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NELA News April 2009NELA News is a monthly e-newsletter of the New England Library Association Do libraries encourage civic engagement? Does your library play a key role for engaging citizens and encouraging participation in community life? Want to learn more? Attend our biannual conference… Nancy Kranich, Past President of ALA, will be the Keynote speaker discussing “The Role of Libraries in Promoting Civic Engagement.” More details and registration form will be available soon at http://nelib.org/counterparts. Register now for the New England Technical Services Librarians' 2009 Spring Conference! Friday, April 17, 2009, 9:30-3:30, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA The NETSL Spring Conference is just around the corner. This year’s theme is “Working the Cataloging Landscape.” Learn how to make your data work harder in these tough economic times! We will hear how to integrate our library data into the information universe that is the Web (Karen Coyle, Library Consultant); then Ted Fons, Director of OCLC’s WorldCat Global Metadata Network, will tell us about current and future metadata projects at OCLC. Other sessions include a discussion of the role of “upstream” data from publishers in libraries, a description and demonstration of a new approach to federated search, a look at one university’s workflow solution for integrating Web resources into our library collections, and a panel presentation of a variety of next generation of library catalogs. And Rick Block, winner of the 2008 Library Journal Teaching Award, will tangle with RDA and the future of MARC. It’s an event you won’t want to miss! Visit http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference-2009.htm for the complete details and registration. We look forward to seeing you there! ITS (Information Technology Section) Friday, June 12, 2009, 10am – 3:30pm, Portsmouth Public Library, Portsmouth, NH Building a better Website: Drupal, Joomla, Plone, & WordPress Detailed agenda and online registration coming soon! Check http://nelib.org/its Greenaway Award seeking nominations Membership renewals are coming in. Reminder notices have been sent out. If you haven’t renewed already, be sure to renew soon so we continue to send you this newsletter and conference information. Go to www.nelib.org/membership or find your paper renewal notice. States News Connecticut -- CLA’s 2009 conference will be held April 29 - May 1 at New Haven’s Omni Hotel. Registration information and program offerings are at http://www.ctlibraryassociation.org/conf.htm. A special group rate is being offered this year: every 4th participant from an institution will receive free registration, and student discounts are available for all conference days this year. Massachusetts -- Massachusetts is accepting orders for a MA library license plate with proceeds to benefit public, academic, special and school libraries across the state that belong to a Regional Library System. Details are at http://www.cmrls.org/plates_public.htm. Advocacy Institute is the all day program for MLA’s pre-conference on May 5th. Complete information on the full conference is at http://www.masslib.org/conference/2009Conference/index.htm. Maine -- The decision to hold off until 2010 for another statewide conference was made in order to help keep the Association financially sound and able to hold its own during the present economic storm. MLA continues to focus on membership retention and growth. New Hampshire -- The 2009 Annual Spring Conference will be held on May 19th and 20th in Bartlett, NH at the Attitash Grand Summit Hotel and Conference Center. Conference information is at http://www.nhlibrarians.org/springconference.html. For a second year, NHLA Executive Board moved to donate $3,000 to the Kids, Books and the Arts 2009 Project, a project of the New Hampshire State Library in cooperation with CHILIS. Rhode Island -- Librarians in Rhode Island are using WebJunction (http://www.webjunction.org/) discussion groups to communicate and share ideas. Previously, library staff communicated via an electronic bulletin board. WebJunction allows users to post discussion threads, documents, and take online courses. Vermont -- Registration for the May 12-13 conference in Burlington is now open. The conference theme is Library Advocacy. Full conference information can be found online at www.vermontlibraryconference.org. Judith Flint, Amy Grasmick and Christine Lesinski of the Kimball Public Library, Randolph, VT are the recipients of the American Library Association Paul Howard Award for Courage. The $1,000 bi-annual award and citation honors a librarian, library board, library group or an individual who has exhibited unusual courage for the benefit of library programs or services. NELA News is a monthly e-newsletter of the New England Library Association. It is published the first week of the month. Deadline for news items and articles is the last day of the previous month. |