Volume 9, December 19, 2013 for the WSL Updates mailing list – Expanded Edition
Note: WSL Updates will be on hiatus next week.

Topics include:

1) LIBRARYAWARE COMMUNITY AWARD

2) GET THE EDGE ON TECHNOLOGY

3) PARALIBRARIAN OF THE YEAR

4) CALL FOR PROPOSALS – LIBRARY ASSESSMENT CONFERENCE

5) UNITED FOR LIBRARIES TRUSTEE CONFERENCE GRANT

6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES – DECEMBER 23 – JANUARY 3

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1) LIBRARYAWARE COMMUNITY AWARD

Library Journal’s LibraryAware Community Award recognizes a library or library system that has demonstrated its ability to make its community aware of the library’s role:

• In areas that are documented priorities in the community served by the library, such as digital access, adoption, and/or literacy; economic and workforce development; education; health care; public safety and emergency services; civic engagement;
• As a place of transformation and change;
• As an organization whose activities ensure outcomes that are essential to the vitality of the community.

The winning library will receive $10,000 and will be featured in an article in Library Journal in the spring of 2014. Libraries in second and third place will receive awards of $7,500 and $5,000 respectively. In addition, their communities will receive a plaque identifying them as places that are “LibraryAware.”

For additional information, go to sos.wa.gov/q/Aware. Questions? Contact Rebecca Miller at [email protected]. The deadline for nominations is Monday, January 13, 2014.

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2) GET THE EDGE ON TECHNOLOGY

Would you like to know how much of an impact your public library’s technology resources are making on your community? Would you like to know if there are any barriers to digital inclusion? At the next First Tuesdays on January 7, The Edge Initiative for Public Libraries, Samantha Becker, Research Manager of the U.S. IMPACT Study, a research group at the University of Washington Information School, will:

• Introduce participants to the Edge Initiative and how it can help libraries assess their public technology resources and services;
• Provide an overview of the assessment process and how libraries can prepare to make good use of it by engaging staff;
• Demonstrate tools and resources that can help libraries turn the assessment results into an action plan for aligning community needs to library services.

Designed as a continuing education opportunity for staff of libraries in Washington State, this free web presentation, which will take place on January 7, 2014, from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. PST, lets attendees share their skills and successes and learn about new topics. Sessions are recorded so that others may listen at their own convenience. For more information about First Tuesdays, visit sos.wa.gov/q/tuesdays. For instructions on joining the presentation, visit sos.wa.gov/q/FirstTuesdays.

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3) PARALIBRARIAN OF THE YEAR

Library Journal’s March 1, 2014 issue will recognize one outstanding support staffer as Paralibrarian of the Year. The award, now in its 15^th year and sponsored by DEMCO, comes with a $1,500 cash prize and a reception to honor the winner at the American Library Association conference in June. Highlighting the essential role of paralibrarians, now the largest constituency of library workers, in providing excellent library service, the award places special emphasis on the efforts of the winner to further the role of paralibrarians in the library profession.

The criteria for LJ‘s Paralibrarian of the Year are:

• Excellence in performing their job, including contribution(s) enabling the library to best serve its constituents and/or its community (whether town, college/university, school, or corporation);
• The encouragement of reading and the use of the library’s resources;
• A commitment to free access to information for all;
• The candidate’s work in building networks, organizations, and/or groups to back excellence in library work and new career paths for support staff, and improved communication and the breaking down of barriers between support staff and the MLS librarians with whom they work.

For additional information, go to sos.wa.gov/q/paraaward. Nominations are due Monday, January 13, 2014.

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4) CALL FOR PROPOSALS – LIBRARY ASSESSMENT CONFERENCE

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Planning Committee are pleased to issue this call for proposals for the 2014 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Seattle, Washington, August 4–6, 2014.

The conference goal is to build and further a vibrant library assessment community by bringing together interested practitioners and researchers who have responsibility or interest in the broad field of library assessment. The conference provides a mix of invited speakers, contributed papers, posters, and lightning talks and panels in addition to pre- and post-conference workshops that stimulate discussion and provide workable ideas for effective, practical, and sustainable library assessment.

For additional information, visit sos.wa.gov/q/LAC2014. Submissions are due Friday, January 17, 2014.

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5) UNITED FOR LIBRARIES TRUSTEE CONFERENCE GRANT

United for Libraries is currently accepting applications for the United for Libraries/Gale Trustee Conference Grant, which awards $850 plus full conference registration each year to a public library trustee who has demonstrated service to their library. The Conference Grant, which enables a public library trustee to attend the ALA Annual Conference for the first time, is made possible by an annual gift from Gale Cengage Learning and is administered by United for Libraries.

For more information and to apply, visit sos.wa.gov/q/trusteegrant. Applications are due Wednesday, January 15, 2014.

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6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES: DECEMBER 23 – JANUARY 3

Thursday, December 26:

• Tech Talk with Michael Sauers: SHOG.US – Share with Flare (NCompass Live); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PST: sos.wa.gov/q/NComp26Dec;

Monday, December 30:

• ProQuest Research Library and K12 Central (ProQuest); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST: sos.wa.gov/q/PQ848;
• eLibrary Curriculum Edition (ProQuest); 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. PST: sos.wa.gov/q/PQ849;

Thursday, January 2:

• Beyond MARC: BIBFRAME and the Future of Bibliographic Data (NCompass Live); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PST: sos.wa.gov/q/NComp2Jan;

Friday, January 3:

• ProQuest Administrator Module (ProQuest); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST: sos.wa.gov/q/PQ847.

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

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