BlogJunction Vermont
A blog by the VT Dept. of Libraries to communicate with the VT library community
If you are enrolled in any LE@D – University of North Texas online workshops through WebJunction or are planning to enroll in any in the next couple of weeks, please read the following message and pass it along to your co-workers. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions at 828-3261 or mara.siegel@mail.dol.state.vt.us.
Mara [...]
Dear Librarians,
If your library serves a community with a population under 5,000, it may be eligible to receive a grant from the Children’s Literacy Foundation – CliF. Suzanne Loring of CLiF asked me to share the following with you:
The Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing a love of [...]
There are just a few more days to register for the “Focus on the Customer” conference for trustees and librarians on Saturday, November 3, 9:30 to 3 pm, at Barre’s Aldrich Public Library. Coffee and registration will start at 9:15 am, and speakers and topics will include:
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In addition to the self-paced workshops that are available to the Vermont library community, WebJunction is now offering facilitated courses. These workshops are scheduled on a certain day and time determined by the organization hosting the course. These courses have an instructor who teaches the course content and encourages you to collaborate with other participants [...]
Vermont trustees and their librarians are encouraged to attend the annual conference of the Vermont Library Trustees Association on Saturday, November 3, 2007, at Barre’s Aldrich Public Library, beginning at 9:30 am and ending at 3:00 pm, with coffee beginning at 9:15.
The theme for the conference is “Focus on the Customer,” following up on the [...]
Library Facilities Survey
Libraries should have received a mailing via US Postal Service from Michael Chernick of the state Legislative Council. It concerns restrooms and accessibility in public libraries around the state. It is extremely important that you respond and return the form to Michael Chernick by October 1. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to [...]
There will be a new release tonight affecting most of the Vermont Online Library databases.
From Gale’s Press release:
“Included in this release are a number of new, key features. Below is a list of some of the most exciting ones:
* Search Alerts with RSS export: Set [...]
The list has been a bit quiet lately as far as announcements go, but here are a couple.
VOL Basics workshop on 8/22/2007
There is still plenty of room in the Vermont Online Library Basics workshop on 8/22/2007 from 1:00 to 3:30 at the Midstate Regional Library in Berlin.
Here’s the link to sign up: http://evanced.info/vtdol/evanced/eventcalendar.asp
Conference November 3, [...]
Thanks so much to the persistent few who stuck with me in my plan to offer web conferencing sessions to introduce the Live Classroom platform that DOL is just starting to use.
It took me much longer than I liked to get the sessions planned and scheduled, but yesterday and today I conducting two web conferencing [...]
Performer and speaker praised
Linda Hall’s message about the success of a program by Adam Hall at her library (Solomon Wright Public – Pownal) apparently generated inquiries about how to contact him and we have come up with this link to a page on his website that is geared specifically to schools and libraries: http://www.folksinging.org/schools-libraries.html Connie at [...]