 This week's new Indiana library jobs
Information Services Librarian
Brownsburg Public Library
Library Assistant (part-time)
Hancock County Public Library
Senior Monographs Cataloger
Herman B Wells Library at Indiana University
Library Clerk – Youth Services
Waterloo Grant Township Public Library
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Bartholomew video history project wins statewide award
Bartholomew County Public Library
Java House set to open in renovated Carmel public library
Carmel Clay Public Library
MCHS to seek COVID oral histories
Crawfordsville District Public Library
Elkhart County Foundation awards $3.5M in grants
Goshen Public Library
Fishers Arts and Culture Commission kicks off partnership
Hamilton East Public Library
Community Foundation of Southern Indiana's new grant helping park projects
Jeffersonville Township Public Library
3 Jeffersonville humanities organizations win state grants
Jeffersonville Township Public Library
Pandemic relief grants announced
Jennings County Public Library
Every library needs Friends
Johnson County Public Library
Johnson County Library gets Duke Energy grant
Johnson County Public Library
Lilly Library gives new perspective on Native American history
Lilly Library at Indiana University
Newton County libraries will close Nov. 5 for staff development
Newton County Public Library
More than $800,000 in pandemic-relief grants awarded to Indiana humanities organizations
Odon Winkelpleck Public Library and Pike County Public Library
SCPL receives ARPA funds to connect museum to fiber network
Sullivan County Public Library
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 As part of the Indiana State Library's What's up Wednesday series, "Gobble Up Information at the Indiana State Library: An Overview of Our Public Services and Collections" will be presented on Wednesday, Nov. 24, from 10-11 a.m.
Join the staff of the Indiana State Library to learn about Talking Books, the Indiana Young Readers Center and how to use the library's historical collections. This program may benefit librarians looking for ways to assist their patrons or researchers wanting to know more about the Indiana State Library.
Presenters include Indiana State Library public services librarians Monique Howell, Jamie Dunn, Marcia Caudell, Victoria Duncan and Laura Williams.
The webinar is eligible for one LEU for Indiana library staff and will be held via Zoom. Click here to read more and click here to register.
Please contact Kara Cleveland, Professional Development Office supervisor at the Indiana State Library, with any questions.
 The Friends of the Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library are excited to share a new fundraiser to help support the library: We Love Our Library yard signs.
The Friends are a not-for-profit organization with a mission to support and supplement library programs, with consideration to meeting the needs of the whole community.
“What better way to show your love and support of the library than your very own We Love Our Library sign?” said Joanna Sproull, community liaison at the library.
The idea to sell library signs came last spring during National Library Week when PGTPL placed We Love the Library signs around town. “We had lots of people calling the library to find out how they could buy a sign,” Sproull said.
“We decided selling the signs would be a great idea for a new fundraiser to help support the library,” said Jasraj Sandhu, president of the Friends of the Library. “We have sold several already and it’s really fun to be driving down a road and see a We Love the Library sign. It always makes me smile!”
The fundraiser had some help getting off the ground from their local partner, Chicago’s Pizza. “We are so thankful for Chicago’s Pizza and their generous support in obtaining the signs for this wonderful fundraiser,” Sproull said. “With their help, all of the proceeds from the sign sales are able to go directly towards supporting the library.”
Signs are $15 apiece. To purchase a sign visit the Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library at 1120 Stafford Road in Plainfield or call 317-839-6602 for more information.
 The Northern Indiana Computer Consortium for Libraries has scheduled its next roundtable meeting on Dec. 10. The roundtable will be hosted, in-person, at the Fulton County Public Library from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. NICCL has also acquired equipment to be able to offer the roundtable online via Zoom for those who cannot attend in person.
NICCL is an organization composed of member libraries that meet quarterly for technology-based training and networking. Attendees are encouraged to share technology endeavors from their own libraries, as well as what they've seen in other libraries. The roundtable also offers an opportunity for attendees to ask technology-related questions to those in the group.
Attendees do not need to be members of NICCL, nor do they need to be on staff as a member of their library's IT department.
Please send an RSVP to Rich Weiland of the Adams Public Library System, as lunch will be provided. Attendees should specify if they will be attending in-person or online when sending the RSVP. The Fulton County Public Library is located at 320 W. 7th St. in Rochester.
The primary mission of NICCL is to join together with other libraries to explore new emerging technologies, seek out best technology practices, obtain technology training, see vendor demonstrations of new technology or services and to negotiate pricing of technology hardware and software purchases and technology support services, all for the benefit of the communities that it serves. Click here to learn more about NICCL.
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Annual Report and Bookkeeping Workshop
When: Nov. 9, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Where: Webinar
What’s Up Wednesday - Get INSPIRED: Live Demo/Q&A with Paula Newcom
When: Nov. 10, 10-11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
What’s Up Wednesday: Gobble Up Information at the Indiana State Library: An Overview of Our Public Services and Collections
When: Nov. 24, 10-11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
Intro to Copyright
When: Dec. 1, 1-2 p.m.
Where: Webinar
CSLP Summer Symposium- National Virtual Conference on Summer Reading
When: Dec. 2, 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Where: Webinar
CSLP 2022: Oceans of Possibilities
When: Dec. 9, 1-2 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Oceans of Possibilities - Summer Reading Roundtable #1
When: Dec. 13, 2-3 p.m.
Where: Webinar
From Diversity to Inclusion: How to Audit Your Collection and Why
When: Dec. 15, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Oceans of Possibilities - Summer Reading Roundtable #2
When: Jan. 11, 2022, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Where: Webinar
 Welcome to Digital Collection Highlights. Every other week, librarians at the Indiana State Library share images from the library's ever-growing digital collections. Visit the Digital Collections page to view the latest additions.
 During the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal program, was responsible for saving many of Indiana’s natural resources and in shaping the state park system we have today. This pamphlet, The CCC School of the Air (IP 634.9 no. 39), is a set of transcripts of radio programs broadcast to both the CCC camps and the public.
The CCC was part of the New Deal series of social programs designed to benefit men aged 18-25. Their work for CCC was compensated and they were given room and board. These were not military camps, but were run by military or retired military personnel. The lecture transcripts in this pamphlet were broadcast once a week starting at the end of 1935 and beginning of 1936 on various CCC projects and the progress made on each.
This radio broadcast program was meant to encourage the camp workers and inform the public. The CCC was responsible for working with natural resources, such as forestry and wildlife, throughout the state. Each camp had different goals and projects. A photo of the Chesterton CCC Company 556 from 1934, is also included in the Indiana State Library’s digital collection ([Mss I] ISLI OP0). Most camps in Indiana also published their own newsletters, many of which are available online in the Indiana Digital Collection.
 On Oct. 7, OverDrive, the digital reading platform for libraries and schools, announced the acquisition of TeachingBooks.net, an INSPIRE resource licensed by the Indiana State Library, available to everyone in the state.
Nick Glass, founder and head of TeachingBooks, said, "I'm so honored to be moving forward with OverDrive, building upon the TeachingBooks foundation that colleagues and customers have spectacularly built. With the merging of these amazing literacy services, we will enable readers, librarians and educators to benefit from both the book and impactful enrichment materials."
The acquisition will not impact the access, setup, support or content that TeachingBooks is providing Indiana through INSPIRE. It remains a standalone product for every school, library and resident in our state.
"TeachingBooks remains a stand-alone resource. Same team. Same service. Same business name, business address and same Federal Tax ID. We are here to keep doing all we can to personalize everyone’s relationships to books and authors," Glass said in the announcement, which can be read here.
Users are encouraged to reach out to TeachingBooks with any questions.
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