Index
- Make your voice heard; register for Library Legislative Day on Feb. 5
- Member/Staff News
- Remember to follow movie license promotion guidelines
- LSTA Advisory Committee meeting, public hearing scheduled
- Why do we still need libraries?
- OverDrive App Comes to Nook
- 2012 National Book Awards announced
- Continuing Education Calendar
Make your voice heard; register for Library Legislative Day on Feb. 5
Library Legislative Day, which is scheduled Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, is an excellent opportunity to learn what is important to public officials and, in the process, position yourself as a resource on library issues.
This year’s event will be held
at the Inn on the Park near the State Capitol. Whether your library is an
academic, school, or public, legislators need to hear from you about important
library issues. Legislative Day is an opportunity to make connections with
legislators and their staff members, and attendance this year will be
especially important because of recent changes to legislative districts.
SCLS wants to ensure that every legislator in our seven-county service area has library visitors, so we encourage library staff to register early. You’re also encouraged to bring board members, local elected officials, and other library supporters.
Appointments will be made for you and others from your legislative district. Background materials and a briefing that morning will give you talking points on the issues. Professional lobbyists will provide tips for having an effective meeting.
Registration will be available soon at wla.wisconsinlibraries.org/legislative/legislative-day, but mark your calendars now and reserve the date.
If you have questions about Library Legislative Day, or about library advocacy, contact Mark Ibach.
Madison Public Library welcomes Neal Davidson (rehire, Page 2, Lakeview Library), Maggie Spoerke (Page 2, Reference and User Services), and Ruth Smith (Page 2, Pinney Library).
Pamela Thompson is the new director at the LaValle Public Library, and is currently finishing her degree from UW-Madison in History and Journalism. In the past she has been a skateboarder, a photographer, a newspaper reporter, an administrative assistant, an assistant librarian at the Wonewoc Public Library, and once worked as a meat grinder in a market. "My favorite position -- until now," Thompson said, "was as a burial site researcher at the State Historical Society."
The Sun Prairie, Portage County and Lettie
W. JensenPublic Libraries won special LEGO DUPLO Read! Build! Play! toolkits
chock full of cutting edge, early literacy programming that combines preschool
books with a versatile collection of DUPLO bricks. The contest was sponsored by
Lego and the Association for Library Service to Children. Lego has also created
a Librarian
toolkit and Parent
guide for using Lego and Duplo blocks to strengthen early literacy. More
information about the program, including a list of all library winners, is
available at http://readbuildplay.com.
The October issue of WSLL @ Your Service has been published at http://wilawlibrary.gov/newsletter/1210.html.
Remember to follow movie license promotion guidelines
Many SCLS member libraries have
purchased the rights to show movies through Movie Licensing USA, and there are
some important requirements to keep in mind when promoting those movies, and
also some resources to help promote movies.
When developing advertising or promotional materials to be used outside the library, libraries need to remember that they can’t use the name of the movie or the studio. “Outside the library” includes your website and school or other organization newsletters. Use of the movie and studio names are allowed on promotional materials for in-library use. More information about these advertising and promotion guidelines is available at www.movlic.com/library/advertising.html.
If you’re looking for ways to promote movies at your library, you can download posters, bookmarks, activity sheets, and a customizable invitation that you can send to groups and/or organizations in the community. These promotional resources are available at www.movlic.com/PDFWeb/libraryLogin.aspx. To access these materials, libraries need to log in with their license number.
LSTA Advisory Committee meeting, public hearing scheduled
Wisconsin's Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Committee will meet in DeForest on Wednesday Nov. 7, 2012, at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 5025 County Highway V, to discuss grant proposals and make award recommendations for LSTA projects to take place in 2013.
As a part of the meeting, there will be a public hearing beginning at 10 a.m. on Nov. 7 for interested persons to make suggestions on the LSTA program for 2014. Final guidelines for the 2014 LSTA program will be developed in April 2013.
If you are unable to attend the public hearing, written comments may be submitted by letter, fax, or e-mail to Terrie Howe, P.O. Box 7841, Madison, WI 53707-7841; fax (608) 267-9207. Testimony must arrive by 4 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 6, for inclusion in the hearing.
--from Channel Weekly (Vol. 15, No. 5 – Oct. 4, 2012)
Why do we still need libraries?
An article published in Thought Catalog on Sept. 30 is a good read for librarians, and anyone who values the important role libraries play in our society.
The article was written by Chels Knorr, who lives in Southern California with her husband, Tyler, and her dog, Goose. She works as an associate editor for two monthly health-care publications and is a student at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts.
Borrowing eBooks and audiobooks from the library just got a
whole lot easier for users of the NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK Tablet™ and NOOK
Color™. Last week, Barnes & Noble added the OverDrive Media Console (OMC)
app to the NOOK Apps™ storefront. This NOOK app enables users to wirelessly borrow eBooks and MP3 audiobooks from
the library.
All NOOK devices, including NOOK 1st Edition, NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight, have always enabled users to read eBooks borrowed from libraries and schools, but the process required sideloading the files from a computer using Adobe Digital Editions and a USB cable. Now users of NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color can borrow eBooks and audiobooks wirelessly using the OverDrive app.
Users can visit the NOOK Apps storefront to install the free OverDrive Media Console (OMC) app. The app enables users to locate a library or school nearby, browse or search their eBook and MP3 audiobook collection and, after entering a valid library card or school ID, check out and download the title for a lending period of one to three weeks (depending on the library or school's policies). At the end of the lending period, the title simply expires.
The version of OMC available in the NOOK Apps storefront is OMC for Android v2.5, so any instructions found on library Help pages related to OMC for Android will apply to the NOOK app. While the app is free, users will need a valid NOOK account in order to download the app.
2012 National Book Awards announced
The 2012
National Book Awards were announced this week, carrying on a tradition that
began on March 16, 1950, when publishers, editors, writers, and critics gathered
in New York City to celebrate the first annual National Book Awards, an award
given to writers by writers.
The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America.
More than a half-century since its inception, the National Book Awards continues to recognize the best of American literature, raising the cultural appreciation of great writing in the country while advancing the careers of both established and emerging writers like Richard Powers, Jonathan Franzen, and Lily Tuck.
Awards are presented for Fiction, Non Fiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. You can find the complete list of this year’s award recipients at www.nationalbook.org/nba2012.html.