CAL was great this year; in fact the one complaint I heard was that there were too many good sessions being offered at the same time! CLiC had a lot of fun at their booth practicing our French and speaking to folks from around the State. Winners for our Nancy Pearl prizes are Sue Keefer – Fort Lyon Correctional Center and Megan Ellis – Aurora Public Library. Valerie’s presentation on “How to Manage Your Boss” and Shelley’s “Time Management: The GTD Way” were both highly attended and well received. Lisa was the proud recipient of the CAL award for the Best Technology project for LEO, which she graciously shared with the CLiC staff and Quipu group. Ross celebrated a “special” birthday, calling on his good humor while colleagues made sure everyone at the conference knew to wish him Happy Birthday. Robin had her first exposure to working in the booth and enjoyed meeting so many new people. Kudos to the planning committee, headed by Jen Cotton and Jo Sarling who did a fabulous job, and especially to Kathleen Nolan, who is just amazing. Everyone enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday and safe travels.
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CLiC at CAL 2007: Your source for finding CLiC activities!
THURSDAY
6:00 Nancy Pearl: The Pleasures and Perils of a Life of Reading: CLiC sponsored keynote
10:30-2:30 Celebrating a Winning Team – co-sponsor of preconference. Celebrate & acknowledge your principal for supporting an effective school library program
FRIDAY
8:00 – 5:30 Vive la France! Café (Booth 85 & 86)
10:15 Managing Your Boss without Kissing Up! (Steamboat Room)
Your career success is tied to the most important relationship you have at work — your boss! Valerie Horton, CLiC Executive Director
2:00 Leo’s First Birthday Bash (Booth 85 & 86)
Stop by for birthday cake and to enter a drawing for a Nancy Pearl Action figure
SATURDAY
8:00 – 1:00 Vive la French Café (Booth 85 & 86)
10:45 Time Management the GTD Way (Aspen)
Getting Things Done (GTD) in a less stressful way is David Allen’s
time management system.
Shelley Walchak, SW Regional Consultant and CE Director
Job Fair
3:00-5:30 Resume Critiques (Cooper Mountain)
CLiC staff and other librarians are available to review your resume
3:30-4:30 Career Connections—Panel (Telluride Room)
School, public, academic, special and consortium library staff offer tips and insights for the job searchers
4:30-5:30 CLiC table (Atrium)
Stop by and learn what it takes to be a CLiC employee
Don’t Delay! Scholarship applications for CAL Conference due on September 15th!!
In addition to the scholarships that CAL is offering to their November annual conference, the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) is pleased to offer the following scholarships to CAL:
Three (3) free registrations to the pre-conference on Advocacy on November 8th from 9 – 12.
Three (3) free registrations to the CAL conference – one each to a school, public, and academic librarian.
Recipients will be required to fill out an evaluation after attending the conference.
Please find the details and application forms on the CAL website via this link:
http://www.cal-webs.org/#103a
There are two separate application forms – one for the pre-conference and one for the conference (this application is for both the CAL scholarships and the CLiC scholarships.)
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Shelley Walchak swalchak@clicweb.org
“LEGAL ISSUES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYERS”and “PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION SKILLS”
Where and When?
Denver – 10/3/07
Grand Junction – 10/9/07
Pueblo – 10/26/07
What?
A one-day supervisory training workshop provided by the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)
Morning Session: Performance Documentation Skills
Performance Documentation Skills provides supervisors with the critical skills necessary to effectively manage and evaluate employee performance. Participants will learn a performance documentation process and understand its importance in preventing legal claims.
Afternoon Session: Legal Issues for Public Employers
The Legal Issues workshop enables professionals to address the increasingly complex legal issues involved in making employment decisions in today’s workplace. This session reviews the key federal and state laws that affect everyday employment decisions. Focus will be on Termination Issues, Privacy Issues, but will touch on Wrongful Discharge and Civil Rights Laws.
Who? Tina Harkness or Mark Parcheta, MSEC Trainers
Questions?
Contact: Shelley Walchak at CLiC swalchak@clicweb.org 719-650-1090
Registration
Visit LEO (Library Education Opportunities) at http://leo.clicweb.org to register.
CLiC anticipates hiring two Regional Consultants to provide a variety of services for individuals and multi-type libraries. Each consultant’s office may be located in a library or operate from home. One consultant will be located in the northeast (Denver area) and one in the southeast (Pueblo) part of Colorado. The regional consultant reports to the Executive Director.
Consultants are responsible for providing leadership in librarianship and library-related technologies. The consultant works with CLiC staff and other organizations in planning, evaluating, promoting, and coordinating learning opportunities and consulting that promote improved library services statewide. Technology expertise and/or experience in school libraries is preferred. Active involvement in a variety of professional associations is also preferred. For more information please use this link:
http://www.clicweb.org/about/Regional%20Consultant%20Job%20Description.doc
The conference in DC was great – learned a lot, met fascinating people, and stayed relatively cool for DC. Valerie presented a session on Sunday giving feedback on our Courier Conference last September. There were some complaints about undersized rooms, but all in all, the conference is well worth anyone’s time. Reports on the various council meetings can be found at http://coloradocouncilor.blogspot.com We had a get together at the Council suite for Coloradoans attending the conference and saw almost 20 folks, including Emerging Leaders, Dianna Fricke and Nikki Van Thiel. Monica Kirby from Spanish Peaks got an appointment with Senator Salazar at his office on the Hill and several people joined her for the 5 minute appointment! Over 2000 librarians invaded the Hill on Tuesday afternoon to speak up on library issues. I have a list of all the issues currently facing Congress that ALA put together if anyone is interested. (I had a mandatory Council meeting that prevented me from meeting with Senator Salazar.)
One of the many new things that ALA highlighted during the conference was their new public advocacy website, I Love Libraries. http://ilovelibraries.org The site contains a variety of features designed to attract—and hold the attention of—library lovers of all kinds: reviews of new and award-winning books, fast-breaking library news, library spotlights, a “find a library” feature, blogs and newsfeeds, as well as library-related links on YouTube and flickr. When you get a second, check it out!
Congratulations to several Coloradoans who received some grant money this month. Patty Chapman, Judy Van Acker and Sue Keefer received the Colorado State Library’s scholarship to attend ALA. This must have been Sue’s lucky month, because she also received an additional $5000 from Anschutz Family Foundation to boost her general operating costs to support ongoing programs that reach out to the Spanish community. Lastly, Gretchen Villers from Custer County School District received $5000 from ALA’s ALSC Division from their Bookapalooza Grant. This grant gives only 3 libraries across the country $5000 in free books.
Gretchen stated in her application,
“I want my students to experience not just the horses, cattle and rodeo of our ranching community, but to also know about Africa and New York City and people who are different from them. I believe it is through books that our children can experience this.”
Congratulations, Gretchen!
The point in all this is to encourage you to take some time to look at some of these opportunities and see if they fit with your goals. CLiC consultants are happy to offer advice and direct you to resources that can help make sure you have the best chance of receiving additional funding. If I missed anyone, please comment on my post!
Shelley
If you haven’t had the opportunity to attend one of our classes on Supervisory Training, now is the time to start. The full plan is listed on our website www.clicweb.org. Go to Continuing Education/Supervisory Training.
The next class being offered is “Budgeting Basics for Non-Profits.” This class is on May 16th in Pueblo. Here is the link to registration:
http://host.evanced.info/clicweb/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=21
If you have any questions, please contact Shelley Walchak swalchak@clicweb.org or 719-650-1090.
On March 22 a federal judge stuck down the very unpopular Child Online Protection Act (COPA), a law whose purpose was to protect children from harmful sexual materials. As the ALA website stated, COPA “made it a crime for commercial websites to allow access to “harmful” material without first verifying user ages.”
This law was originally passed in 1998, but it has never been enforced due to various injunctions and challenges. Those against the law state that it violates free speech. Since the law was only going to block US providers, it was unlikely that it was going to have much of an affect on filtering harmful materials to minors.
The federal judge commented that “perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection.” (ALA Website)
Do not confuse this law with COPPA, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which remains in force and limits the ability of sites to offer services to those aged twelve and under without explicit parental consent. (Wikipedia)
CLiC is offering to cover the registraton cost ($35) for six (6) people to attend the Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) MADCAL (Management and Administration Division) workshop, “Catching the Right Customer Service Program,” held May 22 in Frisco. For more information on the workshop event, click here. Selection will be based on a random drawing 3 weeks before the workshop event. Please complete the following form to apply. Recipients will be asked to contribute a comment on the CLiC Newsletter/Blog after attending the workshop. To access the application, click on the title of this post.
Contact:
Shelley Walchak
swalchak@clicweb.org
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