeting we heard reports of task forces and committees. One report of particular interest was presented by the Digital Content & Libraries Working Group. This is the group that is working with ebook publishers. The group had an initial meeting with publishers in the spring and are now working to create business models and licensing agreements and to find ways to communicate the issues to the library community and the general public. ALA leaders have met with publishers twice more. They will continue to work to increase good access to e-resources.
I was lucky enough to score tickets for the first ever Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Award presentation. Nominees for the award included Anne Enright, Karen Russell, Russell Banks, James Gleik, Robert Massie, and Manning Marable. Anne Enright won for her new book The Forgotten Waltz and Robert Massie won for Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. ALA hopes this award will become the adult Newbery.
At our second Council meeting we passed a resolution encouraging support for school librarians.
It has been a great pleasure representing Vermont at ALA conferences for the past six years.
Respectfully submitted,
Nancy Wilson
Goodbye to Marjorie Shane
Hello all –
I am sad to report that Marjorie Shane passed away last week. Yesterday was the first I’d heard of it and I thought that the library community would want to know. Any time I got the opportunity to work with her I was delighted, she was such fun! She will be greatly missed.
Her obituary is on the Ricker Funeral Home website at this address: http://www.rickerfh.com/fh/
Services are on Friday, June 29 at noon at Our Lady Of Perpetual Life in Bradford, VT. The burial will take place in Massachusetts on Saturday the 30th. There will be no calling hours. In lieu of flowers please send donations to either or both of the libraries where she was director:
Groton Free Library – http://www.grotonvt.com/
Tenney Memorial Library – https://
Helen
Book Mending Workshop
Book Mending
Wednesday, July 11, 9:30-11:30
Deerfield Valley Elementary School, Wilmington
Learn basic book mending techniques with Ellen Allman in a two hour, hands-on workshop. A trained and experienced book mender, Ellen will discuss when to mend and when to discard or send to a professional. Bring books which need repairing and, if you have them, basic book mending materials for discussion. Each session is limited to fifteen people in order to offer effective instruction.
Mara Siegel
Continuing Education Coordinator
Vermont Department of Libraries
(802) 828-2727
mara.siegel@state.vt.us
Carterette Series Webinars from GLA
The Georgia Library Association has announced the July 2012 sessions of the Carterette Series Webinars.
The Carterette Series is a bi-monthly educational webinar series highlighting trends, innovation, and best practices in libraries. The free sessions are open to interested parties from all geographic (and astral) locations.
Can’t make it to the live show? That’s okay! The sessions will be recorded and available on the CSW site for later viewing.
Cataloging & Organization of Library Materials for Better Access
It is with great pleasure that I can now announce that everything has come together for DOL’s 5-day cataloging workshop for directors and staff of public libraries.
Cataloging & Organization of Library Materials for Better Access
A five-day, concentrated, practical workshop for beginners and for public librarians who are cataloging but have had little or no formal training. The DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION and the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS will be the basic working tools. MARC cataloging and computerized cataloging services will be covered. Because this type of workshop requires a great deal of individualized instruction, participation in each session will be limited to 16 people.
Cataloging & Organization of Library Materials for Better Access
It is with great pleasure that I can now announce that everything has come together for DOL’s 5-day cataloging workshop for directors and staff of public libraries.
Cataloging & Organization of Library Materials for Better Access
A five-day, concentrated, practical workshop for beginners and for public librarians who are cataloging but have had little or no formal training. The DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION and the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS will be the basic working tools. MARC cataloging and computerized cataloging services will be covered. Because this type of workshop requires a great deal of individualized instruction, participation in each session will be limited to 16 people.
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Vermont Libraries in the News!
Here are the links of the video that Vermont Public Television made at the DCF Ceremony two weeks ago. There are brief interviews with a quite a few kids, as well as with Raina Telgemeier.
http://www.vpt.org/writers VPT Website (with YouTube link embedded and links to reading list offered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Mpl27u6GU&feature=plcp Vermont Public Television on YouTube
Grace
FREE Koha Demo from ByWater Solutions!!
Hello everyone,
I’d like to invite you to join Nicole C. Engard, Koha Documentation Manager and VP of Education at ByWater Solutions for a free Koha 3.8 introductory demo webinar. If you’re considering and open source ILS or just curious about Koha please join me!
Map the Inside of Your Library
A message from NELA’s president, Mary Ann List:
Dear NELA Members,
Bill Rogers of Google Maps has launched an initiative to provide indoor maps of New England libraries, public and academic, large and small. The project can expand to other buildings on college campuses.
Public libraries in Portland Maine and Hingham Mass were pioneers, discovering indoor maps early on. Several of the rest of us have now worked with the Google team to raise the visibility of our libraries in this way.
Google Indoor Maps are in use in several large retail establishments and in 18 Smithsonian museums and galleries.
There are two levels of mapping, both easy and free to the library.
In Portsmouth we loaded our basic floor plans (the same ones we use in-house) in just a few minutes, and then had a Google team come out to do the live mapping (level 2).
Mr. Rogers explains indoor maps for libraries in his letter, which follows.
If you would like to join this project, contact him for simple instructions.
Mary Ann List, NELA President
Scholarships to ARSL Conference
Are you familiar with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries?
Did you know that the 2012 Annual Conference will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina on September 27-29, 2012.
And did you read about the scholarships the Department of Libraries is offering to 2 Vermont library staff members?
Read all about it and more in the DOL May newsletter, here, or through links in the upper right of our website at http://libraries.vermont.gov/