Volume 11, January 08, 2015 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) PRIMARY DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON WSL WEBSITE

2) WLA MENTORING PROGRAM

3) BUILDING BRIDGES TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

4) IMLS ANNOUNCES SPARKS! IGNITION LIBRARY GRANTS

5) APPLY TO HOST STORYCORPS

6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

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1) PRIMARY DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON WSL WEBSITE

Washington State Library has digitized and hosts many primary documents about our state’s history on the WSL website. We’ve been working on a way to make it easier to get to the items you want. Check out this video about our historic Pinterest Boards. Look for the Regional boards (e.g. The History of Southwest Washington) and see what you can learn about your particular corner of our state.

Do you know of local online primary resources that would add to the collection?

• Please contact Nono Burling at [email protected]. Let’s work together to build an amazing resource for our state’s students, researchers, and historians.

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2) WLA MENTORING PROGRAM

The Washington Library Association mentoring program is live and needs mentors and mentees. Please apply to be a mentor or mentee; mentoring can be a valuable experience for both parties. The goal of the WLA Mentoring Program is to provide encouragement, support, and guidance to library staff to promote their professional development and growth.

Benefits of mentoring programs:

• Library staff have the opportunity to develop professional skills and a sense of direction.
• Experienced library staff can contribute to the profession by helping to develop future leaders.
• Both mentors and mentees can learn from each other’s perspectives and experiences.
• Both mentors and mentees can develop enhanced listening skills and the ability to communicate with respect.
• The profession as a whole can benefit from the opportunity to capture knowledge from our library leaders.

Questions? Please contact Jennifer Fenton at [email protected]

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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) APPLY TO HOST STORYCORPS

StoryCorps, in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, is accepting applications from public libraries and library systems interested in hosting StoryCorps @ your library programs. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), StoryCorps @ your library will bring StoryCorps’ popular interview methods to libraries while developing a replicable model of oral history programming.

•  Program guidelines and the online application are available at apply.ala.org/storycorps
• The application deadline is February 6, 2015.

Ten selected sites will receive:

• a $2,500 stipend for project-related expenses;
• portable recording equipment;
• a two-day, in-person training on interview collection, digital recording techniques and archiving on April 8-9, 2015, led by StoryCorps staff in Brooklyn, New York (Note: Travel and lodging costs will be covered by StoryCorps.);
• two two-hour planning meetings to develop a program and outreach strategy with StoryCorps staff in March 2015;
• promotional materials and technical and outreach support;
• access to and use of StoryCorps’ proprietary interview database.

Each library will be expected to record at least 40 interviews during the six-month interview collection period (May-October 2015). In addition, each library must plan at least one public program inspired by the interviews they collect. Local libraries will retain copies of all interviews and preservation copies will also be deposited with the Library of Congress.

This StoryCorps @ your library grant offering represents the second phase of the StoryCorps @ your library project, following a pilot program in 2013-14. Read more about the pilot libraries at http://www.ala.org/programming/storycorps and http://www.storycorps.org/your-library.

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6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

January 12

• Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents Fugitive Hunters: Community-based digital collection development of born-digital government information (North Carolina Library Association); 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PST
• Bright Futures Summer Reading (Idaho Commission for Libraries); 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PST

January 13

• The Top 7 Ways to Protect Your Patrons’ Privacy (SirsiDynix); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• Get Thinking! Making the Most of Your Library Time (AASL); 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. PST
• Reluctant Reader Resources from Lerner Publishing Group (Booklist); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
• CultureGrams (ProQuest); 6:30 – 7:30 a.m. PST
• WorldCat® Discover Searching: Basics (OCLC); 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST

January 14

• Building Stakeholder Commitment to Your Goals (4Good); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• Introduction to Corporate Giving (Grant Space); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• Developing Irresistible Teen Programs (Evanced); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
• Power Searching: Advanced Search Operators (Infopeople); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST
• The Research Process (edWeb.net); 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. PST
• The Business Side of a Successful Performance Consulting Practice: Building a Marketing and Sales Channel (TrainingMagazineNetwork); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• The CVA (Certification in Volunteer Administration) Credential: A Mark of Excellence (VolunteerMatch); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PST
• The Internet as Material: Empowering the Next Phase of Connected Hardware Innovation (O’Reilly Community); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• Ancestry Library Edition Basics – U.S. Focus (ProQuest); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST

January 15

• 5-Minute Lightning Critiques: Design for the Real World (O’Reilly Community); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• Health Resources in GoWYLD.net (Wyoming Libraries); 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. PST
• Staying Afloat in a Sea of Change (WebJunction); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
• So No One Told You You’re a Marketeer of Training? (TrainingMagazineNetwork); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• Building and Managing a Volunteer Mentoring Program, Part II (VolunteerMatch); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
• Introduction to the ProQuest Platform (ProQuest); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
• Configuring WorldCat Discovery Services (OCLC); 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST

January 16

• Connecting Digital Products to Physical Programming (Gale Geek); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PST
• Making Difficult Conversations Easy (Effectiveness Institute); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
• eLibrary Curriculum Edition (ProQuest); 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. PST
• Research Library Prep and Central K12 (ProQuest); 11:00 – 11:45 a.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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