Mini Grants Deadline Extended
By ann | April 18, 2013
Access for All Abilities (AAA) Mini-Grants deadline extended to May 3, 2013. For complete details and to access the application, go to www.sherlockcenter.org.
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New England Music Library Association Meeting
By Donna DiMichele | April 10, 2013
New England Music Library Association Meeting
When: Friday, May 10, 2013
Where: Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
The program will include the following presentations:
- Anthony Helm (Dartmouth College) Enabling and Encouraging Student Media Production in the Jones Media Center
- Anna Kijas (University of Connecticut) Creating an Alt-Bio-Bibliography using Omeka and Geo-spatial Tools
- Ramona Islam (Harvard Library) and Reed Lowrie (Harvard Library) Busy Bees: Training Non-Music Librarians to do Music Reference
- Sam Cook (University of Hartford) Improving OPAC Displays Through XSLT: A Koha Success Story
There will be opportunities to vist the Music Library and Baker/Berry Library, and attend the annual Pow-Wow held on the campus on Saturday.
The registration fee is $12; students, retired, and unemployed persons are eligible for a reduced rate of $6.
A catered lunch will be available for an additional $12. Payment will be taken at the meeting for both registration and lunch. NEMLA accepts all major credit/debit cards, checks, and cash.
If you are attending a NEMLA meeting for the first time, the registration fee may be waived. However, please be sure to register so you will have a name tag and to ensure adequate refreshments.
Register online by Friday, May 3, 2013.
Please visit the NEMLA wiki for current information regarding the program, meeting registration, restaurants in the area, and more.
If you have questions, contact Jennifer Hunt
Program Chair & Vice-Chair,
New England Music Library Association
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Digital Preservation Management Workshop
By Donna DiMichele | April 10, 2013
Call for Applications for the Digital Preservation Management Workshop
The Digital Preservation Management Workshop is happy to announce a five-day Digital Preservation Management Workshop directed by Nancy McGovern.
When: 6/9/2013 6:00 PM EDT – 6/14/2013 12:00 PM EDT
Host: Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The on-line Application will open this Thursday, April 11th at 11:00am eastern time. Spaces are limited to 24 so we encourage you to submit your application sooner than later.
Workshop Goals
- Promote Practical and Responsible Stewardship of Digital Assets
- Foster critical thinking in a technological realm and provide the means for exercising practical and responsible stewardship of digital assets in an age of technological uncertainty. The workshop sessions are geared towards making a digital preservation program doable for any organization and all of the sessions include as many relevant examples as possible.
Workshop Audience
The workshop series is intended for managers who are or will be responsible for digital preservation programs in libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions.
Workshop Content
The workshop includes interactive presentations, group discussions, exercises, individual assignments, and a keynote presentation by an international expert in digital preservation. Workshop attendees explore the range of components needed to develop an effective digital preservation program. Workshop materials include action plans for organizations to complete when participants return to their institutions. Action plans result in organization-specific plans that incorporate technical, financial, organizational, and policy aspects encompassing the full life cycle of digital objects. The workshop focuses on strategies for organizations to implement now, while research and development goes forward in creating longer-term solutions that can be incorporated into the program framework.
Contact Digital Preservation Management Workshop organizers
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Conducting Outreach with Immigrants, free webinar
By Donna DiMichele | April 8, 2013
The Healthy Communities, Community of Interest, invites you to join us for:
Conducting Outreach with Immigrants, free webinar
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 2 – 3 PM
Presenter: Lorena Sprager
Register (Free, but you must register)
The presenter will offer ways to establish a relationship with immigrant communities as well as ways to partner with them to conduct outreach. We will also address how fear related to the current climate towards immigrants affects outreach and share a new, free resource that supports people who conduct outreach with immigrants. Then we will learn about a specific outreach project and how it impacted the immigrant community it was intending to reach.
About the Speaker:
Lorena Sprager brings over 25 years experience of working hand in hand with immigrants and Latinos. Her work includes promoting health, facilitating access to services and developing leadership. Lorena’s approach is to honor traditions and build on assets. She works in both Spanish and English languages. Based in Hood River, Oregon, she heads the health literacy and promotion firm of Lorena Sprager and Associates, LLC. She is also Project Manager at Nuestra Comunidad Sana (Our Healthy Community). Lorena serves on the Region X Health Equity Council of the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities.
Sponsored by:
NN/LM NER Healthy Communities, Community of Interest
Michelle Eberle, Consumer Health Information Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region
(508) 856-2435 | (800) 338-7657
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Engaging Stakeholders & Creating a Digitally Inclusive Community
By karen | April 8, 2013
Broadband RI’s Stuart Freiman and OLIS’ Howard Boksenbaum will be featured in a national WebJunction Webinar on April 13 at 1 pm. The session focuses on Rhode Island’s digital inclusion stakeholder engagement process. The discussion includes why Broadband Rhode Island (BBRI) decided it was important to create a process of engaging stakeholders in order to discuss technology access and use. Key collaborators, such as OLIS and Pam Christman, formerly of OSHEAN, will explain their involvement, how various sectors were engaged, the impact of NTIA funded projects upon the stakeholder engagement process, and how policy recommendations were created and prioritized.
For more information and to register, visit WebJunction.
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Querying the Library: Digitization and Its Impact Conference
By Donna DiMichele | April 1, 2013
Querying the Library: Digitization & Its Impact Conference
The James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College is hosting a conference on Querying the Library: Digitization and its Impact.
When: Friday, May 31, 2013, 8:30 AM – 4:15 PM
Where: James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence, RI 02908
Registration: Full Rate $15.00 Student Rate $5.00 (includes lunch)
Sessions:
Publishing Inti: A Suite of Services Case Study
Mark Caprio and the Digital Services Publishing Team, Providence College
Converting PDFs to EPUBs in Digital Commons@RIC
Brendan Ryan, Reference and Digital Initiatives Librarian, Rhode Island College
Open Access and the Institutional Repository
Julia Lovett, Digital Initiatives Librarian & Andrée Rathemacher, Head of Acquisitions at the University of Rhode Island Library
The Role of the Conservator in the Digitization Program at Boston College Libraries
Barbara Adams Hebard, Conservator at the John J. Burns Library, Boston College
Sixteen Students, Fourteen Weeks: Building a Digital Library Through Collaborative Learning
Kathryn M. Thornhill Simmons College GSLIS ’13, and her colleagues
Flipping the Tour: Using Technology to Promote Active Learning
Maura Keating, Reference Librarian at Bryant University
Tweeting Our Way to Success!
Mary Jordan, Assistant Professor at Simmons College GSLIS
Cross Platform Apps to Enhance Teaching & Learning
Kieran Ayton, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Rhode Island College
Details and conference registration online
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Access for All Abilities Mini-Grants
By ann | March 28, 2013
The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities at Rhode Island College is soliciting applications from organizations and businesses offering social, recreational, leisure and cultural activities in Rhode Island communities for “Access for All Abilities” (AAA) Mini-Grants. The Sherlock Center will award up to four grants in 2013. Organizations may apply for up to $2,500.
The purpose of this grant program is to support efforts of Rhode Island leisure businesses and organizations to include more people with disabilities in scheduled activities, alongside people without disabilities and increase access (physical, financial, programmatic) for people with various disabilities to existing social, leisure, recreational, and cultural activities in the community.
AAA Grant applicants must be businesses or organizations offering social, leisure, recreational, and/or cultural activities to the general public in Rhode Island. Non-profit organizations, businesses, city or town government agencies are encouraged to apply.
For complete details and to access the application, go to www.sherlockcenter.org.
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Libraries & Influencers: ALA Survey
By Donna DiMichele | March 26, 2013
Libraries & Influence: Activities & Opportunities
The ALA Washington Office is gathering information regarding individual’s involvement in connecting with policymakers. Your responses will help ALA develop a comprehensive resource on effective influence tools, techniques and strategies, including case studies and tips from all parts of the library community.
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes. Survey.
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Streaming content for patrons
By karen | March 22, 2013
Library Journal writes about how the Ephrata Public Library in Pennsylvania circulates Roku boxes as a way to provide patrons with access to streaming content such as NetFlix and HuluPlus. For those not familiar with the Roku box, it’s a great little device that allows you to stream content from a huge variety of sources, both free and subscription, through your home wireless or broadband. I personally use it for NetFlix, Pandora, Amazon and various free content sources. I love my Roku (thanks Lauren M. for turning me on to it) and even take it with me if I go away for a week and am renting a beach house (with wireless, of course).
It’s this wonderful portability that makes it a great device for libraries to loan. The Ephrata PL lends the devices with library subscriptions to NetFlix and HuluPlus. Read about it in Library Journal. Anyone in RI doing this?
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3/21 . . . EveryoneOn!
By karen | March 20, 2013
March 21 marks the start of the national Ad Council campaign, EveryoneOn. Materials for the campaign are available on the Ad Council website. Let OLIS know if you’re doing anything on March 21, or want to become involved with the campaign.
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