Volume 12, June 2, 2016 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE RESOURCES WEBINAR

2) APPLY FOR AN ARSL SCHOLARSHIP

3) WASHINGTON MEDICAL LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

4) ACRL JOINT FALL CONFERENCE 2016

5) CONFERENCES COMING SOON

6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

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1) NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE RESOURCES WEBINAR

Resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will be June’s First Tuesday topic. Carolyn Martin, a librarian with the NLM’s Seattle branch, will share how to access medical information for your library’s customers. She will cover the free training provided by NLM and give an overview of the health and medicine resources available through webinars, blogs, and social media.

The mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) is to promote the resources of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to health professionals and improve the public’s access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.

• Tuesday, June 7, 2016 from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PDT

Instructions and Login for First Tuesdays session

First Tuesdays webinars are designed as a continuing-education opportunity for staff of libraries in Washington State. These special-subject presentations, lasting about 60 minutes, are recorded so others may listen at their convenience.

Questions? Please contact Carolyn Petersen at [email protected]

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2) APPLY FOR AN ARSL SCHOLARSHIP

The Washington State Library (WSL), with funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), is providing two scholarships to attend the 2016 Association of Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) conference from October 27-29, 2016 in Fargo, North Dakota.

The ARSL conference is specifically for rural library staff. Previous conference topics have included building community advocacy; effective trustee recruitment; inexpensive programming ideas; innovative web services with few resources; virtual networking; and many more.

Scholarships will include transportation, all conference fees, and lodging. WSL will reimburse other allowable costs at the state per diem rate. Preference will be given to applicants who have not won this scholarship before.

• Applicants must be from a public or tribal library or library branch serving a population of 10,000 or fewer in Washington State.
• Scholarship awardees must commit to a doing follow-up project.
• The deadline for applications, both the paper copy and the digital copy is July 1, 2016. Paper copies may be hand-delivered or postmarked by July 1, 2016.

To apply, please complete the ARSL Scholarship Application.

Please mail the paper copy to:

• ARSL Scholarship Grants
• Washington State Library
• PO Box 42460
• Olympia, WA 98504-2460

Please contact Shirley Lewis at [email protected] or Maura Walsh at [email protected] with any questions.

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3) WASHINGTON MEDICAL LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

What’s happening now? In the clinic … in the library … and beyond!

• Please join your colleagues for the 2016 Washington Medical Librarians Association annual meeting and conference at Bastyr University in Kenmore on Friday, July 22.
• The annual meeting and conference will feature sessions on searching grey literature, patient and caregiver empowerment, open access publishing, and discovery services.
• Two continuing education courses will be offered on Thursday, July 21: “Rapid Course Design” and “Clinical Genomics.”

Please join or renew your membership at www.wmla.org.

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4) ACRL JOINT FALL CONFERENCE 2016

Registration is now open for the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Joint Fall Conference 2016.

Join Oregon and Washington colleagues to explore “Enhancing Creativity and Turning Inspiration into Reality” from October 27 – 28, 2016 at the Menucha Retreat and Conference Center near Corbett, Oregon.

Keynote speakers are:

• Lauren Pressley, Director of the University of Washington Tacoma Library and Associate Dean of University Libraries
• Hannah Gascho Rempel, Science Librarian and the Coordinator for Graduate Student Success at Oregon State University Libraries and Press

The submission period for short talks and poster presentations is also open and scholarship applications will open in mid-August.

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5) CONFERENCES COMING SOON

• June 23-28, 2016 – American Library Association Annual Conference – Orlando, Florida
• August 3-5, 2016 – Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) Conference – Calgary, Alberta
• September 8-9, 2016 – Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference – Portland, Oregon
• October 15, 2016 – Washington Library Media Association (WLMA) Conference in Des Moines, Washington
• October 20-21, 2016 – Northwest eLearn Conference in Eugene, Oregon
• October 24-26, 2016 – Washington Library Employees (WALE) Conference in Chelan, Washington
• October 27-29, 2016 – Association for Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) Conference in Fargo, North Dakota

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6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

June 7

• Reading the Rainbow: New Trends in LGBTQ Literature (Booklist); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT
• Show Your Work: The New Knowledge Management (Insynctraining); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT
• Creating a Comprehensive and Engaging Volunteer Training Program (VolunteerMatch.org); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT
• ProQuest Central for EBL Customers (ProQuest); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT
• ProQuest LibCentral for Power Users (ProQuest); 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. PDT

June 8

• Why Use Google Books? (Nebraska Library Commission); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PDT
• Celebrating Diversity: A Discussion on Children’s Literature That Reflects Today’s World (School Library Journal); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT
• ProQuest Research Library Prep and Central K-12 (ProQuest); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT
• CultureGrams (ProQuest); 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT
• Legislative Insight (ProQuest); 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. PDT
• Write-N-Cite for PC (ProQuest); 8:00 – 8:45 a.m. PDT
• Write-N-Cite for Mac (ProQuest); 9:30 – 10:15 a.m. PDT

June 9

• Evaluating Youth Lit: What Makes a Good Book Good? (Library Journal); 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PDT
• Build Staff Buy-In for Volunteer Engagement (VolunteerMatch.org); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT
• Public Health Sciences Library Collaboration for Community Impact: Lessons from the MS Buddy Project (Webjunction); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT
• HeritageQuest Online (ProQuest); 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PDT
• Regulatory Insight (ProQuest); 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. PDT
• Women’s Magazine Archive (ProQuest); 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. PDT

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For more information and to register (unless otherwise linked above), visit the WSL Training Calendar at sos.wa.gov/q/training.

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