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State Library to Renew Our Heroes Tree Program-
ALA Introduces 2012 Library Card Sign-up Week
Spokesperson
More Library News
Anderson Herald Bulletin
Poetry Corner members study their craft
Columbus Republic
Safety key for library repairs
Evansville Courier & Press
Check it out: New in kids' series fiction:
Dogs, sleuthing, heroics
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
Local amateur photographer's historic
images being made available online
Indianapolis Monthly
Ball State Students Debut Vonnegut Library
Exhibit
Indianapolis Star
Google celebrates birthday of Amelia Earhart, aviator and Purdue
lecturer
Indianapolis Star
Vonnegut exhibit can take Indiana author's work on the
road
Kokomo Tribune
Library board mulls raises
Lafayette Journal & Courier
Tippecanoe library Portal digital center
open for public
LaPorte Herald Argus
Library eliminates positions
Library Journal
Indiana Universities Plan New, Mixed Use Libraries
Madison Courier
Movie Groupies: New group to discuss films
Northwest Indiana times
Puerto Rican Heritage Celebration at the
East Chicago Public Library
Northwest Indiana times
Woodland Wee Folk Festival to cap summer
reading program
Louisville Courier-Journal
New Albany club meets to share ways to
save money
Rushville Republican
Mayor hosts Pulitzer prize winning
historian
South Bend Tribune
Library board delays action on former Avon Theater
Terre Haute Tribune Star
Indiana surnames on 1940 census now
searchable
Terre Haute Tribune Star
Preserving the past, eyeing the future
WFLI-TV
(Lafayette)
New Technology Center opens in Lafayette
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State Library
to Renew Our Heroes' Tree Project
Beginning
next week, the
Indiana State Library will assume the Our Heroes’ Tree project
with support from the Military Family Research Institute, which hosted
the program through 2010. Registration will open next Wednesday, August
1.
Our Heroes’ Tree
is a national initiative founded to recognize and honor
sacrifices made by the families of current and past service members. The
goal of the project to support the efforts of military members and their
families while providing military related programming for all ages.
The popular “virtual
heroes tree” will once again be back. This virtual tree allows
for families to electronically hang ornaments with a picture of a loved
one who is serving our country. The ornaments help to raise awareness of
those deployed and show continued support for the United States
military.
Participating libraries are welcome to create their own programming for
Our Heroes’ Tree. Some past programs that have been implemented
by libraries throughout Indiana include adopting a soldier or platoon,
assisting military families to set up a family blog, patriotic crafting
ideas for children, writing letters to veterans, and hosting workshops
for veterans to interact with the community.
ALA
Introduces 2012 Library Card Sign-up Week Spokesperson
September
is Library Card Sign-up Month and the American Library Association (ALA)
has several resources to help your library encourage patrons to sign up
for the smartest card of all – a library card. Library Card Sign-up
Month has been observed each September since 1987 and is a great
opportunity for libraries across to remind parents that a library card
is the most important school supply of all.
NFL All-Pro and two-time Super Bowl winner Troy Polamalu has been
named spokesman for 2012 National Library Card Sign-Up Month. Indiana
libraries can download promotional material such as print and audio
PSA’s featuring Troy Polamalu on the
Library Card Sign-up Month 2012
website. Also check out these
additional resources, such as sample press releases,
proclamations, audio PSA's, programming ideas and more.
Nominations are Open for
the I Love My Librarian Award
Nominations
for the 2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times
I Love My Librarian Awards are open through September 12.
Librarians can be nominated in three categories, school librarians,
public librarians, and university librarians.
This award
recognizes those exceptional librarians who go above and beyond the
typical duties of their jobs. 10 first place librarians will receive
$5,000 cash each, a plaque and $500 travel stipend to attend an awards
reception in New York. A plaque will also be given to each award
winner’s library.
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Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Upcoming Workshops,
Events & Important Dates
PLEASE NOTE: The New
Director’s Workshop originally scheduled for Aug. 2 has been rescheduled
for Aug. 16.
Gale Virtual Reference Library eBooks from Inspire
When: July 25 @
3:00
PM
When: August 15 @ 9:30
AM Where: Live Online
Biography In Context for Inspire
When: July 31 @
2:00 PM Where: Live Online
Databases and the Common Core
When: August 2@ 9:00
AM When: September 11 @ 4:00 PM Where: Live Online
Director's Refresher Workshop
When: August 8 @ 8:00 AM
Where: Indiana State Library
New Director's Workshop
When: August 16 @ 8:00 AM
Where: Indiana State Library
She Blinded Me With Library Science (Certification Workshop)
When: August 21 @ 10:00 AM
Where: Live Online
CYPD
2012 Conference
When: August 26 & 27 Where: Indianapolis Marriott East
Association for Library Service to Children National Institute
When: September 20-22 Where: Sheraton Indpls. City Centre Hotel
Indiana Vision Expo & Vision Walk When: September 29 @ 9:30 AM Where: Indiana State Library
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