 This week's new Indiana library jobs
Cataloger
La Porte County Public Library
Security Guard (part-time)
Starke County Public Library System
If you would like your Indiana library job posting to be listed in the Wednesday Word, the position, and its description, must be submitted to the Indiana State Library. Click here for submission guidelines and to submit.
Exhibit of Neil Armstrong's personal papers opens at Purdue
Humanities, Social Science and Education Library at Purdue University
Call-A-Pacer: Pacers, Indianapolis Public Library once again team up
Indianapolis Public Library
Library board meets in Crothersville
Jackson County Public Library
Programs to focus on change in community
Jasper-Dubois County Public Library
Library to mark Bookmobile Day
Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
Library to offer 3-D printing, Digital Den for teens, adults
Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
Literary classic 'Slaughterhouse-Five' turning 50, museum distributing copies of book
Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library
Lake Central library director takes books on the road
Lake Central High School
Building of new Loogootee Library begins Monday
Loogootee Public Library
Re-enactor, author delight crowd
Monticello-Union Township Public Library
Roachdale library revisits 2018 success
Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library
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 The Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library, in partnership with the Plainfield Police Department, is proud to announce another class of Rape Aggression Defense System graduates.
RAD is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques. It's a comprehensive course for women that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and avoidance, while progressing to the basics of hands-on defense training. The class presented by the Plainfield Police Department also included lectures and discussions in a group setting. More than 20 females, aged 12 and older, participated in the four-session class.
Contact Abby Nagy, marketing and communications specialist at the Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library, with any questions about the RAD program.
 The 13th annual CONTENTdm User Group Meeting will take place on August 7-8, 2019 in Indianapolis at the Indianapolis Public Library's Central Library. The meeting is open to all CONTENTdm users, from beginner to advanced, from any type of library or historical or other cultural institution.
The CONTENTdm User Group Program Committee is currently soliciting proposals for presentations. Users are encouraged to submit session, workshop, panel and poster proposals. The theme of this year’s meeting is “User Experience in Online Cultural Heritage Collections.” The committee welcomes proposals from institutions that use CONTENTdm; researchers who use digital collections in their work; accessibility experts; UX and online exhibit design experts; and others with projects or insights of interest to the community.
The proposal submission form can be found here and is due by April 13, 2019. Visit the meeting website for more details.
 Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library's 2019 Speak: An Explorative Lecture Series will continue with a presentation by Jay Coles on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7 p.m. in the Benjamin Bosse High School Auditorium in Evansville.
Coles is an author of young adult fiction, composer and Indiana native. He studied at Vincennes University and Ball State University. His debut novel "Tyler Johnson Was Here" is inspired by events from his life and the Black Lives Matter movement.
This event is free and open to the public. Click here for more event info. Learn more about the Speak lecture series here.
 The Collaborative Summer Library Program is offering one Indiana librarian the chance to attend the CSLP Annual Meeting in Indianapolis on Sept. 16-19, 2019, all expenses paid. Since the Indiana State Library's children's consultant serves on the CSLP board of directors, Indiana is permitted to invite a second attendee to the meeting while the consultant is serving on the board.
Click here to read the full list of qualifications and requirements and to apply. Applications must be submitted by April 1, 2019. Click here for more information about the Annual Meeting.
 The submission deadline for call for proposals for Discovery to Delivery IX 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.
Contact the conference committee with any questions.
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Carefully Crafted Codes of Conduct
When: March 28, 2019, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
Every Child Ready to Read 2.0
When: April 12, 2019, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Central Time
Where: Porter County Public Library
Non-Profit Day at IndyPL Book Sale
When: April 15, 2019, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Where: Indianapolis Public Library - Library Services Center
AnyAbility: Serving Adults with Disabilities
When: April 16, 2019, 2:20 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Where's My Cape? Managing a Youth Services Department
When: April 24, 2019, 11 a.m. - 12:15 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
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March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. The Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope Through Research publication, put out by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, states that “Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults in the United States” and that “TBI is also a major concern for elderly individuals, with a high rate of death and hospitalization due to falls among people age 75 and older.” Since TBI can happen at to anyone, at any age or time, the information given on this website can be useful to virtually everyone.
The specific information covered on the website includes an explanation of the injury and how TBI affects the brain, with descriptions of the different diagnosis such as diffuse axonal injury, concussion, coup/contrecoup lesions, contusions and skull fractures. The website also includes information on the signs and symptoms of TBI, both in general and specifically in children, as well as information on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TBI.
Information on the Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope Through Research webpage can be helpful to those who have children or older family members. It can also be beneficial to people who bicycle, rock climb, drive or ride in a car, walk downstairs or generally don’t spend their time wrapped in bubble pack. In other words, this website can be useful to everyone.
Registration is now open for the 2019 Annual Public Library Budget Webinar and Workshop. The workshop is recommended for public library directors, business managers, bookkeepers, treasurers and library trustees. Todd Caldwell of the State Board of Accounts and Fred Van Dorp of the Department of Local Government Finance will review changes and share information on federal and state legislative actions and on financial and budgetary changes that are helpful in the public library budgetary planning process. The day ends with announcements from the Indiana State Library.
This year’s workshops will be held on Monday, June 17, 2019 and repeated on Thursday, June 20, 2019. Participants have the option to attend in person at the Indiana State Library or to view the presentation remotely via webinar. This workshop is worth up to four general LEUs.
Participants may register using the following links:
June 17 In-person
June 17 Webinar
June 20 In-person
June 20 webinar
In-person registration is capped at 32 attendees. Please direct any questions about the event and registration to Hayley Trefun of the Indiana State Library.
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