The Vermont Library Association is pleased to offer a 2012 wall calendar featuring one glorious Vermont library per county for a total of fourteen months. You can spend a beautiful year getting to know Vermont’s public libraries and help support them. Each month provides a window into the history and personality of each library with great pictures, interesting stories and bits of statistics. The 12 x 22 inch format affords plenty of space for writing appointments and includes all major holidays and moon phases. Best of all profits from the sale of each calendar stays with the libraries to support their services. This calendar will make gifts during the great holiday season! The pre-order deadline is September 8, for delivery at the end of October. Contact your local library to pre-order or determine whether they will have stock available for sale in November. For more information, go to www.VLACalendarProject.org.
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on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 12:31 pm in the Advocacy, Blogroll, Events, FOL, Funding Ops, News, Public Libraries, Uncategorized category.
Last week the President made a declaration of major disaster for Vermont in the counties of Chittenden County, Rutland County, Washington County, and Windsor County due to Hurricane Irene and flooding associated with the storm. Below is some informational materials on floods and how DisasterAssistance.gov can help survivors. For your convenience the flood flyer is also in Spanish. Please post so your patrons can have the most up to date information on how to apply for federal assistance. If you have any questions contact Alicia Gilligham as noted below.
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on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 1:02 pm in the Blogroll, Funding Ops, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries category.
We have received many calls and emails from people all across the country who want to help our libraries. We are grateful to all of you and want to let you know how you can best help our libraries at this time. For now, please do not send books. Instead, we are accepting cash donations.
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on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 12:14 pm in the Academic Libraries, Advocacy, Blogroll, C&SL, DOL, Funding Ops, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Trustees, Uncategorized category.
Some great things are going on in media among us and around us here in the green mountains. It’s not surprising for us to have fertile ground to till in the area of independent media, but what if we stopped, just for a moment, to consider where we’re headed – together. Please join other interested people to do just that on the afternoon of July 12th in downtown Montpelier.
Are there opportunities, needs, desires we share? You are invited to an initial conversation – a brainstorming session, perhaps – to talk about the future and the now. And if you think there are others who should be invited, please pass along this invitation. All are welcome.
Vermont Independent Media Conversation
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Montpelier City Hall
1:30-4:00pm
Agenda in development
1. Introductions
2. Some questions to address:Does independence mean anarchy? How can independent Vermont media outlets work together?
What are the assets we currently share? How can independent media assist Vermont communities building and maintaining community links? How do we increase real news about communities? Can we move toward collaboration in creative ways?
3. What should our next steps be?
Want more information? Have questions? Email scottc@retn.org.
Or just show up and bring things up.
If you know anyone who should be invited to this conversation, please ask them to join us.
Scott Campitelli
Executive Director & Program Manager
RETN – Regional Educational Technology Network
http://www.retn.org
scottc@retn.org
ph – 802.654.7980 ext 26
media center at:
208 Flynn Avenue, Suite 2K
Burlington, Vermont
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on Friday, July 1st, 2011 at 1:04 pm in the Academic Libraries, ACRL/NEC, Advocacy, Blogroll, C&SL, Conferences, Educational Ops, Events, IFC, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Trustees, Uncategorized, VCAL (excluded from VLA main) category.
In honor of National Library Week, Archives.com has put together a white paper and visual graphic about libraries’ importance to our communities and to genealogists, and some of the difficulties they have been facing during the economic downturn.
You can see their white paper and infographic here: http://www.archives.com/blog/industry-news/national-library-week-2011.html.
You may join the cause and share this post on library websites, blogs and Facebook/Twitter (shortened URL for tweets that we’ve been using: http://bit.ly/hLfkZL)! If you’d like, you can even embed the visual graphic onto your site using the code provided in our blog post.
Happy National Library Week 2011!
Jesse Willoughby
Archives.com
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on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 at 11:17 am in the Advocacy, Blogroll, C&SL, Events, News, Public Libraries, Uncategorized category.
Vermont Library Association, Vermont School Library Association and Vermont Department of Libraries have partnered to create a state-wide advertising campaign during National Library Week which will kick off this Sunday April 10. Three ads will appear in all the regional papers this week. Television commercials will run on WPTZ during the Today Show, WCAX during the 6-7 am news hour, will be available to all public access channels in Vermont and are posted on the VLA YouTube Channel.
Please help spread the word about the campaign and the great services you have to offer.
- Contact your local public access channel and ask them to make sure run the Vermont libraries PSAs that are available through the public access consortium.
**Note: The article by Chris Bohjalian will appear in the Burlington Free Press and on his blog Sunday morning. The link to his blog article will go live Sunday morning.
Thank you for your help in getting the word out.
Marti Fiske, President, Vermont Library Association 
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on Friday, April 8th, 2011 at 11:29 pm in the Advocacy, Blogroll, Events, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries category.
$75,000 in Funding Available for Library Literacy Programming
Better World Books is excited to introduce the LEAP Grants (Literacy and Education in Action Program) for Libraries. Applicants will propose a compelling literacy project in their community. It is understood that the needs and opportunities of the communities that libraries serve vary widely and are eager to review a variety of applications.
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on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at 11:04 am in the Blogroll, Funding Ops, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Youth Librarians category.
WASHINGTON (Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday introduced legislation to extend expiring provisions authorized by the USA PATRIOT Act. The provisions are set to expire on February 28.
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on Thursday, January 27th, 2011 at 11:08 am in the Advocacy, Blogroll, C&SL, IFC, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Uncategorized, Urgent Action category.
The New England Library Association is holding its annual conference in Burlington in October 2011. The NELA conference committee is busy making preparations and need help from some Vermonters to assistant in designing programs and making connections with Vermont’s resources.
NELA is in need of about four Vermonters to join the conference committee for program planning. Any previous experience with conferences would be helpful, but not necessary. In particular they are looking for assistance with local contacts, help in learning about Vermont resources and advertising the conference to Vermont library workers. There will be a minimum of travel, the majority of the work will be done by email, etc. The expected dates and locations of meetings are as follows; January 14 in Leominster Massachusetts area, February 24 virtual on web, April 1 in Burlington Vermont and June 6 in Wilton New Hampshire.
For more information and to volunteer please contact Mary Ann List– NELA Conference Chair at malist@cityofportsmouth.com , 603-766-1710 or Mary Ann Rupert –NELA Conference Manager at marupert@pobox.com, 603-654-3533.
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on Monday, November 29th, 2010 at 3:40 pm in the Blogroll, C&SL, Conferences, Events, NELA, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Support Staff, Technical Services, Uncategorized, VCAL (excluded from VLA main), Youth Librarians category.
The Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island invites library and information service organizations to register possible professional field experiences (PFE) on their PFE database. This database is intended to help students in the Professional Field Experience (LSC 595) course locate placement sites, and to help potential host institutions attract appropriate student interns.
Students taking LSC 595 (Professional Field Experience) must complete forty-five hours of work for each credit. Students may take the course for anywhere from one to six credits. Details regarding the course may be seen at http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/Academics/Courses/PFE.html. Instructions for viewing the PFE database are also given on this page.
A PFE may be primarily service oriented. For example, the student might work on the Reference Desk and teach information literacy courses in an academic library or the student could catalog new entries in the digital collection of archival institution. The PFE could also be project oriented, where a student could develop a new website or redesign an existing website for a public library or work on a research project for a corporate library. The PFE may also involve a combination of service and projects. The details of each PFE are worked out cooperatively between the student, the supervising library, and the full-time faculty member teaching the course.
If you would like to be listed in the PFE database, please complete the Site Supervisor’s Form at http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/Academics/Courses/PFE/SiteSupervisorForm.pdf and send it to GSLIS as indicated on the form. The full-time faculty member teaching LSC 595 will be happy to work with you and the student to try to find a good match for the PFE.
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on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 at 11:36 am in the Blogroll, C&SL, Funding Ops, News, Personnel, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Trustees, Uncategorized, VCAL (excluded from VLA main) category.
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