This week's new Indiana library jobs
Specialist III – Technology Support
Huntington City-Township Public Library
Collection Coordinator
Tippecanoe County Public Library
Technical Services Librarian
Westchester Public Library
R2-D2 ‘Star Wars Fest’ appearance at Allen County Public Library helping to show what girls can do
Allen County Public Library
Butler team takes second in library competition
Butler University Libraries
Carmel Clay Public Library assistant director honored for service in many roles
Carmel Clay Public Library
Elkhart Public Library crochets for a cause
Elkhart Public Library
Volunteers make sleeping mats for the homeless out of plastic bags
Elkhart Public Library
Elkhart resident learns to read at age 57
Elkhart Public Library
IU librarian named president of global organization
Herman B Wells Library - Indiana University
More than 70 communities awarded 'Frankenstein' grants
Indiana State Library
Three Libraries Sign Preservation Steward Agreements with GPO
Indiana State Library
Clarksville library to receive $1.8 million in updates
Jeffersonville Township Public Library
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Limited quantities of the Track Your Child's Developmental Milestones brochures, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Indiana State Library, are available to libraries for free. These brochures will be couriered through the INFO Express system. Public libraries who are part of the INFO Express system are listed in the drop down on the form. Select a preferred library location for delivery. Use this form to request brochures.
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 In 2016, the Indiana State Library and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) teamed up to allow the state library to purchase one Indiana state park pass for each library district in the state to circulate to their patrons. This partnership was intended to be a one-year program to celebrate the centennial of Indiana state parks and the bicentennial of the state. The program was extended for an additional year in 2017.
The state library and the Indiana DNR will not be moving forward with the program in 2o18. Public libraries will not be able to buy individual passes for their libraries, as the passes are nontransferable. The partnership is what allowed the exception for the program.
However, there are still ways DNR can work with public libraries. Interpretive naturalists around the state are generally available to libraries for programs. Program registration forms can be found here. DNR has also worked with individual libraries on a small scale to provide one-day passes as prizes for summer reading programs. If libraries have friends groups or another associated non-profit, DNR can do a “buy one-we’ll donate one” approach with annual passes for fundraising auctions or giveaways for those groups.
Visit the Indiana DNR website for more details.
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) will be offering one free webinar per month, from April to December, in 2018 to help roll out their new teen services competencies for library staff.
These trainings will cover a wide range of teen-centric topics and are intended for anyone who encounters teens in their library job; not just teen services librarians.
Attendance is limited to 100 per webinar, so please consider only signing up once per library system and to make arrangements to watch together. Webinar recordings will be available for those who can’t participate in the live session. This webinar is sure to fill up quickly.
Sign up for the webinar here. These webinars are worth one LEU each and fall under the blanket approval for ALA/YALSA. Certificates may be generated in-house by your library. Visit here for more information on LEUs.
The 2017 Annual Report and Bookkeeping Webinar
presentations by Angela Fox and the State Board of Accounts are now available on the Indiana State Library's Library Development Office (LDO) Workshops webpage as YouTube videos with closed captioning. Each presentation is two hours long.
Viewers can be awarded LEUs, two per session, if they have not
previously received LEUs for the session. See the Professional Development Office (PDO) webpage information on
how to award LEUs in-house.
Any time a staff member views an online event by any of the training providers approved by the Indiana State Library for LEUs, or a library purchases a site license for an online event, the library’s designee in an administrative or human resources role shall create and award LEU certificates in-house.
Contact Karen Ainslie of the Indiana State Library with any questions.
NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland presented financial assistance to 22 outreach organizations that offer science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs for students in grades six through eight. One of the recipients was the Velma Wortman-Morristown Branch of the Shelby County Public Library in Morristown, Ind., the only library to receive the grant. Recipients included organizations from Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin.
Using NASA STEM content and the engineering design process, after- school learners will participate in Glenn’s engineering design challenge: Powered and Pumped Up.
Their challenge will be to design, build and improve a stand-alone solar-powered pumping system to move water as quickly as possible between two containers. Students will use light-concentrating materials, shapes and structures to maximize the collection of simulated solar energy. The energy will then be directed toward a solar cell that will power the system to move the water.
“NASA Glenn values dynamic collaborations with out-of-school time organizations,” said Rob LaSalvia, chief, Office of Education at Glenn. “These organizations provide a fantastic setting for students to explore STEM opportunities.”
Visit here for more information on Education at Glenn.
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Libraries Rock! CSLP 2018 Training & Roundtable (All Ages)
When: Dec. 15, 2017, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Central
Where: Ohio Township Public Library - Bell Road Branch
Libraries Rock! CSLP 2018 Training & Roundtable (All Ages)
When: Dec. 18, 2017, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where: Huntington City-Township Public Library
Certification Made Simple: Need to Know Info about Librarian Certification
When: Dec. 20, 2017, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where: Virtual Conference
Evergreen Indiana Webclient Feature Review
When: Dec. 20, 2017, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Evergreen Indiana Webclient Feature Review
When: Dec. 21, 2017, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Evergreen Indiana Webclient Feature Review
When: Dec. 22, 2017, 10 a.m. - 12 . p.m.
Where: Webinar
Libraries Rock! CSLP 2018 Training & Roundtable (All Ages)
When: Jan. 5, 2018, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where: Madison-Jefferson County Public Library
CSLP 2018 Webinar - Early Literacy/School Age
When: Jan. 10, 2018, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
CSLP 2018 Webinar - Teen/Adult
When: Jan. 10, 2018, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Bibliostat Connect Training
When: Jan. 11, 2018, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Where: Virtual Conference
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.
On Dec. 7, 2017 the Indiana State Library’s State Data Center held its annual
affiliate meeting. The meeting included a presentation by Ted Cotterill, Chief
Privacy Officer and General Counsel of the Indiana
Management Performance Hub (MPH). As an entity within the Indiana Office of Management and Budget (OMB),
MPH provides data analytics solutions tailored to address complex management
and policy questions. By unlocking and leveraging data in public-private
collaborations, MPH enables data-driven decision making and improved outcomes. The
MPH website is available here. Both
completed and in-progress data-driven projects are available on the website, including the Opioid
Epidemic dataset, in which MPH coordinated disparate data sources from sixteen agencies
to create a comprehensive analytical view statewide for use by the Indiana Commission to Combat Drug
Abuse.
All MPH data is
housed securely, de-identified and published in a manner that promotes
analysis, collaboration and innovation. MPH provides several pre-defined
datasets, including visualizations from areas including Education and Workforce
Development, Crash Prediction Map, Medicaid Optimization and State
Agency Performance. Data users may also request and suggest new datasets for
public access. The beta
version of the Indiana Data Hub will provide access to actionable
data covering a variety of subject matter areas within Indiana State
Government. Currently, the first major datasets available are from the Indiana
Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning.
The concept for Indiana’s MPH grew out of a state-level
response to federal laws with the Indiana Fair Information Practices Act of
1978 and continued through Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Executive
Order 05-02 that created the Indiana Division of Government Efficiency and
Financial Planning (GEFP) in 2005 within the OMB. By 2014 Gov. Mike Pence formed
the Governor's Management and Performance Hub with Executive
Order 14-6. The 2017 session of the Indiana General Assembly saw passage of
the Indiana Open
Data Act of 2017 (P.L. 269-2017), officially establishing the Indiana Management
Performance Hub within the Indiana OMB and giving it legislative authority to
break down barriers to interagency data sharing.
On
April 13, 2018, Urban Librarians
Unite (ULU) will be holding Library Revolution!, their 6th Annual Urban Librarians Unite
conference at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library.
ULU is currently seeking proposals for this conference. For Library Revolution! ULU is looking for the librarians who are starting a revolution in their library world. ULU is looking for twelve speakers; four main auditorium sessions and eight smaller “break-out” sessions. All sessions will be an hour and a half long and will focus on a Library Revolution. Examples of what ULU has done in the past can be found here.
Topics about the Library Revolution! can include, but are not limited to: Changing how the public views libraries and librarians; reaching out to diverse communities and changing services; impact of current events on library trends and many more. More ideas may be found here.
Proposals are due Dec. 28, 2017. Proposals may be submitted via this form. For more information contact ULU via email.
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