Volume 8, January 12, 2012 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) WHERE WILL YOU BE ON JANUARY 28?

2) BE PREPARED FOR EBOOKS – COME TO THE ACADEMY

3) DO YOU HAVE HIDDEN COLLECTIONS?

4) PRESERVATION TRAINING COMES TO YOU

5) MOBILE TECHNOLOGY SURVEY

6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

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1) WHERE WILL YOU BE ON JANUARY 28?

Why not spend the day at the Fourth Annual iYouth Conference? It’s a professional development event open to all students and professionals who are interested in youth and teen library services. Presented by the University of Washington’s student organization, iYouth, this year’s conference will focus on technological trends and research topics in the field with hands-on activities and sessions for programming and new communication. Topics will include:

• Helping children to discover the joy of poetry by using the Poetry Suitcase technique, demonstrated by its creator, author Janet Wong;
• Information literacy research and Big6 theories with UW iSchool Dean Emeritus, Dr. Mike Eisenberg;
• Applying developmental science to young bilingual learners with Dr. Gina Lebedeva, Translation, Outreach, and Education (TOE) Specialist at the UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS);
• Understanding reading levels and text complexity with UW iSchool Professor, Dr. Steve DelVecchio;
• Creating a successful blog for your library community with Rae Bohn, Seattle Public Library; and Chris Gustafson, Whitman Middle School Librarian.

Conference information:

• When: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.;
• Where: Mary Gates Hall, University of Washington;
• Fees: Range from $20.00 to $45.00;
• Teacher clock hours will be available.

For additional information and to register, visit www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/iYouth2012.

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2) BE PREPARED FOR EBOOKS – COME TO THE ACADEMY

Navigating the world of eBooks has been a difficult but rewarding journey for the North East Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas. There are many eBook vendors that are marketing content to school libraries, but how do you know which one is best for your library? From 0 to 60: Implement eBooks in Your Library Program in 4 Weeks will focus on implementing an eBook collection for your campus or school district to meet the needs of your students and staff. This webinar, part of the e-Academy series of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), will teach participants how to:

• Understand eBook delivery and acquisition models, including locating free and for-fee content;
• Understand Digital Rights Management (DRM) and how it has an effect on the use of eBooks in schools;
• Explore the technical needs of various eBook platforms including hand-held devices and incorporating resources into a library catalog;
• Use eBooks in instructional units;
• Create a step-by-step implementation plan for eBooks on your campus or in your school district.

All courses are asynchronous, Moodle-based, with the busy professional in mind. Participants will receive 12 hours of learning and collaboration, culminating in a certificate that can be used to apply for continuing education credits through their school districts.

Webinar information:

• When: Monday, February 6 – Friday, March 2, 2012;
• Registration: Ranges from $75 to $225.

For additional information and to register, visit www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/0to60.

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3) DO YOU HAVE HIDDEN COLLECTIONS?

Libraries, archives, and cultural institutions hold millions of items that have never been adequately described. This represents a staggering number of items of potentially substantive intellectual value that are unknown and inaccessible to scholars. To address this problem, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), with the support of generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administers a program to award grants for innovative, efficient description of large volumes of materials of high value to scholars.

Criteria used by the review panel to evaluate projects include:

• Potential national impact on scholarship and teaching;
• Innovative and/or highly efficient approaches to description that could serve as models for others;
• The adoption of workflow and outreach practices that maximize connections to scholarly and other user communities.

Applicants may nominate collections of any format and from any field worthy of national attention, but the collections in question must be truly hidden (i.e., not currently discoverable by scholarly users working within the subject domain, either through digital or analog means). Applicants are encouraged to find partners working with similar collections and to submit joint or collaborative applications.

An informational webinar for applicants who are preparing initial proposals for the 2012 CLIR Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant program will be held on Friday, January 20, 2012, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. PST. Initial proposals are due no later than Friday, March 16, 2012, 2:00 p.m. PST. For additional information about the grant, visit www.clir.org/hiddencollections/applicants.html.

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4) PRESERVATION TRAINING COMES TO YOU

Your valued collections need special care and handling. You and your staff need training. Your travel budget has been cut. What to do? Register now for the Northeast Document Conservation Center’s 2012 Collections Care Webinars. Live online webinars, from January through May, will present a variety of collections care topics:

• Thursday, January 26: Environmental Control and Monitoring;
• Tuesday, February 7: Collections Security;
• Tuesday, February 28: Mold Outbreaks and How To Cope With Them;
• Thursday, March 15: Care and Handling of Paper-Based Materials;
• Thursday, March 22: Writing Your NEH Preservation Assistance Grant (FREE!);
• Tuesday, March 27: Care and Handling of Oversize Paper Artifacts;
• Thursday, April 5: Care and Handling of Multimedia Collections;
• Tuesday, April 17: Risk Assessment for Disaster Planning;
• Tuesday, May 1: Disaster Planning (FREE!).

Workshop information:

• When: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time;
• Cost per webinar: $95 ($80 for early-bird). Note: The March 22 and May 1 webinars will be free.

For additional information and to register, visit www.nedcc.org/eblasts/2012NEDCCSpringWebinars.html.

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5) MOBILE TECHNOLOGY SURVEY

Mobile technologies are having a growing impact on libraries. Vendors, including EBSCO, Gale, OCLC, and others, are developing more and more products for the mobile market. We are in a period of transition. Many librarians are developing mobile literacy skills to better serve users. Some libraries already provide extensive mobile services, while others are deciding where to begin.

As part of an effort to better understand the current state of mobile technologies in libraries, Robin Ashford, Assistant Professor and Associate Librarian at Portland Center Library, George Fox University; and Laura Zeigen, Assistant Professor and User Experience Librarian at Oregon Health & Science University, are surveying public, academic, and other libraries in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Results will be presented at the Online Northwest Conference on Friday, February 10, 2012, and will be posted online after the conference.

To take the short survey, which should take only about 5 to 10 minutes, go to www.surveymonkey.com/s/HHNSQ6Q. If you have any questions about the survey, contact Robin Ashford at [email protected], 503.554.6136; or Laura Zeigen at [email protected], 503.494.0505.

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6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

Tuesday, January 17:

• Advanced Searching: Beyond the Single Search Box (ProQuest); 8:00 – 8:45 a.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ208;
• Getting Up to Speed: Understanding and Sustaining Your Broadband (Texas State Library); 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. PST;
• New Year, New Reference (Booklist); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST;
• Managing Your Migration (Proquest); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ209;
• Deflection on WorldCat Resource Sharing (WiLS); 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST;
• Proposal Writing Basics (GrantSpace); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST;
• The Hopeful Workplace (Infopeople); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST;
• New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations (IFLA); 12:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST: npsig.wordpress.com/webinars;
• Native American Library Services: Basic Grants (IMLS); 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/IMLS17Jan;

Wednesday, January 18:

• Discovery tools? You Can Compete with Google (NCompass Live); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PST;
• The Feedback Dilemma: Why Is Something So Important So Hard to Do? (AMA); 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PST;
• Earned Income 101 for Nonprofits (Nonprofit Webinars); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/NW101;
• Project Management Foundations: What’s the Big Fuss? (ASCLA); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST;
• WordPress for Library Websites (and more!) (GLA); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/GLA;
• Custom Holdings on WorldCat Resource Sharing (WiLS); 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST;
• My Research (ProQuest); 12:00 – 12:45 p.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ210;
• Leadership Engagement: The Key to Capacity Building (Nonprofit Webinars); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/NWJan18;
• Ebooks, Discovery, and the Library (GLA); 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/GLA;

Thursday, January 19:

• Get a Clue – Introducing the 2012 Texas Reading Club (Texas State Library); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PST;
• Google Yourself Silly (InSync); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST;
• WorldCat Holdings: Why They Matter and the Tools to Maintain Them (OCLC); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST;
• Patron-Initiated Resource Sharing (WiLS); 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST;
• Caregiver Resources (Infopeople); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST;
• Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform (ProQuest); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ211;

Friday, January 20:

• ProQuest Administrator Module (ProQuest); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ212.

For more information and to register (for those not linked above), visit the WSL Training Calendar at www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/training.

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