A Capital Region Workshop for Library Leaders

Please share this invitation with Friends, Trustees, and Library Leadership staff and help them to register if needed.

Registeration is ONLINE only:  (Ask your library director if you need help)  http://surveymonkey.com/s/capitalregionworkshop    

Download the Flyer:  CapitalRegionWorkshopFlyer2012

On your registration, you will select any/all session(s) and meal you plan to attend!   You can attend 1 or all.  See the full schedule below.

The Capital Region Trustee & Friend Workshop to be held on August 10th & August 11th & will be held at the Holiday Inn, Grantville (directions: www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/en/grantville/grvpa/hoteldetail/directions)

Speakers: 

Jamie LaRue, featured speaker from Douglas County Colorado

Pat Ditzler, author of A Book Sale How-To Guide: More Money, Less Stress

Mike Peterson (Certified Financial Planner) and Mike Connor (Estate Lawyer)

Friday, August 10 Agenda: 

1:00 PM: Registration

1:30-3:15 PM: eBook Models: Jamie LaRue  (Check out this recent article)

3:30-4:15 PM: Concurrent Sessions
-Book Sales and Fund Raisers: Pat Ditzler
-Unconference: Opportunity for discussion and questions

4:30-5:15 PM: Concurrent Sessions 2
-Getting & Keeping Friends: Pat Ditzler
-Financial Planning: Mike Peterson

5:30 PM: Welcome and Remarks by PCBL Friends Representative & Dinner

6:15 PM: Introduction of Speaker

6:30-8:00 PM: The Big Picture: Jamie LaRue

8:00 PM : Wrap-up & Evaluation

Saturday, August 11 Agenda:

9:00 AM: Registration & Continental Breakfast
Introduction of Key Note Speaker Capital Region Representative

9:30-11:30 AM: The Big Picture: Jamie LaRue

11:30 AM: Wrap-up & Evaluation

Jamie LaRue’s The Big Picture presentation will be similar on Friday & Saturday.

If you have questions, contact your district consultant in Capital Area, Chambersburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, or York/Adams District Library Centers.

A Capital Region Workshop for Library Leaders

Please share this invitation with Friends, Trustees, and Library Leadership staff and help them to register if needed.

Registeration is ONLINE only:  (Ask your library director if you need help)  http://surveymonkey.com/s/capitalregionworkshop    

Download the Flyer:  RegionalFlyerFronttoBack2012    

On your registration, you will select any/all session(s) and meal you plan to attend!   You can attend 1 or all.  See the full schedule below.

The Capital Region Trustee & Friend Workshop to be held on August 10th & August 11th & will be held at the Holiday Inn, Grantville (directions: www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/en/grantville/grvpa/hoteldetail/directions)

Speakers: 

Jamie LaRue, featured speaker from Douglas County Colorado

Pat Ditzler, author of A Book Sale How-To Guide: More Money, Less Stress

Mike Peterson (Certified Financial Planner) and Mike Connor (Estate Lawyer)

Friday, August 10 Agenda: 

1:00 PM: Registration

1:30-3:15 PM: eBook Models: Jamie LaRue  (Check out this recent article)

3:30-4:15 PM: Concurrent Sessions
-Book Sales and Fund Raisers: Pat Ditzler
-Unconference: Opportunity for discussion and questions

4:30-5:15 PM: Concurrent Sessions 2
-Getting & Keeping Friends: Pat Ditzler
-Financial Planning: Mike Peterson

5:30 PM: Welcome and Remarks by PCBL Friends Representative & Dinner

6:15 PM: Introduction of Speaker

6:30-8:00 PM: The Big Picture: Jamie LaRue

8:00 PM : Wrap-up & Evaluation

Saturday, August 11 Agenda:

9:00 AM: Registration & Continental Breakfast
Introduction of Key Note Speaker Capital Region Representative

9:30-11:30 AM: The Big Picture: Jamie LaRue

11:30 AM: Wrap-up & Evaluation

Jamie LaRue’s The Big Picture presentation will be similar on Friday & Saturday.

If you have questions, contact your district consultant in Capital Area, Chambersburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, or York/Adams District Library Centers.

Reference Rendezvous (41112; Issue #3)

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All DCLS locations will be closed as the staff gather at East Shore Area Library for a day of learning.

The South Central Chapter of Pennsylvania Library Association is holding a workshop in partnership with the Janus School in Mount Joy. You will come away from this workshop with tools valuable in serving clients of all ages and abilities who are affected by learning differences.

Pathfinders and contact lists will be provided to all attendees along with guides for working with volunteers and employees affected by learning differences.

In addition to detailed sessions a panel discussion will be held featuring individuals living with and professionals who work with people with learning differences.

The Autism Resource Center at Lancaster Public Library and Pennsylvania ASERT: Pennsylvania Autism Services – Education, Resources, Training will be present along with representatives from other organizations that serve people with special needs.

A special gift will be presented to each attendee and there will be several door prizes awarded during the lunch break.

Seating is limited so please – register soon! 4 hours of Act 48 credits are available for this workshop.

Here’s the registration form: Registration Form 2012 PaLA SCC

Session details are on this flyer and below: sccmeeting2012

Navigating the Maze of Services
This reference-based session will focus on the educational, occupational, and social services available to children on the Autism Spectrum. Though many specific programs serve moderate to severe individuals and other programs change with available funding, there remains an array of resources to support these individuals and their families. This will include information from an occupational therapist, speech/language therapist, and social worker. Learn from a panel of service providers and take home a reference and contact list for you and your organizations’ use.

Assistive Technology
Assistive technology, by definition, is any technology that helps a person with disabilities participate in activities as independently as possible. Here at The Janus School, we focus on assistive technologies that help our students become independent learners. Primarily we use software that assists students with their expressive and receptive language difficulties. This session will focus on demonstrating Don Johnston’s SOLO 6 software suite, text-to-speech software Kurzweil 3000, speech-to-text software Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and some iPad apps and accessibility options.

Make and Take – Adapting Books for Emergent Readers
This make and take session will give an overview of how to use adapted books with emergent readers. Each participant will make an adapted book that can be used with individuals or in small groups. Steps will be shown that will enable the student to go from matching pictures to identifying specific words. This technique is excellent for working with children at all cognitive levels and with a wide range of disabilities. Adapted books can be used with children who are verbal or nonverbal.

Transitioning the Student from school to life
Graduating from high school is a big milestone for any student. For a student with Aspergers, it can be a time of monumental change. Parents want to make sure that supports are in place as their student transitions from high school to post-secondary education or career. It is important that the student understand what supports are available to them, as well as how to access those supports as they move on from high school. Presenters include representatives from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Mercyhurst College, Keystone Autism Services and Lancaster HACC.

Grand Session from 11:15 – 11:45 Panel Discussion
Join a panel of students, parents, educators, and other professionals who are facing the day to day challenges of living and dealing with Aspergers, part of the autism spectrum. It’s an opportunity to discuss concerns, joys, and strategies in this interactive session. Please list specific questions and/or areas of interest on the registration form.

If you prefer to conference call, we will have the Pod phone available or can arrange to Skype.  Please contact Carrie to arrange remote attendance options.

This space will be used to post discussion questions, meeting agenda, and draft documents for discussion.
2012.13District Agreement Priorities and Budget Highlights Report

2012.13ServiceBasedDistrictBudgetDraft

ValueAddedDistrictServicesList2012.13

District Negotiation State Formatted Worksheet Draft 2012.13

The 2011-12 District Agreement: DistrictAgreementwithALLSignaturePages2011.2012

Here are some Video Tutorials created especially for Cumberland County Library System staff members who use the Capital Area Library District Interlibrary Loan Resource Sharing Online Application to send requests to June.  These were created before the update to the application by Carolyn:

1_ILL Training – Public Interface

2_ILL Training – Daily Tasks – The Queue

Below you will see some videos to show the new application:  (Try not to laugh!)

Demo of Login, Explanation of Queue, and the Elements of a Request (How to change a Status): ILLDemoVideo1

Searching and Account password change demo video: ILLTrainingPart2

How to Submit a Request demo video: SubmittingARequestforanItem

These videos show the Administrative Settings:

• ILL Admin Overview:  What are all those menus?  ILLAdminOverview
• For ILLAdmin: Settings menu explanation:  SettingsforILLAdmins

Training Videos for Perry County Staff Doing ILL:

SubmittingAnILLorDistrictLoanforPerryCounty

This is a simple handout to explain the basic changes that front line staff will see in the Online ILL Application:  ILLUpdateScreenShotofChanges

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2012FebLibGuides

This PDE/Commonwealth Libraries Professional Development Workshop will apply traditional collection development methodologies to the “curation” – selection, organization, and professional presentation – of digital content, services, and tools.

Designed for school and public librarians who work with children and teens, this workshop will focus on the application of LibGuides, a media-rich, easy-to-use platform that can become your virtual library “parking lot” to present web resources, both content and tools.

Specifically, participants will learn to:

All trained workshop participants will receive free access to LibGuides through September 2012 (it is a commercial, licensed web product, currently paid by PDE.) Resources for this workshop—Powerpoint, handouts, and online resources—will be made available online via WebJunction. Workshop participants will be expected to download all materials and may need them in order to create a LibGuides electronic pathfinder.

Please join us at the Central Dauphin High School Library (437 Piketown Road, Harrisburg) on Friday, February 17 from 7:20 AM to 2:50 PM.

Trainers Carolyn Blatchley and Brenda Blackburn-Foster will teach you to use LibGuides, and you will obtain free access for your school or public library through September 2012. The workshop is designed for six hours of instruction and practice over two consecutive evenings.

The Office of Commonwealth Libraries, within the Pennsylvania Department of Education, will award 6 hours of Act 48 credit to those who complete the workshop, and it will count as Continuing Education for public librarians. Participants must complete a workshop evaluation to obtain credit.

Business owners, entrepreneurs, real estate agents, researchers, reporters, students, movers, and job seekers can use your public library’s subscription to ReferenceUSA to access data for many purposes.

Here are a few highlights from the training presented by Scott Lea on Thursday, Jan. 26 at East Shore:

• Is your library’s data correct in ReferenceUSA?  This is a sample file of all data about public libraries in our district that is collected in ReferenceUSA that was downloaded on January 27, 2011.  It looks like some of the data needs to be updated:  Detail2012012721514131 We learned how.   Use the Data Feedback button on the record to provide updates to the information you find.
• You can refer patrons or library staff directly to 800-808-1113 for advanced assistance in using the resource.  A live person will answer the phone from 8-6 Monday-Friday.
• The information in this resource comes from many official sources: directories, census, post office, power companies, trade journals, SEC filings, web mining of data, and more.
• The database is updated on the 3rd Thursday of each month.  There is a last updated on date on each record.  Company news is updated every 15 minutes!
• Job Seekers can use the data to create lists of businesses they may want to work for and to find contact names for human resources or specific departments.  The data can also answer an interview questions such as: “What do you know about our company?”  80% of all jobs are filled without being posted.  A proactive job seeker can find all the companies in a specific industry in a desired geographic area.
• Use ReferenceUSA to generate a marketing list to generate leads.
• Check out the Competitor’s Report: 10 closest geographic locations in your industry.
• TIP:  Don’t use too many categories to limit.  Just use Metro area or State, not both.
• To download or print, select the records.  Public library accounts limit how many records can be downloaded at a time.   Only libraries and government agencies can purchase this product.
• There are great training resources online.  There are some short video tutorials.
• You can also direct customers and staff who assist with advanced research to the online webinars hosted by ReferenceUSA.

Attendees should take this survey to evaluate the training they attended.

Each library director will receive a copy of the packet of materials and enough copies to distribute to each of their 2012 trustees.   If you want an electronic copy to download to your computer or digital device, try downloading this file: GettingonBoardDownloadedPDF

Each library location with a board of directors will receive a DVD copy of the supplementary videos.  You can also see them all online on this YouTube channel.

Take a look at this document for more information and some sample discussion questions that may be useful to start a great conversation to further the growth and development of the board of trustees for your library: GettingOnBoardDVDDiscussionQuestionsandNotes

Please contact your district consultant to chat about plans for using these materials and to schedule a visit by the consultant to a board meeting.

Soon, there will also be copies available in the professional collection.

This post is a reminder that libraries in our district should have a completed annual report submitted to the consultant’s office on or before April 1, 2011.

As always, let me know if you would like a one-to-one consult on your annual report (which can reduce error checking times) or if for some reason you will not be able to meet that deadline date.

For many libraries, having the board review and sign the annual report at the March meeting is advisable. It’s good to get the final information from 2011 wrapped up so you can proceed with all of your success for 2012.

These deadlines are of the utmost importance because Commonwealth Libraries must report all data to the federal government by the first week in June. Because of these deadlines some libraries will not be able to refer to their audits when completing the annual report.  In such cases the end-of-the-year treasurer’s report/financial statement should be used.

Here are some useful documents for completing the Annual Report:

• Additions and Changes to 2011
• Documentation Checklist for libraries
• Consultant Review Guidelines (these are the things that will get double-checked on your reports!)
• Tips and Hints for Completing the PA Public Library Survey (this is an excellent document with detailed information for many of the questions)

The Annual Report Signature Sheet Application for State Aid Signature Page, and the Certification of Estimated Costs (Green Sheet) are all available as links within the online survey or available for download here:

• 2011AnnualReportSignaturePage
• 2012.13ApplicationforStateAidSignaturePage
• Annual Report Shared Costs Greensheet Form    

These pages are to be printed, completed and submitted with original signatures.  (Note: Not all libraries will have a Green Sheet.)

Audits: Please submit audit or financial review by October 1, 2012.  Failure to comply will result in either a delayed payment or loss of State Aid.

If you have questions about filling out the annual report online, please contact your district library consultant. 

In a separate email, your district consultant will send a note to signatories and those who are responsible for submitting the online report and collecting documentation with more local detail, including how to count statistics for ebooks and other electronic resources.

Registration:  Register online here or just let your Library Director know you plan to attend so we can have an accurate count for the meal.

Who should attend:  Library trustees and directors from each of the four Perry County libraries are the primary audience.  Other interested staff are also invited.  Our goal is to have a minimum of 4 trustees from each library in attendance—but more would be even better!

When:  February 7, 2012.   The event begins at 6p.m. with dinner and will be completed at 8:30.   Drop in whenever you can make it!   (If the weather is inclement, check with your library director or view the PeCoInfo website for updates to our plans.  A tentative snow date is scheduled for Feb. 21.)

Where:  Espresso Yourself  (Dinner will be soup, wrap, drink, and dessert.)  8 South 2nd Street, Newport, PA 17074

What and Why: 

At this gathering of library leaders throughout Perry County, we will:

• Get to know each other, share ideas, and celebrate the success of cooperation between our libraries. 
• Watch parts of a newly released DVD from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries called “Getting on Board”
• Review orientation materials that help library trustees further understand the board’s responsibilities.
• Complete worksheets and activities that are custom designed to help your libraries plan for a great future.
• Ask and answer questions to further the development of our libraries.

All trustees will receive a binder of materials with the “Getting on Board!: Tools for Board Development and Assessment”.   The binders will be packed with detailed information, some of it customized for Perry County.

Cost: FREE for all trustees and staff to attend.   This event is supported with continuing education funds by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries.

If you have questions, feel free to contact me or ask your library director.

Tentative Agenda to be confirmed by Perry County Library Directors.

When: January 17 from 2-4

Where: ESA (likely meeting room A, could be B or lab–waiting confirmation)

Note:  If you can’t attend in person, tell Carrie and then feel free to phone call in.  We can also set up a conference phone or skype connection if you’d prefer.

Why:  Our group is discussing online resources.   We have most of our discussion and interaction on a wiki, but this is a chance to meet in person. 

Who:  Our committee is composed of representatives from all libraries in our area.  Ask your manager if you can attend/contribute if you have strong opinions about online resources and databases.

Please see the attached registration brochure for more detail and to register.   They would like registrations ASAP, before Dec. 29, 2011 if possible.   2012 Summer Reading Workshop Registration Brochure

There is a $15 cost for attending this workshop.

Be prepared to serve your customers with these ideas:

• Encourage staff to visit OverDrive’s Online Learning Center for the latest training on your digital collection. Suggested courses for assisting patrons include Just the Basics, OverDrive Mobile and the Kindle Demo. Staff can view the recorded sessions anytime, anywhere.
• Take a look at the latest list of compatible devices and formats in the Device Resource Center.
• Print the eBook How-to Guide and Kindle Book How-to Guide to have on hand at the reference and circulation desks for staff to use as a resource when assisting patrons and/or distribute to interested patrons. 
• Online Marketing Kit: Take advantage of the many resources available in the Online Marketing Kit to get the word out to patrons that the library offers eBooks and digital audiobooks for their new devices.

Our district began this collection in November of 2008 with downloadable audiobooks only.  We added ebooks in November 2010.  Here are some Fast Facts about our service: 

• There are currently over 4,000 titles in the collection.
• Since inception through the end of Nov. 2011, the libraries have spent $114,675.03 on content. 
• Number of copies by general format:    Audiobook: 1,463;  eBook: 2,510; HarperCollins ebooks with limited license:  81  Maximum access Disney Collection:  780 
• Checkouts: 47,617 Since inception (Current: 1,460)  This breaks down into audiobook: 25,819 (Current: 381); eBook: 21,798 (Current: 1,079)
• Unique Library Patrons Checking Out Titles: 5,713 Overall (Current on Dec. 20: 873 Patrons)

What about Disney Digital Books?  For the twelve months, through Dec. 12, 2012, your library customers will have licensed access to an always available/simultaneous access collection of Disney Books.  Download, print, and share this flyer  (PSDisneyFlyer-Design) with parents, teachers, and child-caregivers who have a computer with internet.  Try Disney books with a magic pen that will read stories aloud or let kids have great interactive learning activities in Disney Online Books.