This week's new Indiana library jobs
Director of Library Services
Crawfordsville District Public Library
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Seed library added at BMPL
Batesville Memorial Public Library
Brownsburg library renovations underway
Brownsburg Public Library
Enchanted fairy trail seeking more stops
Brownsburg Public Library
Turning 100: Greentown Library celebrating anniversary with facility makeover
Greentown Public Library
Burch named next library director
Harrison County Public Library
Indianapolis Public Library Foundation needs your help for the future
Indianapolis Public Library
County residents can meet local authors at an upcoming fair
Johnson County Public Library
Digital Divers promotes STEM
Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
Black Americans' Wikipedia pages become more robust
Monroe County Public Library
Jazz girls learn to fly solo at improv clinic
Monroe County Public Library
Monroe County library identifies possible sites for new branch
Monroe County Public Library
Community library offers all kinds of "things"
Pendleton Community Public Library
University Library's Pop Shop offers tabletop games
University Library at Indiana University
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 After a live webinar on March 7, 2019, The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services will make “Soft Skills: Introduction to Productive Work habits” available via recording. The webinar is designed to teach employees how to kick bad habits and stay more focused on work throughout the day.
Registration is free for MCLS members and $119 for non-members. The webinar is eligible for two LEUs. Click here to register.
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Stephanie Rawlins, director of the Pike County Public Library, has received the 2019 Innovative Librarians Award. The national award is sponsored by Georgia's Gwinnett County Public Library’s Innovative Librarians Award initiative, which is co-sponsored by the School of Information at San José State University in California. The award is open to all students who are currently enrolled and pursuing a graduate degree in library science, or who have graduated with an MLS/MLIS within the past two years.
The Innovative Librarians Award recognizes those library science graduate students who put forward new ideas that improve libraries and library services. Nominations are judged by public librarians with years of front line, managerial and administrative experience. The winning entrant selected from the five finalists receives a $1,000 cash prize. This year, the top entries came from three public libraries, one school library and one academic library. These top five proposals and more information about the award can be found here.
The proposal, titled "Virtual Healthcare," details a method by which physicians and other health care providers communicate with patients without physically seeing them in the office. "The county I work in is affected by the digital divide. Many of our older residents are without internet access. Many of our residents do not own computers, smart phones, tablets or have an email address. They rely on the library to help them with technology or provide the technology services they need. Virtual health has the potential to create better health care awareness, minimize hospital admission, and better monitor long-term and post-hospital patient care," Rawlins said.
Read more about the proposal here.
 The Indiana State Library Foundation is pleased to announce that $10,000 in grant funding was distributed to the following libraries in January of this year: Greentown Children’s Library, Fortville-Vernon Township Public Library, Kokomo-Howard County Public Library, Oakland City Columbia Township Public Library, Andrews-Dallas Township Public Library, Huntington City Public Library, Monticello-Union Township Public Library, Wanatah Public Library, Barton Rees Pogue Memorial Library and Jeffersonville Township Public Library.
Each library received a $1,000 grant for a project that would improve library services to their patrons. The Indiana State Library Foundation congratulates these libraries on their projects. The foundation is optimistic that a second round of grant opportunities will become available in late fall.
 The Indiana Library Federation's 2019 Call for Programs is a combined submission form for seven major professional development events throughout the year, including regional conferences, the Youth Services Conference and the Annual Conference. An individual or group may submit sessions for one, a few or all of these conferences through this form. ILF invites members, unit leaders and external experts to submit topics specific to their interests.
ILF offers a range of professional development opportunities to advance knowledge and skills and to network with others across the library community. Members receive substantial savings on registration fees.
Please direct any questions concerning the form to Mandy Rentschler at 317-257-2040, ext. 102.
 The Academic Libraries of Indiana and the Indiana State Library announce Discovery to Delivery IX, a free one-day resource sharing conference open to all Indiana libraries. This year's conference will take place at the Indiana State Library on Friday, June 7, 2019 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the theme will be "Resource Sharing: To Boldly Go!" Registration will open on April 30.
The call for proposals submission deadline is Monday, April 1, 2019, at 3 p.m. Those interested in developing and sharing a presentation should complete and submit the proposal form. Presentations should be approximately 30-35 minutes in length with an additional 10 minutes at the end of each session for questions and discussion.
Suggested proposal topics include: acquisitions, collaborations, best practices, copyright, customer service, e-books, e-resources licensing, Evergreen Indiana, marketing, open access, patron-driven services, professional development, scholarly communications, SRCS, statistics and future visions for resource sharing.
The conference is open to all Indiana libraries, and the audience will include attendees from academic, public and special libraries. It should be indicated in program descriptions whether a presentation targets a specific or general audience. Contact the conference committee with any questions.
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Every Child Ready to Read 2.0
When: March 8, 2019, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Where: Jeffersonville Township Public Library - Clarksville Branch
Organize Your Work Life, and Set Yourself Free
When: March 14, 2019, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Every Child Ready to Read 2.0
When: March 15, 2019, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Where: Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library - Library Annex
Step Up Your Library Signage
When: March 21, 2019, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
YALSA Institute: Teen Services with Impact - South
When: March 26, 2019, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Where: Brown County Public Library
YALSA Institute: Teen Services with Impact - North
When: March 27, 2019, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Where: Indiana University - Kokomo
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 Credit: Ager, Milton. "Erin is calling. 1916," 1916. Rare Books, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. Reproduction Number Music #433.
It’s March, and St. Patrick’s Day is fast-approaching. The Library of Congress features a fun history on the event. The holiday honors Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, who died on March 17, around the year 492. The celebration highlights Irish history and culture. In America, Boston’s first St. Patrick’s Day parade occurred in 1737. Now, cities across the country celebrate with parades and parties.
The story of St. Patrick’s Day and its celebration is just one of many told through America’s Story from America’s Library. America’s Story was created to present our country’s history in a fun and entertaining format. The Library of Congress uses letters, diaries, records, tapes, films, sheet music, maps, prints, photographs and digital materials to tell stories of our past in an engaging manner. Researchers can browse for stories by keyword, date, subject or state.
Locally, the city of Indianapolis will hold the Greening of the Canal on March 15, 2019, along with the 39th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security has put together tips and information to ensure everyone enjoys a fun and safe holiday. Their most important tip: do not drink and drive. The department also encourage revelers to attend parties and events with a trust group and to ensure that everyone has a safe ride home. Check local government sites for information on St. Patrick’s Day parades and events in nearby areas.
 Librarians nationwide packed the Charleston Conference presentation room so that no seat was left empty, and eager attendees filled the side aisles to hear the presentation, “Cultivating agency through emerging community-owned solutions.” Co-presenters PALCI Executive Director Jill Morris, PALNI Executive Director Kirsten Leonard and Index Data LLC CEO Sebastian Hammer kicked off the session by sharing their own community-owned solutions and thoughts on the need to cultivate agency. Their presentation lead into a panel discussion facilitated by Jason Price from SCELC.
PALNI’s role in the panel was to discuss the partnership with PALCI to develop a community-owned solution that addresses the need for a consortial ultra-low cost, open access, collaborative institutional repository. Commercial IR software and hosting services have failed to provide the ability to control costs, support smaller institutions and provide workflows to enable institutions to work together effectively to leverage expertise and reduce the duplication of work. To address this need, the PALNI/PALCI project has four levels of community agency, engagement and ownership:
1. Sharing open access materials
2. Using open-source, community-owned and developed tools
3. Partnering with other consortia and developers to set up and maintain the tools
4. Developing models for the collaborative use of the developed tools
The attendees were encouraged to not only be aware of these community-owned projects, but to take action by transforming the way they work within their own sphere of influence. Rather than working in isolation and duplicating efforts, attendees were urged to help develop business model analysis and product sustainability skills, efficient communication across libraries, structures and framework to support deep collaboration, and partner with departments and other organizations outside the library with similar needs.
Read the full, unedited press release here. View a video of the session here.
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