finding new resources: life after systems

Ted WannerTexas Library Association

September 29, 2013

District 1 Fall Meeting in San Angelo

35 years ago, most libraries still had card catalogs

32 years ago, there were no PCs

23 years ago, no World Wide Web

18 years ago, no Google

10 years ago, no Web 2.0

6 years ago, no i-Phones

Change is a Constant

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Collection Development

Reference

Management Issues

Information Technology

Grants & Fundraising

Continuing Education

Networking

Now Where Do We Go…?

TLA Acquisitions and Collection Development Round TableTLA youth services groups like CRT and YART

ALA www.ala.org/rusa/

REFORMA www.reforma.org

Collection Development Help

Texas State Library reference service

512-463-5455 or www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/ask.html

TLA Reference Round Table

www.txla.org/groups/RRT

Your colleagues at other nearby libraries

Help with Reference

Texas Library Association 800-580-2852

Staff

Supervision, Management, and Administration Round Table

New Members Round Table mentor program

Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Starring Jeanette Larson!

Association of Small & Rural Libraries mentoring partners program

Nonprofit groups

Abilene Community Foundation

Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations

Consulting Sources

Texas Accellerated Library Leaders (also known as TALL Texans)

Leadership Development

TALL Texans Curriculum (partial list)

Defining your leadership style

Communication skills

Influence, Power, and Change

Risk Taking

Conflict Management

Coaching and Performance Improvement

Personal Career Goals

TALL Texans5 years experience in libraries

Examples of leadership & ability to apply learning

Online applications available October 1

Applications due last week of January

Notification by March 1

Institute is usually 2nd or 3rd week of June(2013 Institute will be June 9-12 plus special Reunion Day for 20th Year)

TLA units like SMART

Foundation Center in the Tom Green County Library

Abilene Community Foundation

Texas State Library grants

https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/landing/libfunds.html

GrantStation ($99/year on Tech Soup) www.grantstation.com

Tech Soup – low cost IT resource www.techsoup.org

Help with Grants & Fundraising

TLA Districts

6. El Paso

7. Fort Worth

8. Houston

9. Lubbock

10. San Antonio

1. Abilene

2. Amarillo

3. Austin

4. Corpus Christi

5. Dallas

TLA Districts

Major areas of interest in librarianship• Acquisitions, Archives, Automation, Cataloging, Children, Genealogy, Library Instruction, Reference, Supervision & Management, Young Adults, etc.

Special interests • Black Caucus, CE Providers, Distributed E-Learning, Doo Wop (fun), Gay-Lesbian-Transgendered, REFORMA, Service to Spanish Speakers, TALL Texans, TPALS (vendors), etc.

Round Tables & Interest Groups

Annual

Seven to eight thousand people

Over 200 educational programs•Best practices•New tools•Renew your enthusiasm•Members get discounted rates

TLA Conference

Fort Worth * April 24-27, 2013

TLA Conference Programs

Gloria Estefan

Marlee Matlin

Rita Perlman

Paula Poundstone

Liz Carpenter

Isabel Allende

Julie AndrewsDave BarryTony BrownJenna BushBill CosbyScott Simon

Some Recent Speakers

Keynote Speakers in 2013

J R Martinez Dan Ariely Neil Gaiman

Intellectual FreedomLiteracyGenealogySpecial Reference SourcesVirtual ReferenceReturn on InvestmentMarketing & OutreachPresentation SkillsTalking to City Officials

Social Media

Grants & Fundraising

Library Instruction

Faculty Collaboration

Programming for Youth

Veterans Services

Management

Assessment

Sample Workshops

www.txla.org/awards

$30,000 in scholarships and awards

Getting to Conference

TLA Webinars

www.txla.org/CE

Texas Library Journal

TLACast

Intellectual Freedom Handbook

TexLine

Texas Reference Sources

Award lists (Bluebonnet, Tayshas, 2x2)

TLA Publications

American Library Association (and divisions)

www.ala.org

Texas State Library and WebJunction webinars

www.tsl.state.tx.us

NTLP: Not Typical Library Partners(formerly North Texas Library Partners, North Texas Regional Library System)

www.ntxlibpartners.org

Connecting Texas Libraries Statewide(formerly Central Texas Library System)

www.ctls.net

TCEA: Texas Computing in Education Association

www.tcea.org

Amigos Library Services

www.amigos.org

Other Online CE Sources

Special Example: libraries.idaho.gov/page/able

Advocacy

Sample letters and talking points

Tool kits and tutorials

Contact information for politicians

TALK TO DREW DARBYRepresentative for District 72House Committee on Appropriations

www.txla.org/advocacy-tools

DREW DARBY, State Representative

TexasLibrarySnapshotDay.org

Foundation Centers

Texas Computing in Education Association

Tocker Foundation

Abilene Community Foundation

Abilene Library Consortium

Amigos Library Services

Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations

OneStar

TLA District 1

Texas Library Association

American Library Association

Public Library Association

Texas State Library & Archives

North Texas Library Partners

Central Texas Library System

Tech Soup • Greenlights

LIFTA • SMART • NMRT

Texas Center for Performance Excellence

Texas Municipal Library Directors Association

You Are Not Alone

Ted WannerTexas Library Association

tedw@txla.orgwww.txla.org

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