Index
- Mark your calendar for 2018 Cornerstone Award Reception on Oct. 18
- Randolph extends search for new library director
- Member/Staff News
- WPLC Popup Picks, Overdrive Collection Overview
- ALA Great Stories Club project designed to engage underserved teens
- Afterschool Universe training available
- Continuing Education Calendar
Mark your calendar for 2018 Cornerstone Award Reception on Oct. 18
Be sure to mark your calendar for the 10thannual Cornerstone Award Reception, to be held Thursday, Oct. 18, at Babe’s Grill & Bar, 5614 Schroeder Road in Madison.
Corporate sponsors for this year’s award reception, which will run from 5-7 p.m., are Bibliotheca,First Business Bankand Hausmann-Johnson Insurance. The SCLS Foundation Board will honor Alice Oakey (right) as the recipient of the 2018 Cornerstone Award. Alice is the former supervisor of Madison Public Library’s Meadowridge Library, 5726 Raymond Road. Also presented that evening will be the:
- Super Awesome Library Award,
- Giddy Up Partner Award,
- Program Wizard Award, and
- Outstanding Library Volunteer Award.
Charitable contributions (printable form or online) made prior to Oct. 15, 2018, will be included in the reception program as event sponsors.
“The South Central Library System (SCLS) Foundation Board is excited to honor a librarian like Alice Oakey who has such a passion and commitment for community service,” said Janet Pugh, SCLS Foundation Board President. “She epitomizes the Cornerstone Award, which is given annually to an individual or individuals who have had a significant and long-term impact on enhancing public libraries in South Central Wisconsin. Alice truly represents the values and mission of the South Central Library System Foundation.”
You can read more about Alice in a previous issue of Online Update.
The Cornerstone Award Reception is the SCLS Foundation’s annual fundraising event that helps determine the financial support the foundation can provide to SCLS member libraries in subsequent years.
According to SCLS Foundation guidelines, 50 percent of the monies donated in any given year are made available to support projects that provide benefit to SCLS member libraries. In the past, the SCLS Foundation has provided funds for:
- OverDrive Advantage,
- Lego Mindstorms kits,
- Social Services Symposium,
- Door counter kits,
- Scanning kits for historical document digitization, and
- Hard drives and Recollection Wisconsin fees for libraries involved in digitization projects.
The Cornerstone Award reception is open to everyone, it is free of charge, and there is no need to register. There will be light refreshments and a cash bar.
Mark your calendar and make plans to join us for this annual celebration of libraries, and the people who make them great!
Randolph extends search for new library director
The charming Village of Randolph, population 1,800, has extended the search to replace its retired library director. Randolph has had a public library since 1872 and this beautiful building since 1936. Expanded and modernized in 1997, the building is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The comfortable, modern Hutchinson Memorial Library is located less than six miles from three different lakes, is approximately one hour from Madison and Wisconsin Dells, and is less than a one-hour drive to five different colleges. The Village is self-contained with a beautiful park and pool, shops, churches, two parochial grade schools and a new modern public school grades pre-K to12.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Candidates should be eligible for Grade Three Wisconsin Public Librarian certification, have a minimum of three years of increasingly responsible professional library experience including significant administrative and supervisory responsibility, or can be a recent MLS graduate. A Bachelor’s degree is required.
More information, a complete job description, and application form are available through the Hutchinson Memorial Library website.
The director salary is $16-$18 per hour commensurate with education and experience. A competitive benefits package including health insurance, Wisconsin State retirement program, paid sick days, and paid vacations.
Applications should be emailed to Shawn McConnell at [email protected] or mailed to:
Search Committee
Hutchinson Memorial Library
228 North High Street
Randolph, WI 53956
The Village of Randolph is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants with a disability may request accommodations needed in the application and/or interview process.
The September issue of WSLL @ Your Service is now online. As always, your comments are welcome. Please direct them to the editor, Carol Hassler. In this issue: Six sources we love (Part one)-- September is Library Card Signup Month. To mark it, we want to share with you some great databases and sources that you can access for free with your library card (read more); Help us improve our website-- We'd like your help improving our website. Take our surveys (read more); Grand juries-- To mark Juror Appreciation Month, we're focusing on a lesser-known aspect of jury service in Wisconsin: grand juries (read more); New books-- Our featured new titles this month are U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization Handbookand Firearms Law Deskbook. Don't miss our monthly new book list as well (read more); Tech tip-- Cell phone video is ubiquitous these days. However, viewing a cell phone video on a Windows PC can be problematic. This month's tip helps you convert those videos (read more); Library news-- Several CLE-credit classes are scheduled for fall at our Madison and Milwaukee locations (read more); September snapshot-- Photos of Edgar Allan Poe memorials, taken while in Baltimore for the American Association of Law Libraries conference (read more).
WPLC Popup Picks, Overdrive Collection Overview
Read the newest Popup Picks now until January 2019! This quarter's Popup Picks includes curated collections from Publishers Weekly, Library Partners Press, TidalWave Productions, ShoutMouse Press, and more.
The Popup Picks collection provides unlimited access to hand-curated, award-winning fiction, travel, humor, self-help, graphic novels and other ebooks and personal picks from leading expert curators.
Interested in what's coming up in January? Visit http://popuppicks.com.
There is also an excellent Overdrive Collection Overview available from the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC) It provides details about the collection that may be useful when marketing the service locally to residents, or to municipal representatives during budget discussions.
ALA Great Stories Club project designed to engage underserved teens
Are you interested in making a difference in the lives of young people in your community? If so, you’re invited to be part of a new program from the American Library Association (ALA).
The Great Stories Club series on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation will engage underserved teens through library outreach partnerships, reading and discussion programs, and racial healing work, led by library workers like you.
Participating libraries will work with small groups of approximately 10 teens; provide up to four theme-related books for each participant to keep as their own; convene opportunities for exploration and discussion of humanities content among peers; and offer an interactive session for program participants led by a racial healing practitioner(s).
Up to 70 libraries will be selected to participate. All library types are eligible, as long as they work in partnership with, or are located within, an organization that works with under-resourced youth. Read the full project guidelines.
Choose one of the following themes:
- "Deeper than Our Skins: The Present Is a Conversation with the Past"
- "Finding Your Voice: Speaking Truth to Power"
Benefits include:
- 11 copies of up to four books on the reading list
- A programming grant of up to $1,200
Travel and accommodation expenses paid for a two-day orientation workshop in Chicago.
Applications are due November 16. Learn more and apply online at apply.ala.org/greatstories.
Afterschool Universe training available
NASA Goddard is happy to announce its next Afterschool Universe training to be held Oct. 16-17, and the deadline for registration is Sept. 30. This training is free to all participants, and contingent upon sufficient signups.
This will be a two-day comprehensive, in-person training that will prepare you to lead their program or train others to do so. After successfully completing this training, you will receive a certificate which documents your participation.
You can sign up for this training on the NASA Goddard website.