Volume 6, October 21, 2010 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) SDL NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEYS 2) GO TO THE WEB AND SAY AHH 3) WSL STAFF REMEMBERED 4) BULLYING SURVEY CLOSES THURSDAY AT 11:00 P.M. 5) FREE PRESERVATION WEBINAR SERIES 6) GRANTSTATION SUBSCRIPTION RENEWALS 7) PUBLIC LIBRARY INTERNET USE STUDY DEADLINE 8) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
Librarians and Leisure How do librarians spend their timewhen their working days are though?How will they fill those long empty days…what activities will they pursue? Do they catalog their pantries,do they alphabetize the soup,and make labels for the kitchen shelvesand arrange vegetables into groups? Or perhaps it’s to the closets,their attention they might turn…and transform their wardrobe chaosusing skills they long ago learned. No shirt will be uncatalogued,No dress shall lack a space,their undies, socks and ties will all,have…
Over the last few weeks I have had a chance to get to know our new employee. Anna is smart and it has been great training her in the procedures for the library. We have the same schedule so we have been carpooling, which is really nice, but we have also been able to talk daily and all day. I no longer only have inmates to interact with and I find that I like having a coworker work the same…
For anyone interested in the Institutional Library Services category, I’ll share a link to the Colorado Libraries blog, which has some similar content. You will also see accounts written by people from outside the field who were allowed to go inside some of the prisons and get a sense of what this work environment is like and how offenders use the libraries. It’s inspiring to see how the Colorado Correctional Librarians are networking by communicating their day-to-day experiences in the form of a live…
Most of the time working in a prison library does not feel like a prison. However, this can no longer be said for those working at the Washington State Penitentiary, East Complex Library. For years staff have been asking for an office to be built in the library that will allow staff to have a computer with Internet access readily available to use. Over the years road blocks have jumped up at every turn, this is no longer the case. East…
Sheryl, a long time employee with Washington State Library and the Twin Rivers Unit of the Monroe Correctional Complex is retiring. She will be leaving the the library after 15 years and 5 months with the inmates at Twin Rivers. Sheryl is a woman of amazing energy that has been put to use running the Twin Rivers library and teaching the inmates part time in the education department. Where she gets the energy I will never know. Her dedication to her work is amazing and…