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What: The North Atlantic Health Science Libraries Annual Conference

Theme: Libraries in Balance: Preserving our Roots, Growing our Future

Where: Newport Marriott, Newport, RI

When: October 24th – 26th 2010

How: http://www.nahsl.org/2010/RegForm2010.pdf (Print off, fill out and mail in)

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The University of Vermont Libraries has been awarded funding from the National  Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the amount $391,552 to support the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project over a two year period from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2012.

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The Routledge/Taylor & Francis peer-reviewed Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve (JILDDER) has merged with Resource Sharing & Information Networks and is now accepting articles for  Winter and Spring publication.  Of particular interest to JILDDER are articles regarding resource sharing, unmediated borrowing, electronic reserve, cooperative collection development, shared virtual library services, digitization projects and other multi-library collaborative efforts including the following topics:

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1. Pre- and Post- Retirement Tips for Librarians
2. Library Collaborations with Writers, Artists, Musicians and Other Creative Community Members
3. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons to Encourage Library Use
4. Publicity Methods to Keep Libraries in the News

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We Love New England Libraries!

Sisters in Crime-New England members know the difficulties that New England libraries face these days, and we want to help.
Enter to win a $250 grant to buy library books. Just send us a photo of an exhibit of at least three books by authors who are members of Sisters in Crime-New England. Your library will be entered for our quarterly drawings for a $250 check—PLUS autographed books from our SinC-NE members! Get details at www.sincne.org.

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We all know that people stay up at night thinking of questions to ask us — or so it seems some days.Reference inquiries and research questions are always in the queue, and the “who?” “what?” “where?” “when?” and “how?” of handling reference and research is a core consideration of our libraries and information services.  But who can keep up with all the latest approaches and technology? Yikes!

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Hello Everyone,

Ever wonder if the time you take to complete surveys is of any benefit?  Is it worth it? Does this effort just disappear?

Last fall you probably completed the “Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey,” sometimes called the “Plinter Survey.” It took some time to do.  Remember all those questions about whether you offer public internet access or do you have a maintenance schedule for your computers or what factors influence your decisions about adding computers or how do you receive IT support?

The results are out.  Here’s the announcement from John Bertot, who’s the guy who created and administered the survey:

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Check out this article about summer reading programs:

Libraries Keep Kids Reading All Summer Long (Burlington Free Press)

Good news!

The Department of Libraries is happy to confirm that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration yesterday awarded a $33.4 million grant to deploy a fiber optic network across the state of Vermont. The grant award will go to the Vermont Telecommunications Authority (VTA) as part of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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