Libraries of the Future
Lakeland, Florida November 13, 2009
The Florida and Caribbean Chapter of SLA is offering student workshop grants
that will reimburse student registration fees as well as travel expenses of
up to $100 to attend. The Chapter may award up to five student grants to
qualified applicants.
STUDENT ELIGIBILITY AND REQUIREMENTS:
To be eligible for this grant to attend a Florida and Caribbean Chapter
workshop, you must be an accepted candidate for the master’s degree at one
of the ALA accredited schools of library science in the state of Florida or
the Caribbean and be a member of Special Libraries Association or an SLA
student group. Part-time and/or off-campus students are eligible as well as
full-time and resident students.
GUIDELINES:
Please submit the attached Student Application for Workshop Grant form.
Electronic submissions are required.
Sign up for this FREE webinar being presented on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Register here: http://tinyurl.com/yz3jwwv (Note: If this time doesn’t fit your schedule, you can find this and other programs in the Library Journal archive at http://www.libraryjournal.com/webcasts.)
Gate counts keep going up, but staff levels are not. Patrons’ technological needs are increasing, as many have lost their jobs and access to computers at the same time. Older patrons with little computer experience are finding that many insurance and financial forms need to be completed online. Is your staff ready to serve?
Library employee training budgets aren’t exactly getting fatter either, often forcing staff to just learn on the job or stagnate. And what about new hires? Are they expected to have already learned about your library’s technology as part of their education?
A group of training experts will discuss how ‘training up’ library staff can help stretch and boost the level of technological customer service your library can offer to patrons, and to the library itself. The webcast will also cover Web 2.0 tools and applications that make training sessions, documents, and support readily accessible and available on-demand, 24/7. From academe, we’ll hear how one library school program is preparing its students for high tech careers in our public, school, special, and academic libraries.
Panelists:
• Bud Hunt, Instructional Technologist, St. Vrain Valley School District, CO
• Kerry McGeath, City Librarian/Deputy Director, Community Services, Southlake Public Library, TX
• Claire McInerney, Department Chair, Associate Professor, Library and Information Science, Rutgers School of Communication and Information, NJ
Moderator: Brad Rogers, Director of Implementations, Polaris Library Systems
Stephanie F. Race
State Library and Archives of Florida
R.A. Gray Building, 2nd Floor North
500 South Bronough Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 sfrace@dos.state.fl.us
850.245.6630 voice
850.245.6643 fax
Need a digital camcorder for a class project? You can borrow one from the Goldstein Library (just like any other book or magazine).
How long you can have it depends on your status (undergraduates-3 weeks, graduate students-6 weeks, faculty-16 weeks) however the camera is renewable 3X like any book, as long as no one recalls it.
The hard case contents include: camcorder (with 2 batteries loaded and 4 spares), battery charger, usb cord, and jump drive.
Distance students may request a camcorder by sending an email to: library@ci.fsu.edu You must include a valid shipping address. The College will pay for shipping both ways.
Local students: come in and ask for the checkout.
??? Call/email/IM The Desk at Goldstein Library (850 644-1803 / library@ci.fsu.edu / goldsteinlibrary)
With the arrival of hurricane season on June 1, Florida’s public libraries have a vital role to play in helping their communities prepare for and recover from hurricanes and other severe storms. The Florida State University’s Information Use Management & Policy Institute at the College of Information has unveiled a new Web site that will help libraries meet the challenge.
The institute is coordinating a project that brings together emergency response agencies, the State Library and Archives of Florida, the Lyrasis library network and Florida’s libraries to share resources and hard-won wisdom. The project’s Web site, www.ii.fsu.edu/hurricanes, identifies key service roles, best practices, tools and resources that enable better use of the public library in community hurricane preparation and recovery. It includes checklists of steps librarians can take to provide better service to their communities.
“This project offers a great opportunity for Florida public libraries to better demonstrate the range of services and responses they can provide during such disasters,” said Francis Eppes Professor Charles R. McClure, director of the Use Management & Policy Institute and the project’s primary investigator.
Public libraries currently provide a range of useful hurricane and disaster preparation and recovery services to their communities, but their individual efforts are often isolated and the knowledge gained unavailable to the rest of the library community. There has been no systematic effort to identify the roles, best practices, activities, tools and resources developed by local public libraries for their communities and to make them available to the larger library profession.
Funded by a $311,440 grant from the Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Management Center at FSU’s College of Business, the project is intended to help library staffs in two ways: first, to prepare them for their many roles during a natural disaster; and second, to help them let their communities know about all the services available at libraries. For example:
Safe Haven: The public library is the community’s living room before and after a storm, with safe, secure buildings, relaxing space, light, air conditioning, bathrooms and comfortable chairs.
Normal Service: The community counts on normal library service before and after a storm, be it book, DVD, Internet use, reference or family programming. Normal library service provides hope, re-establishes a local government presence, reduces stress, returns normalcy and offers recreation and distraction.
Disaster Recovery Center: The public library offers the community a disaster recovery center (DRC), whether it’s a FEMA designated DRC; a place to prepare residents for a DRC visit; a point of distribution (POD) or a local neighborhood place to make sense of the disaster that has just occurred.
Information Hub: The community counts on the library, before and after a storm, to be a communication hub (offering copiers, phones, fax, computers, WiFi, Internet access rechargers), as well as to offer hurricane preparation and recovery information and assistance.
Cultural Organizations Liaison: The public library may serve as a liaison between emergency management and the community’s tourist attractions and cultural institutions.
Evacuee Resource: Evacuees turn to the nearest public library for safe haven, normal service, emergency information hub services and as a disaster recovery center.
Improvisation: The community counts on the public library during a disaster to improvise and do whatever is needed as directed by emergency management and local government.
The institute will continue to provide training, as well as refine and expand the project Web site, throughout the next few months.
The College of Information invites you to attend the graduation receptions for our Graduate and Undergraduate students Friday May 1, 2009.
Graduate Students
Will be gathering in the Goldstein Library 3:00-4:30pm. It is located on the main floor of the Louis Shores Building. Please contact Candace Ooten if you need assistance.
Undergraduate Students
Will be gathering in 006 Shores from 2:15-3:00pm. Arrive 2;15 Ceremony 2:30-3 Please attend if you are graduating. Please attend and support those graduating if you are NOT graduating this semester AITP will be giving out AITP graduation cords as well as awards. Please contact Professor Randeree if you need assistance and/or if you are attending
