LibraryAware Community Award
By Donna DiMichele | July 2, 2012
EBSCO and Library Journal announced the LibraryAware Community Award competition on June 22, 2012.
Library Journal is looking for libraries that are deeply engaged with their community and where the community is equally engaged with the library. A new award, the LibraryAware Community Award, will recognize those cities and towns and their libraries, or library systems, that have demonstrated their ability to make the community aware of what the library can do for them—and have delivered on that promise. The award will be given by Library Journal and underwritten by LibraryAware™, a product of the NoveList division of EBSCO Publishing.
The LibraryAware Community Award will go to a library whose community is aware of, and recognizes, the library’s role:
- In areas that are documented priorities in the community served by the library, such as digital access, adoption, and/or literacy; economic and workforce development; education; health care; public safety and emergency services; civic engagement.
- As a place of transformation and change
- As an organization whose activities ensure outcomes that are essential to the vitality of the community.
Criteria for the award include any and all components that create a LibraryAware community: strategic planning, marketing, outreach, partnerships, and programs, product, or service development. Additional information on the criteria plus submission requirements
Submissions will be judged by a variety of library and community experts.
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Programming for Civil War Sesquicentennial
By Donna DiMichele | July 2, 2012
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, in partnership with The Library of America, is now accepting applications from libraries and National Park historic sites for grants to develop public programming around the free traveling panel exhibition Civil War 150.
Fifty sites selected by competitive application to host the Civil War 150 exhibition will each be awarded a grant of $1,000 to plan accompanying public programming in conjunction with the exhibition while it is at their site.
Application (PDF)
The exhibition is available for three-week periods from October 2012 to March 2015. Hosting sites will also receive supporting interpretive and contextual materials, including the Civil War 150 readers (discussion guides) and access to a multimedia website with robust digital resources. Public, academic, and special libraries as well as National Park historic sites are invited to submit applications for the exhibition and the public programming grants. The application deadline is July 15, 2012. To apply, please download and complete the Civil War 150 Application (PDF).
The exhibition is part of Civil War 150: Exploring the War and Its Meaning through the Words of Those Who Lived It, a major three-year project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project is centered on the four-volume Library of America series The Civil War Told by Those Who Lived It and includes a collection of readers (discussion guides) drawn from the series.
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Libraries, patrons, and e-books
By karen | June 27, 2012
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project just released a report on Libraries, patrons, and e-books. The report addresses issues surrounding libraries and e-books and how this new media has changed American’s reading habits and library habits. Book-borrowing habits are changing, library holdings are changing, and librarians roles are changing. Check out this informative survey, which includes responses from both library users and non-users.
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Spanish for librarians
By karen | June 27, 2012
This past week at ALA, Mango announced the latest addition to its stable of languages (joining the religious and scholarly languages they added earlier this month) – Spanish for librarians! Allow Mango to introduce you to its latest resource:
Awesome librarian, meet Libby. Libby, meet awesome librarian. Now that you’ve met, we know that you and Libby the Librarian will be fast friends. Especially since she can help you learn Spanish! Her new course was specifically developed to help librarians like you to better serve your Spanish-speaking patrons. It covers library-specific content like how to help a patron obtain a library card, navigate the reference desk, and much more.
Ready to start learning Spanish with Libby? Go to Mango Languages on AskRI. (Or learn one of the other new languages they just added, including Swedish, Icelandic, Castillian Spanish and Tagalog. Get all the news on the Mango blog.)
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RICH Fall 2012 Grant Cycle
By Donna DiMichele | June 12, 2012
RICH Fall 2012 Grant Cycle
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH) is offering free workshops to support potential Fall 2012 grant applicants. RICH Grants Director, SueEllen Kroll, will offer workshops that provide a general overview of the RICH funding opportunities available to non-profits and independent researchers for public humanities projects.
The hour-long workshop will review grant guidelines, deadlines, and funding priorities. Tips for competitive proposals will also be discussed. Refreshments will be served.
Attend the workshop most convenient for you. The workshops are free and open to the public; however, attendees must register to reserve a space. Email Carole Ann Penney or call (401) 273-2250 to RSVP for one of the following workshops:
Bristol, RI
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 4pm
Roger Williams University, Global Heritage Hall
One Old Ferry Road, Bristol, RI 02809
Providence, RI
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 4pm
Providence Athenaeum
251 Benefit Street, Providence, RI 02903
North Kingstown, RI
Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 2pm
North Kingstown Free Library
100 Boone Road, North Kingstown, RI 02852
To attend one of the workshops, RSVP to Carole Ann Penney or (401) 273-2250.
Please note: the Humanities Council’s annual major grants deadline occurs in the Fall and requires a pre-registration Intent to Apply due by September 1, 2012 at 5:00pm. In addition to major grants, RICH offers mini grants at monthly deadlines.
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State of RI Historian Laureate
By Donna DiMichele | June 8, 2012
Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis issued a call for applications to all those interested in applying for the position of Historian Laureate for the State of Rhode Island. This position was created by legislation that was signed into law by Governor Lincoln Chafee on April 27, 2012.
Qualifications cited from the legislation: The historian laureate must have earned recognition and distinction as the author of authoritative books or essays about the history of Rhode Island; or served in a leadership position in staging commemorative public observances pertaining to various aspects of the history of Rhode Island; or taught and lectured about the history of Rhode Island to the general public.
The Secretary of State is charged with making the appointment. For the official announcement, comprehensive details, and an application form, contact Paul F. Caranci, Deputy Secretary of State. Application deadline: 4:00 P.M. on Monday July 2, 2012.
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What is more important- content or format?
By admin | June 6, 2012
Many librarians like to claim that the format in which information comes (ebook, audiobook, print book) doesn’t matter, as long as the content is there. However, have you considered the issue of access? If something is available online and the library must distribute access to individuals, does that indeed make that particular information accessible? A recent article from the blog It’s Not About the Book by Australian librarian Hugh Rundle makes the case for universal access and platforms. He argues that if a resource is not universally accessible, it is not really accessible at all.
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PLA Advocacy Training
By karen | June 6, 2012
Turning the Page 2.0 is a unique opportunity for free, in-depth, interactive, online education in public library advocacy. Participants in this six week course get one-on-one attention from professional facilitators as they build a customized Advocacy Work Plan for their library.
The session begins with a free, optional program at the ALA 2012 Annual Conference on June 22, then transitions into an online six-week course with weekly virtual classroom sessions and independent work.
Registration for the summer session (week of July 9-week of August 13) is now open. Registration closes June 13, so don’t miss this opportunity to hone your relationship building and ‘asking’ skills. Having participated in the original Turning the Page session, I highly recommend taking advantage of the opportunity to participate in this advocacy program. If you can’t make this session, it will be repeated in the Fall. Visit the Turning the Page 2.0 website for more details.
Turning the Page 2.0 was developed and presented by the Public Library Association (PLA) with generous support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Mango for Android Phones
By karen | June 5, 2012
Mango Languages now has an app for android phones, so you can take Mango with you wherever you go. And if you haven’t already put Mango Mobile on your iPhone, what are you waiting for? With 35 languages to learn and 15 ESL languages, there’s plenty of Mango to choose from. And now you can do it on the go, regardless of your mobile platform.
Stay up to date on Mango by reading the Mango blog or signing up for the Mango newsletter at the bottom of any Mango page.
(Just in case you’ve been hiding in the back corner of the library, Mango is available to all Rhode Islanders and Rhode Island libraries for free through AskRI.)
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Are Libraries Obsolete?
By ann | June 5, 2012
Check out this article about libraries “making the rounds online.”
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