Volume 8: June 14, 2012 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) GRANT CYCLE – TLA50 INITIATIVE

2) LIBRARY 2.012 CONFERENCE PROPOSALS SOLICITED

3) BUILD-A-BEAR GRANT OPPORTUNITY

4) BEST BUY COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAM

5) DIGITAL CURATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

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1) GRANT CYCLE – TLA50 INITIATIVE

The Transforming Life After 50 (TLA50) initiative is designed to help libraries better serve and engage midlife adults by positioning libraries as catalysts, resources, meeting places, and partners in creating opportunities for midlife adults to learn, teach, lead, build skills, prepare for new careers, and become civically-engaged. The 2012 TLAA50 grant cycle still has funding available to support a minimum of three additional awards. Applications received from the re-opened grant cycle will form their own application pool and will be reviewed separately from applications received in response to the first application deadline. Applicants that submitted an application to the first 2012 deadline are not eligible to submit an additional request.

Academic, public, and tribal libraries that serve adults over the age of 50 are eligible to apply. Available funding to support this re-opened grant cycle is $15,000, with a limit of $5,000 per application (limit of one application per library system).

The deadline to apply is Friday, June 29, 2012. More details may be found at www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/grants. For questions, contact Jennifer Fenton, TLA50 Project Manager, 360.570.5571, [email protected], or Anne Yarbrough, LSTA Grants Manager, 360.704.5246, [email protected].

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2) LIBRARY 2.012 CONFERENCE PROPOSALS SOLICITED

The Library 2.012 Conference will be held October 2-5, 2012. This fully online conference is currently calling for presentation proposals. The conference plans six subject strands:

• Libraries – Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces;
• Librarians & Information Professionals – Evolving Professional Roles in Today’s World;
• Content & Creation – Organizing and Creating Information;
• Changing Delivery Methods;
• User Centered Access
• Mobile and Geo-Social Information Environments.

The deadline for proposal submission is September 15. For more information, or to submit a proposal, use this shortcut: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/2.012.

The San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science is a founding partner of the Library 2.012 Conference.

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3) BUILD-A-BEAR GRANT OPPORTUNITY

Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. is accepting grant applications as part of its annual giving program. The Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation supports charities in the US and Canada through grant programs including Literacy and Education Grants which provide support for children in literacy and education programs such as summer reading programs, early childhood education programs, and literacy programs for children with special needs. Grants are a one-time contribution, and range from $1,000 to $5,000 USD.

The application deadline is August 31, 2012. For more information or to apply, visit www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/bear.

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4) BEST BUY COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAM

Through the Community Grants program, Best Buy teams across the United States select non-profit organizations that give teens access to opportunities through technology to help them excel in school and develop 21st century skills. This year, the Best Buy Children’s Foundation will give $2.8 million in Community Grants. Grant amounts will average $4000-$6000 and will not exceed $10,000.

The application deadline is July 1, 2012. For more information and to apply, visit www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/bestbuy.

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5) DIGITAL CURATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works. In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important. This selective bibliography presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. It covers copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns.

Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works, such as e-prints and open access articles. The bibliography is available as a paperback and an open access PDF file. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

This bibliography, and a list of other Digital Scholarship publications is available at bit.ly/ffWu9D.

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6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

Tuesday, June 19:

• TOPIC: Researching "Censorship" in ProQuest K-12 Resources (ProQuest); 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ-317;
• “That’s Not What I Said!”: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (WebJunction); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/WebJ05;
• OneClickdigital Staff Training: Tour, Administration, Promotion (Recorded Books); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/RB-02;
• ProQuest Administrator Module (ProQuest); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ-312;
• K12 ProQuest Administrator Module (ProQuest); 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ-315;
• K12 Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform (ProQuest); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ-316;

Wednesday, June 20:

• All About ALTAFF: A Conversation with Sally Gardner Reed (NCompass Live); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PDT;
• TOPIC: Researching "Censorship" in ProQuest K-12 Resources (ProQuest); 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ-318;
• After The Gift: How To Build A Satisfied, Loyal Donor Base (Nonprofit Webinars); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT;
• Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform (ProQuest); 12:00 – 12:45 p.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ-313;
• K12 eLibrary for Schools (ProQuest); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ-319;

Thursday, June 21:

• Proposal Budgeting Basics (GrantSpace); 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PDT;
• My Research (ProQuest); 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. PDT: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/PQ-314;

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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Photo: From TLA50 Institute in Portland, OR: Stephen Ristau and Suzanne Flint, TLA50 coordinators

from Ning Community website: http://tla50resource.ning.com/

• Nearly 2/3 of all the human beings who have ever lived past the age of 65 are alive today.
• Often considered the wealthiest generation in American history, Boomers face unique financial challenges – including the lowest savings rate (10%) of any other generation, the uncertainty of Social Security and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
• Midlife is a period in which individuals begin to think about, plan for, and actually disengage from their primary occupations and the raising of children. They launch a second or third career, develop new identities and new ways to be productively engaged.
• Four out of five Boomers see work as playing a role in their retirement.
• In a 10-year longevity study, researchers concluded that close family relationships, although important, were less likely than a network of good friends to increase longevity in older people.

These are just a few facts that staff from Washington libraries have been learning this past year. Transforming Life after 50 (TLA50), an initiative that began in California, is taking over Washington libraries. From the largest library systems (King County Library System, Seattle Public Library) to the tiniest libraries (Odessa, Neill Public), enhancing services and programs for mid-life adults has become a focus thanks to 18 Washington fellows participating in a year-long fellowship.

Ninety-one Fellows from eleven states are participating in the year-long IMLS Western Regional Fellowship — an initiative to help transform library strategies, policies and practices to better support the needs and interests of midlife adults, ages 50+.  Fellows were introduced to a new framework for serving and engaging these midlife adults at an in-person training institute in Portland, Oregon in September 2010.

In Portland, Fellows heard from guest presenters including Laura Carstensen, Paul Nussbaum, Michael Zielenziger and Robert Atchely. Furthermore, Fellows had the opportunity to meet each other and the instructors for the online portion of the fellowship. May is the final month of the live courses with a wrap up webinar scheduled for June. The online courses will be available to Fellows for a few months for those who need to catch up or wish to revisit previous courses.

In addition to the Fellowship, Washington Fellows have been spreading the word about TLA50 by presenting at the Washington Library Association conference in Yakima. More opportunities to share the TLA50 experience are coming soon with PNLA (Pacific Northwest Library Association) conference in August and WALE (Washington Library Employees) conference in October.

The Fellowship has focused on several areas of programming and services. At the Institute, presentations included the following topics:

• Community
• Financial Security
• Health (and aging)
• Life After 50 Options
• Lifelong Learning
• Spirituality
• Work & Volunteerism

The online courses have built on this foundation with courses on:

• Strategic Facilitation
• Community Assessment
• Partnerships and Collaborations
• Volunteer Engagement
• Evaluating Results
• Engaging Adults through Social Media

As we’ve learned how to engage mid-life adults in the library and community, we have also learned how important the changes brought about by the “Boomer” generation are to all of us today.

For a video peek at TLA50, visit http://tla50resource.ning.com/video/transforming-life-after-50-an

Also, consider joining the Transforming Life after 50 Ning community online: http://tla50resource.ning.com/ which is open to anyone interested in enhancing services and programming for the over 50 population in the library.

One final fact (that speaks for itself):

• 11% of the world’s population is over 60. By 2050, 22% will be.

*Quotes from the TLA50 website, http://transforminglifeafter50.org/.