Young Adult Senior Assistant (24 hrs/wk) Carmel Clay Public Library
Teen Assistant (part-time) Plainfield-Guildford Township Public Library
Instructional Librarian University of Saint Francis
To see the complete list of current openings listed on the ISL Continuing Education Jobs page click here.
Bloomfield Library prepares for 2017 Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library
Green named Fremont Library director Fremont Public Library
Library celebrates bicentennial Jasper County Public Library
Plainfield library has Giving Tree Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library
Santa makes stop at Plainfield library Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library
Email your news links for inclusion in the Wednesday Word's "In the news" section.
If you would like to be featured in the Wednesday Word, please email a press release and a photo.
Follow the Indiana State Library's blog for weekly posts covering all aspects of the state library. Visit the blog here.
If you are a library employee and would like to contribute a guest blog, please send us an email here with your idea.
On Dec. 13, 2016 Northwest Regional Coordinator Kimberly Brown-Harden
visited the Flora-Monroe Township Public Library. See the photos here.
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The Indiana State Library (ISL) website was recently named to Family
Tree Magazine’s list of "75 Best State Websites for Genealogy in 2016."
This list appears in the December 2016 issue of Family Tree Magazine. The list honors the best websites specializing in genealogy research for each of the 50 United States.
According to Family Tree Magazine, "Indiana Memory has digitized images of many resources, including county
histories, oral histories, plat books, city directories, photos,
newspapers, yearbooks and more."
The full list can be viewed here.
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 government information 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 government information updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Indiana bicentennial infographic
To
commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Hoosier state, the U.S. Census Bureau
presents population counts for the state of Indiana from every census since
1820 in this graphic, as well as the latest population estimates. View the
graph here.
Toys and turkeys
In
2014, 560 locations nationwide produced dolls, toys and games; an increase of
15 locations from 2013. In 2014, toy makers employed 6,215 workers, a decrease
of 323 employees from 2013. California led the nation with 93 establishments.
To
compare Indiana to other states, see toy makers by state here.
An
estimated 23.6 million young domestic turkeys were hatched during September of 2015 year in the United States, up 21 percent from September 2015.
According
to the USDA and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Indiana ranks in
the top 10 states in the nation for turkey production and has for the past five
years.
For
more information about turkey production, see the detailed description of small-flock
turkey production from Penn State University.
End of term web archive
The End of Term Web Archive (EOT) captures
and saves U.S. government websites at the end of presidential administrations.
Beginning in 2008, the EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration
changes in 2008 and 2012, and it is currently preparing for the 2016 electoral
season.
The EOT archive
contains federal government websites (.gov, .mil, etc.) in the legislative,
executive or judicial branches of the government. Websites that were at risk of
changing (i.e., whitehouse.gov) or disappearing altogether during government transitions
were captured. Local or state government websites, or any other site not part
of the federal government domain were out of the scope of the EOT.
To learn more about the EOT archive, view this
recent article from Library Journal, “Government Website
Harvest Enlists Librarians, Educators, Students.” As stated in the
article, the public access copies of websites stored in the archive are kept at
Internet Archive, the Library of Congress holds a preservation copy and an additional copy is held at University
of North Texas for data analysis. The Internet Archive blog for Dec. 15,
2016 provides additional
details. The National Archives and Records Administration also conducted
harvests of the 109th to 113th Congresses and the 2004 presidental
term websites; those archives can be accessed here.
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Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Children's) When: Jan. 10, 2017, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Where: Alexandria-Monroe Public Library
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Teen/Adult) When: Jan. 10, 2017, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Where: Alexandria-Monroe Public Library
CSLP 2017 Webinar (Early Literacy/School Age) When: Jan. 12, 2017, 10:00 am - 11:00 am Where: Webinar
CSLP 2017 Webinar (Teen/Adult) When: Jan. 12, 2017, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Webinar
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Children's) When: Jan. 30, 2017, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Where: Mooresville Public Library
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Teen/Adult) When: Jan 30. 2017, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Where: Mooresville Public Library
CSLP 2017 Webinar (Teen/Adult) When: Feb. 7, 2017, 10:00 am - 11:00 am Where: Webinar
CSLP 2017 Webinar (Early Literacy/School Age) When: Feb. 7, 2017, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Webinar
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Children's) When: Feb. 10, 2017, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Where: Greensburg-Decatur Public Library
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Teen/Adult) When: Feb. 10, 2017, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Where: Greensburg-Decatur Public Library
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Children's) When: Feb. 24, 2017, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Where: West Lafayette Public Library
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Teen/Adult) When: Feb. 24, 2017, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Where: West Lafayette Public Library
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Children's) When: Mar. 3, 2017, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Where: Jeffersonville Township Public Library
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Teen/Adult) When: Mar. 3, 2017, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Where: Jeffersonville Township Public Library
CSLP 2017 Webinar (Early Literacy/School Age) When: Mar. 8, 2017, 10:00 am - 11:00 am Where: Webinar
CSLP 2017 Webinar (Teen/Adult) When: Mar. 8, 2017, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Webinar
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Children's) When: Mar. 13, 2017, 10:00 am - 11:30 am Where: Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library
Build a Better World: CSLP 2017 (Teen/Adult) When: Mar. 13, 2017, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Where: Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library
The Indiana State Library (ISL) will be closed on the following days: Friday, Dec. 23, Saturday, Dec. 24, Monday, Dec. 26, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016 and Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. The library is regularly closed on Sundays. InfoExpress will not be in service during holiday closings. For a complete list of 2016 and 2017 state library holiday closings, please visit ISL's Hours & Directions page here.
On Dec. 6, 2016, the Duke Energy Foundation generously donated $7,000 to the West Lafayette Public Library (WLPL). The check was presented by Duke Energy's Government and Community Relations Manager Dan Rhodes, and the Duke Energy Foundation, to WLPL's Director Nick Schenkel.
"By
investing in the Library through the purchase of books focused on
children’s classic favorites and large print bestsellers, the Duke
Energy Foundation is reaching thousands of readers. We appreciate this ongoing partnership which serves so many in our community," Schenkel said.
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