ACRL New England Chapter Scholarly Communication Interest Group Fall Program

The ARL Code of Best Practices and Beyond: Copyright and Fair Use on Your Campus

When: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Where: UMass Medical Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center, Shrewsbury, MA

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Posted on Friday, November 9th, 2012 at 9:11 am in the Academic Libraries, ACRL/NEC, C&SL, Educational Ops, Events category.

A message from NELA’s president, Mary Ann List:

Dear NELA Members,

Bill Rogers of Google Maps has launched an initiative to provide indoor maps of New England libraries, public and academic, large and small. The project can expand to other buildings on college campuses.

Public libraries in Portland Maine and Hingham Mass were pioneers, discovering indoor maps early on.  Several of the rest of us have now worked with the Google team to raise the visibility of our libraries in this way.

Google Indoor Maps are in use in several large retail establishments and in 18 Smithsonian museums and galleries.

There are two levels of mapping, both easy and free to the library.

In Portsmouth we loaded our basic floor plans (the same ones we use in-house) in just a few minutes, and then had a Google team come out to do the live mapping (level 2).

Mr. Rogers explains indoor maps for libraries in his letter, which follows.

If you would like to join this project, contact him for simple instructions.

Mary Ann List, NELA President

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Posted on Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 7:03 pm in the Academic Libraries, NELA, News category.

Dear Vermont Librarians,

I am a student at Southern Connecticut State University and a staff member at the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro, Vermont who is completing a research project for a Masters of Information and Library Science degree.

My thesis is titled “CREATING DIGITAL COLLECTIONS IN VERMONT’S PUBLIC LIBRARIES” and it investigates how small, rural cultural organizations, specifically public libraries in Vermont, can create effective and low-cost digital collections.

I am asking for your participation in a quick survey I have developed and posted online. The survey should take you no more than 15 minutes to complete.

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Posted on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 2:14 pm in the Academic Libraries, C&SL, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries category.

The Department of Libraries mailed forms for the 2012 Resource Sharing Grants to eligible libraries in an April 23 mailing.

This is a reminder that libraries must return the signed 2012 Grant Agreement form and 2011 Resource Sharing Grant Report form by May 14, 2012.

We want to make sure that all eligible libraries receive grant funds, so please return those forms by the postmark deadline of May 14. These grants are made possible with federal LSTA funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and this paperwork is required to meet federal grant guidelines.

If you have questions, please contact Renee Ancel at: 802-828-3266 / renee.ancel@state.vt.us

Posted on Sunday, May 6th, 2012 at 1:27 am in the Academic Libraries, DOL, Funding Ops, Public Libraries category.

Champlain College has received an Excellence in Academic Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. Libraries are continuing to prove that they are still vibrant and vital places for their communities.

This news story aired April 23 on WPTZ and New England Cable News.

http://www.necn.com/04/23/12/Vt-college-library-celebrated-as-nationa/landing_homeandfamily.html?blockID=695122&feedID=8368

Posted on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at 11:38 am in the Academic Libraries, ACRL/NEC, Awards, C&SL, Uncategorized category.

Charles (Chuck) Henry, President, Council on Libraries and Information Resources, will give a talk, Words Fly Up: The New Digital Environment and its Challenge to Higher Education,  at Middlebury College (Axinn 232) on April 23 at 4:30 p.m

He looks at ten of the very large projects being developed at a national scale in the U.S., and explores ways these unprecedented efforts, if developed as elements of a coherent ecology, will challenge our understanding of culture, learning, and the organization of higher education.

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Posted on Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 2:40 pm in the Academic Libraries, Educational Ops, Events, Technology category.

Check out Vermont State College’s own Larraby Fellows on Across the Fence:

Finding Reliable Information in the Digital Age

Posted on Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at 10:12 am in the Academic Libraries, Advocacy, News category.

Taking place during National Library Week (April 8 – 14), Library Snapshot Day is a great way of documenting all the vital services libraries provide to the citizens of Vermont. For more information, please visit:

http://vermontlibrarysnapshotday.pbworks.com/w/page/35106292/FrontPage

Posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 11:16 am in the Academic Libraries, Advocacy, C&SL, DOL, Public Libraries, School Libraries category.

Register now for the 118th Vermont Library Conference!

This Ain’t Your Mama’s Library
Creating a New Generation of Library Services for a New Generation of Library Users
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
St Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont

This year will feature a keynote address by Michelle Gorman and a Book Cart Drill Team Competition. For more information on programming, visit the Conference Website at http://www.vermontlibraryconference.org/

Posted on Thursday, March 1st, 2012 at 3:24 pm in the Academic Libraries, C&SL, Conferences, DOL, Events, FOL, GMLC-blog, GRC, IFC, Membership, News, Personnel, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Support Staff, Technical Services, Technology, VLC, Youth Librarians category.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN http://conference.acrlnec.org/content/vt-virtual.

The ACRL New England Annual Conference is one again upon us and being held at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. Can’t make it down to Worcester? Want to network with other Vermont librarians? Need a cost-effective professional development option?

Mark your calendar for the 3^rd Annual ACRL-NEC Vermont Virtual Conference on Friday, May 18^th!

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Posted on Monday, February 20th, 2012 at 12:45 pm in the Academic Libraries, ACRL/NEC, C&SL, Conferences category.