 This week's new Indiana library jobs
Youth Theatre Supervisor (part-time)
Frankfort Community Public Library
Adult Services Clerk (part-time)
Greenwood Public Library
The Studio Associate (part-time)
Greenwood Public Library
Access Services Library Assistant (part-time)
Hancock County Public Library
Teen and Adult Services Department Head
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
Teen and Adult Services Librarian
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
Assistant Reference Librarian (part-time)
Indiana Historical Society
Metadata Specialist (part-time)
Indianapolis Public Library
Children’s Librarian
Johnson County Public Library
Library Assistant – Adult Service (part-time)
Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library
Branch Children’s Librarian
St. Joseph County Public Library
Head Circulation Librarian
Tippecanoe County Public Library
Head Technical Services Librarian
Tippecanoe County Public Library
Temporary Media Aide
Western School Corporation
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No more overdue book fines for Allen County Public Library cardholders 17 and under
Allen County Public Library
Library board discusses new policy, children's mural
Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County
Library, parks partner to bring stories
Eckhart Public Library
Library honors longtime director Hertha Moran
Garrett Public Library
Jasper County Public Library hosts 'Read for a Better World'
Jasper County Public Library
Logan Library adds technology, electronic resources through federal grant
John A. Logan Library at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
County appoints new library board member
Marion Public Library
County library system's tax rate declines for 2022
Noble County Public Library
North Webster Library names new director
North Webster Community Public Library
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 As part of the Indiana State Library's What's up Wednesday series, "Be the Hero! Tween and Teen Live Action Roleplaying (LARPing) Games" will be presented on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022 from 10-11 a.m.
Live action role playing, also known as LARPing, allows for a unique opportunity that youth can’t get anywhere else. Attendees of the presentation will get an in-depth look at this revolutionary event type and will even learn to create a mini version of a game on the spot. The program presents participants with an opportunity to learn how to secure big numbers of tweens or teens with a real-life video game where the tweens and teens are the heroes.
"Be the Hero! Tween and Teen Live Action Roleplaying (LARPing) Games" will be presented by Brooke Windsor, teen services librarian at the Stratford Public Library in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
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 George Bergstrom, Southwest regional coordinator at the Indiana State Library, with any questions.
 The Jasper County Public Library has been awarded $24,986.60 by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act, administered by the Indiana State Library.
The funding will help the library digitize its microfilm copies of the newspapers of record in Jasper County, from the first issue printed in 1853 through the modern day, providing remote searchable access to the content. The grant monies received will not fund the entire project, but the funds will allow the library to digitize its Rensselaer titles by date from 1853 to 1920, and the KV Post-News from 1932 to 1950.
“We recognize the importance of digitizing these unique and historically significant newspapers,” said Jasper County Public Library director Patty Stringfellow.
"We field requests for information regularly, from individuals in our community and across the country seeking genealogy and obituary records that only we have. Searching through reels of microfilm can be time consuming as there is no mechanism for a key word search. Our digitized records will have this capability. Additionally, sometimes individuals cannot visit our library because they are homebound or do not have the means to travel to us. Remote access will allow folks to use these records from any location with internet access,” Stringfellow continued.
Digitized materials will also be accessible through the Indiana State Library’s Hoosier State Chronicles, part of Indiana Memory. Indiana Memory is a collaborative effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Indiana libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions. It is a gateway to Indiana's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps and other media. As a portal to the collections, Indiana Memory assists individuals to locate materials relevant to their interests and to better appreciate the connections between those materials.
"To complete this project, more grant funding will be necessary, but we are excited about this momentous beginning. It is another way that we will 'inform, enrich and empower' our diverse community,” Stringfellow concluded.
 On Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, library staff from libraries of all types around the state of Indiana will gather on Zoom for Libraries Engaging Appreciatively for Positive Change 2022. The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services, in partnership with the Library of Michigan, developed and offered a program in 2020 and 2021 to introduce principles of Appreciative Inquiry and how library staff can use it to engage their communities and re-frame interactions with staff and patrons.
LEAP is intended to help participants feel equipped and inspired to work toward engaging - and re-engaging - their communities in new ways as they continue to navigate the mid-pandemic world.
Participants will be introduced to processes and tools of Appreciative Inquiry to help them focus on their library’s strengths and build upon them in order to reconnect with their patrons and wider community. The learning can also be applied to strengthening every conversation in life, from personal to professional. Each year's content is improved and updated to strive to meet library staff where they are, considering the context of the region and world that year.
With the help of an American Rescue Plan Grant from the Indiana State Library, MCLS now has the opportunity to form an Indiana cohort in 2022.
Maureen (Mo) McKenna, of Return on Energy Consulting and co-creator of the LEAP program, will facilitate LEAP 2022 along with MCLS's Engagement, Consulting and Training team.
For more information, visit the MCLS webpage. Registration is now open. Click here to register. Registration pricing for LEAP 2022, for both MCLS members and non-members, is $40.
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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
What's Up Wednesday - Be the Hero! Tween and Teen Live Action Roleplaying (LARPing) Games When: Jan. 26, 2022, 10-11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
Building Community Engagement and Awareness Through Little Free Library
When: Feb. 3, 2022, 10-11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
EBSCO Usage Statistics and Reports
When: Feb. 9, 2022, 10-11 a.m.
Where: Webinar
Indiana 211 and Libraries
When: March 16, 2022, 10-11 a.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.
 Long known as one of Indiana’s most prominent businesses, L. S. Ayres operated various department and discount stores throughout the state and the Midwest from 1872 until 2006. The company’s official employee newsletter was known as Ayrograms.
Each issue was richly illustrated with photographs and featured news stories, amusing anecdotes and other information related to personnel matters. This issue from January 1949 reflects on company achievements from the busy 1948 holiday season.
These newsletters provide a unique insight into what it was like to work at one of the state’s busiest and best-known stores. The Indiana State Library has an extensive collection of Ayrograms many of which have been digitized and are part of the Company Employee Newsletters Collection.
 The Indiana State Library has hired QualityMetrics, library consults, to conduct an independent evaluation of its Library Services and Technology Act program as part of a requirement to qualify for ongoing federal funding.
The State Library's LSTA money is used to help fund INSPIRE, Evergreen, the Collaborative Summer Reading Program and digitization and technology sub-grants, among many other programs and services.
As part of the evaluation process, QualityMetrics has asked the State Library to distribute a three question survey to help in assessing the impact of the LSTA program on Indiana libraries and library patrons.
The survey will close on Dec. 31.
 The Office of Research Integrity at the University of North Carolina Greensboro is seeking participants for a survey detailing job satisfaction among public library workers during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pandemic has disrupted and challenged not only assumptions about work, but the experience of it. The survey was designed as part of a research project to explore and understand job satisfaction among public library workers during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, March 2020 to September 2021.
The results of this survey will help researchers better understand the range of challenges public library workers faced during this time. The results of the survey will be shared through at least one research article.
The survey is anonymous and should take 15-20 minutes to complete. The Office of Research Integrity asks that interested participants review the additional information in the survey as well as the consent form.
Those employed in a public library are invited to participate in the study. The office asks that participants only record knowledge and experiences as specified in the survey questions.
Questions, concerns or complaints about this project - or benefits or risks associated with being in this study - can be answered by Noah Lenstra or Fatih Oguz. If participants have any concerns about their rights, how they are being treated in this study or if they have questions, want more information or have suggestions, they should contact the director of the Office of Research Integrity at UNCG at 885-251-2351.
Click here to participate in the survey. The survey will close at the end of January 2022.
Click here to learn more about the the Office of Research Integrity at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
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