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Materials from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries are slowly being released throughout the Capital Area Library District for Getting on Board: Tools for Board Development and Assessment.

Each library director will receive a copy of the packet of materials and enough copies to distribute to each of their 2012 trustees. 

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.

Thanks to all who attended the Capital Region workshop on May 6 and 7.
Community, Collaboration, Communication, e-books, and the literacy direction for PA Libraries brought us all together.

You can download fresh copies of the handouts to share with others from Pat Wagner‘s interactive session on Community/Collaboration/Communication/ right here: Pat Wagner’s handout on Community, Collaboration, and Communication

You can get a copy of John Houser’s presentation on e-books in libraries here and see the facts and figures from the Numbers Game in ebooks: download a copy.

There has been a change to information you received previously regarding the Summer Reading Program vouchers. Find the paperwork you need here. Voucher2011PA

Action Idea: Please make sure the person at your location that is responsible for submitting any orders for the Collaborative Summer Library Program to Highsmith knows to attach the voucher to your order if you want your library to receive the benefit.

Details: Highsmith is offering free shipment for SRP orders for CSLP participating libraries. Each library can use a $20.00 voucher for promotional materials. Note: The voucher is not to be used for reading incentives to give to participants, but for promotional materials like posters, bookmarks, etc. The voucher must be used by April 15. I believe you can use one voucher per library location.

Summer always comes and I know we’re all looking forward to it. :) If you want to share a story about an innovative way or best practice for how your library plans to use the Collaborative Summer Library Program voucher please post it here in the comments area.

Extra Challenge: Did you see the RFP for Administrative Services duties that are performed on behalf of the Collaborative Summer Library Program? You can find it available as a word document download in the middle of the front page of cslpreads.org right now. Think about the organization of the document and the information it provided. Can your library set a goal to improve some of your own documentation that covers many of the areas this paperwork addresses? What is one small thing you can do?

See the attached for notes from the first meeting of library leaders in the Capital Region. Capital Region First Meeting Notes
The first project the Region examines will be one dealing with Electronic Resources.
Contact your local district consultant for more information.

At the March District Library Center meeting, the work of library leaders on the statewide ILS was revealed. Meeting attendees enjoyed a preview of the system.

The basics:
-The staff end of the system is based on Georgia’s PINES.
-It currently does not have an acquisitions module, but one is being developed.
-The end user/catalog part of the product is browser based, with ease of use features for customers and staff. It is created in Vufind.
-Current Millenium Libraries will be offered to transition to the new system in fall 2010. Other libraries will be invited to join after that.
-Interlibrary Loan features are built in, but a delivery system must be fully developed in order to establish the ability for users to request items directly for delivery to their home library.
-There is no cost model at this time. However, the more libraries that participate, the lower the costs will be for everyone.
-It supports SIP 2 for authentication to outside resources like OverDrive.

For more info, check out the handouts:
ILS Objectives and Goals

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Share Your Opinions:
The Task Force wants your opinions. If you have thoughts or ideas, share them.
Here’s a listing of the task force participants: ILSTaskForceMembers
The task force wants to know what you think. Share your ideas, questions, comments and thanks.