Index
- Trustee Update newsletter now published online
- Project READY application deadline is Oct. 31
- Power your job search with Google Tools, a virtual workshop for staff and patrons
- Tools available for library return on investment calculations
- YALSA announces 2020 Teens’ Top Ten titles
- Continuing Education Calendar
Trustee Update newsletter now published online
Since Fall of 2007, the South Central Library System (SCLS) has published the Trustee Update newsletter that has been mailed to all library trustees. The most recent issue of the newsletter marks the move to a new online format.
SCLS will send email announcements of new issues to library trustees and directors.
“Library trustees are vital to the success of public libraries,” said Martha Van Pelt, SCLS director. “This transition away from a print newsletter will save on printing and postage costs while still allowing us to provide timely information to trustees and directors.”
The plan is to continue publishing three newsletters per year, but the electronic format allows us to easily share other timely articles if the need arises. If you don’t receive email notices about new issues, that means we don’t have your email address on file. To be added to the email distribution list, trustees or directors should send an email to Mark Ibach and ask to be added to the Trustee Update email list.
Trustee Update joins the SCLS Foundation newsletter that was moved to an online format in August.
Project READY application deadline is Oct. 31
The Library Team consisting of DPI staff from the Public Library and School Media teams is excited to offer public library youth services and school library staff in Wisconsin the opportunity to participate in free virtual learning cohorts that will cover topics of race, equity, and access.
Project READY stands for Project Reimagining Equity and Access for Diverse Youth. In 2019, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS) developed Project READY from extensive collaboration and investigation to help library staff serving youth create more inclusive and equitable programming.
To learn more about Project READY please visit https://dpi.wi.gov/wilibrariesforeveryone/are-you-ready-project-ready. The application deadline is Saturday, Oct. 31.
Power your job search with Google Tools, a virtual workshop for staff and patrons
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is partnering with Grow with Google and the American Library Association to help communities learn digital skills, with a virtual workshop on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 9 a.m.
A Grow with Google trainer will teach your patrons and library staff to discover new job opportunities using Google Search, and learn how to organize and enhance the job search experience using Google Workspace tools.
This session will discuss best practices for:
- discovering career opportunities using Job Search on Google;
- using Google Sheets to track the progress of job applications; and
- creating a resume using Google Docs
To register:
- co/Grow/Wisconsin
- A Google meet link will be provided upon registration.
Again, this workshop is for patrons and staff alike. Please share this learning opportunity in your community and in your library using these ready-to-go marketing items, including a flyer and social media images and messaging.
About Grow with Google
Grow with Google helps ensure that the opportunities created by technology are available to everyone. Since launching in 2017, more than 3 million Americans have been trained on digital skills. And through a network of more than 5,000 partner organizations -- including local libraries, schools, and nonprofits -- more people across the country can reach their full potential. To learn more about Grow with Google partners and the available tools and resources, visit google.com/grow.
--reprinted from WI Libraries for Everyone
Tools available for library return on investment calculations
Assigning a value to the services and resources your library provides is an important tool in these uncertain times, and one way to do that is through a “Return on Investment” (ROI) calculation.
The EveryLibrary Institute is working with the Syracuse University School of Information Studies to establish a collaborative project between researchers and practitioners with the goal of developing an open-access interactive online platform that increases understanding of return on investment of public libraries at the local, state, and national level. The project is also trying to identify the major factors influencing ROI, including similarities and disparities among libraries, and is working to foster the collective impact of libraries in the 21st Century and then help communicate that value.
The EveryLibrary Institute prototype ROI Map is built from data provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It includes data from every library that participated in the 2016 data collection. In this interactive map, you can find your library and view your library's preliminary return-on-investment (ROI) indicator. This ROI indicator is based on early data and is displayed only for informative purposes. While the project is ongoing, new data points will be incorporated to include local funding issues and more accurately represent the return on investment for our nation's libraries. In most cases, once that data in incorporated, these ROI measures will drastically increase.
Another tool available to libraries within the South Central Library System is a Library Use & ROI Calculator that measures the personal use of library patrons. While there may be a desire to use this to calculate a library’s ROI to the community, is was created to reflect only the personal use of one patron or family.
Libraries can link to the SCLS calculator from their websites, or Rose Ziech can work with individual libraries to set up a library specific calculator on their website. Contact Mark Ibach for more information.
YALSA announces 2020 Teens’ Top Ten titles
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has announced the official titles of the 2020 Teens’ Top Ten.
The top ten titles are as follows:
- Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2) by Rainbow Rowell -- Wednesday Books/Macmillan (9781250146076).
- Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell. Illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks -- First Second/Macmillan (9781626721623).
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo -- HarperTeen/HarperCollins. 9780062662835).
- Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff -- Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House (9781524720995).
- Broken Throne: A Red Queen Collection by Victoria Aveyard -- HarperTeen/ HarperCollins (9780062423023).
- #MurderFunding (#MurderTrending #2) by Gretchen McNeil -- Freeform/Disney Book Group (9781368026277).
- We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya) by Hafsah Faizal -- Farrar Straus Giroux /Macmillan (9780374311544).
- Lovely War by Julie Berry -- Viking/Penguin Random House (9780451469939).
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power -- Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House (9780525645580).
- The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy -- Blink/HarperCollins Publishing (9780310767657).
Download the full list with annotations on the Teens’ Top Ten webpage.
Teens aged 12-18 can nominate their favorite titles to be considered as a 2021 Teens’ Top Ten nominee via the public nomination form by Dec. 31. For books to be eligible for consideration for 2021, they must be published between Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2020. Since the start of the year, YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten book groups, which are made up of teen book groups from libraries across the U.S., have been reading advanced reading copies and nominating titles.
The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year. Teens everywhere can nominate their favorite titles to become an official nominee of the upcoming Teens' Top Ten. Nominations are posted in April during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year between Aug. 15 and the third week in October.
A digital image of a Teens’ Top Ten seal for nominated titles is available to publishers for licensing. Arrangements can be made through ALA's Rights and Permissions office for publishers who need permission to reproduce the seal on a paperback edition or book jacket. Contact [email protected] or Mary Jo Bolduc, (312) 280-5416 or (312) 944-8741 (fax) for information.
The mission of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) is to support library staff in alleviating the challenges teens face, and in putting all teens ‒ especially those with the greatest needs ‒ on the path to successful and fulfilling lives. For more information about YALSA or to access national guidelines and other resources go to www.ala.org/yalsa, or contact the YALSA office by phone, 800-545-2433, ext. 4390; or e-mail: [email protected].