Boston Fundraising Summit
The Center for Nonprofit Success is pleased to invite you to the Fundraising Summit taking place in Boston, MA on December 9-10, 2008. The Boston Summit features a panel of grantmakers and experienced fundraisers in each of the breakout sessions. The
sessions will explore creative ways to raise money from grants, sponsorships, individual gifts, as well as other funding sources. For charities that are looking for new funding sources, the event is not to be missed.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to fundraisers who may be interested in attending.
Sincerely, Ivor Heyman
Executive Director
Center for Nonprofit Success
www.cfnps.org
Traveling Doll and Book Exhibit Available to Borrow
Please know that there is a traveling doll and book exhibit available to borrow for free beginning March 2009. This is particularly great for public and school libraries.
It is free to borrow and is sponsored by Region 15 of the United Federation of Doll Clubs (an international non-profit educational organization). Region 15 consists of Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. Items in the collection consist of cloth dolls, plush animals and children’s books. Characters from the books are represented by the dolls and animals in the exhibit. It was started in 1999 and has made many stops  in the New England area.
Rhode Island Library Association 2009 Annual Conference
RILA Annual Conference
SAVE THE DATE!
The Rhode Island Library Association’s Annual Conference will be held on Thursday and Friday, May 28th and 29th, 2009 at the Bryant Center, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI.
New Hampshire Library Association 2009 Spring Conference
The NHLA Spring Conference will be held on May 19th and 20th in Bartlett, NH at the Attitash Grand Summit Hotel and Conference Center. More news to follow soon.
Vendor Information
Contact information: Dianne Hathaway, dianneh@goffstown.lib.nh.us or
603-497-2102; or Carol Roberts, carolrose56@hotmail.com or 603-654-6922
Massachusetts Library Association 2009 Annual Conference
Bigger and Better than Ever!
Don’t miss the 2009 MLA Annual Conference in Springfield at the Mass Mutual Center.
Mark your calendar for May 5- 8, 2009
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Connecticut Library Association 2009 Annual Conference
The 2009 CLA Annual Conference will be held at the Omni New Haven Hotel in New Haven, CT on Wednesday, April 29 – Friday, May 1, 2009. The 2009 Conference Co-chairs Alice Knapp and Janet Woycik and CLA President Kathy Leeds are hard at work planning the next conference. Any additional information will be posted here when available. See you there!
ACRL/NEC Scholarships and Awards Available
Let your ACRL/NEC reward you! Apply for a scholarship or submit a research paper.
The ACRL/NEC Scholarships & Awards Committee has opportunities for students, library staff and librarians.
There are scholarships to attend:
- ACRL National, Seattle WA, March 2009
- ACRL/NEC Annual Conference, Worcester MA, May 2009
- A continuing education program of your choice
ACRL/NEC is also offering an award for Best Research Paper.
Apply today! More information and application forms:
http://www.acrlnec.org/sigs/scholarships/index.php
Nancy George
Chair, ACRL/NEC Scholarships and Awards Committee
Electronic Resources Librarian
Salem State College
352 Lafayette St.
Salem, MA 01970 USA
978.542.7182 (voice)
ngeorge@salemstate.edu
Time to Think About Renewing Your Membership for 2009!
To all current members, thank you for being a member of the Vermont Libraries Association in 2008.
VLA Memberships are on a calendar year basis. Please add us to your To-Do lists.
Your membership helps support efforts to promote libraries, literacy and intellectual freedom. As a member you receive timely letters from the VLA President, notice of VLA programs designed to expand your knowledge and help you become better acquainted with librarians across the state. You have a voice in the association and a vote in the annual meeting.
You are also eligible for discounted registration at VLA events including the annual Vermont Library Conference. VLA members also get a 20% tuition reduction at Drexel University Online.
We can’t do it without you!
Please renew your membership for the year 2009! The PDF VLA Membership Form is available with other membership information in the VLA Info column to your left.
Thanks!
Roxbury Free Library in the News
Roxbury Free Library was in the Burlington Free Press today. Check out the article at the Burlington Free Press website:
Life-long Learning Essay at Windham County Legislative Breakfast
Richard Wizansky is the Senior Director for Institutional Advancement for the Student Conservation Association in Charlstown, NH. He is a Guilford Free Library trustee and also a Vermont Humanities Council scholar, and a believer in the transformative impact of libraries. Here is his essay given at the Windham County Librarians’ Legislative Breakfast on Monday, November 17. I have attached a pdf for you to share as well.
My Lifelong Library Journey
From the
Presented at Brooks Memorial Library,
I remember the old West Church Branch Library in
Then, as a teenager, I remember the Codman Square Dorchester/Boston Branch Library and the young, attractive, eager librarian. She had recently got her MLS and how vital she was to the growing interests of my best friend and me in literature and philosophy—existentialism, specifically and how she introduced us to Camus and Kafka and Golding and egged us on to think and dialogue in hushed conversation in the stacks. All the other boys were out playing stick ball in the setting sun and there were my friend Marshall and I and an eager young librarian yapping about existence and nothingness and the absurd in the quaint environs of
And how that eventuated in bringing me to this place, our beautiful Vermont, where I continue to read books in libraries, large and tiny, all over the State; experiencing small and some time large communities of readers who sit as a unit, a core, a critical mass of learning —discussants from all age groups, but particularly our elders– passionate to talk about books and ideas and to relate what they read to their human experience—as Vermonters, visitors, citizens, and just plain folk.
Here, in this library, I have been awed by the wisdom and intelligence of elders who every two weeks, in dreadful snow and sleet and ice even, showed up to sing the praises or dis a book while engaging in lively, thoughtful sharing of ideas. At the Dover Free Library, the snowbirds of Florida, well-read to a T, can’t wait to begin, and park their cars early to get a good seat so that we can come together—a somewhat refugee community in the hills of West Dover—to share thoughts and feelings about books and inevitably to relate them to what it feels like to be a mother, father, grandmother, elder, a human being moving closer to the end—wanting to share the feel of that too. And the tears and the laughter!!!
Having led discussion groups all over our state, I can testify to the vital learning that takes place in groups which bring people of all ages together to discuss books, share opinions, share their lives. It’s really quite remarkable and rewarding.
And, today as a trustee of the Guilford Free Library, I see this same attraction of the library for children, adults and seniors who crowd into the tiny space that is our library to use computers, research, obtain inter-library loans, and take advantage of the varied programs intended to reach all sectors of that town we love called Guilford.
Each of these instances is a testament to the library’s place in community life—in providing moments and hours when we come together to read together, discuss the great issues of the day, of the world, our town, our own lives.
As a book discussion leader, there are so many ah! moments I have seen when I look into the faces in the room and see that something illuminating has struck the reader, some new lesson, a revelation, an addition to what we knew or thought we knew.
This is the place of libraries in lifelong learning. In my own experience as in many others, from our early years to our senior years, libraries have provided and will continue to provide the space and resources in which we add to what we know, learn the new, investigate the old, become richer, fuller, more knowing citizens, readers and human beings.
Thank you.