If you have time to watch a free webinar on Strategic Partnerships, check this out: http://nonprofitfinancefund.org/web-chats
What: The Ins and Outs of Strategic Collaboration
When: TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 12:00-1:00pm EST
The Southeast Chapter of Pennsylvania Library Association invites all support staff to attend a half-day workshop entitled “e-How: Digital Collections @ Your Library”. Two 3 hours sessions including presentation and hands-on components will be offered on Friday, June 17th at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit in Norristown. Cost is $10 for non-members. There is no charge for members.
See the eHow brochure (2) for agenda and registration details.
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.
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.
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.
Register to attend or watch a live webinar designed for staff to learn how to Browse, Check-out and Download OverDrive content from the district platform available to all Capital Area Library District locations via http://capitalarealibrary.lib.overdrive.com/.
Register online right here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OverDriveTraining2011 to watch at ESA’s Gates Lab or at CADM’s training lab on Thursday, March 17th at 10:00 AM EDT.
Description: Learn how to browse, check out, and download OverDrive media. At the end of this course, staff should feel comfortable answering basic questions about your OverDrive service.
Duration: 1.5 hours.
Who should attend: All interested staff.
If you or your staff can’t attend live, a recording will be made available.
Attend a workshop sponsored by libraries in the Capital Region.
This workshop is intended for Trustees, Friends leadership, and Library staff in leadership roles.
Choose a session to attend at Penn State Harrisburg:
-Friday, May 6 from 8:30-4
-Saturday, May 7 from 8:30-4
Both workshops will offer the same content.
See the complete registration flyer here for Committed to Future Relevance: Relationships, eBooks, and Literacies!: Regional Workshop 2011 for Trustees and Leadership Staff
Online Registration is here: www.surveymonkey.com/s/TrusteeRegistration
Speakers include Pat Wagner, John Houser, and Kathy Silks presenting the Libraries and 21st Century Literacies Initiative.
Cost: The workshop is FREE for Trustees and Friends.
Library staff will pay $10 to attend.
Continuing Education: The workshop will provide 6.5 hours of CE for staff members who attend.
Contact your district consultant for questions.
Attend a workshop sponsored by libraries in the Capital Region.
This workshop is intended for Trustees, Friends leadership, and Library staff in leadership roles.
Choose a session to attend at Penn State Harrisburg:
-Friday, May 6 from 8:30-4
-Saturday, May 7 from 8:30-4
Both workshops will offer the same content.
See the complete registration flyer here for Committed to Future Relevance: Relationships, eBooks, and Literacies!: Regional Workshop 2011 for Trustees and Leadership Staff
Online Registration is here: www.surveymonkey.com/s/TrusteeRegistration
Speakers include Pat Wagner, John Houser, and Kathy Silks presenting the Libraries and 21st Century Literacies Initiative.
Cost: The workshop is FREE for Trustees and Friends.
Library staff will pay $10 to attend.
Continuing Education: The workshop will provide 6.5 hours of CE for staff members who attend.
Contact your district consultant for questions.
Registration is now open for the Library Instruction Round Table of PaLA (LIRT) Spring workshop dedicated to identifying various learning styles (for all age groups) and how to incorporate critical thinking into information literacy. The workshop will offer 3.5 ACT 48 or C.E. credit hours.
Keynote speaker will be Dolores Fidishun, Ed.D who will present an over-view of learning styles and critical thinking followed by hands-on activities that attendees will be able to incorporate into their own instruction. Dolores is Head Librarian at Penn State Great Valley and at Penn State Abington. Her areas of expertise include: Instructional Design, Instructional Technology and Adult Education and Libraries. The afternoon breakout session will be led by Calvin Wang,Sciences Librarian and Adjunct Professor, School Library Certification Program at Arcadia University. He will address the K-12 approach to identifying the scope and sequence of teaching information literacy to college students.
The LIRT Spring workshop will take place on Friday, March 11, 2011 at the Dixon University Center, Harrisburg from 9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Registration is $20 for PaLA members and $30 for non-members. Registration includes lunch. There is no refund of the workshop fee. If you are unable to attend, please try and send a substitute.
Program brochure and registration information at: LIRT Spring workshop brochure- Learning Styles
If you are unable to access the brochure, please send your registration and payment to: Corrine Syster, Treasurer, McCormick Library, 113 Harrisburg Area Community College, One HACC Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17111.
Please direct questions to LIRT Chair, Lizah Ismail at lismail@marywood.edu
This conference links education and technology.
There’s always room librarians to attend and it’s FREE:
The Villanova University Technology Expo is an opportunity for the regional education community to see the latest technology from leading vendors, learn from informative keynote speakers and connect with peers to find solutions and best practices.
If you would be interested in attending, email the district consultant or share your interest here on the blog. If enough are interested, maybe we can arrange transportation.
Did you know that there is only one program in Pennsylvania that offers a specialized diploma for Library Technical Assistants? If you or your staff is in need of training in order to move up in your library, an LTA degree would help you get there!
Northampton Community College, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, offers an LTA degree after completion of 15 credit hours of library studies. This program is only offered online, so it does not matter where you live or work! You may need to visit a local library (public or academic) to use their resources in order to complete assignments.
Courses cover the history of libraries, their function in society, computers and technology, technical services, reference resources, children’s and young adult literature, and management. All of the courses are taught by librarians who currently work or have worked in the field.
Visit our program page for more information: Library-Technical-Assistant.htm
For application information, visit this page: Apply-Online.htm
Contact NCC Library Director Sandra Sander at ssander@northampton.edu for more information. It’s not too late to register for our spring semester, which begins on January 18, 2011.
Please consider attending as this is very interesting information on how to enhance children’s programming. This amazing training session will be held at East Shore Area Library 4501 Ethel Street Harrisburg, PA 17109. If directions are needed go to: index.html
Using Parachutes and Sign Language in Storytimes
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
1pm to 5pm
Sign It! Using Sign Language in Your Storytime
1pm-3pm
Heather LeVeck
BLAST
Early Learning
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Did you know that babies can communicate with you before they are able to talk? Sign language gives babies the tools to express their wants and needs before they are able to speak. During this session, library staff and child care providers will discover the rationale for incorporating sign language into their story time with infants, toddlers and/or preschool children. They will also learn basic vocabulary in American Sign Language, and learn how to apply it to their specific group of children.
Flying High In Story Time
3pm-5pm
Sara Figueroa
Children’s/YA Librarian
Indian Valley Public Library
Combining fine and gross motor skills, songs, and early literacy skills, children enjoy a new twist on storytime. In a 30-minute program, we employ the use of the parachute to encourage more active children to participate in storytime. Children who are kinesthetic learners or need to practice transitioning from one activity to another do not always feel comfortable in storytime.
This storytime allows them to thrive. The big movements of the parachute, the songs, dancing, and traditional stories help prepare children for following directions, improving motor skills, transitioning, and helps them get ready to start school. We will learn how to incorporate movement and music into our current programming in a more effective and intentional way.
RSVP by no later than December 10th to jswope@dcls.org.
Where will you be watching the free WebJunction conference? Ask your manager if you’d like to sign up to watch on your own computer or in a group room with others. (Don’t know about Webjunction?–just ask!)
There are a few people who have signed up throughout the district, both at DCLS and CCLS and perhaps at other locations too.
Post your interest here and we’ll connect you with a group or show you how to sign up to watch on your own.
Thursday, December 2 includes the sessions below:
11:30-12:00: WebJunction Welcome and WebEx Orientation
12:00-1:00: Changing Reference Services to Meet Patron Expectations/Nancy Frederick and Ruth O’Donnell
1:15-2:15: TechSoup for Libraries: Sustaining Technology to Serve your Patrons/Stephanie Gerding
2:30-3:30: Morale Issues in your Library/Lori Reed and Maurice Coleman
3:45-4:45: Battledecks
Where will you be watching the free WebJunction conference? Ask your manager if you’d like to sign up to watch on your own computer or in a group room with others.
There are a few people who have signed up throughout the district, both at DCLS and CCLS and perhaps at other locations too.
Post your interest here and we’ll connect you with a group or show you how to sign up to watch on your own.
Wed. Dec 1 Sessions Include the sessions below:
11:30-12:00: WebJunction Welcome and WebEx Orientation
12:00-1:00: Museums, Libraries, and 21st-Century Skills/Mary Chute
1:15-2:15: Staying Committed to Great Customer Service When Your Library is in Chaos/Pat Wagner
2:30-3:30: 21 Ideas for 21st-Century Libraries/Kim Bolan-Cullin and Rob Cullin
3:45-4:45: 2-1-1 and Library Partnerships/Martha Love and Audrey May
Save the date for the Multidistrict Summer Reading Program Planning workshop.
It will be hosted at York this year.
See information tables on each of the chapters in the manual, presentations on topics that will help your summer reading program succeed, and network with colleagues around the region who plan summer programs.
The full agenda can be viewed here.
9:00 – 9:30 am Registration and Chapter tables on display
9:30 – 9:40 am Opening
9:40 – 10:25 am “Libraries and 21st Century Literacies” – Jonelle Darr
Cumberland County Library System
10:25 – 10:35 am Break
10:35 – 10:55 am Two performers (Judy Bower) and
10:55 – 12:15 am “Contests” and “Generating Excitement with Staff”
12:15 – 1:15 pm Lunch and Displays (Letterbox Demo)
1:15 – 2:00 pm “Go Outdoors” – Letterboxing – Kevin Alvarnaz
2:00 – 2:20 pm Two performers (Kathy Eckhaus – Music Together) and
2:20 – 2:30 pm Break
2:30 – 3:15 pm “Volunteers and SRC”
3:15 – 3:35 pm Two Performers
3:35 – 3:40 pm Evaluations
Those who attend will get books to use with the program.
The 2011 SRC “One World, Many Stories” Multi-District Summer Reading Program Planning Workshop is coming up on Friday, January 21, 2011. You can register here to attend the workshop. For directions to Pleasant Acres please click here.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2011.
8 Common Marketing Communications Mistakes and How to Avoid Them with Gail S. Bower, President, Bower & Co. Consulting LLC will be presented in Harrisburg on Thursday, October 14, 2010 from 1:00-4:00 PM at the PANO Building, 777 East Park Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17111.
How much do your marketing communications mistakes cost??
Unrestricted income for your operating expenses, such as marketing communications, is harder to come by these days. Can you afford to waste those dollars?
Wasting is exactly what you’re doing if your efforts don’t yield the results you expect, results such as:
• more constituents
• more donors
• more event attendees
• new members
• greater influence with your stakeholders
• greater visibility
• enhanced repute
• persuasion that your cause is worth funding or supporting in a particular way.
Marketing, event, and sponsorship specialist Gail Bower will offer a workshop next month, entitled 8 Marketing Communications Mistakes & How to Avoid Them, in Harrisburg to help you and your staff improve your marketing communications efforts so instead of draining your resources, your efforts generate new resources.
“The amount of information we each process every day is overwhelming,” said Bower. “Getting a clear, compelling message across to the right audiences to generate the kinds of responses we need can be a challenge, but one every organization must face.”
In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn more about common mistakes Gail sees, how to steer clear of them, and what you can do to create a more powerful communications effort. Attendees who want to get the most out of their investments and time with Gail will bring samples of their marketing materials – collateral materials, invitations, newsletters, ads, promotions, press releases, annual reports, web pages, eblasts, Facebook pages, Tweets, and other sample social media messages – to critique with colleagues. You’ll leave with new ideas, new tools, and a new understanding about ways to improve your organization’s communications efforts.
To register for this workshop, go to:
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ALA Washington Office Webinar: Libraries and the Elections, How You Can be Involved and Make a Difference
You may have heard that there’s a midterm election coming up in November. In this ALA Washington office webinar we’ll look at what library supporters can legally, ethically and effectively do to get involved. Ensuring that candidates understand the importance of libraries is one of the most important ways to have our voices heard, whether at the local, state or federal level. Join us to learn 10 specific techniques for being engaged in democracy at its most basic level — through the electoral process!
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:843991994
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer
Preservation Workshop (Harrisburg) FREE
September 16, 2010
Hear from a panel of world renowned experts in preservation and learn about new environmental standards for the preservation of paper based collections. You will also learn about the energy efficiencies within the Rare Collections Library design that your library can replicate at a surprisingly affordable cost. These energy saving measures are applicable beyond special collections and can save energy throughout the library. This is a workshop you can’t afford to miss as there is so much rich Pennsylvania history in our libraries we can’t afford to lose. A tour of the Rare Collections Library is included.
For additional information and registration, contact Tom Clareson, LYRASIS, 800.999.8558 or fill out the registration form you can download from this site and FAX it to 404.892.7879.
A hands-on workshop on Law Resources on Web Junction-PA has been planned for librarians.
Mark Podvia, Associate Law Librarian at the Dickenson School of Law, Penn State University, will present a workshop on September 24, 2010 at the King of Prussia PATTAN, 200 Anderson Road, King of Prussia
This workshop is funded in part by an “Access to Justice” Bill and Melinda Gates mini-grant and in part by IMLS.
An attached agenda:Law Resources Workshop Agenda will give you more information including the start time and schedule. Computers will be available, but some participants may have to share. If you have your own laptop, please take it along.
You can register at: >2010&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=ALL&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp
