Are you new to the E-rate program? Need a refresher course? Have a
new employee you’d like trained as an E-rate backup? Help is coming!
A full-day training workshop for E-rate will be presented. The training will contain details of program rules, eligibility issues, discount calculations, and completing the forms. This message is to simply alert you to the date and location of the training session; registration
details will follow in a few weeks.

Check-in will begin at 8:30 a.m., with the workshop running from 9 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Each attendee will receive a comprehensive 3-inch E-rate Binder that contains copies of the PowerPoint presentation, fact sheets, forms, sample letters, tips, etc. Lunch will be provided and there is no charge to attend, but registration will be required in a few weeks. There also will be several webinars scheduled to provide updates and training for veteran E-rate applicants and those details will be announced later.

Date and location for beginner’s training:

* Capital Area Intermediate Unit 15, Summerdale (Harrisburg area):
Monday, October 5

Here is the agenda packet that was distributed to all attendees: Handout Packet

You are invited to attend the Harrisburg Downtown Library Rededication on Sept. 16, 2009 at 5:30.
Light refreshments will be served.

R.S.V.P by September 11, 2009
Call Bobbie Jo at 234-4961 x 109
or use the Library Rededication link at dcls.org.

See the attached formal invitation: Invitation

Full-time Faculty Positions

Drexel University’s College of Information Science & Technology (IST) invites applications for several tenure-track positions at the assistant, associate, or full professor level. We welcome applications with a wide variety of teaching and research interests. We are particularly interested in applicants in the following areas:

Digital preservation
Digital libraries
Digital reference
Electronic records management
Information policy
Information representation and retrieval
Library management and leadership
Information security
Information architecture
Human-computer interaction
The successful candidate will have:

A completed doctorate in a related field
Evidence of excellence in teaching and research
Interest in working with a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary faculty
Candidates for senior positions should have established research records and success in obtaining external research funding. Joint appointments with other Drexel academic units are also a possibility.

The IST view of information is broad, multidisciplinary, and practical. IST continues to evolve as an innovative leader in educating information professionals in the twenty-first century, combining high quality teaching and research in a broad, multidisciplinary, and collaborative environment. We offer three BS degrees, three Masters degrees, and the PhD. Full-time PhD students are supported either through faculty research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Library and Museum Services, and other funding agencies, or while performing other research or teaching related activities in the College. The ALA Accredited MS(LIS) degree is highly ranked, both overall and for specializations in information systems and digital librarianship. Faculty and student interests span a broad spectrum of library and information science areas. All academic programs emphasize applied research, with a tradition of both quantitative and qualitative research that encourages interdisciplinary activity. We consider experience in industry a plus.

The College is host to the Internet Public Library (IPL) www.ipl.org. It serves as a teaching and research forum that unites the broad faculty interests across the College.

Drexel is a privately endowed technology university founded in 1891. With approximately 20,000 students, it has one of the largest undergraduate cooperative education programs in the nation, with formal relationships in place with over 1500 local, national, and multi-national companies. Drexel is located on Philadelphia’s Avenue of Technology in University City and at the hub of the academic, cultural, and historical resources of the nation’s fourth largest metropolitan region. Philadelphia is also the midpoint of a mid-Atlantic technology corridor that stretches from New York City (100 miles north) to Washington, DC (135 miles south).

To apply for this position, please apply online at:Frameset.jsp?time=1251292778874 and search for position number 3178.

Members of the Search Committee will be available at the ASIST and ALISE annual meetings and at the ALA mid-winter meeting to discuss these open faculty positions.

Drexel University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The iSchool at Drexel is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community

We are asking librarians from all types of libraries to participate, public and academic libraries, school and special libraries, hospital libraries and government libraries; from the tiniest facility to the largest county systems. We created a quick survey to capture the daily activities of libraries across the state. A copy of that survey is attached Survey_11201318 allowing you to know what type of information we are asking for. Shortly after October 28, 2009 we will ask you to complete the survey online through Survey Monkey.

HSLC is working with us to create a SnapShot PA: One Day in the Life of Pennsylvania Libraries-October 28, 2009 web site. snapshotpa.org The site serves two purposes. First it will host helpful tools for you to use to make your SnapShot day a success (template forms to use, photo permission samples, tips to successfully use your data, etc). The web site will also be our link to the public by sharing the amazing results I know we will gather.

Sharing this information with all librarians. Meet with your staff and begin planning the best way for you to collect data, stories and pictures that represent a day in the life at your library. If you have any questions please email mstern from Delaware County libraries.

workforce resource grant brochure

How does a specific librarian touch your community?
Nominations to recognize a special librarian (public, academic, or school categories) are open from Aug. 17 to Oct. 9, 2009. Winners will be announced in early November. Let the New York Times and the Carnegie Corporation honor your favorite librarian! Take a minute to nominate one today.

The library is doing Birdie for Books, a fund-raiser in which a minature golf course will be built inside the library. The flyer (with an incorrect date is attached.) FREBirdie for Books Flyer

Anyone who wants to golf and supports the library is invited.

The theme this year is “Library Survival Tactics – Let’s Not Waste a Good Crisis.” The Institute is free of charge for Library Directors, Board Presidents, Friends Presidents, District Consultants and PCBL Board Members. Library Directors, please pass this information on to your Board President and Friends President.

If a Board President or a Friends President cannot attend, another board member or Friends member may substitute. If more than one board member or more than one Friend wishes to attend, please have them email boyoung@state.pa.us. Names will be placed on a waiting list. The cost for anyone on the waiting list will be $50.00.

For registration information and form, go to:2010&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=ALL&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=

The theme this year is “Library Survival Tactics – Let’s Not Waste a Good Crisis.” The Institute is free of charge for Library Directors, Board Presidents, Friends Presidents, District Consultants and PCBL Board Members. Library Directors, please pass this information on to your Board President and Friends President.

If a Board President or a Friends President cannot attend, another board member or Friends member may substitute. If more than one board member or more than one Friend wishes to attend, please have them email boyoung@state.pa.us. Names will be put on a waiting list. The cost for anyone on the waiting list will be $50.00.