Information Services Assistant (part-time/15 hrs per week) Brownsburg Public Library
Information Services Assistant (part-time/24 hrs per week) Brownsburg Public Library
Head of Information Technology Porter County Public Library System
Circulation Clerk (part-time) Speedway Public Library
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Library gives teens chance to celebrate culture Bedford Public Library
Author, Emmy winner to speak at library Hancock County Public Library
Herron Art Library hosting public reception and lecture on papermaking in the Islamic world Herron Art Library
New large print books Indiana State library
After decades of debate, Jasper getting new library Jasper Public Library
German American pledges $500,000 to support Jasper Public Library Jasper Public Library
Butler team wins library research competition Parrish Library (Purdue University)
Email your news for inclusion in The Wednesday Word
Spreading the Word: Taking Early Literacy Messages to the Street When: November 17, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Webinar
Free Book Giveaway for Non-Profits When: November 21, 2016, 8:30 am - 11:00 am Where: Indianapolis Public Library Service Center
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Fall Workshop When: November 21, 2016, 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm Where: Indiana State Library
Tools/Tips/Trends: eReader Round Up When: November 22, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Webinar
Maker Space Petting Zoo When: November 30, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where Johnson County Public Library - Franklin Branch
Evergreen Indiana Basic Circulation When: December 6, 2016, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Where: Indiana State Library
Evergreen Indiana Holds Training When: December 6, 2016, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Indiana State Library
Evergreen Indiana - Basic Cataloging When: December 8, 2016, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Where: Indiana State Library
Evergreen Indiana - Local Administration When: December 8, 2016, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Indiana State Library
INSPIRE Train the Trainer When: December 8, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Where: Huntington City-Township Public Library
40th Anniversary of the State Data Center Program When: Monday, December 12, 2016, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: Indiana State Library
The Indiana State Library is conducting a survey about
professional development in Indiana libraries and what we can do to serve
you all better. This survey is intended to be taken by all library
staff members. Please share widely with others in your library and
encourage them to fill the survey out. We anticipate it taking anywhere
from 5-15 minutes to complete. To reiterate, if you work in a library
in Indiana, we’d like you to take this survey.
Take the survey here
The survey will close at 8:00 AM Eastern time on November
28, 2016.
Free training on lynda.com
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On Dec. 11, 1816, Indiana was admitted
as the 19th state to join the Union. On Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, hundreds of fourth graders will celebrate
Indiana’s 200th birthday at four locations in downtown
Indianapolis. Statehood Day events will
take place at the Indiana Statehouse, the Indiana State Museum, the Indiana
Historical Society and the Indiana State Library. Students will enjoy fun and educational
activities at each organization and attend a formal ceremony with guest
speakers from state government.
The top four winners of the Statehood
Day Essay Contest, supported by the Indiana Center for the Book, will read
aloud their essays and be awarded prizes at each location during the formal
ceremonies. This year’s contest theme is
Bicentennial and Beyond and students wrote about how they celebrated Indiana’s
Bicentennial and what they envision for the future of Indiana.
Events at the Indiana State Library will
include tours of the new Indiana Young Readers Center and Statehouse Education
Center. Students will also have the
opportunity to hear presentations by historical figures from Indiana, including
President Abraham Lincoln, portrayed by Danny Russel, and James Whitcomb Riley,
portrayed by Professor Watermelon.
All four Statehood Day locations are
booked for this year’s events, but if you are interested in learning more about
Statehood Day or the Statehood Day Essay Contest feel free to contact Christy
Franzman, Indiana Young Readers Center librarian at the Indiana State Library,
cfranzman@library.in.gov.
The International Jewish Genealogy month is celebrated during
the Hebrew month of Cheshvan. For 2016, the civil dates are Nov. 1 to
Nov. 30, 2016. At the Indiana State Library we have many resources to
help you start or further your Jewish genealogy research.
“Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy” is a comprehensive book
that’s great for both beginners and more intermediate researchers. The book covers
not only how to get started, but it also contains research topics such as
Holocaust records, Jewish naming patterns, the history of surnames and variant
place names. The guide also includes different resources, both within the U.S. and
internationally, appendixes containing charts and mini how to guides and maps.
“Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories” is a bibliography of family sources
sorted by surname. It also lists whether the information can be found in an
institution or general work. Additionally, it cross-references variant
spellings due to pronunciation.
“A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery” is a great
resource for someone interested in Jewish cemeteries and deciphering
their family’s graves. The guide goes into detail about the meanings behind
monuments and tombstones and their decoration, where a person might be buried
in the different sections of a cemetery and simple translations.
“Judaica in the Slavic Realm, Slavica in the Judaic Realm: Repositories,
Collections, Projects, Publications” covers Jewish collections found in Russian
and Eastern European institutions often overlooked by researchers. It could be
particularly helpful to those doing research in the former Soviet empire.
These resources,
along with others, can be found in the Indiana State Library online catalog.
You
are cordially invited to attend a 90-minute focus group session to discuss the
benefits of the programs the Indiana State Library offers using federal funds
received through the Library Services and Technology Act’s Grants to States
program.
Every
five years, the Indiana State Library conducts an evaluation of its
implementation of the LSTA program in fulfillment of the requirements of the
Museums and Libraries Act. The LSTA Grants to States program is a federal
program that provides funding to each state on a population-driven formula.
Federal funding for the program in Indiana is approximately $3.1 million per
year. Decisions regarding how available funds are spent are made at the state
level; however, expenditures must be consistent with the purposes and
priorities that are established nationally. LSTA currently helps to support a
variety of important projects including licensing of online databases, summer
reading and service innovation efforts.
The
Indiana State Library is working with QualityMetrics, a library consulting
firm, to conduct its evaluation. They will be holding focus group sessions on Tuesday,
Nov. 22, 2016 at the following locations:
Mishawaka Penn Harris Public Library (10-11:30 A.M.) 209 Lincolnway E, Mishawaka, IN 46544
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, (South) (9-10:30 A.M. Central
time) 200 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Evansville, IN 47713
Mooresville Public Library (3-4:30 P.M.) 220 W. Harrison StreetMooresville, IN 46158
Please
consider attending and sign up via the following form.
Registration will be limited to approximately 12 participants per
location.
In
addition to the focus group, or if you are unable to attend, we will
also conduct a survey in the coming weeks. Please contact Jen Clifton (jclifton@library.in.gov) if you have
any questions.
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Hello, and welcome to the Government Information Minute.
This bi-weekly column is brought to you by the Government Information Librarians at the Indiana State Library.
We cover current resources on Govt Info at local, state, national and
international levels. It’s all for you, to keep you updated and
well-informed! Suggestions and comments welcome. Check out more Indiana
Govt Info updates on Facebook and Twitter.
This November historical events and their associated
documents bring to mind the origins and founding of America. Our modern
celebration of Thanksgiving traces its origins to the people of Plymouth Colony
and to The
Mayflower Compact, a document signed aboard the ship Mayflower in November 1620, which set forth principles of tolerance and liberty for the government of
their new colony in the new world. The
mural illustrating the event is located in the Cox Corridors,
Great Experiment Hall of the U.S.
Capitol Building. “The Mayflower Compact,” 1620, painted by artist Allyn
Cox, depicts Pilgrim leader William Brewster signing the document with John
Standish, the colony's military leader, standing to the left. This compact
served as Plymouth Colony’s official Constitution for over 70 years; it could
be considered a prototype for the Constitutional Republic that the independent
colonies would form together as the United States of America.
In October of 1789, during his first year as the nation’s
first president, George Washington recommended in a Thanksgiving Proclamation
that the people of the United States observe a day of public thanksgiving and
prayer on Thursday, the 26th day of November. With the Civil War still raging, The Gettysburg Address
was delivered by President Lincoln Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the
dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. President
Lincoln’s message, a mere two minutes long, would become one of the most famous
speeches in American history. The origin of Thanksgiving as an American national
holiday is found in Lincoln’s
Thanksgiving Presidential Proclamation, “to set apart and observe the last
Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.”
Search for and view the full-text of a multitude documents
important to the founding of the United States in the digital collection from The Avalon Project, Documents in
Law, History and Diplomacy. Sub-collections of note include Colonial Charters,
The Federalist
papers, and The
American Constitution.
This year marks Indiana’s 200th birthday and the
state’s 40th anniversary of participation in the Census Bureau’s
State Data Center (SDC) program. The Indianapolis SDC office was the first in
the nation to provide free data and reference assistance to the public.
We would like to honor these two key events in history as we
begin to prepare Indiana citizens for the 2020 Census.
On Dec. 12, Indiana State Data Center affiliates and the
public will be invited to a one-day historical celebration and kick-off event
at the Indiana State Library.
During this event, we will hear about the history of data
services and GIS at national and state levels from speakers from the U.S.
Census Bureau in D.C. and Chicago, the Indiana State Demographer and Phil
Worrall, Executive Director of the Indiana Geographic Information Council.
All are welcome. Snacks and coffee will be provided.
Registration is open! Sign up here!
Please share with anyone you know who is interested in
Indiana data and geography: teachers, librarians, historians, colleagues and friends.
Contact Katie Springer at kspringer@library.in.gov with any
questions.
On Nov. 9, 2016, the Indiana State Library’s Professional
Development Office (PDO) hosted a digital playground at this year’s annual
Indiana Library Federation (ILF) conference in Indianapolis.
On display were several items from the library’s
makerspace kit, including Dash the Wonder Workshop robot, Snap Circuits and the
WeDo Lego robots. These kits allow library patrons do everything from
programming a robot to building an optical theremin.
Professional Development Librarian Kimberly Brown-Harden
said the makerspace kit was very well-received. “The response to the digital
playground was great. ILF attendees thought our displays were really cool and
asked how they could get them into their own libraries.”
If you would like more information on how to get
makerspace kits into your library, or information about makerspace kits in general, please contact Suzanne Walker at SuWalker@library.IN.gov.
Congratulations to this year's Indiana Library Federation Special Services Award winner, Suzanne Walker of the Indiana State Library. Walker received the award for her continuing efforts on Indiana's bicentennial celebration at the state library and for her work supporting children with the Indiana Center for the Book. Walker was also recognized for her support of libraries statewide.
"I'm thrilled to be recognized by the
Awards Committee at the Indiana Library Federation. Many of us at the Indiana State Library work
tirelessly to support libraries all over Indiana. It feels great to know that I am appreciated
by the very people I try to help every day," Walker said upon receiving the award.
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