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Porn, guns and aliens, Library Board gets a dose of social issues Evansville Courier & Press E-readers used as textbooks at UE Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Ancestry.com, library offer seminar Fort Wayne News-Sentinel Jump-start your genealogy Saturday at Fort Wayne Ancestry Day Greencastle Banner-Graphic System upgrade set for July 20 at Putnam County Public Library Greene County Daily World Bloomfield library hosts Books for Babies Greenfield Reporter Federal grant to help encourage reading, discussion Greensburg Daily News Fairgoers Flaunt What they Geek Huntington County TAB Andrews Library fine tunes grant application Logansport Pharos-Tribune Heat wave: Cass County hit by sweltering temperatures Madison Courier Local libraries join to offer e-books in Jefferson County Muncie Star Press Community celebrates reading with IPR's 'BookSpeak' Northwest Indiana Times Karate building leveled to pave way for C.P.'s new library Northwest Indiana Times Borders reaches out to East Chicago children through books Rushville Republican Donations sought to help paint local library Seymour Tribune Donate supplies, erase your fines Shelbyville News Residents seek ways to escape the heat South Bend Tribune Terre Haute Tribune Star Rockville library collecting school supplies
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Statewide Panel Names 2011 Authors Award Winners The 2011 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award in the National Author category will go to Hoosier author Margaret McMullan, along with a $10,000 prize. Helen Frost was named as the winner in the Regional Author category, earning her a $7,500 prize. The National and Regional recipients, along with finalists Micah Ling, Aaron Michael Morales and Bich Minh Nguyen in the Emerging Author category, were named last week by the ten-member Award Panel. The annual Indiana Authors Award recognizes the contributions of Indiana authors to the literary landscape in Indiana and across the nation. Nominations were submitted in early spring for any published writer who was born in Indiana or has lived in Indiana for at least five years. Award finalists in all three categories will be honored on October 29, 2011 at Central Library in downtown Indianapolis. The day’s events will include free public programs such as author lectures from this year’s Indiana Authors Award honorees, “how to get published” workshops for aspiring writers, and book sales and signings featuring authors from around the state. A ticketed Award Dinner and fundraiser benefiting the Library Foundation will follow that evening where the winner of the Emerging Author category will be named. McMullan will serve as the dinner’s keynote speaker. More information about the Award Dinner and public programs is available at IndianaAuthorsAward.org. Consortium Awarded LSTA Grant to Enhance eBook Service The eIndiana Digital Consortium is the recent recipient of an LSTA Technology Grant to grow and enhance its eBook and audiobook catalogue due to the growing demand for the service. The goal of the project is to offer patrons a wider range of choices and increase the availability of titles by adding approximately 2,000 popular new eBooks. The consortium currently consists of 31 Indiana public libraries. Members of Evergreen Indiana are eligible to join the consortium, which provides access to thousands of audiobooks, ebooks, video and music through OverDrive. Interested libraries can contact Shauna Borger, Evergreen Indiana Coordinator, at sborger@library.in.gov for more information. For more information about the eIndiana Digital OverDrive Consortium, including holdings and current membership, visit http://cidc.lib.overdrive.com/ |
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Deadline to Register Registrations for the 2011 Indiana State Historic Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) conference series are due August 1, 2011. The workshops will be hosted at locations statewide and will focus will focus on different issues and skill sets, including the use of electronic records and digital repositories, appraisal, environmental considerations, as well as the utilization of social media. Each conference includes lunch and librarians can earn between 4 & 7 LEUs. For more information or to register, visit the SHRAB Conference Series website or contact the SHRAB at shrab@icpr.IN.gov. Upcoming Events & Workshops
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SHRAB Summer Conference Series (Multiple Topics)
New Director's Workshop
ILF Reference Division Conf.
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Director's Refresher Workshop
2011 CYPD Conference
ACPL Library Camp 2011
Indiana Vision Expo/Walk
Indiana Genealogy & Local
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