be Dr. Benjamin Sapp, Direc-

tor, Mazza Museum. The

Mazza Museum is the first and

largest teaching museum of

original children’s book art in

the world. Dr. Sapp will take

us on a virtual tour of the mu-

seum followed by an art exhib-

it housing several pieces of

the collection located in the

exhibit hall. Novelist, writer,

and producer Linda Bruck-

heimer will be the KLA Awards

Luncheon speaker.

American Library Association

2011-2012 President Molly

Raphael will be presenting

Libraries: Essential for Learn-

ing, Essential for Life. Chil-

dren’s author Phil Bildner will

be the luncheon author speak-

er on Friday. Mr. Bildner’s

most recent book, out this

month, is The Unforgettable

Season: Joe DiMaggio, Ted

Williams and the Record-

Setting Summer of 1941. We

also have many outstanding

sessions planned. Note: Mini

-session presenters will be

notified in April. You do not

want to miss Information…The

Library Superpower! this fall,

so mark your calendars now:

the KLA/KSMA Joint Confer-

ence, September 28-October

1, 2011, Galt House Hotel &

Suites, Louisville, Kentucky.

I hope to see most of you at

one of these exciting confer-

ences!

Leoma Dunn, President

Kentucky Library Association

It is finally spring time in the

Rockies or Kentucky as the

case may be. Robins are

singing, flowers are blooming,

and the Kentucky library world

is gearing up for their spring

and summer conferences.

The week of April 11 will be

the hottest and busiest confer-

ence week this year. The

Kentucky Public Library Asso-

ciation and Kentucky Library

Trustees Round Table will be

holding their Spring Confer-

ence, Kentucky Public Librar-

ies: Making Connections,

April 11-13 in Lexington, Ken-

tucky. The Academic Library

Section, Special Library Sec-

tion, and SLA Kentucky Chap-

ter will be holding their Joint

Spring Conference, Kickin’ It

Up A Notch: Improving Our

Professional Image, April 13-

15 at Jenny Wiley State Re-

sort Park in Prestonsburg,

Kentucky. For more infor-

mation about these confer-

ences, please see the Ken-

tucky Library Association’s

website.

In July, the Kentucky School

Media Association will be

holding its Summer Refresher,

Make a Splash @ KSMA

Summer Refresher on July 19

at Marshall County High

School in Benton, Kentucky.

For registration information,

click here.

Along with a Kentucky contin-

gent of library professionals

and supporters, I will be at-

tending National Library Legis-

lative Day, May 9-10 at the

Liaison Hotel in Washington,

D.C. to advocate for our librar-

ies. According to the Ameri-

can Library Association,

―many changes in Congress

now contribute to a new politi-

cal climate in both the House

and the Senate. New mem-

bers need to hear from you

and other constituents.‖ We

will be sending out additional

information regarding how you

can help support NLLD even if

you cannot attend in D.C.

Now that spring has arrived, I

hate to bring back memories

of the cold, dreary, snowy

winter; however, I must reflect

back to January. Terry Buck-

ner, President-Elect, and I

attended the American Library

Association’s Midwinter Con-

ference in San Diego. We

represented the Kentucky

Library Association at the

Chapter Leaders Forum and

the Chapter Relations Com-

mittee meetings and were

announced at the ALA Council

I meeting. We also solicited

prospective vendors for the

Fall Conference in the exhibit

hall.

Speaking of the Fall Confer-

ence, plans are well underway

for an awesome conference,

Information…The Library Su-

perpower! The conference

opening session speaker will

Greetings from the President

IN-FO-CUS A P R I L 2 0 1 1

S P E C I A L

P O I N T S O F

I N T E R E S T :

KLA has a new

website! Find

us now at

http://

klaonline.org/

Join a KLA

listerve. Find

information at

http://

klaonline.org/

under the

Home tab

P A G E 2

What do all these

things have in com-

mon? They come

together at the Con-

verging Trends in

Teaching and Learn-

ing Conference.

Information and Technology Roundtable

2011 Kentucky Conference on Converging

Trends in Teaching & Learning At Converging Trends Ken-

tucky’s most innovative fac-

ulty, IT professionals, librari-

ans, CIOs, administrators,

instructional designers,

postsecondary educators

and P12 teachers will meet

to share ideas, learn about

one another’s worlds and

explore the future.

The 2011 Kentucky Confer-

ence on Converging Trends

in Teaching & Learning con-

ference represents a merger

of multiple established con-

ferences, including the Con-

vergence Conference, the

KY Scholarship of Teaching

and Learning Conference

and the Teacher Quality

Summit. Converging

Trends is the place to go for

statewide and national net-

working focused on innova-

tions in teaching, learning

and technology across a

range of educational levels.

May 23 (pre-conference)

and May 24-25, 2011NKU

METS Center Erlanger, KY

http://

www.kyconvergingtrends.or

g/Some Highlights

Preconference May 23

Tim Birtwistle and Holiday

Hart McKiernan on the Eu-

ropean Bologna Process

and Lumina’s Tuning Pro-

ject (higher education trans-

formation)

Birds of a Feather Groups

and IT meetings

Workshops for IT profes-

sionals, librarians, and fac-

ulty

Technology vendor events

Conference May 24-25

Michael Horn, acclaimed

author of Disruptive Innova-

tion and Disrupting Class,

on disruptive innovation in

higher education in Ken-

tucky.

Panel Discussion by

postsecondary leaders from

across Kentucky, moderat-

ed by Dr. Bob King, Presi-

dent of the CPE.

Mark Taylor on Teaching

Generation NeXt: A Peda-

gogy for Today’s Learners

and Meet Generation NeXt:

Understanding Today's

Learners

Great sessions!

Networking and collabora-

tion activities (vendor-

sponsored) at the Newport

Aquarium

Registration is available

online at:

www.kyconvergingtrends.or

g.

Early bird registration

(before April 15) is $100.

Pre-conference registration

is $35. Prices increase after

April 15.

Hotel: Hotel information is

available on the conference

website. MAKE YOUR

RESERVATIONS SOON—

hotels are already filling up.

for the KLA Fall conference

called Managing KLA’s Su-

perpower. If information is

the library superpower, then

KLA's superpower is em-

bedded in the knowledge,

memory and best practices

of its members. That power

should be shared, but how

do we do it? The Infor-

mation & Technology

Roundtable has proposed a

Is there an ITRT

collaboration in your

future?

The Information and

Technology

Roundtable has

been discussing its

future, and we have

a proposal that may

interest you! We’re

planning a program

collaboratory. We'll discuss

how this can work. But

what is a collaboratory?

ITRT will be talking about

that and more in a blog that

will be appearing in the

coming weeks called the

KLA CollaBlog. Look for

announcements on the

listservs very soon! And

keep checking http://kla-

itrt.org/collablog/ !

Get Ready To

Collaborate!

I N - F O - C U S

Cindi Trainor Honored by Library Journal

P A G E 3

Cindi Trainor, Technology & Data Services Coordinator at Eastern Kentucky University, has been named one of Li-brary Journal’s 2011 Tech Leaders Movers and Shak-ers. Only 50 librarians are chosen each year for the Movers and Shakers honor, which spotlights librarians and others in the library field that are doing extraordinary work to serve their users and to move libraries of all types and library services forward. According to nominator John

Blyberg, assistant director for innovation and UX at the Darien Library, CT., "[Trainor] has introduced an emerging trend in public libraries—UX design—to the academic environment. She has done so by valuing inclusion, com-promise, and, above all, stu-dents' ability to access the information they need with ease." For more information, visit:http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/

moversandshakers2011.csp

Catalog, e-Archives, Ask a

Librarian, Public Library Di-

rectory, Kentucky Public Li-

brary Job List, Records Re-

tention Schedules, and Ken-

tucky Talking Book Library.

A team of dedicated employ-

ees worked over two years to

develop the updated website.

KDLA recently unveiled a

new agency website. The

site has a fresh look and has

been arranged by user com-

munities (Librarians, Archi-

vists, Researchers, State

Employees, and Records

Management) for ease of

use. Also featured are quick

links to the following: KDLA

The goal is for the site to be

helpful to customers and a

source of information in a

user friendly format.

Thanks to all of you who

have sent in their application

already. If you haven’t please

fill out the application and

mail it and a check or money

order made payable to Ken-

tucky State Treasurer to:

Linda Kompanik,

Logan County Public Library,

201 W 6th St.,

Russellville, KY 42276.

Kentucky's Libraries License

Plate Application Form

SEND YOUR APPLICATION

NOW FOR KENTUCKY LI-

BRARIES LICENSE PLATE.

We need to submit 900 appli-

cations before they will make

the license plate and we only

have until summer. We still

have a long way to go so talk

it up in your libraries and to

your friends and family.

Library Awareness Committee

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Wayne Onkst,

State Librarian and

Commissioner

USING MICROSOFT PIC-

TURE MANAGER TO OR-

GANIZE & EDIT YOUR

LIBRARY PHOTOS

David Frazier, Program

Coordinator, HCTC Infor-

mation Technology

SUMMER READING PRO-

GRAMS & SCHOOL LI-

BRARIES: BUILDING COL-

LABORATIONS

Kathy Mansfield, Library

Media/Textbooks Consult-

ant KDE

LIBRARY DISASTER PRE-

PAREDNESS AND PLAN-

NING

Chase the Winter Blues

Away @ HCTC’s 2011 Re-

gional Library Conference

Friday, May 6th

-BRUNCH ~ I’M NOT SURE

YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU

HEARD IS NOT WHAT I

MEANT: THE WONDER-

FUL, WACKY WORLD OF

MISCOMMUNICATION

Venita Caldwell, HCTC fac-

ulty member and Leslie

County PL board member

BEST PICTURE BOOKS

OF 2010

Toy Lancaster and Meggan

Conway, Youth Services,

Lexington PL

Larry LaFollette, Coordina-

tor of the Historical Infor-

mation Management Pro-

gram, SKCTC

FRIENDS OF THE LI-

BRARY: ―FIRST STEPS‖

Mary Lynn Collins, Chair,

Mentoring Committee,

Friends of Kentucky Librar-

ies

To register for the confer-

ence please contact Myla

Barrett at 1-800-246-7521,

ext. 73065 My-

la.Barrett@kctcs.edu

P A G E 4

Schedule of Events

11-13—KPLA Confer-ence (More information at http://kpla.org/spring-conference/)

20—Social Media: Twit-ter, Facebook and More An Online Conference (More information at http://www.trendytopics.info/ )

21—Family History (More information at http://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/staffdevelopment/Pages/continuingEducation.aspx)

25—Family History (More information at http://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/staffdevelopment/Pages/continuingEducation.aspx)

HCTC 2011 Regional Library Conference

I N - F O - C U S

Register at

http://

hazard.kctcs.edu/

Academics/Library/

Library_Conference

KDLA CALENDAR OF EVENTS APRIL 2011

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 KPLA

Conference

12 KPLA

Conference

13 KPLA

Conference

14 15 16

17 18 19 20 Social

Media

21 Family

History

22 23

24 Family

History

25 26 27 28 29 30

Schedule of Events

6—Chase the Winter

Blues Away @ HCTC’s

2011 Regional Library

Conference (To register

contact Myla Barrett at My-

la.Barrett@kctcs.edu)

20—AA Highway Library Conference (More infor-mation at http://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/staffdevelopment/Pages/continuingEduca-tion.aspx)

26—Maintaining Public Computers—Learn From the Experiences of Oth-ers (More information at http://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/staffdevelopment/Pages/continuingEduca-tion.aspx)

KDLA CALENDAR OF EVENTS MAY 2011

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5 6 HCTC

Regional

Conference

7

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 AA High-

way Library

Conference

21

22 23 24 25 26 Maintain-

ing Public

Computers

27 28

29 30 31

P A G E 5

KDLA CALENDAR OF EVENTS JUNE 2011

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Customer

Service

Gifts

2 3 4

5 6 7 8 9 10 11

12 13 14 15 16 17 18

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30

Schedule of Events

1—Providing Excellent Customer Service in a Multi-Cultural Environ-ment (More information at http://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/staffdevelopment/Pages/continuingEduca-tion.aspx)

1—Gifts For Libraries: Be Careful What You Wish For (More infor-mation at http://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/staffdevelopment/Pages/continuingEduca-tion.aspx)

P A G E 6

Conference Series

Website: http://

www.trendytopics.i

nfo/

Registration:

http://

www.eventbee.com

/view/trendytopics/

event?

eid=708496484

Start Time: 1 p.m.

EDT, noon CDT

End Time: 5:30

p.m. EDT, 4:30 CDT

Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, and More

An Online Conference

University of Louisville Libraries announces personnel

changes

Morehead State University

Karla Aleman has received a

Librarian Scholarship from

ACRL to attend the ACRL an-

nual conference in Philadelph-

ia. She will also have a poster

session titled ―Breaking the

Rules to Follow the Rules: Re-

thinking APA Citation Style

Guides.‖

Tom Kmetz will also have a

poster session at the ACRL

annual conference entitled:

―Laying the Foundation for a

Graphic Novel Collection in an

Academic Library.‖

Clay Howard partnered with

EKU librarian Julie George to pre-

sent ―Make it Stick: Using Active

Learning in Library Instruction‖ at

the KLA 2011 Joint Spring Confer-

ence.

We are sad to report the February

18 death of Clara Barton Potter-

Keyes, long time librarian at the

Camden-Carroll Library. Hired as

an interlibrary loan librarian in

1987, Clara later became Head of

Special Collections. She was

instrumental in helping to establish

the Kentuckiana Digital Library

Project. She also served on the

State Advisory Committee on Uni-

versity Records and the Appala-

chian Studies Advisory Board.

Clara was the first librarian at More-

head State University to receive

sabbatical leave. She took that

time to learn advanced techniques

in book repair and book art. Due to

health reasons, she retired in 2009

as Assistant Dean of Technical

Services, and was awarded Librari-

an Emeritus status in 2010.

Planning has begun on the 3rd An-

nual School Librarian Symposium,

to be held in June, 2011. Anyone

interested in attending or helping is

welcome to contact Sandy Sumner,

Instruction and Outreach Librarian.

Leslie Farison has been

named Business Reference &

Teaching Librarian. She be-

gins in her new position on

March 14, 2011.

Diana Reid has joined the

UofL libraries as Serials/

Acquisitions Librarian effective

January 18, 2011.

Effective February 14, 2011,

Robert Fox Jr. has become

Dean of Libraries at the Univer-

sity of Louisville. Previously, he

held positions as Associate

Dean of Libraries at Georgia

Tech and Director of Library

Services at Clayton State Uni-

versity.

Vida Vaughn was appointed

Hospital Librarian beginning

February 14, 2011.

the Social Software Grave-

yard.‖

Other Speakers:

Laura Solomon from

OPLIN, the Ohio Public

Library Information Net-

work.

Steven R. Harris from the

University of New Mexico.

Lori Bell from the San

Jose State University

School of Library and In-

formation Science

Registration Fees: $30 for indi-

viduals; $75 for groups; $20 for

students/unemployed/retired.

Registrants gain access to all

the live online presentations

and discussions, and to the

conference archive of record-

ings and slide sets.

Contact Lori Bell

(lbell927@gmail.com) for

more information.

TAP Information Services and

the School of Library and Infor-

mation Science at San Jose

State University announce anoth-

er in the ongoing series of online

conferences on hot topics that

librarians can participate in any-

where.

Keynote Speaker: Meredith Far-

kas, the new Head of Instruction-

al Services at Portland State

University in Oregon. Her talk is

titled ―Organization 2.0: Avoiding

I N - F O - C U S

Graves County Middle School Earns First-Place

Prize in Scholastic Book Fairs National Contest

P A G E 7

Graves County Middle School

has earned the first-place prize

in the Scholastic Book Fairs

National Middle School Student

Crew Contest, winning a visit

from award-winning author Pat-

rick Carman and $2,000 in

books and merchandise from

Scholastic, the global children’s

publishing, education and media

company. Graves County Mid-

dle School has won the contest

several times in the past. The

school won the recent semi-

annual competition by recruiting

a team of 28 students called the

Crew and using them to plan

and conduct the best middle

school Scholastic Book Fair in

the nation. The competition en-

courages schools to run their

own exciting Book Fair by creat-

ing contests, designing advertis-

ing campaigns, hosting activi-

ties, and developing themes, all

aimed at getting kids to visit the

Book Fair and read. ,

During their Book Fair last fall,

Graves County Student Crew

members adopted the theme

―Reading is Sweet‖ and trans-

formed their library into a ―Sweet

Read Shoppe,‖ complete with a

giant gumball machine, lollipops,

candy, and more. Crew mem-

bers in charge of advertising

created their own book fair com-

mercial and aired it on the

school’s morning news program.

The students also uploaded the

video to Facebook and invited

their friends to attend the book

fair using this social network.

To generate student excitement,

Crew members hosted several

contests during the book fair,

including a classroom door dec-

orating contest and a ―Dress as

Your Favorite Book Character‖

day. In addition, the school prin-

cipal offered students a ―sweet‖

incentive for purchasing books

at the fair. For each Book Fair

purchase, students were award-

ed tickets for a drawing. The

winners of the drawing got a

chance to turn their principal into

a human banana split by cover-

ing him in whipped cream, choc-

olate syrup, and cherries.

Students gave back to their

school by participating in the

One for Books® program.

Teachers posted pictures of

themselves as babies onto col-

lection jars and displayed them

in the library. During the week of

the Book Fair, students could

vote for the cutest baby by drop-

ping loose change into

the corresponding jar.

The proceeds of the

program were used to

purchase books for the

Guys Read and Girls

Read section of the

library.

Other fun Book Fair

activities included group

book discussions and a

family night event fea-

turing a visit from

Clifford the Big Red Dog

and his friend Emily

Elizabeth.

Scholastic Book Fairs

Executive Director Bob-

by Pacheco praised the

level of enthusiasm and

competitive spirit shown

by Graves County Mid-

dle School and other

schools across the

country involved in the

Book Fair program.

gram Location: Louisville

KY. ―Find It Free & Fast:

Internet Legal Research‖

Constance will cover Busi-

ness due diligence research

and public records. Miller

Montague will be offering

Search Techniques, Gov-

ernment research and Legal

Research and Cases on the

Internet.

Constance Ard, Owner of An-

swer Maven has some upcom-

ing speaking engagements.

April 10th, 2011 AIIP Annu-

al Conference Vancouver

WA. Panel Discussion

―Cha Cha Cha Cha Chang-

es‖

May 26, 2011 NBI CLE Pro-

June 2011, SLA Annual

Conference, Philadelphia,

PA. Capitalizing on Content,

Spotlight Session.

Constance Ard, The Answer Maven

Pictured here, from left,

are (front row) Christina

Harned, Kaylan Dowdy,

Shelby Carter, Hannah

Grenda, Tamia Fair, Han-

nah Jones, Shelby Hender-

son, Macy Youngblood,

(second row) Bre Suiter,

Nicole Boyd, Hannah Pur-

cell, Lindsay Medlin, Mad-

die Dowdy, Kylie Carrico,

Torie Fitzgerald, Alexis

Bell, Leah Cope, Shelby

Story, (back row) teacher/

advisor Kelly Locker, Na-

talie Ford, Rebecca Green,

Mary Katherine Curtis,

Cooper Myatt, Bethany

Cartwright, Chandler

Dunn, Misha Madding-

Megan Robinson, and

Roby Blackwell.

For more information about

Scholastic Book Fairs, please

visit www.scholastic.com/

P A G E 8

Registration Now

Open for Fall

Semester!

EKU Libraries Host Special Events

EKU Libraries Launch Encompass

Eastern Kentucky Univer-sity Libraries have recently launched Encompass, an online institutional reposi-tory designed to preserve, spotlight and disseminate the research and creative works of EKU faculty, staff and students as well as preserve the history of the University. The digital archive, located at encom-pass.eku.edu is ―a reflec-tion of all the scholarly activity at Eastern and a starting point of the Uni-versity and EKU Libraries becoming our own publish-ers,‖ explained Linda

Sizemore, Government Documents Team Leader for EKU Libraries. ―It pro-vides worldwide access, via the Internet, to what EKU faculty, staff and stu-dents are doing.‖ The publications and presentations of EKU fac-ulty and staff, as well as departmental and college newsletters are rapidly being added to Encom-pass. Beginning this fall, Encompass will begin to feature students’ electronic theses and dissertations. The repository also in-

cludes recent EKU sports media guides and some University Archives materi-al, including yearbooks and University records. The financial support of The Graduate School, The Office of Regional Stew-ardship, and EKU Libraries enabled EKU to become only the second college or university in Kentucky to launch an online institu-tional repository.

tional History Day fifth district competition in March. Finally, the Main Library’s Grand Reading Room served as the site for EKU’s Literacy Showcase, developed in recognition of the Kentucky Literacy Cele-bration. The event included literacy-related activities,

This spring, EKU Libraries have had the opportunity to host many special events, including the Appalachian Studies Association Con-ference, which attracted more than 700 Appalachian scholars, activists, and art-ists. EKU Libraries also hosted the Kentucky Na-

such as a Dr. Seuss Read-ing Corner, enjoyed by chil-dren from local schools.

Dr. Seuss giveaways at EKU’s Literacy Showcase

Photo courtesy of Cindy Judd.

I N - F O - C U S

For the schedule, see: http://

legacy.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/csis/lit/

library_information

_technology_courses/

For information contact Martha

Birchfield, mar-

tha.birchfield@kctcs.edu

Library Information Technolo-

gy Courses for Fall Semester

2011 at Bluegrass Communi-

ty & Technical College

Registration is now open for

fall semester library infor-

mation technology classes at

BCTC.

Bluegrass Community & Technical College

EKU Libraries’ Faculty and Staff Happenings

P A G E 9

Faculty and staff at EKU Libraries and the Noel Studio have many exciting publica-tions and presentations to celebrate!

Noel Studio student consultants Beth

Brooks, Laney Miller, and Alex Smiley

presented ―Bringing Communication to the

Forefront: Using Diverse Academic Expe-

riences in an Integrated Space‖ at the

Southeastern Writing Center Association

Conference in February.

Dr. Russell Carpenter, Director of the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity, has worked with Melody Bowdon to publish Higher Education, Emerging Technolo-gies, and Community Partnerships: Con-cepts, Models and Practices. The book is available as of late March 2011. To learn more, please visit http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?TitleId=47442.

Dr. Russell Carpenter, along with Noel

Studio Coordinators Leslie Valley,

Shawn Apostel and Trenia Napier pre-

sented ―Stepping Up, Stepping Out: Col-

laboration, Creativity, and the Develop-

ment of a New Space‖ at the Southeast-

ern Writing Center Association Conference

in February.

Librarians Laura Edwards and Kelly A.

Smith presented ―Managing eResource

Workflow with Drupal‖ as part of the

―Innovative eResource Workflow Strategies‖

panel session at the Electronic Resources

and Libraries Conference in March. More

information is available by visiting: http://

www.slideshare.net/kellysmith72/erl-2011-

innovative-eresource-workflow-strategies-

7274041.

Noel Studio student consultants Dana

McClain, Tricia Saab, and Stacy Wilder

presented ―Influential Spaces: Reflections

on the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity’s

Impact on Consultation Styles‖ at the

Southeastern Writing Center Association

Conference in February.

Technology Specialist, Cristina Tofan, and

Technology & Data Services Coordinator,

Cindi Trainor, presented the course

―Deciding with Data‖ for the Association of

College & Research Libraries throughout

February and March.

Cindi Trainor presented ―Engaging, Inter-

esting, & Practical Presentations to Capture

Your Audience,‖ along with Anna Creech,

Amy Buckland, and Maurice Coleman at the

Computers in Libraries Conference in

March.

Cindi Trainor will also present ―Darien

Statements: Why you should Decide your

own Core Philosophy?‖ along with John

Blyberg and Kathryn Greenhill at the

Public Libraries Western Australia Con-

ference in early April.

Noel Studio student consultant, Stacy

Wilder, presented ―Relating to Students

through the Family Guy‖ at the South-

eastern Writing Center Association Con-

ference in February.

The Noel Studio for Academic Creativity,

located in EKU’s Main Library, will be-

come the new institutional home for the

National Association of Communication

Centers (NACC) listserv this year – the

listserv is called Commcenters.

Nancy Davis, previously an Administra-

tive Assistant for EKU’s Department of

Government, has joined EKU Libraries

as the Noel Studio for Academic Creativi-

ty’s first Administrative Assistant. She

completed a BA in Paralegal Studies, a

BA in Political Science, and an MPA at

EKU from 2005-2010. Davis is also a

member of the University’s Staff Council.

concept that fits our drive to inno-

vate the ways in which we serve our

patrons," said BCPL Board Presi-

dent Michael W. Campbell. "We will

be better able to provide the items

our patrons need, when and where

they need it."

The BCPL board of trustees signed

a 10-year lease agreement on the

mall space in October.

When the mall branch opens, the

library's outreach services depart-

ment will relocate to the current

Summit Branch, which will close to

patron use at the end of April. This

move will give BCPL more square

footage to expand the materials and

people who provide this valuable

service to elderly and disabled pa-

trons.

The Kyova Branch opening and

expansion of the outreach depart-

ment will mean 8-10 additional jobs

throughout the library district.

Boyd County Public Library is open-

ing its new, contemporary branch in

the Kyova Mall, located in Can-

nonsburg, Ky., on May 1.

The 6,200 square foot branch fea-

tures a children's area, large meet-

ing room, teen space, and more

public access computers. The mall

location will also offer expanded

hours, plentiful parking and year-

round programming opportunities.

"Locating in a mall is a cutting-edge

Boyd County Public Library

KLA is again sending a delegation

to the American Library Associa-

tion Legislative Days, May 9 & 10.

You will be getting more infor-

mation through the list-serve on

how to support those representing

the interests of Kentucky Libraries

by meeting with our 6 Congress-

men and 2 Senators. It will be

vitally important that you also let

your representatives know how

important all libraries are to Ken-

tucky.

1501 Twilight Trail

Frankfort, KY 40601

Phone: 502-223-5322

Fax: 502-223-4937

http://klaonline.org/

BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP:

Updating skills and exchanging information.

Adding your voice to the collective voice of librarianship (particularly in legislative con-cerns).

Meeting others working in your type of library setting to share common problems and solu-tions.

Receiving Association Publications such as Kentucky Libraries and In-Fo-cus.

Opportunities to receive grants and scholar-ships.

Contributing sessions or papers at meetings. Receiving CEUs. Contributing to the Profession on a profes-

sional level. Belonging to special interest groups such as

Genealogy, Automation, etc. Receiving discounts on annual and other

meetings.

Networking with your peers.

Kentucky Library Association

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION LEGISLATIVE

DAYS

In These Extraordinary Times,

Libraries Now More Than Ever

The names of this year’s representatives

Name Representing Library

Bowling, Stephen KPLA Breathitt County Public Library

Dunn, Leoma KLA Thomas More College

Hoover, Emmalee KSMA Kenton County School System

Manesco, James Academic University of Louisville

McClure, Virginia Special Lexington Public Library

Metzger, Brenda KSMA McCracken County School System

Morgan, J.C. KPLA Campbell County Public Library

Oberhausen, Debbe KLA Louisville Free Public Library

Onkst, Wayne KDLA KDLA

Rice, Lisa KPLA Warren County Public Library

Schroeder, Dave KPLA Kenton County Public Library

Stoops, Jim KLTRT (Trustees) William B. Harlan Public Library (Monroe Co.)