Library Assistant
Bristol Public Library
Youth Services Manager
Hamilton East Public Library
Information Technology Assistant (part-time)
Monroe County Public Library
Youth Services Librarian
Tippecanoe County Public Library
To see the complete list of current openings listed on the ISL Continuing Education Jobs page click here.
Woodburn Branch Library and yarn lovers
Allen County Public Library
Library to host living will seminar
Hancock County Public Library
Library offers programs aimed at adults
Hancock County Public Library
IU libraries open new screening room, show archived MLK footage
Indiana University
Southside CEO "Love Your Library" tour
Indianapolis Public Library
High school never ends
LaPorte County Public Library
LaPorte County libraries getting updates
LaPorte County Library
Indiana library program to 'check out' state parks continues in 2017
Lawrenceburg Public Library District
Event features traditional Native American dance
Monroe County Public Library
City of Bloomington partnering with local groups to help people sign up for health care
Monroe County Public Library
Meet the new Muncie Public Library director
Muncie Public Library
Helmke Library officially opened, changes coming
Purdue University (IPFW)
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The Indiana State Library is pleased to announce that
effective Jan. 17, 2017, Cheri Harris joins the staff as the new certification
program director/legal consultant. Cheri will be handling certification, processing
and approving LEU requests and answering questions about certification and
other related matters.
With this job, Cheri can now say she has worked in all three
branches of state government. She previously worked for the Indiana Legislative
Services Agency in the Office of Bill Drafting and Research and for the state
judiciary, initially as a law clerk to the former Chief Justice of the Indiana
Supreme Court, Randall T. Shepard, and then as a staff attorney at the Indiana
Judicial Center.
Cheri served a term on her local school board (MSD Washington
Township in Indianapolis) and was Board President for a year. Cheri is excited
to be working at the Indiana State Library is because she is enthusiastic about
the benefits public libraries provide to the community. She currently sits on
the Board of Directors for the Marion County Commission on Youth (MCCOY). She
also enjoys conducting weddings and funerals as a Secular Celebrant through the
Center for Inquiry.
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The deadline for submitting a letter of intent to join Indiana’s
Statewide Remote Circulation System (SRCS), the state's largest resource sharing tool, closes in just six days on Jan. 31, 2017.
Since phase one of SRCS rolled out last August, users have done the equivalent of nearly three million individual catalog
searches, which have resulted in over 12,000 resource sharing requests. As of
today, SRCS features the holdings of 138 Indiana libraries; phase two will be
adding an additional 40 libraries to that catalog.
SRCS works with your local ILS to search each participating
library’s catalog and determine whether the item being sought is currently
owned by that library, currently available for loan and whether the owning library
is willing to lend it through SRCS. If, and only if, that 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. Since SRCS is a patron-initiated resource
sharing system, it bypasses a lot of the extra steps, and expense, required by
a traditional staff-mediated interlibrary loan request.
SRCS works in
partnership with the InfoExpress courier service and the mediated IN-SHARE ILL system,
or a library's local ILL system, to make resource sharing in Indiana more efficient.
The Indiana State Library (ISL) is currently looking for more
libraries who are interested in joining SRCS, but that window of opportunity will
close at the end of the month. If your library would like to join SRCS, directors
must submit a signed letter of intent by the end of the day on Jan. 31, 2017.
This letter is here under the heading of “Sign-Up for SRCS Phase II.”
ISL will underwrite all of the costs for libraries joining
and getting set up in SRCS, so there are no out of pocket costs for joining
SRCS. There are some optional features that libraries may want to consider,
such as NCIP, which may have charges attached, but these optional are not
required for joining or running SRCS.
The SRCS catalog, containing over 36,000,000 items held by
Indiana libraries, is open for anyone to search to see how it works. You can
check it out here,
but this version is for searching only. Only participants can place requests.
For interested libraries, the current schedule calls for Auto-Graphics
to set up new members during the month of February. Then in March and April,
ISL will hold a series of training sessions around the state. It’s suggested
that you send one or two of your staff who will be using the system at your location
to the closest session. Then, once you have been trained and you’ve had some
time to practice, libraries will begin to go live in May and June of 2017.
 In the fall of 2016, the Lake County Public Library (LCPL) wanted to
reach out to community members who did not have a library card. They
believed if they promoted their digital library services to the 25-39 year
old community, they would see more individuals in this age range sign up
for a library card and then proceed to use the library’s digital
resources. This age range is defined by young professionals and young
parents who feel they do not have time to use traditional library
services, but LCPL believed this group would be eager to use their digital
library. LCPL wanted to send postcards to this group promoting the
digital library, along with instructions on how to sign up for a library
card remotely, but they weren’t sure how to identify individuals in this
age range who did not have a library card.
Continue reading...
 Sixth graders at West Newton Elementary School showed off their new Indianapolis Public Library cards at an event celebrating the distribution of library cards to more than 5,200 Decatur Township public school students.
The
Indianapolis Public Library (IndyPL) and Metropolitan School District (MSD) of Decatur
Township have completed the distribution of Indy Library cards to more than
5,200 district students in grades one through 12. Following recent distributions of library
cards to 28,000 public school students in Lawrence and Warren Townships, the Decatur
Township activity represents the next step toward IndyPL’s goal of providing a library card to every public school student in Marion County.
The special library card, called the eResource
card, allows students to access the library’s growing collection of digital
materials, such as eBooks, eAudiobooks, streaming video, streaming music and
magazines, as well an array of online databases to help in their academic
research. The card allows for limited borrowing of books and physical
materials, but young people can visit any IndyPL location with a parent or
guardian to upgrade to a full Library card.
"Connecting with the library affords our
students an excellent opportunity to become invested in their academic future,”
stated Dr. Matthew J. Prusiecki, superintendent of MSD Decatur Township. “The range of e-resources available with a library card will help them become lifelong learners and participants in our
technological society.”
The library card initiative addresses a key goal in IndyPL’s strategic plan to
strengthen the library’s contribution to formal education and establish
partnerships to improve community access to information.
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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.
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.
Presidential Cabinet nominations
and appointments
The Presidential inauguration took place Friday, Jan. 20,
2017 and Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United
States.
During the months following a presidential election, a cabinet
of 15 advisors is chosen by the president according to the U.S. Constitution, Article II,
Section 2. The full Cabinet is made up of the vice president and, as stated
on WhiteHouse.gov, “the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense,
Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and
Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and
Veterans Affairs, as well as the Attorney General.”
The President must first nominate a candidate for
the Cabinet, then gain consent
from the U.S. Senate, and finally appoint the nominee to a position in the
Cabinet. For details about this legislative process, see the Congressional
Research Service Report, Senate
Consideration of Presidential Nominations: Committee and Floor Procedure.
This Senate.gov nominations
webpage allows you to search nominees from 1981 to present and gives you access
to the current executive calendar of the Senate which shows the timeline of
current nominees.
Notices of recent nominations and appointments will be found
here
on the White House website. On Jan. 20, the White House press secretary
released recent nominations here.
Indiana
Cybersecurity Council
The Indiana State Executive Council on Cybersecurity
(Cybersecurity Council) was created in April 2016 by Governor Mike Pence’s Executive
Order 16-1. The Cybersecurity Council is a
comprehensive public-private partnership charged with enhancing Indiana’s
ability to prevent, respond to and recover from all types of cybersecurity
issues, including attacks. With the new administration of Governor Eric Holcomb,
Executive Order 17-11 continues
the Cybersecurity Council. For resources, cybersecurity tips and links, visit
the Indiana Cybersecurity
website. The Daily Cybersecurity News
gathers the latest information on topics from ransomware to phishing to hacking
and more.
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 may register one person per library system by emailing Indiana State Library's Director of Statewide Services Wendy Knapp.
More information on Project Outcome can be found here. Please visit the Project Outcome website for even more details.
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