Dear Librarians and Trustees:

The dates are set! Please put it in your calendar and plan to attend one the 2012 Town Officers’ Education Conference days next April.  Please forward this to your Board of Trustees.

Details on the Library and other programs will be sent out early in 2012.

TOEC 2012   Dates/Locations:

Wednesday, April 4 - Hilton, Burlington
Tuesday, April 10 - Lake Morey Inn, Fairlee
Wednesday, April 18 - Rutland/Killington Holiday Inn, Rutland

Best regards,

Christine Friese
Assistant State Librarian
Department of Libraries
802-828-2714
christine.friese@state.vt.us

Posted on Saturday, November 19th, 2011 at 10:08 am in the DOL, Events, Public Libraries, Trustees category.

Registration is now open for the VLTA Conference being held this year at the Vermont State House, Montpelier, Saturday November 5. Please forward this to those board members who may not frequent the VLA website or Facebook pages.

VLTA Registration Form: http://www.vermontlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/VLTA-Registration-form-2011.pdf

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Posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 at 6:53 pm in the Conferences, Trustees category.

Calling it the “Vermont Transparency Tour,” the Secretary of State’s office announced this week that it has scheduled a series of upcoming training sessions to educate local and state officials—as well as Vermonters—about our state’s open government laws covering public records and open meetings.

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Posted on Saturday, October 1st, 2011 at 11:50 am in the DOL, Educational Ops, Trustees 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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Posted 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.

Burlington Area Access TV Organizations Bring National Speaker on Digital Marketing and Privacy
Contact Lauren-Glenn Davitian, davitian@cctv.org 802-862-3966 x12

On Thursday, September 22, 2011 from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. at Champlain College, Alumni Auditorium, Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy will speak on how marketers track online and digital footprints, threats to privacy and dramatic changes in the delivery of news, information and entertainment. Digital Media at the Crossroads: Content & Control in the Internet Era is free and open to the public. Chester explores the latest developments in technologically advanced personalized data targeting, the role of the leading online marketing companies, new approaches to policy, its impact on diverse and progressive media content, and implications for the future of democracy and human rights.

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Posted on Thursday, August 18th, 2011 at 10:30 am in the Academic Libraries, C&SL, Educational Ops, Events, IFC, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Support Staff, Technology, Trustees category.

Vermont Library Association announces the 2011

John Swan Lecture for Intellectual Freedom

Featuring

Christopher Finan

 

President of American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE), member of the Media Coalition and member and chair of the board of the National Coalition Against Censorship, recipient of the 2011 Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) Roll of Honor Award and 2008 winner of Eli Oboler Award speaking about his  book

 From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America

Thursday, August 25, 2011

4 p.m.

Sherburne Memorial Library     2998 River Road Killington,VT

Book signing and reception immediately following. 

Free and open to the public

Posted on Monday, August 8th, 2011 at 3:18 pm in the Academic Libraries, C&SL, Events, IFC, News, Public Libraries, Trustees category.

SAVE THE DATE!

Please mark your calendars for the 2011 Vermont Library Trustee Association Annual Conference. Jointly sponsored with the Vermont Department of Libraries, this year’s Conference will be held:

Saturday, November 5
9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Vermont State House in Montpelier

Conference details and registration information to follow shortly.

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Posted on Saturday, August 6th, 2011 at 12:19 pm in the Conferences, Trustees category.

Raise awareness and cash at the same time with our beautiful VLA 2012 Vermont Public Libraries Calendar! The time to advertise is now! Production is underway… the calendar is going to be great!

The VLA 2012 Calendar:
Sings libraries’ praise.
Will help you fundraise.
Has gorgeous photo displays.
Keeps track of your days.
Even follows the moon’s phase!
…It’s a calendar that works in so many ways!

Links for two pdfs are below – an info/order form for librarians, and a flyer/order form to print out and post for your patrons, friends, relatives, whomever…

Fill in the top circle of the advertising flyer with your selling price, we recommend $15-$20. Remember that roughly $8.50 will go towards production and shipping costs and your library pockets the rest. At the bottom of that flyer, write who the checks should be made out and given to (your library or your Friends group).

We recommend ordering a small stock for the library to sell after the order deadline. Chances are you’ll get lots of additional interest after you can show a sample copy, especially in November and December. When you’ve got all the forms and checks you think you’ll get, fill out the order form for libraries. To reserve your calendars, place your order by September 15. Calendars will be shipped at the end of October.

Questions? Write us at mkdesign@gmavt.net or marti@williston.lib.vt.us .

Sincerely,
The Calendar Team

Ad VLA2012Calendar_librarians
AD VLA2012Calendar_patrons

Posted on Thursday, July 14th, 2011 at 10:47 am in the Academic Libraries, Advocacy, C&SL, Events, FOL, Funding Ops, News, Public Libraries, Publications, School Libraries, Trustees, Youth Librarians 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

Posted on Friday, July 1st, 2011 at 1:04 pm in the ACRL/NEC, Academic Libraries, Advocacy, Blogroll, C&SL, Conferences, Educational Ops, Events, IFC, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Trustees, Uncategorized, VCAL (excluded from VLA main) 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.

Posted 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.