Information Services Librarian
Ball State University Libraries
Information Technology Manager
Johnson County Public Library
Library Assistant III - Circulation
Johnson County Public Library - Franklin Branch
Front Desk Clerk
Tipton County Public Library
To see the complete list of current openings listed on the ISL Continuing Education Jobs page click here.
Libraries balancing space, conservation
Allen County Public Library
'We are Batesville' portraits can be viewed at library
Batesville Memorial Public Library
Library staff to receive customer service and communications training
Eckhart Public Library
Library offers virtual reality experience
Monroe County Public Library
New programs cater to the kid in adults
Whiting Public Library
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 Follow the Indiana State Library's blog for weekly posts covering all aspects of the state library. Visit the blog here.
If you are an Indiana library employee and would like to contribute a guest blog, please send us an email here with your idea.
This Mar. 16, 2017 multi-state event will take place in both Lansing,
Mich. and Indianapolis. Speakers and participants will interact
both in-person and remotely. The morning will feature an overview and update on
the Library of Congress BIBFRAME pilot project from Director
for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access, Library of Congress, Beacher Wiggins and a
presentation from Jeff Penka of Linked Data industry leader Zepheira on the implications for libraries.
Afternoon
sessions will include presentations from Joshua
Barton and Robin Dean of the Michigan State University Libraries on how they are preparing staff for the linked data environment, Andrea
Kappler of the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library on their experience converting their MARC catalog data to
BIBFRAME/linked data for publishing on the web, the Indiana
State Library on their Evergreen Indiana linked data project and Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS)
and the Library of Michigan on their MeLCat linked data project.
This
summit is an opportunity for librarians to explore the possibilities of what a
fully integrated Linked Data world means for libraries and our communities.
This event will also provide updates and presentations exploring what is
already happening to make that possibility a reality. This program has been approved for 5 Technology
LEUs for Indiana library staff
Event
Locations:
Indiana Wesleyan University, Indianapolis North Campus
Lansing Community College, West Campus
Register here.
Questions can be directed to Michelle Bradley, member engagement manager.
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 The Firefly Award strives to present a balanced ballot of high quality
picture books that appeal to young book enthusiasts. Children
ages 0-5 can vote on their favorite title beginning May 1, 2017.
The 2017 nominees are “Race Car Count” by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, “Best in Snow” by April Pulley Sayre, “Grumpy Pants” by Claire Messer, “Don’t Wake Up Tiger!” by Britta Teckentrup and “Music Class Today!” by David Weinstone.
All library systems in Indiana will receive 15 copies of the ballot courtesy of TeachingBooks.net and are welcome to make more copies as needed or to print off additional copies of the ballot from the Indiana Early Literacy Firefly Award website. TeachingBooks.net will also collect some resources for each book to assist in programming and sharing.
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Public library services put people on the path to literacy,
technological know-how, or a better job – but what we are often missing is the
data to show it. Outcome measurement helps libraries answer the questions: How
can we better measure and demonstrate our community impact? What good did our
services do?
Would you like to implement outcome measurement in your
library? Join us for this free
Project Outcome Regional Training, a full day, in-person workshop on March 23, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (check-in at 8:30 a.m.) in Plainfield, Ind. at the Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library. At this workshop,
a Project Outcome trainer will facilitate a deep-dive into outcome measurement
using Project Outcome tools. You will learn how to deploy outcome measures in
your library, collect and use resulting data, and leverage the project's
support network to ensure successful adoption. Be a part of a cohort of
public libraries interested in implementing Project Outcome to drive change,
influence decision making, and demonstrate the true impact of their library’s
programs and services on the community.
For more information, please visit the Project Outcome website.
The Indiana State Library (ISL) is currently soliciting for
more libraries who are interested in joining Indiana’s new Statewide Remote
Circulation System (SRCS), which has generated 12,000 resource sharing requests
from the equivalent of 2.6 million individual catalog searches since August of
2016.
In the 138 libraries where SRCS is currently being used,
authorized users can search the combined catalog of those libraries, select available
items online and have them delivered to their local library for check-out. SRCS
is currently working with 15 ILS systems. The Auto-Graphics ShareIt software
uses a variety of methods to search each participating library’s holdings and
to determine whether the item is currently owned by that library, whether it is
currently available for loan and whether that library is willing to lend it
through SRCS. If the item meets all of those conditions, and the patron has
been authorized by their home library to place requests, then they can ask to
have the title delivered to their home library with just the click of a button,
which bypasses a lot of the extra steps, and expense, required by a traditional
staff-mediated interlibrary loan request.
This year’s opportunity for libraries to join SRCS will close on
Jan. 31, 2017. If your library would like to join SRCS, all we need at
this time is to have the director submit a signed letter of intent before the end
of the month. This letter is available here.
ISL has agreed to underwrite all of the costs for joining
and setting up new libraries in SRCS, so there is no cost to the libraries for
joining SRCS. There are some optional features available, but they are not required
to join. If you would like to experience the SRCS catalog in action, anyone can
search the catalog of over 36,000,000 items to see how it works here. This link will not allow you to place requests.
ISL will hold a series of training sessions in March and April,
after the initial setup in February. ISL suggests sending one or two staff members
who will be using SRCS to these sessions. Libraries will then go live in May
and June of 2017.
Library directors, please take a moment to complete
this short survey from the Indiana State Library (ISL) on behalf of your
library. The survey focuses on what libraries in the state are currently
doing to promote or facilitate science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM). The survey is open to any library in the state of
Indiana. Responses will be used to create a resource list to facilitate
information sharing and to gain feedback on current ISL professional development resources for STEAM services.
Take the survey here.
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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
Hello, and welcome to the Government Information Minute.
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 Credit: Duplessis, Joseph-Siffrede, artist. "Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, wearing fur collar." 1907. Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
260 years ago, in 1757, Benjamin Franklin published his last
issue of Poor Richard's Almanack, a
publication which had a run of 25 years. In the almanac, Franklin used the nom
de plume (pen name) Richard Saunders, the name of an actual English physician and
astrologist who published the almanac Rider’s British Merlin under
the pen name of Cardanus Rider. The National Archives provides an explanation of Poor Richard’s Almanack in
history here.
Franklin later made contributions to the writing of the
Declaration of Independence, spoke at the Constitutional Convention and acted
as the first American Diplomat from 1776 to 1783. The Office of the
U.S. Historian profiles his work with France.
The Library of Congress holds one of the major collections
of all of Benjamin
Franklin’s papers, second only to Yale University’s collection which is
available online here,
with more information from Yale here.
The Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress lists where Franklin’s writings
exist across the nation here.
The LOC also provides a selected bibliography
on Franklin within its online resource guides.
As the Benjamin Franklin House of London states on its website,
Franklin was “the only statesman to have signed all four documents that created
a new nation: The Declaration of Independence (1776), the Treaty of Alliance
with France (1778), the Treaty of Paris establishing peace with Britain (1783)
and The Constitution (1787).”
So, his contribution to historical documents related to the
founding of the United States (writing, publishing and signing) is, as Thomas
Jefferson would have put it, irreplaceable.
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