This week's new Indiana library jobs
Information Services Technician (part-time)
Anderson Public Library
Associate Director of Youth Services
East Chicago Public Library
Electronic Resource Librarian
East Chicago Public Library
Programming Specialist (part-time)
Eckhart Public Library
Adult Services Outreach Specialist (part-time)
Frankfort Community Public Library
Library Director
North Judson Wayne Township Public Library
Assistant/Associate Professor of Library Services: First-Year Experience Librarian
Valparaiso University - Christopher Center Library Services
Library Director
Whiting Public Library
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Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library awarded over $7K grant
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library
Library joins statewide sharing network
Fayette County Public Library
Library offering scholarship
Greenwood Public Library
Scholarship named after local historian Wilma Moore
Indianapolis Public Library
Musician recounts combating racism by making friends with KKK members
Monroe County Public Library
South Bend launches 'digital inclusion' center
St. Joseph County Public Library
Township library receives donation from patron's estate
Westchester Public Library
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Gov. Eric J. Holcomb announced that he has selected S. Chandler Lighty to be the new executive director of the Indiana Archives and Records Administration. Lighty will begin his new position on Aug. 27, 2018.
Since February of 2016, Lighty has served as the director of the Indiana Historical Bureau, which recently merged with the Indiana State Library. During his time as director, Lighty led efforts to increase public interest in the state’s history. He advanced the Indiana Historical Marker Program and led other research and outreach initiatives. From 2013 to 2016, he served as a project manager at the Indiana State Library, where he developed the Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana’s digital historic newspaper.
Lighty, a Crawfordsville native, is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in history. Lighty also earned his master of arts in origins and history of the United States from Miami University.
Many libraries employ resident animals, also known as spokescritters, to help promote their library's services and collections by "writing" blog posts or by just being a library's mascot. The Mooresville Public Library's "Cat's Eye View," "written" by the library's roving feline reporter, Cauli Le Chat, has proven to be highly-successful, as the blog recently reached 500,000 page views.
According to Bill Buckley of the the Mooresville Public Library, although Cauli doesn't live in the library and is semi-retired, she is still considered the library's official spokescritter. Cauli used to roam outside of the library reporting on all things library-related, but now takes residence with library employees and uses her "minions" to type the blog for her.
Started in 2010, "Cat's Eye View," is the library's most popular blog, with over three times as many views as the library's second most-popular blog pertaining to local history. In February, MPL's technology blog posted an entry titled "'Library Spokescritters' Social Media Success Stories" detailing the effectiveness of resident animal blogs and concluded that these types of blogs "can register enormous payoffs in terms of patron interest in what these libraries offer."
Other Hoosier spokescritters, past and present, include Tober and Chance, two cats from the Thorntown Public Library; Oliver the Library Cat from the Clinton Public Library; Carnegie the Cat at the Brazil Public Library and Morgan the Library Bunny at the Morgan County Public Library.
On Aug. 15, 2018, at the Indiana State Library, 32 new public library directors representing 24 counties in Indiana, were introduced to each other and to the Library Directors One-Stop Guide. Public library consultants Karen Ainslie and Angela Fox hosted the annual New Director Workshop and presented on multiple topics.
The workshop offered an orientation to the many resources of the guidebook, including contacts for public library directors. The guidebook’s 20 chapters inform directors on the many tasks and responsibilities necessary for the day-to-day management of public libraries.
To read more about the new directors workshop, click here.
In a peak year for renewals, here are some tips that might be helpful for librarians who want to check their certification status online. The Professional Licensing Agency’s eVerification site allows one to search the status of their certification, check the expiration date of their certificate and check their certificate number.
When searching the verification website, it's recommended to limit the search inquiry to three fields. Select librarian as a profession, along with a first and last name, to yield the most desirable results.
Library directors, human resources managers and supervisors may also use this tool to confirm staff certification status. Libraries with large staff may contact Cheri Harris, certification program director and legal consultant at the Indiana State Library, for a report of a library's active staff members instead of taking time to look up each staff member individually.
All other certification questions may also be directed toward Cheri Harris.
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Evergreen Indiana 10th Anniversary Gala
When: Aug. 24, 2018, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Where: Fort Harrison
E-rate Category 2 Workshop
When: Aug. 27, 2018, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Where: Plymouth Public Library
Book Processing Party & Round Table Discussion
When: Aug. 28, 2018, 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Library
Bite-Sized Staff Training: Transform Staff Development for Busy Employees
When: Aug. 29, 2018, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Where: Virtual Conference
E-rate Category 2 Workshop
When: Aug. 29, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Where: Monroe County Public Library
E-rate Category 2 Workshop
When: Aug. 30, 2018, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Where: Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library
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.
 Photo from the Wright Brothers Negatives Collection, Library of Congress
What
is National Aviation Day? It’s both a celebration of the development of
aviation in the United States, and it’s also a day to honor the Wright brothers
and all flying pioneers and heroes. On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville
Wright achieved the first successful powered flight in the plane that he and
his brother Wilbur built. In 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential
proclamation to designate the anniversary of Orville Wright's
birthday, Aug. 19, 1871, as National Aviation Day. Wright was alive when the
proclamation was first issued, and would live another nine years. The
proclamation was codified - as 36 U.S.C. 118 - National
Aviation Day - and was the first national tribute to the
industry that has given mankind the ability to cross oceans and continents in a
matter of hours and to probe the reaches of outer space.
The website for the Wright Brothers
National Memorial in North Carolina provides information on visiting
and learning more about this National Park Service property. Discover more
about the Wright Brothers through the virtual
exhibit from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The Library
of Congress, which houses the Orville
and Wilbur Wright Papers, also created the resource Wilbur &
Orville Wright: A Bibliography. For aviation history buffs, view the
Federal Aviation Administration’s history resources.
 On Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 at 10 a.m., Christopher Marshall, the Indiana Division's digital collections coordinator at the Indiana State Library, will present "Encounter the Past: The Indiana State Library's Digital Collections." Geared toward school librarians, this webinar is an introduction to the Indiana State Library’s digital collections. The webinar will provide a basic overview of the collections and how to use them.
This 50-minute webinar is worth one TLEU for Indiana library staff. Participants may register here. In order to participate, users must have all the required Adobe add-ins before the webinar begins. Visit here for instructions. Login here at the scheduled time on the day of the webinar.
Please email Kara Cleveland, Professional Development Office supervisor, with any questions.
The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services is offering two free community engagement roundtable discussions in September in both Indiana and Michigan.
On Friday, Sept, 14, 2018 at 10 a.m., the first roundtable discussion will take place at the Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute. Participants may register here. One LEU is available for Indiana library staff. Questions pertaining to the Indiana discussion should be directed to Pam Seabolt.
On Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 at 10:30 a.m., the second roundtable discussion will take place in the Bay College Library's conference room in Escanaba, Michigan. Participants my register here. Questions pertaining to the Michigan discussion should be directed to David Votta.
These two hour discussions are free and open to anyone with an interest, but MCLS asks that participants register online so they know how many to expect.
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