The Librarian Certification Manual will soon be available online at WebJunction Indiana. The Certification Manual will cover several subjects relating to certification, including an overview of new certification requirements, directions for applying or renewing your librarian certification, and information on attaining required Library Education Units (LEUs). An application to become an approved Library Education Unit Provider will also be available.  An announcement will be made on library listservs as soon as these documents become available online.

Library directors will also soon be receiving via email a spreadsheet and the Grandfathered Application to be completed for all library district employees who will require certification. These current employees include directors, department heads, branch heads, and professional assistants. Library specialists who are eligible for certification need not be included on the spreadsheet.   

For more information about public librarian certification, please contact Jayma Ellerbrook, Certification Program Coordinator, at jellerbrook@library.in.gov or 317-234-6217.

STATE LIBRARY WELCOMES NEW STAFF, INTERNS

The State Library is excited to welcome Elizabeth Schoettle as its new Associate Director of Public Services. Elizabeth worked for the past two and a half years as the manager of the White River Branch of the Johnson County Public Library. Prior to that, she served as manager for the Spades Park Branch of the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library and as an adult librarian at the Break-O-Day Branch of the Johnson County Public Library. She began her career as a librarian at the Indianapolis Star library. 

Elizabeth received a Bachelor or Arts in Political Science and Journalism and her Masters of Library Science from Indiana University in Bloomington. 

The State Library also welcomed aboard Elisabeth O’Donnell as its new Federal Documents Librarian. Elisabeth received her Masters of Library Science from Indiana University in Bloomington. Additionally, Amanda Brown started recently at the State Library as a Library Technician.

We are also excited to have three more summer interns working and learning at the State Library through August. Joe Fox of IU-Indianapolis SLIS is the new Government Documents intern, Beth Kielb, who received her Masters of Library Science from Indiana University in Indianapolis, is the new Newspapers Collection intern, and Anna Sayers, an incoming IU-Indianapolis SLIS student, will serve as the Genealogy intern. 

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