This week's new Indiana library jobs
Mobile Library Assistant (part-time)
Carmel Clay Public Library
Young Adult Services Librarian
Carmel Clay Public Library
Readers’ Advisory Librarian
Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
92-year-old World War II veteran from Avon shares personal story of Iwo Jima
Avon-Washington Township Public Library
Archive to join with library: Merge will bring financial stability
Bartholomew County Public Library
In an Indiana town, a treasure trove of modernist design
Bartholomew County Public Library
Hoosier authors to speak at Carmel Clay Public Library
Carmel Clay Public Library
Local children march to celebrate love and diversity; 3 ways to promote diversity
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
Roundup includes Glenn Close costumes, art for the Red Line, more
Indianapolis Public Library
Library offers remote access to databases
Jackson County Public Library
007s early manuscripts at Indiana University
Lilly Library at Indiana University
Locals learn about Japanese internment in preparation for event next week
Monroe County Public Library
Out of Our Past: From library volunteer to librarian
Morrisson-Reeves Library
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 The Indiana State Library (ISL) is pleased to announce the date for the next Government Information Day (GID18). GID18 is a government information themed one-day conference that will occur Thursday, May 24, 2018 at the state library on the State government campus in Indianapolis. Librarians, and anyone else interested in government information, are encouraged to attend. The conference will include several guest speakers presenting on national and state government information topics. Please be on the lookout for upcoming information providing a more detailed schedule of events.
Those interested in participating and volunteering at GID18, contact Brent Abercrombie, federal document coordinator at the Indiana State Library. Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Past Government Information Day speakers have included Jane Kirtley, director of Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law from the University of Minnesota and Andrew Weber from the Law Library of Congress.
Click here for more information on GID18, including speaker announcements and topics when they become available.
More data is available to librarians now than ever before. Librarians get circulation data from their integrated library systems (ILS) and other third-party vendors. They acquire demographic information from their communities. They receive bibliographic data from MARC records and other utilities. Budget data, survey data, collection data, website analytics, in-house use data and help desk data are just the beginning when it comes to data collection. Librarians are no longer confined to working with data from a single source, but are able to take data from multiple sources, connect them to each other and discover more about themselves and their patrons.
In our Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018 online conference, "Wrangling Library Data: Analytics, Dashboards and Spreadsheets ," Amigos would like to explore what libraries are doing with their data. How are libraries handling data? Where does it come from? How do libraries normalize and manipulate data that comes from multiple sources? What options do libraries have for displaying the results? These are just some of the topics that may be explored in a presentation.
Tabatha Farney, author of "Using Digital Analytics for Smart Assessment" is the keynote speaker. As the director of web services and emerging technologies for the Kraemer Family Library at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Tabatha brings her experience using, and writing about, different types of analytics.
For those interested in submitting proposals, they are due no later than Dec. 8, 2017. Proposals may be submitted here.
Questions about the conference topic, or presenting at an online conference, may be directed toward Christine Peterson, continuing education librarian, via email or at (800) 843-8482; ext. 2891.
All ages are invited to enjoy the whimsical, witty and fun musical performance of musician and author, Jim Gill at the DeMotte Library as he spreads his special brand of joy with sing-along songs and original musical games on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. Central time.
This free program is sponsored by all three branches of the Jasper County Public Library, located in Rensselaer, DeMotte and Wheatfield and will include musical renditions of songs that celebrate families that laugh, play, dance, sneeze and sing together.
Jim Gill is a trained child development specialist with a graduate degree from the Erikson Institute of Chicago, and has directed weekly programs in music play for families of children with special needs. He has presented concerts of music and play throughout the country in theaters, libraries and schools and also offers speaking engagements to librarians, teachers and early childhood educators about the many benefits of play in the lives of young children.
Registration is required, and is available online at or by visiting or calling any branch of the Jasper County Public Library at (219) 866-5881, (219) 956-3774 or (219) 987-2221.
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Tips & Tricks to Hosting Large Scale Community-Driven Events
When: Nov. 17, 2017, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
Non-Profit Day at IndyPL Book Sale
When: Nov. 20, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Where: Indianapolis Public Library Services Center
Institutional Workshop
When: Nov. 20, 2017, 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Library
Anything Can Happen in the Zone: The Whys and Hows of Library Organizational Change
When: Nov. 28, 2017, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Where: Virtual Conference
Geekspotting 2.0
When: Nov. 29, 2017, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
INSPIRE Gale: Finding Authors in Gale Literary Sources
When: Nov. 29, 2017, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Welcome
to the Government Information Minute. Every week government information
librarians at the Indiana State Library cover current resources on governmental
data at the state, national and international levels; all to keep the public
well-informed. Follow the Indiana State Data Center on Facebook and Twitter and feel free to leave comments
and suggestions.
The
National Space Council was created in 1989 as a body within the Executive
Office of the President of the United States. The council was disbanded in
1993, and re-established in June 2017 by President Donald Trump with Executive Order
13803. The
re-established National Space Council held their first meeting on October 5,
2017, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The council, chaired by Vice President Mike
Pence, heard testimony from representatives from civil space, commercial space
and national security space industry representatives. Read the NASA Statement on National Space Council Policy
for Future American Leadership in Space and link to the entire meeting on
video.
The
National Space Council recommended that America set goals to return to the moon
and land there, to provide leadership for human exploration missions to Mars
and beyond and to stay ahead of threats to national space security. Be sure to
view NASA's new video, "We Are the Explorers 2017," available here.
The
National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Public Law
85–568)
created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Led by
a civilian Administrator who is a Presidential appointee, NASA carries out U.
S. civil aerospace research and development. Within the Federal budget, NASA is
a non-defense discretionary (NDD) program that Congress funds on an annual
basis. NASA’s fiscal year 2018 budget is posted here. The
annual Aeronautics and
Space Report of the President contains information on aerospace activities
conducted by 14 Federal departments and agencies, as well as appendices
containing useful historical data on spacecraft launches and budget figures.
To
learn more about international collaboration for space exploration, visit the
website of the United Nations
Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), which “works to promote
international cooperation in the peaceful use and exploration of space, and in
the utilization of space science and technology for sustainable economic and
social development.” The Outer Space
Treaty of 1967 provides the basic framework for international space law.
The Indiana State Library is pleased to announce that, beginning on Jan. 2, 2018, Suzanne Walker will be the new librarian for the Indiana Young Readers Center (IYRC).
Currently the supervisor of the state library's Professional Development Office (PDO), Walker's involvement with the Indiana Center for the Book, where she serves as director, will enhance the great services already offered in the IYRC.
Click here for more information about the IYRC. Click here for more information about the Indiana Center for the Book.
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