 This week's new Indiana library jobs
Customer Service Assistant (part-time)
Brownsburg Public Library
Library Public Services Manager
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
Chief Impact Officer
Hamilton East Public Library
Outreach Services Librarian (part-time)
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
Library Administrative Assistant
Indiana University Kokomo
Resource Description Coordinator
IUPUI University Library
Library Assistant V – Library Services
Johnson County Public Library
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Calumet College of St. Joseph presents the new and improved Specker Memorial Library
Calumet College of St. Joseph
CDPL seeks school yearbooks to expand collection
Crawfordsville District Public Library
Culver-Union Township Public Library receives ARPA grant
Culver-Union Township Public Library
Auburn High School class of 1965 supports Eckhart Public Library
Eckhart Public Library
Get your seasonal snapshot taken at EVPL
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library: Introducing self-checkout using the MyLIBRO app
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
Jasper-Dubois County Library director named Outstanding Librarian
Jasper-Dubois County Public Library
Volunteers work to preserve legacies of Indiana’s veterans
Knox County Public Library
Kurt Vonnegut made Lewis Black want to become a comedian. Now he'll chair the Vonnegut Library.
Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library
Linden library plans Christmas open house
Linden Carnegie Public Library
A look inside the renovated main branch of SJCPL
St. Joseph County Public Library
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 The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services has been awarded an American Rescue Plan Act grant in the amount of $45,000 by the Indiana State Library. The grant will allow MCLS to offer Libraries Engaging Appreciatively for Positive Change - also known as LEAP - to Indiana library staff in 2022.
LEAP is a professional development opportunity offering an introduction to appreciative inquiry as an approach to engagement. It is designed to give Indiana library staff another tool to engage and re-engage with each other and their communities, one conversation and one person at a time, and is intended to help participants feel equipped and inspired to work toward engaging their communities in new ways as libraries continue to navigate current realities. Appreciative inquiry methods for managing change focus on drawing out and building on existing strengths by using collaborative conversations, dialogue and stories.
LEAP begins with a full-day virtual event followed by the chance to participate in six monthly, 90-minute virtual learning sessions. This opportunity is designed to create a community of Indiana library staff that will continue to learn from and support one another as they apply their knowledge to their own work and life experiences.
The one-day virtual event will be held on Jan. 19, 2022 from 9:30 a.m-4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The monthly virtual learning sessions will be held on the third Wednesday of each month from February to July in 2022. Registration is $40 and includes the LEAP Day event, access to six coaching sessions and all materials and resources. The program is open to all staff of Indiana libraries of all types, with a limit of 100 participants. Click here to read more and to register.
This project is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act, administered by the Indiana State Library.
 The Newton County Public Library Board of Trustees has announced that current library director Mary K. Emmrich will transition to the role of system specialist in January of 2022. Current assistant director Jennifer Arrenholz will be promoted to library director at that same time.
Emmrich will serve as Roselawn Branch manager, and handle several special projects, including original cataloguing, grant writing and administration. She will also serve as a mentor for Arrenholz.
“I appreciate the trust that the Board has given me as I step into this new role” Arrenholz said. “I have worked at NCPL as assistant director for 13 years, and I am excited to maintain the welcoming, community-centered atmosphere that Mary Kay and our staff have always created, while exploring new opportunities and partnerships to expand our services to continue meeting our patrons’ needs.”
Emmrich stated, “This transition will allow Jen time to acclimate to her new role while having me on hand if she needs me prior to my planned retirement at the end of 2023.
“For me, it will allow me to focus on branch level services for our patrons, work on special projects and programs and continue to partner with our local programming partners, state committees and my professional colleagues.”
Visit the NCPL website for more information.
 The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians will meet for its annual conference, "Inspired to Bloom," in Bloomington on May 11-13, 2022. Hosted by Indiana University Bloomington, the hybrid conference will be held on the IU Bloomington campus and online.
Currently, OVGTSL is seeking proposals for the conference. OVGTSL wants to hear how libraries have thrived and flourished and what motivates them to continue to bloom.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: sources of inspiration; DEI; collaboration across library units and beyond; tools and processes for large-scale editing of metadata; primary resources and rare collections; electronic resources lifecycle management; efficient technical services workflows; keeping up with changes; open access materials; staff recruiting and retention; department reorganization; collection assessment; print acquisitions management; and preparing staff and systems for changes in metadata standards.
The sessions will be held May 12-13. Time slots for all presentation sessions are 50 minutes, including time for questions from the audience. Submissions for panel discussions, lightning rounds, workshops and other formats will be considered in addition to standard presentations. Proposals are due Dec. 20. Click here to submit a proposal.
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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
Oceans of Possibilities - Summer Reading Roundtable #2
When: Jan. 11, 2022, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Oceans of Possibilities - Summer Reading Roundtable #3
When: Jan. 19, 2022, 2-3 p.m.
Where: Webinar
Welcome to the Government Information Minute. Every other 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 well-informed. Follow the Indiana State Data Center on Facebook and Twitter and feel free to leave comments and suggestions.
 Thankful for a plentiful harvest after enduring hardships, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony held a three-day feast in the autumn of 1621 to celebrate. The event is widely recognized as America’s first Thanksgiving. William Bradford, governor of the colony, wrote in his 1650 manuscript, "Of Plimoth Plantation," that the feast included water fowl, wild turkeys, venison and Indian corn.
The first Federal Congress of the United States passed a resolution on Sept. 28, 1789, asking that the president recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. President George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation designated Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789 as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin," setting a national tradition for observing the holiday.
During the Civil War, President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of Oct. 3, 1863 sought “to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.” Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation recognized the “widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged.” Following President Lincoln’s tradition, Americans continued celebrating Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November.
As the nation recovered from the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt worried about a shortened 1939 holiday shopping season since Thanksgiving would occur on the fifth - and last – Thursday of the month. Instead, the President ordered that Thanksgiving should be celebrated on the second to the last Thursday, Nov. 23, 1939. Some states decided to continue observing the traditional last Thursday. According to reports in the Indianapolis Times newspaper, Indiana Governor M. Clifford Townsend proclaimed the state holiday for 1939 and 1940 to match the federal holiday as the second to the last Thursday. By 1941, Congress established Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday in November, eliminating uncertainty about when to celebrate the national holiday.
Find some statistics and trivia on the Census Bureau’s Thanksgiving Fun Facts page. Learn additional holiday safety tips on the Indiana Department of Homeland Security’s Thanksgiving Safety page. Explore historical publications such as “Turkey on the table the year round (1952)” in the National Agriculture Library’s Historical Dietary Guidance Digital Collection.
 Save the Children and Partners for Education at Berea College have announced that the second annual Rural Library Summit will be held next week on Wednesday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Eastern Time.
The free summit celebrates the power of libraries to engage rural communities to build stronger, more equitable supports for all young people. Presentations and workshops will introduce how to create successful cradle-to-career initiatives and offer practitioners the opportunity to share what has worked in their community. Felicia Cumings Smith, president of the National Center for Families Learning, is the the keynote speaker.
Save the Children will also offer $7,500 worth of support material to summit participants. Attendees will be randomly selected to win one of 14 prizes, including $2,500 to shop on STEMfinity. Winners must be present and members of the Rural Library Network.
Click here to read more about the summit and click here to register.
Please contact Regina Washington at 859-302-5435 or via email with any questions.
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