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Check these out. Share them with staff.
What do you agree or disagree with from R. David Lankes presentations?
Link to R. David Lankes presentations online

Start a conversation. This space is available.

Libraries around the district are closed today. There will be no delivery service.

The Board of Trustees of Schuylkill Valley Community Library is seeking a visionary director to lead a dynamic staff in a busy rural library. Candidates should posess excellent people, marketing, and technology skills; know how to enjoy their work; and believe that patrons are the most important people. Salary is based on a 35-hour week.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university and completion of at least 12 credit hours of library science courses. Provisional certification required.

Interested candidates should forward their resume to:
James Dailey
c/o Schuylkill Valley Community Library
1310 Washington Road
Leesport, PA 19533
jayjay2@epix.net

The Capital Area Library District was pleased to be able to continue to provide a PANO membership for each library in our district. Memberships are paid in full and are active through the end of October 2010. Library directors should have received packets of information about PANO. If you have questions about how to use the membership provided to your organization or don’t know the username and password, just ask.

Please take advantage of all that your PANO membership offers:
Low cost training opportunties pano.org
Free job and event postings
Help desk for nonprofit questions

What does your library do when you have to make a decision to close early, open late, or suspend business operations for a day due to weather or other emergency?

Some things to consider:
1. Who is involved in making the decision to Close?
2. What factors do you base the decision on?
3. How do you notify staff (and library delivery) of the decision?
4. How do you notify the public when you have made a decision?
Here’s a great sample of how Hershey Public Library tells the public: Weather info
It’s a good idea to make sure your organization is registered to take advantage of easy posting. I love the online alerts that WITF’s service provides.

When Capital Area Library District Delivery must be cancelled, delayed more than 3 hours, or suspended, an email will be sent to the capitalarealibraries mailing list.
If your library closes on a day you expect delivery, make sure that the drivers know not to stop. Notification to your district consultant via email or phone is best, but if it’s very last minute or an emergency and you can’t reach me, call the library immediately before you on the route and leave a message.

There will be NO delivery to Cumberland County on Thursday, Dec. 24.

There will be No delivery to Perry County on Dec. 24.

Branches of DCLS will get delivery up to 1p.m. on Dec. 24.

Happy Holidays!

Check it out: Link to Literacy Proclamation

The American Library Association Publishing Committee Carnegie-Whitney Awards provide a grant of up to $5,000 for the preparation of print or electronic reading lists, indexes or other guides to library resources that promote reading or the use of library resources at any type of library.

Funded projects have ranged from popular, general-reader proposals such as “ReadMOre,” a reading list for Missouri’s state-wide reading program, to more specialized, scholarly proposals such as “Librarianship and Information Science in the Islamic World, 1966-1999: An Annotated Bibliography.”

Applications must be received by Nov. 6, 2009. Recipients will be notified by the end of February 2010.

For more information and guidelines, visit carnegiewhitney.cfm or contact Mary Jo Bolduc, Grant Administrator, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611; Fax (312) 280-5275; e-mail: mbolduc@ala.org.

Here’s a link to a site that explains a little about the H1N1 flu. h1n1inpa.com

Does your library have a response plan?
Make sure your staff know that if they feel under the weather, they should stay home until they are contagious no more.

The Millennial Generation, Generation Y, Echo Boomers, Digital Natives, and the Trophy Generation are all terms used to describe people born in the United States between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. They have been shaped by a heady mix of culture, politics, and technology. Millennials have had an unprecedented exposure to mass media, pop culture, instant communication, and cultural freedom woven together by a complex technological net. It is daunting to try to classify a group of over 70 million people easily. Our teleconference will seek to add nuance to these classifications to help us understand them more fully and answer the questions: Who are Millennials? How can our libraries better serve them as patrons, students, and staff?

November 13, 2009

Presenter: Jennifer Kushell

Links to this teleconference will be posted at a later date.

Effective in October, FRE and NCU will be changing their hours. These changes will be reflected in the Library Directory online as soon as they are in effect.

Read local published news articles online: From the Sentinel
From the Patriot News
Be sure to check out the comments made by other newspaper readers while you’re there.

This is the official press release: NCUFREReduceHours

If you are a staff member in the district and thereby a registered user of this site, feel free to leave comments below. Start an online discussion.

The Association for Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) will hold it’s annual conference from September 11-13 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The following website will provide registration, hotel and travel information, preconference and conference programs and exhibitor information.
index.html

If any questions, please contact:

Donald Reynolds
Nolichucky Reginal Library
315 McCrary Drive
Morristown, TN 37814
Don.Reynolds@tn.gov

Below is information written in Spanish about protection from the flu.

protecting-yourself_-spa-engsintomas-eng-spa

The North Central Library District’s Youth Services Summit will take place on May 14th and 15th at the James V. Brown Library in Williamsport, PA.

The presenters for the summit are:

Ron Fairchild, Executive Director of the National Center for Summer Learning at John Hopkins
University speaking about the “Summer Slide” and the impact of reading during the summer on school success.

Michael Sullivan, author of Connecting Boys With Books speaking about practical, proven, and sometimes off-beat suggestions on how to turn boys into life-long readers.

Saroj Ghoting, one of the seven national trainers for the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® initiative and is the co-author of Early Literacy Storytimes @ your library published by the American Library Association.

Also on the agenda:

Guys Read

Join Maggie Snow, Program Specialist for the Hennepin County Library via videoconferencing as she discusses Guy’s Read, a program that targets boys and their reading habits. The program was created by author, Jon Scieszka.

TEEN TECH PROJECT

Join Jen Nelson, manages the Teen Tech Project for the Hennepin County Library System as discusses the innovative Scratch-based technology programming that Hennepin Library offers and inspires you to involve youth in teaching other youth with this unique and affordable program.

A Child’s View of Art: Natural Storytellers

Artist, Aleta Wynn Yarrow shares her fresh perspective on children’s approaches to painting and sculpture. She provides tools for understanding children’s creative and narrative processes, and suggests appropriate materials and activities to help you encourage children through the process.

Find out all the details and register for this exciting workshop with the attached brochure:youth-services-summit-2009

Professional Development Conference Agenda
April 20, 2009

Morning Session in Gemmell Multipurpose Room

8-8:30 Registration

8:30-8:45 Dr. Andrea Miller, Department Chair &
Program Coordinator

8:45-10:30 “The Essence of Leadership” by
Michael Kumer

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-11:45 Shaun Hamilton, Motivational Speaker

12:00-1:00 Lunch (Gemmel MPR)

Afternoon Session in Gemmell 248

1:00-1:50 “Literacy in the Public Library” by Dr. Janice Kruger

2:00-4:00 “Further Exploration of Leadership” by Mr. Michael Kumer

4:10-5:00 “Raising Funds in your Public Library” by Ms. Jessica Modrzejewski

Deadline to Register:

March 30, 2009

Required Registration Information

Name (as you would like it to appear on badge)
Type of library
Contact information

To Register, Contact

Mrs. Jill Thompson
jthompson@clarion.edu

*No conference fee*