 This week's new Indiana library jobs
Reference/Local History Library Assistant
Crawfordsville District Public Library
Adult Services Librarian
Johnson County Public Library
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.
Butler Public Library now offers autorenew services through Evergreen Indiana
Butler Public Library
Game table offers new opportunities
Butler Public Library
Kathy Tretter selected as Indiana Library Federation’s Outstanding Trustee Award recipient
Jasper-Dubois County Public Library
Local librarian wins state award
Johnson County Public Library
Professor shares stories of Indiana’s ghostly past
Rice Library at University of Southern Indiana
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Out of the vault and on display, “Fall & Winter along the South Shore Line” is now ready to be viewed at the Indiana State Library. The exhibition includes ten of the library’s collection of colorful large-scale Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad posters. The South Shore Line commissioned artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s to design their eye-catching advertising posters. The posters on display were designed by artists Ivan V. Beard, Emil Biorn, Otto Brenneman, Oscar Rabe Hanson and Leslie Ragan.
Featured with the poster exhibit is a display of Hoosier artists’ holiday cards depicting vibrant and festive scenes. The cards, designed by such notable artists as Wayman Adams, Gustave Bauman and Floyd D. Hopper, were given to their friends and family for Christmas and New Year’s during the 1920s and 1930s.
The South Shore posters, and many others in the library’s collection, are being digitized for online access through the Indiana State Library Broadsides Collection.
The “Fall & Winter along the South Shore Line” exhibit is free and open to the public during regular business hours and will remain on display in the Exhibition Hall through January 2020. The Indiana State Library is located at 315 W. Ohio St. in downtown Indianapolis. For hours of operation, directions and parking information, click here.
The South Shore Line continues providing service as an electrically powered interurban commuter rail line under the authority of the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District between Millennium Station in downtown Chicago and the South Bend International Airport in South Bend.
The annual Letters About Literature contest will begin accepting entries via online portal on Nov. 12. Letters About Literature is a reading and writing contest for students in grades 4-12 in Indiana. Students are asked to read a book, poem, essay or speech and write to the author - living or deceased - about how the work affected how they see themselves or how they see the world.
Winners receive cash prizes and are invited to participate in the 2020 Youth Literary Day & Awards Ceremony on April 18, 2020 at the Indiana State Library. Winners will also have their letters published in an annual anthology.
Entries must be submitted via online Submittable portal. In order to submit an entry, users must have a Submittable account. A YouTube video detailing the submission process may be viewed here. The last day to submit entries is Jan. 13, 2020. Students in grades 4-12 who live in Indiana are eligible to enter the contest.
For more information about the 21st annual Indiana Letters About Literature contest, visit the Indiana State Library's Letters About Literature website or contact Suzanne Walker, director of the Indiana Center for the Book.
The Indiana State Library has scheduled 11 Collaborative Summer Library Program training sessions and roundtables from mid-November through late January of 2020. The training sessions will introduce the 2020 CSLP Summer Reading Program "Imagine Your Story."
Each training will be followed by a roundtable discussion of programming ideas. Participants are encouraged to bring at least one program idea to share with the group. Program ideas may or may not be related to the CSLP theme and can be geared toward any age.
The training sessions will be held at the following locations on the specified dates; click on a link to register: Frankfort Public Library on Nov. 15; Jeffersonville Public Library on Nov. 18; Culver-Union Township Public Library on Dec. 2; Boonville-Warrick County Public Library on Dec. 6; Noble County Public Library – Albion Branch on Dec. 9; Crown Point Public Library on Dec. 12; New Castle-Henry County Public Library on Dec. 16; Marion Public Library on Dec. 17; Vigo County Public Library on Jan. 10, 2020; Greensburg-Decatur County Public Library on Jan. 13, 2020; and Danville Public Library on Jan. 17, 2020.
Please contact Beth Yates, children's consultant at the Indiana State Library, with any questions.
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Annual Report and Bookkeeping Workshop Webinar
When: Nov. 7, 2019, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Annual Report and Bookkeeping Workshop In-Person
When: Nov. 7, 2019, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Library
Annual Report and Bookkeeping Workshop Webinar
When: Nov. 13, 2019, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Annual Report and Bookkeeping Workshop In-Person
When: Nov. 13, 2019, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Library
Evergreen Indiana 2019 Fall Workshop
When: Nov. 15, 2019, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Library
Imagine Your Story! CSLP 2020 Training & Roundtable
When: Nov. 15, 2019, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Where: Frankfort Community Public Library
Non-Profit Day at IndyPL Book Sale
When: Nov. 18, 2019, 8:30-11:30 a.m.
Where: Indianapolis Public Library - Library Services Center
Institutional Workshop
When: Nov. 18, 2019, 1-4 p.m.
Where: Indiana State Library
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 The United States Office of Government Ethics website illustrates the various rules the Office of Government Ethics enforces; what the punishments might be for federal government employees who break these rules; and how government employees can avoid potential conflicts of interest.
The financial conflicts of interest and impartiality section covers what financial conflicts of interest are; what the procedure for analyzing potential conflicts of interest is; resolving conflicts of interest and how these issues apply to current government employees, employees entering government and employees leaving government.
The website also covers gifts and payments; use of government positions and resources; outside employment and activities; and post-government employment. Each of these areas include detailed descriptions of the meaning of each potential conflict and how the employee can avoid such conflict.
The final section on enforcement of the ethics rules shows that a punishment can include criminal prosecution, civil penalties and disciplinary actions. This section also includes a link to the Conflict of Interest Prosecution Surveys Index – By Statute and a link to the Conflict of Interest Prosecution Surveys. The surveys online are available from 1990-2018. One example, from 2018, highlights a case of duel employment among other incidences. Entries include the accusation, the decision and the resulting punishment.
This website is a great resource for those interested in the ethics rules that employees of the executive branch of the United States government are required to follow as representatives of the government and the people of the United States.
The 2020 grant cycle is now open for the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries. Three grants of $4,000 each will be awarded. Two grants will help libraries expand their existing graphic novel services and programs and one grant will provide support to a library for the initiation of a graphic novel service or program.
Visit the American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table website to read complete details about the grant application process, including eligibility requirements, and to register. The deadline for grant applications is Feb. 9, 2020.
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