Volume 7, August 4, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) NEW LEGACY PROJECT FEATURE “MAKES HISTORY”

2) LAST CHANCE TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE

3) CONNECT THE DOTS PRESENTATIONS ONLINE

4) DIGITAL PRESERVATION – WHAT’S NOW, WHAT’S NEXT?

5) DOES YOUR LIBRARY USE TWITTER OR FACEBOOK?

6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

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1) NEW LEGACY PROJECT FEATURE “MAKES HISTORY”

The Office of the Secretary of State is pleased to announce the launch of HistoryMakers, a free online biographical database of Washington elected officials and activists from territorial times to the present. Created by the Office’s Legacy Project, each individual’s entry includes a photograph, links, and basic biographical information (e.g., occupations, offices, affiliations, birth, death, marriage, etc.). To date, HistoryMakers has covered the following offices:

• Governors;
• Lieutenant Governors;
• Secretaries of State;
• Treasurers;
• United States Senators;
• United States Representatives.

Other statewide offices and legislators will be added in the future as HistoryMakers continues to be updated.

This resource is made possible by dedicated, hard-working volunteers. The Legacy Project welcomes more volunteers to help do research on officials and other public figures not yet featured on HistoryMakers. If you are interested, please contact Lori Larson with the Legacy Project at [email protected], 360-704-7142. To visit HistoryMakers, go to www.sos.wa.gov/legacyproject/HistoryMakers.aspx.

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2) LAST CHANCE TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is currently seeking input on their next 5-year strategic plan. This is your opportunity to help shape how we are able to use federal LSTA dollars in Washington.

Through discussions with the National Museum and Library Services Board, IMLS stakeholders, and the public, IMLS has developed five strategic questions to help shape future services. IMLS wants to know how they can leverage their resources, position, reputation, and relationships to:

• Promote effective public access to physical and digital content;
• Promote policy that sustains information access for the American public;
• Support lifelong learning for a competitive workforce and engaged public;
• Promote museums and libraries as community anchor institutions;
• Achieve excellence in public management.

To participate, go to imls.ideascale.com. Don’t delay! The site will stop accepting comments on August 12, 2011.

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3) CONNECT THE DOTS PRESENTATIONS ONLINE

Exciting news! The first three presentations from the Foundation for Early Learning’s June 30, 2011, Connect the Dots event have been posted on the Foundation’s YouTube channel. Additional presentations will be released over the coming weeks. Watch as:

• Jerome Jainga, Head Start Director for the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and member of the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Early Learning, speaks about culture, heritage, and the need for more male role models in the field of early childhood education;
• Dr. Bette Hyde, Director of the Department of Early Learning, speaks about her mission to make early learning front and center in Washington and demonstrates the critical link between mother and baby in the “Stone Face” video, which was part of Dr. Hyde’s presentation;
• Kristie Kirkpatrick, Director of the Whitman County Rural Library District and founding member of the Early Learning Public Library Partnership (ELPLP), shares moving stories of those whose lives had been touched by her library.

View these and more in the coming months at www.youtube.com/fdnforearlylearning.

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4) DIGITAL PRESERVATION – WHAT’S NOW, WHAT’S NEXT?

Amigos Library Services will be holding a one-day online conference, Digital Preservation: What’s Now, What’s Next?, covering a variety of topics including digital preservation of email, e-books, audio, and video. Scheduled sessions include:

• “Email: the Problem that Dare not Speak its Name?” presented by Christopher J. Prom;
• “Fundamentals of Digitizing Audio and Video” presented by George Blood and Cassandra Gallegos;
• “Protect Future Access Now: Preserving E-Books and Other Digitized Content” presented by Amy Kirchhoff.

Other presenters include Martin Halbert, Katherine Skinner, Jacob Nadal, William LeFurgy, Tom Clareson, and Liz Bishoff.

Conference information:

• When: Friday, August 12, 2011, 7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. PDT;
• Registration required. Registration fees range from $109 – $239;
• Conference program and registration: digpres.amigos.org.

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5) DOES YOUR LIBRARY USE TWITTER OR FACEBOOK?

If your public library or library district is currently using, or has stopped using, Twitter and/or Facebook, Walt Crawford would like to hear from you. As part of his work on a new book on public library use of social networks, he would like to know –

Basic information:

• Library/district official name;
• Service area population;
• Your name, title, and e-mail address;
• Whether you are willing to have your comments used as direct quotations or only as background.

Comments specific to Twitter or Facebook (or both – indicate which):

• Whatever you feel is worth saying about how your library uses the social network;
• How much time is spent preparing items and responding to items (if you do that);
• Whether one person or many may post;
• Feedback you have gotten from your patrons;
• Whether it seems worthwhile;
• Comments on the relationship between the two (if you use both);
• Whether you use them for different purposes or if Facebook statuses are basically longer versions of tweets (or maybe the same);
• Other comments on the differences and similarities as your library has used them;
• If you stopped using the social network, the reason(s) why and any other comments you wish to make.

Please send your responses to [email protected] no later than September 14, 2011.

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6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

Tuesday, August 9:

• Health Issues in the Headlines: Learning to Read Between the Lines (WSL); King County Library System Service Center, Issaquah, 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT;
• Math, Science & More (Booklist); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT;
• Cuddle Up and Read: Storytimes for Teen Moms (Infopeople); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT;
• Health Issues in the Headlines: Learning to Read Between the Lines (WSL); King County Library System Service Center, Issaquah, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. PDT;
• ProQuest Administrator Module (PAM) (ProQuest); 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ96;
• Web-scale Management Services Online Q & A Session (OCLC); 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/OCLCwms;

Wednesday, August 10:

• Trends in Library Training and Learning (WebJunction); 8:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. PDT (continued on Thursday, August 11);
• Mentoring for the 2020 Workplace (Training Magazine); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PDT;

Thursday, August 11:

• Trends in Library Training and Learning (WebJunction); 8:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. PDT (continued from Wednesday, August 10);
• SLJ Fall Nonfiction Announcements (School Library Journal); 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PDT;
• Microsoft Donation Program: Get Your Questions Answered (TechSoup); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/ts15.

Some of these sessions are online; some are in person. For more information and to register (unless otherwise linked above), visit the WSL Training Calendar at www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/training.

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