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Indiana Library and Historical Board
Indiana poet Mari Evans receives lifetime achievement award
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Library board working on path to 2016 referendum
Jasper County Library Board
Library-museum pairing beneficial for families
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Honoring library leader
Johnson County Public Library
Seed library hosts final workshop for 2015
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Wakarusa receives wi-fi grant
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Library board to hold public hearing for 2016 budgets
Westchester Public Library Board
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in The Wednesday Word
2015 IPLA Conference
All Day Event
When: Wednesday, October 7
Where: Oak Hill Mansion
Carmel, Indiana
Going Digital
12pm-1pm
When: Tuesday, October 20
Where: Webinar
Genealogy & Local History Fair
9:30am-4pm
When: Saturday, October 24
Where: Indiana State Library
Metadata for Digitization & Preservation
2pm-4pm
When: Tuesday, November 3
Where: Webinar
Introduction to Copyright for Digitization
12pm-2pm
When: Monday, November 16
Where: Webinar
ILF Annual Conference
November 16-18, 2015
Marriott East, Indianapolis
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Indiana State Library’s Hoosier State Chronicles project today joins the
Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities in
celebrating a major milestone for Chronicling America, a free, searchable
database of historic U.S. newspapers. The Library announced today that more
than 10 million pages have been posted to the site, which totals 208,000 pages
of Indiana newspapers including the “Indianapolis Journal,” “South Bend
News-Times,” and the “Evansville Journal.”
Click here to read the entire release.
Four authors with Indiana ties have been honored as winners of the 2015 Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. Winners were recognized at the Indiana Authors Award Dinner on October 10, 2015 at Central Library.
Widely-acclaimed poet and Purdue University Professor of English Marianne Boruch was recognized as the National Author Award Winner. Fellow poet and Pike High School graduate Adrian Matejka was recognized as the Regional Author Award Winner. Short story novelist and Indiana University graduate Clifford Garstang was named Emerging Author Winner. A Lifetime Achievement Honor, only the second ever given to an author who has exemplified great achievement over several decades, was presented to Indianapolis’ Mari Evans, a monumental figure in poetry and education who helped shape women’s history, politics and drama.
Each Indiana Authors Award winner receives a cash prize and can select an Indiana public library to receive a $2,500 grant from The Indianapolis Public Library. Since the Award’s inception in 2009, winning authors have received a total of $157,500, and their designated libraries have received $57,500 in grants.
“The Glick Fund is proud to celebrate these talented authors,” said Marianne Glick, Director at the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Family Foundation. “We hope that the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award serves as an inspiration and encouragement for the next generation of Indiana writers.”
Indiana Authors Award nominations were submitted in the spring of 2015, and an eight-member statewide award panel selected the winners. Any published writer born in Indiana or who has lived in Indiana for at least five years was eligible.
Nominations for the 2016 Indiana Authors Award will open on February 1, 2016. To learn more, contact the Library Foundation at (317) 275-4700 or visit www.indianaauthorsaward.org.
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The Indiana State Library in partnership with the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award created a literary map featuring 200 Indiana authors from various counties across Indiana. Fiction and non-fiction authors, as well as many poets adorn the map which showcases Hoosier favorites like Booth Tarkington, James Whitcomb Riley and John Green.
“We are excited to announce the literary map,” said Indiana State Library Professional Development Office Supervisor and Indiana Center for the Book Director Suzanne Walker. “This map will feature many great Indiana authors and provide an opportunity to introduce Hoosiers to authors they may not be familiar with across many writing genres. The last time Indiana published a literary map was in 1974, so you can imagine our excitement!”
Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award Coordinator Laura Willis agreed, "Indiana has such a rich literary history. This map helps illustrate the wide variety of talented Hoosier authors, past and present."
Indiana public libraries will each receive 100 copies of the literary map. Additional copies may be requested for schools and history or education related organizations by contacting Suzanne Walker at SuWalker@library.in.gov. A digital copy of the map may be found at here.
Listen to Suzanne's interview with WFYI about the literacy map here. The interview starts at 15:40.
Call for Proposals
You are invited to contribute your archives knowledge and experiences with your colleagues from around the state at an unforgettable SIA Annual Meeting, to be held in Indianapolis on Friday, April 8, 2016! This year’s theme is Archives @ The Bicentennial.
Sessions last approximately 40 minutes. They may be presented by individual speakers, co-speakers, panels, be hands-on demonstrations, or lightning rounds. We’re also open to other formats if you suggest them! Sessions can be on any aspect of archival work and speakers are encouraged to share both successes and issues so that attendees can benefit from lessons learned. Sessions should be informative, inspiring, create discussion, focus on the practical applications of the topic, and can even be fun!
Be creative! Suggest topics you want to discuss at conferences. Consider topics such as:
• Management issues
• Digitization projects
• Library, archives, and museum collaborations
• Celebrating institutional anniversaries
• Processing projects and unusual collections
• Grant writing
• Advocacy
• Creative solutions to archival problems
• Outreach and marketing strategies
• Lone arranger issues
• Student projects and internships
• Copyright
• Reference and archival instruction
Speakers do not need to be SIA members; students and new professionals are encouraged to submit.
Submit proposals to Carol Street, SIA Vice President at castreet@bsu.edu. Include a session title, brief description of the proposed session (250 words or less), and name and contact information of all speakers. Proposal deadline is December 1, 2015.
Earl Park Public Library – Connie Sparenberg has resigned and Brandy Justice will be serving as interim director. You can reach her at earlparklibrary@gmail.com
Mitchell Public Library- Alexis Caudell will be stepping down to pursue her PhD. Her last official day was 10/1/15, but she will be continuing until a replacement or interim is named.
South Whitley Community Public Library – Vicki Builta will be starting as Director on October 15th.
Johnson County Public Library – Lisa Lintner, formerly of the Louisville Free Public Library, has been named director. She will begin 10/26/2015 and you can reach her at llintner@jcplin.org after that date.
To renew your InfoExpress subscription, go to InfoExpress.IN.gov. Log in using your InfoExpress library and password then click once on the Renewal Form link on the right hand side of the page. Review the library profile information on the screen and make any necessary changes. Once all of the information on the screen is correct, click on Submit.
Your submitted renewal request will be reviewed by Indiana State Library staff. Once approved, you will receive an email message containing a hyperlink to a page where you can view and print your invoice or to pay your invoice by credit card.
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