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In This Issue
New Portal for Lyrasis Courses through ISL!
BCALA Announces 2014 Presidential Awards Recipients
Indianapolis middle school wins 2014 Sara Jaffarian School Library
Program Award
White Paper on Resource Sharing in Indiana
Register Now for the Mother Goose on the Loose Training in August
Upcoming Workshops
& Important Dates
INfoExpress Renewal Period
When: Now - August 31
SHRAB Archives & Records Workshop
When: June 26 @ 9:30 AM
Where: Indiana State Archives
ALA Annual Conference
When: June 26 - July 1
Where: Las Vegas, NV
ILF Reference Division Conference
When: August 1 @ 9:00 AM
Where: Indiana Institute on Disability & Community Bloomington,
Indiana
ACPL Library Camp 2014
When: August 19
Where: Allen County Public Library
CYPD Conference
When: August 24 & 25
Where: Marriot East Indianapolis
SAMS Conference
When: September 18 & 19
Where: Greensburg-Decatur PL
Indiana Vision Expo
When: September 27
Where: Indiana State Library
ILF Annual Conference
When: November 17-19
Where: Marriot East Indianapolis
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New Portal for Lyrasis Courses through ISL!
Indiana library professionals are welcome to take hundreds of free
online courses from LYRASIS by registering through the Indiana State
Library. Lyrasis offers many innovative technology trainings such as
Metadata for Digitization and Preservation and Introduction to RDA,
to name a few. Each year, library professionals in Indiana may take
up to 10 free online Lyrasis classes!
We are excited to announce a new interface for exploring Lyrasis
course offerings. The
Find Training page on the
ISL Continuing Education portal is your one-stop-shop for
in-person and online professional development workshops. Guidelines
to help library professionals in Indiana explore Lyrasis course
content can be found on the
Find Training page under
Free Lyrasis Classes, including Lyrasis registration information
and important links to the Lyrasis catalog.
Registering for a Lyrasis course is simple!
- Browse the
Lyrasis catalog for classes. Use the filters on the
left-hand side to explore training subjects or limit to Live
Online classes. Most of the Live
Online classes are eligible for free registration through
the Indiana State Library.
- Once the course title and date
have been identified, fill out the
Lyrasis Course Application Form found on the
ISL Continuing Education website.
- ISL staff will receive the application and
check internal records to ensure that the individual has no more
than 4 uncompleted classes and fewer than 10 completed classes
in the past 12 months.
- After determining that the individual is
approved to move forward with the registration process, ISL
staff will provide the applicant with the special discount code.
The individual participant is
required to enter this special discount code into their Lyrasis
course registration form on the Lyrasis website in order to
receive the training for free.
- Please note that Lyrasis courses are
subject to change or cancelation. If Indiana library staff have
any feedback to share or questions regarding their Lyrasis
classes, please feel free to email
StatewideServices@library.in.gov or call 317-232-3697.
White Paper on
Resource Sharing in Indiana
In 2007, an advisory group made up of representatives from public,
academic, school and special libraries drafted a white paper on the
state of resource sharing in Indiana. In the intervening years,
resource sharing has continued to flourish but increasingly that
resource sharing is confined to communities siloed by technology. A
classic example is the growth of the Evergreen Indiana project,
providing a single online catalog for over 100 public libraries.
Resource sharing within this consortium and other similar systems
has skyrocketed using a circulation-based request system, however
the interaction between these libraries and other, non-Evergreen
institutions, has not kept pace. While we do have a widespread and
common delivery system for libraries throughout the state, there is
currently no means for these siloed communities to easily request
materials from the other.
The new white paper, titled #improveresourcesharing,
was drafted by the State Library's Resource Sharing Committee, and
it recommends several steps aimed at dealing with these problem:
- The development of
a technical and operational bridge between library systems that
allows the collections of one consortium to be discoverable and
requestable by libraries on other system.
- The raising of the
visibility of our rare and unique resources, including the
cataloging of the "dark" collections around the state, so these
rare resources are discoverable.
- Embrace a Patron
Driven Acquisition model
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Acknowledge that Interlibrary loan is a core service for every
library and commit to a process of continuous improvement.
To read the entire
#improveresourcesharing White Paper & the 2007 original,
please visit
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BCALA
Announces 2014 Presidential Awards Recipients
The Black Caucus of the American Library
Association (BCALA), America’s oldest and largest advocacy group for
African American Librarians, announced the 2014 Presidential Awards
Recipients.
Indiana State Library cataloger,
Michele T. Fenton, won the 2014
Distinguished Service to the Black Caucus of the American Library
Association award. Michele was recognized for her outstanding
contributions to the caucus, and library profession. To view the
news release from the BCALA, and a list of all this year’s
recipients, please
click here .
Indianapolis middle school wins 2014 Sara Jaffarian School Library
Program Award
An Indiana middle school library has been recognized by the
American Library Association (ALA) for its work in creating an innovative
genealogy program for eighth-graders.
Perry Meridian Middle School in Indianapolis won the 2014
Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming
for its “R.O.A.D. (Research, Observe, Analyze, Discover) I Travel” unit, created
in 2013 in partnership with the Indiana State Library and Indiana Historical
Society.
The school library will receive a plaque recognizing the
achievement, a cash award of $5,000 and promotion on ALA websites and
communications. You can view the entire ALA news release by clicking
here.
Register Now for
the Mother Goose on the Loose Training in August
Registration is now open for award-winning early literacy
program for children from birth to age 3, and their parents or
caregivers. The Mother Goose on the Loose training will be at four
Indiana locations. Dr. Betsy Diamant- Cohen is coming to Indiana to
present her training that include information about baby brain
development and school readiness.
This FREE workshop is worth 6 LEUs and will offer a hands-on Mother Goose on the Loose
session to teach participants how to implement the Mother Goose on the Loose
program at their libraries.
DATES & LOCATIONS
8/1/14: Owen County PL
8/2/14: Tippecanoe County PL
8/4/14:Decatur County School Corporation / Greensburg, IN
8/5/14: Muncie PL
All trainings will follow the following schedule:
9:00-12:00 / Training
12:00-1:00 / Lunch on your own
1:00-4:00 / Training
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