What's New Under the Sun: Innovation in Vermont Academic and Special Libraries
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
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Openings on DCF and GMBA Committees
Are you an avid reader who loves to bring kids and books together? If so, you may want to apply for one of our book award committee openings. The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award is for students in grade 4-8, and the Green Mountain Book Award is for students in grades 9-12. There is one opening on each committee. To apply for either, please send to me electronically:
The Musical World of Jane Austen
Hello all in Vermont Libraries Land,
Our next Jane Austen in Vermont Gathering is on 5 June 2011 at Vermont College of Fine Arts Chapel in Montpelier. We are honored to present Dr. William Tortolano, Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Saint Michael’s College, in an organ recital and short lecture on “The Musical World of Jane Austen.”
It is open to the public, pay at the door: $10./ person; $5./ student. If you would like a flyer for posting in your library, please email me.
If any of you are in the area that weekend, please join us!
Best regards,
Deb Barnum
JASNA-Vermont Regional Coordinator
Jane Austen Society of North America: www.jasna.org
JASNA-Vermont: JASNAVermont@gmail.com
blog: http://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com
VLA News – May 2011 is Hot off the Presses!
Hi all –
The VLA News – May 2011 has been sent out and should be waiting for you in your inbox if you are a current member who opted to receive it on their membership form or signed up online.
The VLA News is a member only privileged, so join or renew your membership today in order to get the current issue !
If you would like to read back issues of the VLA News (currently there is only one) they can be accessed from the side bar of the website under VLA Info by clicking through the VLA News Back Issues link.
If your dues are current and you didn’t receive the VLA News but believe you should have, please feel free to contact me and we’ll get it sorted out!
Enjoy!
Helen Linda
VLA News Editor
vermontlibrariesnews@gmail.com
Academic Uses of Social Media: Exploring 21st Century Communications
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.
Flood Recovery: What Communities and Individuals Should be Doing Now
WATERBURY – A number of communities have suffered significant damage in this week’s flooding. Recovery efforts have begun and could eventually include monetary help from the federal government.
The process of obtaining funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has begun, and the state of Vermont is working to get through theprocess as quickly as possible. Local communities should not delay in making repairs or cleaning up; if Vermont qualifies for FEMA assistance, thosefunds serve to reimburse communities for at least 75% of those costs.
The process of getting FEMA assistance and what communities should be doing now:
New England Library Leadership Symposium 2011 – Now Accepting Applications!
To the New England Library Community:
The New England Library Association is accepting applications for the New England Library Leadership Symposium (NELLS.) NELLS is an intensive one-week leadership retreat and training, which will be held August 8-12 at the Rolling Ridge Conference Center in North Andover , Massachusetts .
Mobilize Your Patrons: Library Services in a Hand-Held World
2011 ITS Spring Event
New England Library Association – Information Technology Section
Mobilize your patrons: library services in a hand-held world
When: Friday, June 17, 2011, 9:30am – 3:30 pm
Where: Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston MA 01505
The National Digital Newspaper Program
Thursday, April 21, 5:00 pm
Special Collections Reading Room
Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont, Burlington
Deborah Thomas, Program Coordinator for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) at the Library of Congress, will talk about the effort to digitize historically significant newspapers from all over the United States and make them freely available through “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers,” a web site hosted by the Library of Congress.
The Importance of Libraries in Genealogical Research
In honor of National Library Week, Archives.com has put together a white paper and visual graphic about libraries’ importance to our communities and to genealogists, and some of the difficulties they have been facing during the economic downturn.
You can see their white paper and infographic here: http://www.archives.com/blog/industry-news/national-library-week-2011.html.
You may join the cause and share this post on library websites, blogs and Facebook/Twitter (shortened URL for tweets that we’ve been using: http://bit.ly/hLfkZL)! If you’d like, you can even embed the visual graphic onto your site using the code provided in our blog post.
Happy National Library Week 2011!
Jesse Willoughby
Archives.com