This past Tuesday and Wednesday 31 people gathered during lunch to hear Nicole Engard the editor of “Library Mashups”, explain what mashups are, how they can be used, shared examples from libraries and how to create a mashup using Yahoo Pipes. If you missed either lunch time webinar the archives are available on the CLiC website under Continuing Education, Webinar Archives.
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CALL FOR PRESENTERS!
The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) invites submissions for presentations at our Spring Workshops in 2010 in the following locations:
Grand Junction, March 1 & 2
Fort Collins, April 8
Pueblo, April 15 & 16
Does your library have a resident trainer to assist staff, patrons, or students in learning more about the AIRS databases? AIRS is offering a full day of training with an experienced trainers who will teach you how to train others. You will achieve hands-on experience and walk away with materials to share. Registration and information can be found on LEO, http://leo.clicweb.org. Classes are small and space is limited. Sign up early! The cost is $15, and includes continental breakfast and lunch.
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For Public and School Libraries:
January 29th – 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (registration and breakfast begin at 8:30)
Mesa County Public Library District – Main Branch
Register at: http://tinyurl.com/TrainTheTrainerJunction
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February 12 – 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (registration and breakfast begin at 8:30)
Pueblo City/County Library District – Rawlings Branch
Register at: http://tinyurl.com/TrainTheTrainerPueblo
This session prepares public librarians for training your staff and library patrons. There will be a review of training resources and techniques for available EBSCO Resources. An overview of the following key topics will also be covered:
• Advanced Searching Options
• Options to Limit and Expand Search Results
• My EBSCOhost Folder
• Creating Alerts
Some of the EBSCO Resources to be covered include: EBSCOhost, Consumer Health Complete, Novelist, Points of View, Literary Reference Center and a summary of key databases available for public libraries.
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For Academic Libraries:
March 17 – 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (registration and breakfast begin at 8:30)
Greeley – University of Northern Colorado (Michener Library)
Register at: http://tinyurl.com/TrainTheTrainerGreeley
This is a hands-on Train-the-Trainer session with a focus on products for Academic Libraries to help prepare for training your staff and students. It includes a review of training resources and techniques for available EBSCO Resources, an overview of the following key topics will also be covered:
• Advanced Searching Options
• Options to Limit and Expand Search Results
• Searching Multiple Databases
• Using Cited References
• My EBSCOhost Folder
• Creating Alerts
Some of the EBSCO Resources to be covered include: EBSCOhost, Literary Reference Center, Points of View and a summary of available databases for academic libraries.
Whether your library subscribes to the AIRS EBSCO database package or not, we’d like to invite you to attend one or more of the upcoming webinars in September and October. There will be general sessions to help you learn more about the AIRS package and the new EBSCO interface. Sessions are geared toward different types of libraries. There will be several database specific webinars to provide indepth information on databases such as Academic Search Premier, Consumer Health Complete, and Science Reference Center. All webinars are taught by knowledgeable EBSCO training staff. Don’t worry if you can’t make a particiular webinar, CLiC and EBSCO will work to archive the sessions on the CLiC website so you may view them at your convenience. A schedule of the webinars can be found in LEO, http://leo.clicweb.org. Just Browse by Organization “AIRS”. No preregistration is required and directions to access the webinar are included in each LEO event entry.
EBSCO trainers will also come to your library to conduct training. This may be scheduled with your CLiC consultant.
Each of these training opportunities is FREE and we hope you will take advantage of as many as you can. Your questions may be directed to Lisa Priebe at CLiC, lpriebe@clicweb.org, 303.422.1150.
The Vendor Awards documents were distributed in December to all public, academic, and special libraries. All school buildings will receive a copy in the January State Library mailing. This year we worked with the vendors to make sure discounts were better than what a library could normally receive ordering on their own. Some vendors will add a flag to your record indicating you are a CLiC member and can receive the discounts others do not. It’s always wise to check when placing your order to make sure you receive the best discount possible.
We’d like to know your thoughts about the program and are always looking for ways to improve. I’d like to thank the 108 people who have completed the short survey and thank everyone else in advance to completing it before February 1st. Click on this link to acccess the survey, http://tinyurl.com/2ochxu.
On January 5th, Weld Library District opened its newest branch, the Erie Community Library. They opened the library with a big splash including fireworks and great food. Janine Reid, the District’s Executive Director, lead tours explaining the building’s amazing features.
Fireworks and good food aside, the star of the evening was the building itself. As you walk through the doors, you enter an inviting teen area and media collection on one side, and a single service point and children’s collections immediately on the other. The design welcomes you into the library and charms you with their breezy, colorful kite motifs. A kite decorates the attractive store-front stacks, and a HUGE kite makes up the roof of the children’s storytime room, while its tail snakes through ceiling creating a great place for banners and colorful displays.
This is a green building in the best sense of the word. The District spent $145,000 making sure that mechanical, electrical, and water systems perform 33% above the ASHRAE Standard, saving $10,000 in operations per year! A smart investment in the future for Erie’s citizens. The building’s unique features include:
• An under floor air distribution system. The picture below shows a see-through tile revealing the under floor workings
• Day-lighting with photo-sensors
• R30 insulation
• Xeriscape landscaping and drip systems
• Low water plumbing and solar faucets
• Low-emitting materials in paint, carpet, etc.
Janine Reid, Executive Director, spent the last three years working to open this amazing new building. She wrote a time capsule letter. Here’s a brief excerpt: “I hope people find this to be a place of discovery and imagination, as well as life-long learning. I hope this place turns out to be a great equalizer, providing access to everyone. No matter what form the library takes in 50 years, I hope this library remains indispensable and relevant and continues to provide tools for learning, understanding and progress. With love and gratitude, I celebrate the future.”
Janine didn’t do it all alone; she had ample help from the District’s top notch staff, including Jody Hungenberg, Erie’s manger. Jody hopes that “the Erie Community Library will become a destination for everyone in the community.” Make Erie your destination and see Colorado’s new, green library!
Erie Community Library Facts and Figures
• Capacity is over 80,000 items
• Opening day collection will be over 50,000 items
• 20,000 square feet
• 1000 sq ft living room with fireplace
• Drive up book drop
• Children’s activity area and storytime kite
• Outdoor features include a Peace Garden and patio area
• Multi-purpose room to accommodate larger groups
• Mobile laptops
• Express Check machines
• Study room
• Express book collection
• Area designed especially for teens
Valerie Horton, Executive Director, CLIC
LEO – Library Education Opportunity calendar turned one year old last weekend at CAL. Some new features were unveiled that make LEO an even more valuable tool.
- For RSS users, LEO has an RSS Feed. No need to remember to check LEO, just watch for changes through the feed.
- Thirty-four organizations add event to LEO and all those sponsoring organization acronyms can be confusing. The new Acronym List link on the Browse page will help you decipher all those codes!
- Drop down lists are available from the Advanced Search page for searches by topic and/or Target Audience.
- Events can now list multiple sponsoring organizations – great for collaborative events!
- Multiple day events may have different beginning and ending times by day.
LEO had some impressive first year statistics.
- 3888 unique visits
- 188 events
- 2442 keyword searches
- 12,355 browses by calendar month, organization or topic
LEO’s continued growth is up to all of us. It’s a great place to find continuing education events, determine what is already scheduled if your organization is choosing dates for an event, and a great place to advertise events to the library community.
LEO bookmarks are now available from CLiC. Just send me an email, lpriebe@clicweb.org with your name, library, and number of bookmarks you’d like.
There were many session on Gaming this year at Internet Librarian. It sounds like a great way to get kids into the library and I’d like to share these tips from Jenny Levine’s session on Gaming.
o Small library allows each person to play two hours a week. Additional time can be gained by having a library card, writing book reports …
o Librarians have created trading cards – if kids get all trading cards, get a cookie (Look up examples in Flickr.com – “Librarian Trading Cards”)
o Runescape – bogs down the network, 3 – 5 on Thursday and 5 – 7 on Friday. Have set hours rather than banning because it bogs down your network.
o Dance, Dance Revolution – great way to get kids to behave, tallest vs. shortest contest (brings high school and middle school kids together) Hey I want to try this! How about a parents and kids night.
o Wake Forest has a gaming space – students bring their own equipment and organize themselves
o Set up Guitar Hero during finals allows students to let off steam
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Day two was filled with many wonderful learning experiences. There are so many free tools that we could explore to help keep ourselves connected while saving funds for other resources.
I saw a video of Judy Van Acker singing about the new Open Source ILS system at her library, Koha. Nice job Judy!
Tip of the Day:
How can you help others navigate the Library 2.0 learning maze?
o Throw away teacher/trainer title – become a learning guide (you don’t need to know everything)
o It’s about Learning not Training
o Remove the classroom – encourage participants to learn from one another
o Exposure is the 1st step towards learning
o Learners have as much to share as guides
o Focus on fun
I’m attending Internet Librarian in Monterey, CA and enjoying the stimulating and inspiring sessions. I plan to share a few practical tips each day from the conference. I hope you’ll share with the Blog your comments and ideas.
Tip # 1: Web/Library 2.0 can be overwhelming. Before diving too far into these technologies find out which your patrons are using. You don’t have to be everywhere – blogging, Facebook, MySpace, SecondLife, and producing Podcasts or YouTube videos. Learn from your users where they are and go there. Remember if you do go there with them, it’s a commitment. This is social networking and it requires you to be “social” on a regular basis.
Tip # 2: You’re a small library and need extra technology help. Look as far as your local high school. Chances are there will be a budding technology expert looking for a project and it could be @ your library!
Tip # 3: If you’re looking to redesign your website or create one for the first time, go for simplicity and allow the user to personalize their experience on your website. One example is the Johnson County Library in Kansas City, MO, http://www.jocolibrary.org/.
Tip # 4: Looking for Readers Advisory online. Check out Hennepin County’s new site, bookspace.com.
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