News Archive for March 2011    

Here’s the information to book the most current “Traveling Trunk” for use with the One Book Every Young Child program for 2011, Whose Shoes: http://www.dcls.org/kids/travelingtrunks.html This link is primarily for libraries and centers for child care from Dauphin and Perry County.

You can also find information on how to request trunks from past years on the page as well.

Use a trunk to make story hour an event with a big box of affiliated program materials and books or offer the trunks to be used by daycares in your area.

You must report statistics for how often you use the most recent trunk.

Mark your calendars to save the date for the PALA Annual Conference which runs from October 2 through October 5, 2011.

The 2011 event will be hosted in State College at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. The theme is Touchdown! Winning Strategies for Libraries.

More info will be available at palibraries.org as planning continues.

Mark your calendars to save the date for the PALA Annual Conference which runs from October 2 through October 5, 2011.

The 2011 event will be hosted in State College at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. The theme is Touchdown! Winning Strategies for Libraries.

More info will be available at palibraries.org as planning continues.

Check out this link to register for the PALA South Central Chapter workshop and annual meeting on May 11, 2011 at Lancaster YTI: Registration for PALA South Central Chapter Workshop

The topic is: Communicate! Message, Method, Multicultural

Sessions will include your choice of:
-Advocacy
-Fundraising
-Public Speaking
-Customer Service

Fees are $25 for PALA members and $39 for non-members.
CE will be offered.

April 18th starting at 2p.m. at ESA’s Gates Lab we will have a meeting of the Core Team responsible for District Negotiation.

Documents relevant to the negotiation will be posted here as they are drafted in more final versions.

The guidelines and worksheets we will fill out for the state are here in “blank” format.
Guidelines District Negotiated Agreements-revised 2010
StaffSheetDistrictNegotiation2011.12
Negotiated Agreement Budget-Expend Blank

Anyone in the district is welcome to attend if they would like.

The Newport Public Library has arranged training for Mandated Reporting for all of their staff on Wednesday, April 27 to start at noon, at Newport Public Library. Staff and other interested people from throughout the district area can also call or email Newport to sign up to attend.

The training will be done by PA Family Support Alliance, conducted by Lori Lower of Perry County Children and Youth.

Training will include what constitutes child abuse and neglect, as well as what reporting is required by the state.

There is no charge for this training, but at least 15 must register for it to be hosted at NWP.

Members of NWP’s board are invited to attend, as well as people from other agencies and organizations who may or may not be mandated reporters. Please feel free to invite others to attend as you see fit.

To register your intent to attend, call or email Newport Public Library and ask them to add your name to the clipboard for registration here on the reserve shelf. Let them know which library or agency your attendance will represent.

Thanks to NWP for arranging this opportunity.

Read more about events in Washington DC on May 9 and 10:
http://www.ala.org/nlld

There is an exciting continuing education opportunity sponsored by the NW Region. This presentation focuses on Human Resource issues in libraries and will be held Friday April 8th at the Cross Creek Resort in Titusville PA.

The attached brochure:Personelly Speaking Brochure provides information about this workshop, directions to Cross Creek Resort, and registration form. The cost is $22 which includes coffee, pastries and lunch. The deadline for registration is March 25, 2011.

On Thursday, March 24th the Dauphin County Library System will host Margie Stern from the Delaware County Library System as she presents a program full of ideas for One Book, Every Young Child including ways to use the Traveling Trunks and activities you can do as part of One Book. This program is sure to inspire everyone and provide great ideas on how to extend the success of your One Book program. The program will take place from 9:30 to 11am at the East Shore Library.

Please RSVP to jswope@dcls.org by no later than Tuesday, March 22nd.

The kick-off for the 2011 book selection of the One Book, Every Young Child selection, Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job, by Stephen R. Swinburne, is scheduled for Tuesday, March 29, 2011, in the Main Rotunda in the Capitol from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. If you are nearby, please join us!

For more information about the One Book, Every Young Child program, see: www.paonebook.org.

Your library or collection management department should have received copies of the hardback book as well as stickers, posters, guides, and other supplies to use in conjunction with the program. These were distributed recently.

The district received a traveling trunk for this year’s title. After it has been processed, it will be made available to libraries in Dauphin and Perry County (Cumberland County Libraries have their own local trunk). Stay tuned for instructions on how to reserve the trunk for use with one of your special programs.

The libraries in the Capital Area are glad to announce that the author will be visiting many locations on behalf of libraries in our area:
Monday March 28, 2011 Dauphin County
• 6:00 PM Alexander Family Library (Hummelstown)
Tuesday March 29, 2011 Cumberland County
• AM Kindergarten program Hillside elementary School (9:30)
• PM Kindergarten program Hillside Elementary School (1:00)
• 4:30 PA ONE BOOK EVERY YOUNG CHILD KICK OFF STATE CAPITAL HARRISBURG
Wednesday March 30, 2011 Mechanicsburg
• 9:00-9:30 Simpson Public Library
• 10:15- 11:15 Simpson Public Library
• 1:30-2:30 Kindergarten Academy
• 6:30 Bosler Library
Thursday March 31, 2011 Dauphin County
• 10:15-11:00 East Shore Area Library
• 1:00-1:45 Capital Area Head Start
• 2:15-3:00 Capital Area Head Start
• 6:00 Northern Dauphin Library

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The Dauphin County Library System is hosting the third program in this season’s Library Futures: Staying Ahead of the Curve teleconference series, “Free Content for Library Collections,” on Friday, March 11, 2011, from Noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time. There will be an opportunity for 15 minutes before the teleconference begins for introduction of attendees and getting to know one another and 15 minutes after the teleconference ends for a discussion of electronic resource needs.

Presenters: Michael Galloway and John Mark Ockerbloom
The Internet offers a treasure trove of free resources that can greatly expand the range of information and services that libraries can offer their patrons. But it’s not always easy to find the best information to meet users’ needs. In this program, Michael Galloway, Manager, Digital Collections for ipl2: Information You Can Trust, and John Mark Ockerbloom, editor of The Online Books Page, will give a tour of some of the millions of books, magazines, journals, and informative web sites that can be accessed online for free. They will discuss how they evaluate and describe online resources to include in their directories, how readers can find what they need in these directories and elsewhere online, and how they can distinguish useful information from unreliable or irrelevant sites. You’ll find out how you can integrate free online resources with your local library offerings in ways that give patrons better service than either online or print alone can provide. And you’ll also learn how your library and your patrons can contribute to this growing corpus of knowledge.

The teleconference will take place in the Gate’s Lab at the East Shore Area Library. There is no cost for this program. Please RSVP by no later than noon on March 10th to Jeffrey Swope, Youth Services Programming and Outreach Coordinator at jswope@dcls.org