Volume 11, January 22, 2015 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) SDL NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEYS

2) 2015 WLA CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

3) BUILDING BRIDGES TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

4) IMLS ANNOUNCES SPARKS! IGNITION LIBRARY GRANTS

5) COMING SOON IN OREGON

6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

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1) SDL NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEYS

The Washington State Library’s Statewide Database Licensing (SDL) project announces the release of two important needs assessment surveys, one for library staff, and one for library users. All library staff who are aware of the library’s electronic resources, especially research databases, are encouraged to take the staff survey, and all Washington libraries are encouraged to promote the user survey to their clientele, through their web sites, social media, patron newsletters, and any other appropriate media or opportunities.

The surveys will be available through Friday, February 20, 2015. Here are the survey links:

• Library user survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SDL-2015;
• Library staff survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SDL-Staff.

The library audience for both surveys includes all types of libraries that participate in SDL: public, academic, including community and technical colleges, hospital and research libraries, and K-12 schools, both public and private. In the case of K-12 schools, the end user survey is intended for classroom teachers and administrators, rather than students, but college and university students are strongly encouraged to take the survey.

In promulgating the survey links, be sure to notice that they use the secure https protocol. Visit sos.wa.gov/q/SDL for additional information, including suggestions for promoting the survey to your users. For questions about the surveys or the SDL needs assessment process, please contact SDL project manager Will Stuivenga [email protected] or 360-704-5217. Thank you in advance for your participation and cooperation in making these surveys a success.

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2) 2015 WLA CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Registration for the 2015 Washington Library Association Conference is now open. The Conference will take place Wednesday, April 15 – Friday, April 17 at the Tulalip Resort in Marysville, Washington.

• Take advantage of early rates to register now.
• Early registration rates end on March 1, 2015.

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3) BUILDING BRIDGES TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

The first annual Washington State Higher Education Building Bridges Technology Conference is scheduled for March 12 and 13, 2015 at the Red Lion Hotel at the Park in Spokane. The conference theme is “Building an Environment of Collaboration Across Boundaries”.

• Registration is now open.
• Early Bird Registration rate of $90.00 ends on January 31, 2015.
• Regular rate after January 31^st is $100.00.

Questions? Please email [email protected].

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4) IMLS ANNOUNCES SPARKS! IGNITION LIBRARY GRANTS

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is now accepting applications for Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries, a small grants program which encourages libraries and archives to prototype and evaluate innovations that result in new tools, products, services, or organizational practices.

The grants enable grantees to undertake activities that involve risk and require them to share project results–whether they succeed or fail–to provide valuable information to the library field and help improve the ways libraries serve their communities.

• Libraries may qualify for $10,000 to $25,000 in small grants, and there are no matching requirements.
• Projects must begin on October 1, November 1, or December 1, 2015.
• Learn more about program guidelines and more information about the funding opportunity.
• The application deadline is February 2, 2015.

Have questions? IMLS staff members are available by phone and email to discuss general issues relating to the Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries program. Please contact Mary Alice Ball at 202-653-4730 or [email protected] or Tim Carrigan at 202-653-4639 or [email protected].

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5) COMING SOON IN OREGON

Look south, Washington conference-goers — check out these upcoming conferences:

• Code{4}lib 2015 – February 9-12 in Portland, Oregon.
• Online Northwest – February 13 in Corvallis, Oregon.
• ACRL 2015 – March 25-28 in Portland, Oregon.

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6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

January 26

• Blending Agile and ADDIE to Grow Performance (insynctraining); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• Health Happens in Libraries: Pathways to Guide Health Education at Your Library (WebJunction); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
• Ebrary Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) and Short Term Loans (STL) Training (ProQuest); 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. PST
• ProQuest Administrator Module (ProQuest); 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PST

January 27

• Creating Baby Spaces in Public Libraries: Designing for Success (Infopeople); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST

January 28

• Montana Makers Show & Tell (Montana State Library); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PST
• The Ins and Outs of Capital Budgeting (American Management Association); 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PST
• You Can’t Change What You Don’t Measure (O’Reilly Community); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• Introducing FOSS4LIB (LYRASIS); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
• Celebrate Reading with Día! (Texas State Library); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST
• Partnership Power: Building Relationships for Impact (4Good); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• The Vogue Archive (ProQuest); 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. PST

January 29

• Managing Difficult Volunteer Transitions (VolunteerMatch.Org); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST

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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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