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Crawfordsville Journal-Review Reading important for development DeKalb Star Author visits DeKalb High School Evansville Courier & Press Integra facing another major deadline Evansville Courier & Press Proposed Jasper library estimated at $7.7 million Indianapolis Star
Hamilton County Reads Program Kicks Off March 15
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TV (Ft Wayne) Inside INdiana Business National Preservation Leaders to Speak in Indy Jackson County Banner Library hosts Read to Me program Lafayette Journal & Courier Tippecanoe County Public Library earns money from book sale Louisville Courier-Journal Indiana legislature should pass library funding bills Noblesville Times Library losing guiding member with Cooper's retirement Northwest Indiana Times Planners study contentious C.P. library construction Northwest Indiana Times Auditors seek more E.C. library files Northwest Indiana Times Essay contest calls out to 4th-graders Northwest Indiana Times Appointments alter face of East Chicago Library Board School Library Journal Celebrate Financial Literacy Month Shelbyville News Author shares writing process with local teens South Bend Tribune The local angle on library e-books Terre Haute Tribune Star Vigo Library braces for large crackerbarrel crowd Zionsville Times-Sentinel
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library making news? Nominate your favorite Hoosier authors through March 25, 2011
Watch Velma Bright Honored for 69 Years of Service at Akron Public Library
Book of the Week:
The history of
the Irish in Indiana is intricately woven into the fabric of
the state's history. From humble beginnings, the Irish have
become an integral part of the state's tapestry while
continuing to celebrate their Celtic past. |
Workshop to Address Future of Library Cooperation In an effort to help member libraries streamline routine, yet critical services and increase efficiencies and cost savings, LYRASIS and OCLC have partnered to share Web-scale knowledge and experience with the library community. Moving Library Cooperation to Web Scale takes an in-depth look at how Web scale is revitalizing traditional services through shared workflows, activities and data. At this event, you will build a community of support as you tackle various scenarios alongside colleagues and experts, while planning your library’s first steps toward Web scale. Attendees will attain knowledge on how to formulate how you will elevate your library’s critical services — including acquisition, circulation and license management — to the cooperative cloud. Specifically, through your participation you and your staff will:
Moving Library Cooperation to Web Scale is scheduled for April 13, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EDT) at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis. Registration is available online, but space is limited. The event is worth LEUs with the amount and type pending. Glick Fund, Humanities Council Partner on New Initiative The Indiana Humanities Council received a grant from The Glick Fund, a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, to support honoraria for the Novel Conversations Speakers Program, featuring winners and finalists from the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. Novel Conversations is the statewide lending library of the Indiana Humanities Council and is open to any Indiana book club. Through this program, the Council maintains and circulates a collection of books and a library of multimedia materials. The Council lends more than 300 titles, primarily fiction and biography, to reading and discussion groups at libraries, senior centers, schools, and other organizations, free of charge. Your library may have an opportunity to host one of these authors by applying to the program. Spaces are limited, so act quickly. For more information, contact Nancy Conner, Director of Grants, at nconner@indianahumanities.org or 800-675-8897. Visit the Novel Conversations website for a complete listing of the collection's titles and to reserve copies of titles for your own book discussion group. Program Brings Storytelling Arts Into Indiana Communities The Indiana Historical Society and Storytelling Arts of Indiana are helping fund performances by storyteller Kevin Stonerock in select Hoosier communities with the Sharing Hoosier History Through Stories project. With thirty years experience as a performing songwriter and actor, Stonerock's quick wit and affable, down-to-earth style connects with his audience and puts them at ease as if they were carrying on a conversation with an old friend on the front porch. Funding opportunities are currently available for the newest story "Steamboat Tales: Life Along the Ohio River." The IHS and Storytelling Arts make funds available each year to offset the costs of inviting a storyteller to your communities. The IHS and Storytelling Arts pay half the presenter fee ($250) and assist in the marketing of these programs, while the hosting institution pays the other half plus mileage expenses. This year's story marks the bicentennial of the New Orleans, the first steamboat to successfully voyage down the Ohio River. The success of the New Orleans and subsequent steam-powered vessels altered American life forever by hastening the opening of the American West. Stonerock mined the IHS collections and other materials to develop a story about the steamboat's legacy along the Ohio River. Steamboat Tales uses music and history as well as flights of fancy to transport audiences back to an era when boat captains, showboat barkers and others enlivened the river banks of southern Indiana. For more information about the Sharing Hoosier History Through Stories program or how to bring this story to your community in 2011, contact Erin Kelley at (317) 234-3161 or ekelley@indianahistory.org or Ellen Munds at (317) 576-9848 or ellen@storytellingarts.org. |
Libraries Encouraged to Join Gateway Trainers Project Beginning this summer all local units of government will be required to submit their budgets online using the Indiana Gateway for Local Government Units, a web-based data reporting system. The State Library and the DLGF are partnering to offer librarians the opportunity to become Gateway Trainers and to provide leaders in their local communities with this valuable service. If your library is interested in being a Gateway Trainer, contact Wendy Knapp by March 31 to register for the program webinar.
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ILF District Conferences
Evergreen Introduction Cataloguing
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Evergreen Introduction Cataloguing
Moving Library Cooperation Web Scale
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Archivists Annual Meeting
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Indiana Genealogical
Society Annual Conference
8th Annual Copyright Conference
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