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Circulation Services Assistant (Part-Time)
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
Public Services Librarian
Indianapolis Public Library
Electronic Resources Librarian
Indianapolis Public Library
Librarian (Part-Time)
Eiteljorg Museum
Library Director
Bradbury Associates/Gossage Sager Associates
Adult Services Librarian
Monticello-Union Township Public Library
Programming and Outreach Librarian
Crown Point Community Library
To see the complete list of current openings listed on the ISL Continuing Education Jobs page click here.
Visiting musician will trace the story of music
Batesville Memorial Public Library
Elkhart Public Library delays bond issue approval until April
Elkhart Public Library
Getting A Little Naughty (Gladys)
Indiana State Library
State mobile app for education
Indiana State Library
The Pen
Indiana State Library
Library director proposes community involved committee
Putnam County Public Library
Sherry Gick | Movers & Shakers 2015 — Educators
Rossville Consolidated Schools Library
Poems to celebrate Indiana’s 200th Birthday
Yorktown Public Library
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in The Wednesday Word
Preservation of Photographic Materials
2:00pm - 4:00pm
When: Tues & Wednesday, April 7-8
Where: Webinar
Introduction to Copyright for Digitization
2:00pm - 4:00pm
When: Thursday, April 9
Where: Webinar
Evergreen Indiana Annual Conference
3:00pm - 10:00pm
When: April 9, 2015
Where: Fort Benjamin Harrison Inn
Introduction to Preservation Metadata
2:00pm - 4:00pm
When: Thursday, April 16
where: Webinar
Teaching Books Webinar: Summer Reading Program Supports
9:00am-9:50am
When: Tuesday, April 21
Where: Webinar
Teaching Books Webinar: Summer Reading Program Supports
4:00pm-4:50pm
When: Tuesday, April 21
Where: Webinar
Digital Collection Policy Development and Content Selection/Prioritization
12:00pm - 2:00pm
When: Wednesday, April 22
Where: Webinar
Personal Digital Preservation: Bigger than a Shoebox
10:00am - 12:00pm
When: Thursday, April 23
Where: Webinar
Genealogy for Night Owls
4:30-8:30pm
When: Wednesday, April 29
Where: Indiana State Library
Advanced Preservation Metadata: How to Make it Happen
2:00pm - 4:00pm
When: Wed & Thursday, April 29-30
Where: Webinar
Government Information Day
9:00am-4:30pm
When: Thursday, May 7
Where: Indiana State Library
Introduction to Outsourcing for Digitization: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
2:00pm - 4:00pm
When: Thursday, May 7
Where: Webinar
Developing a Disaster Plan
2:00pm - 4:00pm
When: Thursday, May 7
Where: Webinar
Grant Writing for Digitization and Preservation Projects
2:00pm - 4:00pm
When: Monday & Tuesday, May 11-12
Where: Webinar
Caring for Originals during Scanning Projects
10:00am - 12:00pm
When: Wednesday, May 13
Where: Webinar
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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Send in a photo with a little holiday cheer and what do you get? How about a $1,000 “We Love Libraries” grant from Sisters in Crime? Sisters in Crime is a 3,600 member, 30 chapter organization that promotes the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Throughout the year they award libraries nationwide with $1,000 to spend on books of any genre.
Brownsburg Public Library staff member, Jesse Lewis submitted the classic photo after we encouraged our staff to participate in “Ugly Sweater Day”. “We were thrilled that our holiday fun turned into $1,000 to put toward our collection of titles”, said Library Director, Denise Robinson.
If you’d like more information about the local chapter of Sisters in Crime, feel free to visit their web page. Local chapter president, Cheryl Shore welcomes visitors anytime.
The professional achievements of extraordinary Indianapolis women at the turn of the 20th century are featured in a new digital collection presented by The Indianapolis Public Library found at digitallibrary@imcpl.org.
“Early Women Leaders of Indianapolis” focuses on two of the city’s most accomplished women, May Wright Sewall (1844-1920) and Eliza Gordon Browning (1856-1927), along with accounts of other leading women citizens documented in the weekly magazine, The Indiana Woman, which was published from 1895 to 1899.
Sewall was a pioneer on many issues, including women’s rights, education, cultural enrichment and world peace. Along with her husband, she founded the Girls’ Classical School of Indianapolis in 1883 and helped form other enduring local organizations, such as the Indianapolis Woman’s Club, the Indianapolis Propylaeum and the Art Association of Indianapolis.
Browning served as director of The Indianapolis Public Library from 1892 to 1917 and convinced local leaders as well as industrialist Andrew Carnegie to fund branch libraries to serve the city’s expanding population. She pushed for the construction of Central Library in 1917 and coined the phrase “a live thing in the whole town” to describe how the library system should reach out to every local citizen.
Visitors to the site will find photos, correspondence and institutional documents that relate to each woman’s many activities, as well as issues of The Indiana Woman.
This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Indiana State Library.
The Library’s growing collection of digital materials also features full-text yearbooks from Wood High School, which opened in 1953 in the refurbished buildings vacated when Manual High School moved to its new site on the city’s south side. Wood, which closed in 1978, was designed as a new vocational training high school with a goal of providing secondary-level vocational education to its students. Its first yearbook was published in 1957.
The Wood High School yearbooks, known as the Wood Log, join those of nine other IPS high schools available in the Library’s digital collection. The Library and its digitization partner, IUPUI University Library, present this digital collection from items housed in the Nina Mason Pulliam Indianapolis Special Collections Room at Central Library, the Marion County Genealogical Society and the Harry E. Wood High School Alumni Association, published with funding by The Library Fund, a fund of The Indianapolis Foundation.
On April 2, 2015, enhancements released to GVRL and all resources within the InfoTrac and In Context families (including the PowerSearch platform) will increase accessibility for those with disabilities like low vision or blindness, improve usability for desktop and mobile researchers, and create a common user experience across some of Gale’s most popular resources.
Overall, the benefits of the enhancements include a modern design and consistent toolset that unites three of Gale’s foundational franchises with an elegant user experience that is optimized for all screen sizes and devices, supports user workflow, and improves our performance against accessibility standards.
• Optimization for all screen sizes and devices
• Similar user experience across GVRL, InfoTrac and In Context
• High-contrast banners and buttons
• Improved navigation and workflow
Learn More
To get better acclimated to the enhancements, you can now try the new experience from within GVRL and InfoTrac or read in detail about the improvements.
Please join us for four exciting weeks of exploring the user experience in public libraries. This MOOC is a great opportunity for learning more about public libraries, the MLS program and some of the faculty (Andrea Copeland, Bill Helling, Stephanie Holman and Beth Meyer) in the Department of Library & Information Science at IUPUI’s School of Informatics and Computing, and great for professional development.* All are welcome – Free, and fun is guaranteed!
The course starts on April 6, 2015 but please register now, click here for details.
For questions please email: xpl@iupui.edu
*12 LEUs available in total including 3 TLEUs (from the Indiana State Library).
Click the image to visit the ISL Talking Book and Braille Library page
Click here to visit the Evergreen page
Librarians can use Lynda.com via the ISL website
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Info Express and INShare Coordinator David Hicks is happy to announce the winners of this year's Bookmark Contest.
The top five winners are as follows:
Chloe from Pendleton Elementary (age 9)
Julieanne from Morgan Elementary (age 6)
Emma from Argos Community School (age 7)
Sergio from East Chicago Public Library (age 8)
Khayman from Maple Ridge Elementary (age 9)
Click here to view the winning bookmarks.
The Indiana State Library’s free Privacy in Library and Government Services Conference on May 27 is filling up! Don't miss your chance to register.
Attorney, author, and academic librarian Gretchen McCord will speak on privacy in library and government services. Topics for this all-day workshop include:
• USA Patriot Act, FERPA, COPPA, ECPA, and the Privacy Act
• Federal and state laws, as well as constitutional considerations of privacy for public employees and employers
• Privacy in online activities, including off-hours conduct and social media use
• Rights to privacy in use of employer phone/computer
• Drug testing in the workplace
• Conditions for releasing information
• Liability considerations
Check-in will begin at 8:30 AM in the Great Hall on the 2nd floor of the Indiana State Library (315 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202). The first session will begin at 9:00 AM and our day concludes at 4:00 PM. A light breakfast and afternoon snack will be served. Lunch is on your own.
Read about Ms. McCord's achievements at http://www.digitalinfolaw.com/ and follow her on Twitter @GMcCordLaw.
This workshop will be approved for 5-6 LEUs. CLE approval for attorneys is pending. Funding for this workshop is provided by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Click here to register for the April 29 Genealogy for Night Owls event.
On Thursday, May 7th, the Indiana State Library (ISL) will
be hosting its second biannual Government Information Day
(GID15). This event will feature six information sessions, including one with
keynote speaker, Davita Vance-Cooks, Director of the U.S. Government Publishing
Office.
This is an event for those interested
in obtaining government information via Indiana’s libraries and data centers.
State Data Center Coordinator Katharine
Springer of the ISL explains GID15 in the following statements.
“This is a great day to learn from
information professionals as well as talk one-on-one with federal, state, and
local agencies.
“GID15 is a day for networking. Young
professionals have the opportunity to interact with government professional as
well as their peers.
“We are opening up the line of
communication. While this day is geared towards librarians, it is a unique
opportunity for the public to come in and talk to these professionals as well.”
GID15 is a free event for anyone who
wishes to attend. Librarians can earn up to six Library Education Units (LEUs)
towards their certification.
For more information regarding this event, please visit http://ow.ly/JzLTc
or check out this short video https://youtu.be/YxYiqjLUspw
District 1 Conference - May 12, Blue Chip Casino, Michigan City
District 2 Conference - April 17, Williamsport-Washington Township Public Library, Williamsport
District 3 Conference - April 23, Kendallville Public Library, Kendallville
District 4 Conference - May 15, Carmel-Clay Public Library, Carmel
District 5/7 Conference - May 1, New Harmony Inn & Conference Center, New Harmony
District 6 Conference - April 10, Bartholomew County Public Library, Columbus
District 8 Conference - April 7, Morrison-Reeves Public Library, Richmond
The One Book One Community Committee is pleased to announce that Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman’s Prison by Piper Kerman is the book selection for 2015. The book chronicles what Kerman calls her “crucible experience”—the 13 months she spent in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut.
A brief dalliance with drug trafficking while she was in her early twenties sent Kerman to prison ten years later on money laundering charges. In her compelling, moving, and often hilarious book, she explores the experience of incarceration and the intersection of her life with the lives of the women she met while in prison: their friendships and families, mental illnesses and substance abuse issues, cliques and codes of behavior. The book also raises provocative questions about the state of criminal justice in America, and how incarceration affects the individual and communities throughout the nation.
Piper Kerman to Speak Nov. 4
One Book One Community will host author Piper Kerman on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Victory Theatre, where she will speak about her book. This event is free and open to all.
Television Series
Orange is the New Black was adapted into a critically-acclaimed Netflix series of the same name by Jenji Kohan. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning show has been called "the best TV show about prison ever made" by The Washington Post and was lauded by Time's TV critic James Poniewozik. The show’s third season will premiere this summer.
Orange is the New Black is available in a variety of formats for loan through the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL) or for purchase at Barnes & Noble. Library discussion groups will soon be underway and several educational and social events surrounding Orange is the New Black will take place in the coming months as Southern Indiana prepares to read the same book and listen to Kerman when she visits in November. Visit our website for more information.
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