 This week's new Indiana library jobs
Director of Youth Services
Mooresville Public Library
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The Bergamot to play free concert in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Allen County Public Library
Community Book Read features a female trailblazer
Bartholomew County Public Library
Take a deep breath: Columbus explores the peace of meditation
Bartholomew County Public Library
Authors revealed for annual Guilded Leaf luncheon benefiting Carmel library
Carmel Clay Public Library
Library's Summer Reading Program a success
Greensburg-Decatur County Public Library
The new West Perry Branch Library draws closer to reality
Indianapolis Public Library
Glass factory to be topic of genealogy meeting
Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
Library to have golf-themed event
Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
Washington library lands NASA project for youth
Washington Carnegie Public Library
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 In 2016, Peace Corps volunteer Jahni Ittel began teaching English at the Bandza Public School in the Eastern European country of Georgia. Ittel soon discovered that the school's library didn't have any English language books and pondered how to obtain them for the library. Eventually, Ittel connected with Union County Public Library Director Karen Kahl and a special program was formed.
A selection of books that would normally be sold at the library's book sales after weeding are now collected and donated to the Bandza school. These books usually consist of graphic novels and pictures books, as they are best-suited in aiding children who are learning English. The first books arrived in May of 2018.
After 27 months of service overseas, Ittel returned to the United States and, on July 23, 2019, gave a presentation at the Union County Public Library detailing her time in Georgia, her time teaching the students and the book donation program. “It was like Christmas for the kids every time a batch of books arrived,” Ittel said during the presentation, which was part of Reminisce, a monthly program for senior citizens.
The library plans to continue the unique program. "Even though Jahni has completed her time with the Peace Corps, our library will continue to send books to the school in Georgia where she taught English," Kahl said.
Pictures of the presentation can be seen on the library's Facebook page.
 The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded $172,172 to the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. in partnership with the Private
Academic Library Network of Indiana for "Scaling Up a Collaborative Consortial
Institutional Repository" as part of the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program. IMLS
received 138 preliminary proposals requesting more than $33 million in funding, and selected 36 applicants to receive awards during this grant cycle. With this award, the partners will develop and pilot an affordable, open-source, and collaborative institutional repository solution based on the Hyku software.
An institutional repository provides the academic community a place to capture, preserve,
and make accessible the important research, special collections, and other types of information they create. Libraries and campuses benefit from having the infrastructure and tools provided in an IR solution to manage assets and disseminate them to the larger public.
This grant project will develop a model for ultra low-cost hosting, discovery and access to digital
material for member libraries. The consortial IR service developed in Hyku will allow individual
libraries to customize and brand the IR as their own, while sharing the underlying infrastructure,
hosting, and administration costs across institutions.
Read the full PALNI press release here.
 Registration for the 2019 Indiana Public Library Trustee Summit will close on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. The first statewide convening of library trustees in over a decade will take place on Friday, Aug. 16 at the Indiana State Library, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
This workshop for trustees and directors will include information on communications, advocacy and Indiana law and best practices. The keynote speaker will be Sally Gardner Reed, consultant for Library Strategies and former executive director of the American Library Association’s United for Libraries.
Registration is $25 per person and includes a continental breakfast, lunch and parking validation in the Government Center garages. Click here to register.
Please contact Jennifer Clifton of the Indiana State Library with any questions.
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2019 New Director Workshop
When: Aug. 7, 2019, 8:15 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Library
Every Child Ready to Read 2.0
When: Aug. 9, 2019, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Where: Peru Public Library
Unigov: The Creation of Modern Indianapolis and Its Suburbs
When: Aug. 10, 2019, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Library
Leap Into Science "Wind" Workshop
When: Aug. 12, 2019, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Museum
Leap Into Science "Wind" Workshop
When: Aug. 14, 2019, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Central Time
Where: Angel Mounds State Historic Site in Evansville
New Director Workshop Follow-Up Webinar
When: Aug. 14, 2019, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Readers' Advisory for Youth Services
When: Aug. 15, 2019, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Where: Jackson County Public Library
Indiana Public Library Trustee Summit
When: Aug. 16, 2019, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Library
Readers' Advisory for Youth Services
When: Aug. 20, 2019, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Where: Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library
Leap Into Science "Wind" Workshop
When: Aug. 21, 2019, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Where: Allen County Public Library
Leap Into Science "Wind" Workshop
When: Aug. 28, 2019, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Where: Early Learning Indiana - Indianapolis
Finding Your Way as a New Supervisor
When: Aug. 28, 2019, 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
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and suggestions.
For many students, the new school year begins soon. The Indiana Department of Education has information to help parents, students and teachers work together to achieve academic success. Indiana’s K-12 education data page contains resources such as annual school performance reports, state academic standards, educator license lookup and much more.
The parent portal includes information on student assessment, school transportation and homeschooling. School building safety and health information and resources are also popular topics. The Indiana State Department of Health provides the immunization requirements for the 2019-2020 school year.
The Indiana Department of Revenue has information about education-related state tax credits on the July 24, 2019 edition of the Tax Talk Blog.
Additional school statistics are available through the National Center for Education Statistics, the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
 Join the Indiana State Library on Aug. 10, 2019 at 11 a.m. for the final session of a summer lecture series focused on history and genealogy, as Nicole Poletika will present “Unigov: The Creation of Modern Indianapolis and Its Suburbs.” A historian with the Indiana Historical Bureau, Poletika's research focuses on minority history and issues of social justice. Her presentation on Unigov will explore the legislation that merged the governments of Indianapolis and Marion County, and the resulting socioeconomic disparities. Register here. The lecture is worth one LEU.
The library would like to thank everyone who attended the lectures this summer and hopes to continue the series next year.
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