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Adult Services Librarian
Johnson County Public Library
Digital Projects Fellowship (Part-Time)
Indianapolis Public Library
Technical Services Librarian
Shake Library, Vincennes University
Public Services Associate II (PT/Juvenile) – Outreach Services
Indianapolis Public Library
Learning and Technology Coordinator
LaPorte County Public Library
Adult Services Librarian
Linton Public Library
Youth Services Supervisor
Muncie Public Library
Youth Services Assistant (Part-Time)
Putnam County Public Library
To see the complete list of current openings listed on the ISL Continuing Education Jobs page click here.
Culver library centennial celebration June 6 includes host of family events
Culver-Union Township Public Library
Local Indiana Library Discovers a Marketing Firm Within Their Own Walls
Hamilton East Public Library
Postcards provide a glimpse of the past
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Library
Statue representing Sieur de Vincennes on display at library
Knox County Public Library
Michigan City Library Beat
Michigan City Public Library
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in The Wednesday Word
Metadata for Digitization and Preservation
10:00am - 12:00Pm
When: Wed & Thursday, May 20-21
Where: Webinar
Starting Right: Introduction to Digital Project Management Planning
3:00pm - 5:00PM
When: Thursday & Friday, May 21-22
Where: Webinar
Privacy Workshop
9:00am-4:00pm
When: Wednesday, May 27
Where: Indiana State Library
All History is Local: Find, Preserve, and Digitize Collections that Tell the Story
2:00pm - 4:00pm
When: Wednesday, May 27
Where: webinar
Managing Oversized Materials: Care, Handling and Preservation of Posters, Maps, and Other Large Pages in Our Collections
10:00am - 12:00pm
When: Thursday, May 28
Where: Webinar
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Beau Cunnyngham is the new director of the Lebanon Public Library. You can reach him at beau@leblib.org.
Jordan Orwig started last month as director at Sullivan Co. His email address is jorwig@sullivan.lib.in.us.
Do you use newspapers as part of your research? Want to learn more about searching Hoosier State Chronicles, the database providing free, online access to Indiana’s historic newspapers? Then come to a free demonstration at the Indiana State Library on Thursday, May 21 at 1:30pm. Stefan Boddie, of DL Consulting, the company behind the collection management software, will provide insights into getting the best results for your searches.
Hoosier State Chronicles (http://hoosierstatechronicles.org) provides access to over 230,000 newspaper images and continues to add more newspaper pages each month.
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library patrons never have to be farther away than their mobile device with the library’s new app, EVPL to Go. With the free app, users can access the most popular EVPL services anytime, anywhere.
Patrons can use the EVPL to Go app to search for items and place holds, download digital items, access research articles and history collections, use BookLook™ to scan a book’s barcode to see if it’s available from the EVPL, manage their account, see the events calendar, and connect with the Library via text and chat.
EVPL to Go is available in app stores for Apple and Android devices, Windows Phone, and Amazon Kindle.
When he was small, Wong Herbert Yee used to watch his older brother draw. Today, Yee enjoys using words and pictures to create images for his readers. He also likes to draw clothes on his animal characters. Join us for a visit with Mr. Yee as he discusses his work such as Fireman Small and his series of best friends Mouse and Mole.
For more information, please click here.
 We are excited to announce that plans are well underway for the 2015 Indianapolis VisionWalk and our website is open! It will be a day of family fun that you won't want to miss.
Please mark your calendars to join us:
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2015
Location: White River State Park
The fight against blindness is a marathon, not a sprint. Early registration and team recruitment leads to more fundraising and more money to fund critically needed research to help all those for whom we walk. Here is some ground-breaking research that is already being funded by people just like you across the country.
This year the 2015 Indianapolis VisionWalk has a lofty goal
- we want to have more teams participate than ever before. Last year we had 41 teams this year we are hoping to have 50 teams! You can help us reach this amazing goal and make 2015 VisionWalk history. After you have signed up your team, forward this message to anyone and everyone you know who might also want to participate!
We are here to help.
Your Indianapolis VisionWalk team is here and ready to help you every step of the way! We look forward to working with you, please call us or e-mail with any questions you have.
For more information, please contact Lori Quinn at LQuinn@FightBlindness.org, (847)680-0100
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Click here to visit the Evergreen page
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Are you interested in promoting local history? The new grant program called Common Heritage offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities can help. This grant program will supply funding for day-long events in which members of the public are invited to share their personal collections to be digitized and shared online. These digitization events are combined with local programs highlighting the community. Grant awards are for up to $12,000 for 18 months. The application deadline for this NEH grant is June 25, 2015.
The Indiana State Library would like to assist Indiana’s cultural heritage organizations with their efforts to document their local communities. How the Indiana State Library can help:
• Grant application: Applications must be submitted through the Grants.gov portal. ISL can provide assistance with getting set up and the actual application process. ISL will review draft applications for completeness.
• Project planning: ISL will share information on best practices for scanning, metadata creation and digital curation with local organizations working on a grant application. Sample loan forms and tips for organizing a day-long event will also be available.
• Digitization training: Training on scanning, metadata creation and how to organize a one-day scanning event will be offered at no charge to local historical organizations.
• Digitization equipment: The digitization equipment available through the ISL Mobile Scanning Unit program will be made available to those organizations that like to borrow rather than purchase equipment with grant funds. ISL has flatbed scanners, slide scanners, and book scanners available for loan.
• Hosting of collections: ISL is offering to host the items digitized through this program in CONTENTdm at no cost to the individual organizations. Collection items will be freely available online. Grantees can also elect to have these records included in Indiana Memory and the Digital Library of America even if they plan to host them locally.
• Digital preservation: ISL is coordinating efforts to create a statewide, low-cost solution for digital preservation by creating a statewide collaborative. Membership will be available in early 2016 for organizations that want access to a trusted digital repository for their digital files.
For more information about the grant program, click here.
For more information about how the Indiana State Library can help you, contact Connie Rendfeld, crendfeld@library.in.gov or 317.232.3694.
The following is the most recent list of Indiana State Library staff that will be presenting at the Indiana Library Federation conference in November 2015, as well as the topics they will be presenting.
Suzanne Walker – Strengthening Connections to Books with TeachingBooks and Announcing Indiana’s 2016 Literary Map
Steven Schmidt - Resource Sharing Update from ISL
Paula Newcom – Storytimes with Children with Disabilities, Earth, wind and Fire – Be Prepared if Disaster Strikes, and Workplace Survivor: Finding Your Inner Strength to Survive Challenging Co-Workers
Angela Dubinger – On Your Mark, Get Set – READ! CSLP 2016 and 2 with no titles yet
Amber Painter – Makerspace Petting Zoo, The Librarian has Left the Building: Developing Leaders from within through Succession Planning
Crystal Ward – Doing Time in a Jail Library: Discover what it is like to Work in a Correctional Facility
Connie Bruder – Your Key to Successful Safety: Active Shooter Training for Your Library
S. Chandler Lighty - Say! Do You Wanna Digitize Newspapers?
Anna Goben – More than an ILS: An Evergreen Community
Jen Clifton – Friends with Money: Building Partnerships with LSTA Grants
Jocelyn Lewis – Capes, Tights, and Trenchcoats
Monique Howell – Mining Libraries Vertical Files
Sylvia Watson – Friends Talk
Click here for more information about the ILF conference.
District 4 Conference - May 15, Carmel-Clay Public Library, Carmel
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