This week's new Indiana library jobs
Programming Specialist (part-time)
Eckhart Public Library
Cataloger (part-time)
Hamilton North Public Library
Public Services Librarian
Indianapolis Public Library
Cataloging and Collections Supervisor
Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library
Library Fellow at Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University
Technical Services Manager
Vigo County Public Library
Butler, CTS complete land sale
Butler University
Decay Devils celebrating Kwanzaa
Gary Public Library
Carthage Henry Henley Library update
Henry Henley Public Library
Southern Indiana library receives grant to preserve history
Knox County Public Library
Top 5 stories of 2017: Quirky
Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
Tri-Creek schools assess their initial progress toward new pathways requirements
Lowell Public Library
Library, Black Expo hold Kwanzaa celebration
St. Joseph County Public Library
Nativity collection draws visitors to St. Meinrad
St. Meinrad Archabbey Library
Library board to post meeting minutes on its website
Westchester Public Library
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The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) is asking for theme suggestions for not only the 2021 program year, but also the 2022 program year.
Suggestions must be submitted via survey, no later than Jan. 8, 2018. The survey can be found at this link.
Past themes have included water, world culture, travel, night, underground, science, heroes and super heroes, exercise, sports, health, wellness, architecture, construction and building a better world. Upcoming themes include music, space, world mythology, fairy tales and folklore.
CSLP is a consortium of states working together to provide high-quality summer reading program materials for children, teens and adults at the lowest cost possible for their public libraries.
By combining resources and working with an exclusive contracted vendor to produce materials designed for CSLP members, public libraries in participating states or systems can purchase posters, reading logs, bookmarks, certificates and a variety of reading incentives at significant savings.
For more information, please visit CSLP's website.
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 Recently, Cheri Harris, certification program director and legal consultant at the Indiana State Library wrote about approaching library employees who may have invisible disabilities:
Most guidance on employer communication with an employee about a disability starts from the premise that the employee has requested accommodation and the employer needs more information in order to provide appropriate accommodations. An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidance document states that an employer may ask for disability-related information, including information about psychiatric disability, when the employer has a reasonable belief, based on objective evidence, that an employee’s ability to perform essential job functions is impaired by a medical condition. However, best practices suggest focusing on performance or behavior (i.e., what is happening) rather than trying to determine the underlying cause (i.e., why it is happening) because an employee without a disability may have a cause of action under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if evidence shows that the employer perceived the employee as having a disability.
When an employee self-identifies a mental disability, follow the ADA. The ADA applies to local public libraries. The ADA, Title I, prohibits an employer from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, job assignments, pay, benefits, job training and other employment practices. The employer must provide reasonable accommodation for a known disability of a qualified applicant or employee if it would not impose an “undue hardship” on library operations.
Read the rest here.
MKM architecture + design (MKM) received one of two Merit Awards by the American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) Fort Wayne branch for the interior renovation of the La Porte County Public Library’s main location at 904 Indiana Ave.
Zach Benedict, MKM principal, said that the library “worked hard to understand how they could reposition themselves as an engaging civic space that welcomes people of all ages and abilities.”
In the two years prior to the renovation, the library and MKM embarked on a mission to redefine the role a public library could play in Northwest Indiana. The outcome for the historic Carnegie building at 904 Indiana Ave. is the interior transformation into a modern public library equipped with a more accessible collection, teen area and a new SPARK Lab for educational programming, all while retaining the classical exterior.
Through the partnership between the La Porte County Public Library and MKM, the library analyzed their role in all of the communities they serve, and through system-wide improvements and four complete building replacements, they were able to fulfill the needs in each individual community while maintaining an over-all arching theme to become inclusive civic spaces designed to engage people of all ages and abilities.
For more information, visit the library's website.
Purchase agreements approved
by The Indianapolis Public Library (IndyPL) Board of Trustees will clear the way for
construction of a new Brightwood Branch on the city’s near east side.
After more than a year of
negotiations with property owners, library trustees on Dec. 18, 2017 approved
purchases of four tracts totaling 2.3 acres on which a new 15,000-square-foot
branch will be built. It will replace an undersized facility in the Brightwood
Shopping Center that has served the community since 1972. The acquired
properties are located across from the shopping center near the intersection of
E. 25th Street and N. Sherman Drive. The library also will work to
acquire the titles of other adjacent properties either subject to disposition
by the County Commission or available for transfer through the Renew
Indianapolis program.
“Although this has
been a long process, we are excited to move forward and united as a community
to provide the level of library services that the Martindale-Brightwood area
deserves,” stated Jackie Nytes, CEO, Indianapolis Public Library. “Our focus
now turns to receiving input from neighborhood residents on the kinds of
programs and building features that will make the new Brightwood Branch
uniquely theirs.”
The
$5.9 million Brightwood Branch is part of an overall series of capital projects
identified in the library’s strategic plan continuing through 2022 and funded
from individual bonds approved by the Indianapolis City-Council Council with no
increase in the library’s current debt service tax rate.
To
learn more about the library’s capital projects, visit IndyPL online.
The Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference is now accepting proposals for its 2018 conference taking place on June 7 and 8 in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Suggested topics include resource sharing best practices, workflow improvements, reciprocal borrowing and more. Proposals for 45 minute presentations are due no later than Jan. 12, 2018 and may be submitted here.
Email Amanda Musacchio or Mark Sullivan with any questions or to receive more information.
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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
Libraries Rock! CSLP 2018 Training & Roundtable (All Ages)
When: Jan. 12, 2018, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where: Washington Carnegie Public Library
TeachingBooks: Supporting Summer Reading Programs
When: Jan. 16, 2018, 2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Libraries Rock! CSLP 2018 Training & Roundtable (All Ages)
When: Jan. 17, 2018, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where: Johnson County Public Library
Robot Petting Zoo
When: Jan. 18, 2018, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Where: Anderson Public Library
Libraries Rock! CSLP 2018 Training & Roundtable (All Ages)
When: Jan. 26, 2018, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where: Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
Did Someone Say Free Piggy Banks? Financial Literacy for Kids @ Your Library
When: Jan. 30. 2018, 11 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.
Where: Webinar
Miss Manners: You Might be Sabotaging Your Career
When: Jan. 31, 2018, 11 a.m. - 12 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 start of the new year is approaching and a lot of people
have been spending a fair amount of the holiday season eating; often more than
they should have eaten. Now, many of them are starting to seriously think about
starting on a weight loss, or at least a weight management, journey. There are
a number of good United States Government websites that can help them on their
journeys.
One such site is the Supertracker which is put out by
the United States Department of Agriculture. Anyone can use this site to take
charge of their journey to a healthy weight. Here the user can either create a
personal profile or use a general plan; there is a food tracker and an activity
tracker which do exactly what they say they do. There is a Food-a-Pedia, where
the user can look up the nutritional value of over 8,000 food items and even
compare them side-by-side. The site also has a weight manager portion where the
person can get guidance on their journey.
Another useful website is Nutrition.gov where
someone can find a great deal of information under a variety of related topics,
including the following items.
Weight Management
- Body Image
- Physical Activity
- What you should know
about popular diets
Dietary Supplements
- What you should know
before taking vitamin and mineral supplements
- Safety and Health Claims
Nutrition and Health
Issues
- Diabetes
- Digestive Disorders
- Eating Disorders
- Heart Health
What’s In Food
- Salt & Sodium
- Carbohydrates, Proteins,
Fats and Fiber
- Food Additives
For people who have decided to take on the challenges of
this type of journey, these websites and others can be useful resources to help
them achieve their goals.
The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana Inc. (PALNI) has released a number of open-access ACRL and IPEDS statistical collection videos and guides to assist OCLC’s Worldshare Management Services (WMS) users in the consortium and beyond.
All academic libraries are required to report data to the IPEDS annual survey and optionally to the ACRL survey, both necessitating significant time and data processing. Heather Loehr, the PALNI analytics coordinator and Hanover College Duggan Library’s coordinator of information services, led the project in order to create a common set of instructions that could be shared to all libraries using WMS, rather than each library developing its own guides locally. To benefit the whole OCLC community, the team included instructions for both Standard Reports–available to all WMS users–and instructions for Report Designer users.
Loehr, originally partnering with Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Library Director Karl Stutzman and more recently with DePauw University Prevo Science Library’s Associate Dean of Libraries and Coordinator Caroline Gilson, saw the consortial need for consistent and time-saving instructions in 2015. “We wanted to develop methods that were easy to use and could be used consistently year after year. Consistency is key—the data is most valuable when we are confident that we are reporting on a common standard both internally as well as across the consortium.
Read the complete press release here.
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