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VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARIES LIBRARY ADVANCEMENT Volume 1 / Issue 6 June 2018
To communicate more effectively with the wider library community across Vermont, the Department of Libraries Library Advancement Division would like to share news, reminders and announcements.
Welcome
June Monthly Celebrations
• Gay and Lesbian Pride Month • GLBT Book Month • Black Music Month • National Oceans Month
Library Conferences and Book Festivals
• ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Conference • ALA Annual Conference • Printers Row Bookfair • New York Book Festival
Observances
• Flag Day • Father's Day • National Donut Day
Things to celebrate during the month of June.
Jason Broughton, Assistant State Librarian for Library Advancement
Vermont Department of Libraries, 60 Washington Street, Suite #2, Barre, VT 05641 Phone (802) 828-2740
[email protected] THE DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARIES AND A.B.L.E. LIBRARY, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND & PHYSICALLY DISABLED, WILL BE CLOSED ON JUNE 18TH AND REOPEN JULY 2ND. (A=AUDIO, B=BRAILLE, L=LARGE PRINT, E=ELECTRONIC) Information & Access Division Tom McMurdo, Assistant State Librarian, Information & Access Vermont Department of Libraries, 60 Washington Street, Suite #2, Barre, VT 05641 [email protected] Hi all, I know that most of you get more than enough of me in person, but now there’s more: http://www.wcax.com/content/news/Vt-State-Archives-offering-digitized-newspapers-online-485849061.html
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A NEW EMPLOYEE AT THE VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARIES Joy Worland is the outgoing president of the Vermont Library Association. She has been the Library Director of the Joslin Memorial Library and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library and on staff at the University School of Nashville library. She has an MLS from the University of North Texas, and has presented at ALA, the New England Library Association, and Vermont Library Association conferences. Before becoming a librarian, Joy was a full-time French horn player. Until 2009 she was Associate Principal Horn of the Nashville Symphony, where she earned multiple Grammys for recordings with the symphony The career shift was partly inspired by many years of visiting Vermont’s small and rural libraries and seeing what warm, inclusive, and vital parts of their communities they often are. Joy Worland is the Department of Libraries, Library Advancement Division’s Continuing Education / Small & Rural Libraries Consultant. [email protected] 802-828-2727 For your consideration regarding the new law starting July 1st, 2018 across Vermont
Libraries help educate cannabis consumers
Anne Ford writes: “When dispelling qualms about cannabis, Jennifer Hendzlik takes a highly hands-on approach. Hendzlik, a collection buyer for Anythink Libraries in Adams County, Colorado, helped lead a presentation on medical marijuana and libraries at the 2016 PLA Conference in Denver. As part of the presentation, Hendzlik handed out rolling papers and oregano and taught attendees how to make their own joints— ‘just to take the fear out of it,’ she said. Not every librarian might feel comfortable teaching patrons how to roll a joint.” ...
American Libraries Trend
LIBRARY GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT Lara Keenan, State Library Consultant, Governance and Management, [email protected] Vermont Department of Libraries, 60 Washington Street, Suite #2, Barre, VT 05641 Power Guide for Successful Advocacy from United for Libraries http://www.ala.org/united/ (the Trustees and Friends section of the American Library Association).
• How do you develop your message, your slogan, and your talking points? This resource will help! • Want quick links to help you prove your library’s value? This resource provides lots of great resources! • This 37-page practical guide for advocacy packs great information, resources, and real-life advocacy examples into
a short, free resource you can print out and use with your board. • It provides helpful tips on how to develop advocacy messages for a wide range of social media, print media, and
personal conversations. • It covers timelines for different types of advocacy efforts, strategies, and who to involve. • You can access the Power Guide here:
http://www.ala.org/united/sites/ala.org.united/files/content/powerguide/united-power-guide.pdf
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American Library Association’s Center for the Future of Libraries – Library Trends. • The Center for the Future of Libraries works to identify trends relevant to libraries and librarianship. • The Library Trends collection is available to help libraries understand how trends are developing and why they
matter. • Each trend talks about something happening in the world outside of libraries, and then discusses implications for
that trend inside “library land” – in other words, how the world outside of libraries is affecting our patrons’ expectations for what they see inside our libraries.
• You can access the Trends information here: http://www.ala.org/tools/future/trends
THE A.B.L.E LIBRARY & SPECIAL POPULATIONS Vincent M. Livoti, PhD – Vermont Department of Libraries, 60 Washington Street, Suite #2, Barre, VT 05641 [email protected] Consultant for Special Populations |Director, A.B.L.E Library https://www.uclg-cisdp.org/en/observatory/social-inclusion-audit-and-toolkit-local-libraries
Social Inclusion Audit and Toolkit for Local Libraries | CISDP
www.uclg-cisdp.org
The Social Audit Tool developed by the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC) consists of 12 questions framed as outcome statements. For each of these questions, a library receives a score between 0 and 4 that provides an assessment of its capacity to meet the requirements for social inclusion in that area.
https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2018/05/18/with-adaptive-controller-microsoft/25103/
With Adaptive Controller, Microsoft Courts Gamers With Disabilities
www.disabilityscoop.com
Though company officials have no idea how many people will buy it, a push to increase accessible technology has Microsoft debuting an adaptive controller for its Xbox gaming system.
https://www.mlb.com/news/inaugural-diversity-fellowship-class-announced/c-277097076
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Inaugural Diversity Fellowship class announced | MLB.com
www.mlb.com
Major League Baseball announced its inaugural Diversity Fellowship Program on Thursday afternoon. The program is designed to identify talented and diverse professionals and place them in baseball operations departments. Twenty-two fellows were selected in the first class, and they will be placed ...
Prison libraries matter
Stephen Dark writes: “Men and women in 35 prisons and jails in 13 states nationwide depend on Toby Lafferty (right) and her Millcreek, Utah–based nonprofit, Books Inside, for a monthly supply of books to expand often decrepit libraries. In 2017, Books Inside mailed 23,000 books to incarceration facilities. In Utah alone, she supplies seven jails and created libraries from nothing in the Tooele County and Kane County jails. Lafferty’s experience reveals the impact books can have on both the inmates and the staff who watch over them.” ...
I Love Libraries, Salt Lake City Deseret News
What Can the Department of Libraries A.B.L.E Library do for you? Contact Us! Special Services Unit
578 Paine Turnpike North, Berlin, VT 05602 (802) 828-3273 or (800) 479-1711 toll free Fax: (802) 828-3109
Website for the Library for the A.B.L.E Library: http://libraries.vermont.gov/library_for_the_blind
YOUTH SERVICES Cass Mabbott, Library Consultant: Services to Children, Teens, and Families [email protected] Vermont Department of Libraries, 60 Washington Street, Suite #2, Barre, VT 05641
• Association for Library Services to Children Services to Diverse Communities
• Library Service to Special Population Children & Their Caregivers: A Toolkit for Librarians and Library
Workers Designed to help librarians develop or enhance library services to special populations of children and families, including LGBTQ families, children with incarcerated parents, Spanish-speaking families, and more.
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American Libraries Spotlight
Transforming library services for and with teens
YALSA has released a new report, Transforming Library Services for and with Teens through Continuing Education. Authored by Linda W. Braun, Nicole A. Cooke, Denise Lyons, Sara Ryan, and Beth Yoke, the report is the result of a year-long national forum that took place from June 1, 2017, to May 31, 2018, and was hosted in partnership with the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies. It discusses the challenges, opportunities, and recommendations for improving CE for library staff to aid them in transforming teen services. Braun offers a summary of its recommendations....
YALSA, YALSA Blog
LGBTQ comics database
Jessi Loerch writes: “Le Button and Aydin Kwan (right), both University of Washington iSchool students, have combined their academic knowledge with their personal interests in LGBTQ representation and comic books for their Capstone project. Together, they have created a database and website that will help readers, librarians, and booksellers discover comics that tell a wide range of LGBTQ stories. The Capstone project originally started as an assignment in their LIS 536 class, Metadata for Interactive Media.”...
University of Washington iSchool
Incredibles to use powers for Library Card Sign-up Month
The Incredibles are joining ALA and libraries nationwide to encourage the public to obtain a free library card as honorary chairs of Library Card Sign-up Month this September. The superheroes will use their powers to remind families, students, and people of all ages that signing up for a library card is a great step toward a truly super lifestyle. Posters, bookmarks, and stickers are available. Later in June, the Incredibles will appear in Library Card Sign-up Month print and digital PSAs available for libraries to download....
ALA Communications and Marketing Office
Using a data dashboard to support school reading
Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont, New York, wanted to find out what its students were reading independently. School Librarian Kelsey Cohen helped set up a system that encourages kids to log their reading choices and gives both students and teachers instant visual feedback on what books are popular. Cohen writes: “I started displaying it on a large monitor in the library. Kids ran up to it, sharing what they’ve read on the top 10 list and watching the total number of books read vary from week to week.”...
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CONTINUING EDUCATION Joy Worland, Library Consultant: Continuing Education / Small & Rural Libraries, [email protected] Vermont Department of Libraries, 60 Washington Street, Suite #2, Barre, VT 05641 CE Nuggets Starting from big picture/long term, moving to the ephemeral world of social media, and ending with the whimsical yet hopefully helpful:
• Recently YALSA came out with a statement about how essential “Continuous Learning” is for all library staff: “All library staff, regardless of library size or type, have both the right and the responsibility to be engaged in effective continuing education and professional development throughout their careers.” Because YALSA’s focus is teen, the statement includes language around the changing nature of teens and the way they interact with resources, but it is also relevant to all types of libraries and communities in a broader sense. I especially like that it is inclusive of all sizes of libraries and all staff, not just library directors. Later in the summer look for a survey from VTLIB about your CE interests/needs. We are excited not only to be reinvigorating the Certificate program but also being responsive to long-term CE needs for librarians in a variety of roles. Here is the full statement from YALSA.
• If you’ve ever found yourself perplexed and unduly frustrated by trying to promote library services and programs in a visually appealing and contemporary way, perhaps you will find this guide useful. No more blurry or accidentally huge photos announcing a speaker or new book arrival at your library!
• Or, maybe you find collection development a breeze when it comes to augmenting your favorite shelves but more of a challenge when it comes to those other books and authors. Not to worry! The podcast Book Club for Masochists has you covered. Described as “A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading books we hate,” clearly this is both fun and funny, plus it truly is helpful.
Online Continuing Education and Training Providers
• American Libraries Live • American Management Association Events • Booklist Webinars • CLiC Training and Education • Education Week Webinars • Free Library Continuing Education Webinars (compiled by the Wyoming State Library) • Georgia Library Association - Carterette Series Webinars • InfoPeople • InSync Training • Nebraska Library Commission (includes some online events) • Nonprofit Webinars • OCLC Online Training • School Library Journal Webcasts • TechSoup for Libraries • Texas State Library • WebJunction Events
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CONTINUING EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION The Vermont Department of Libraries provides continuing education for librarians with a variety of workshops throughout the year as well on-demand training and information about free webinars offered by other organizations. Stay informed about upcoming classes using our Events Calendar. Continuing Education Record The form below may be used to document your continuing education activities. Please do not submit this form to the Vermont Department of Libraries unless requested to do so:
• PDF format • Word format
The Vermont Department of Libraries provides continuing education for librarians with a variety of workshops throughout the year as well on-demand training and information about free webinars offered by other organizations.
• Free WebJunction Webinars for Library Staff for the month of June 2018 o https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/free-webinars-for-library-staff.html o Printable PDF Version - Here
The Certificate for Public Librarianship Department of Libraries Certificate of Public Librarianship website http://libraries.vermont.gov/services/continuing_ed/certificate The Certificate for Public Librarianship will have information posted upon the Vermont Departments of Libraries website, listservs and newsletters discussing coursework / workshops for current and those interested in registering for the certification in the coming weeks.The Vermont Department of Libraries Library Advancement division is updating materials to provide robust, relevant, and timely opportunities for learning. The Certificate of Public Librarianship has been directed for the last 25 years by the Vermont Department of Libraries (VTLIB) and the Certification Board. The program is designed to meet the Minimum Standards for Vermont Public Libraries which state that the library director, "possesses a library science degree, a Vermont certificate of library training, or has actively worked toward one of these in the past twelve months." This standard refers specifically to the head librarian of a library. To be certified, you much accumulate 150 hours of credits within five years. The credits needed to obtain certification are generally based on the number of hours spent in a course or workshop. If the course or workshop was not taught by the Vermont Department of Libraries credit must be requested from the Certification Board Chair. Four basic course types are required as part of the certification program. These courses are taught by the Department on a rotating basis by location and year. They are:
• Cataloging and organization of library materials
• Reference
• Public library administration • Collection development
Additionally, 10 credits need to be from courses in library information technology. Credit for workshops will not be given simply for attendance. Each attendee must participate actively and complete all assignments to the instructor's satisfaction. If no credit is awarded, a letter to this effect will go to the participant with a copy to his or her Board of Trustees.
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Questions and comments about Continuing Education or the Certificate for Public Librarianship should be sent to:
Joy Worland Continuing Education Coordinator
Vermont Department of Libraries, 60 Washington Street, Suite #2, Barre, VT 05641
RESOURCES FOR SMALL & RURAL LIBRARIES Joy Worland, Library Consultant: Continuing Education / Small & Rural Libraries, [email protected] Vermont Department of Libraries, 60 Washington Street, Suite #2, Barre, VT 05641
• A short yet descriptive article from the Association of College & Research Libraries about small and rural libraries. If you work in one there will be no surprises here, but I think it’s worth noting that these topics are being discussed in ACRL. That pleasantly surprised me and gives me hope for the longevity and impact of the kinds of libraries we have all over Vermont. A good takeaway: “as much as we want to be everything to everyone, we cannot. Those of us who work in small and rural libraries have to be extra creative and think outside the box to provide resources and services to our patrons with fewer resources to work with.”
• One of my favorite resources for finding diverse books is Teaching for Change (teachingforchange.org). This organization “encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens.” The coverage of how social justice issues are being taught is a great starting point for programming and collaborations. And the booklists in the site are excellent collection development tools, with an especially germane inclusion of families who live in rural areas in their list of People Who Are Often Invisible in Children’s Books or Mainstream Media.
• A perk of this job at VTLIB is that periodically a staff member culls through VT media and shares items about libraries with the whole department. Since not everyone has the treat of these arriving regularly in their inboxes, I’m going to use this space to share one of these each month.
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Library Grants (For more information click on the organization to be taken to their website
Starbucks Foundation The foundation funds programs for youth, ages 6-18, that integrate literacy with personal and civic action in the communities where they live. The Starbucks Foundation invites letters of inquiry from qualifying 501 (c) 3 organizations that work with underserved youth in the fields of literacy (reading, writing and creative/media arts) and environmental literacy. Grants range from $5,000-$20,000.
February 1 – March 1, August 1 – September 1
The Libri Foundation The Libri Foundation was established in 1989 for the sole purpose of helping rural libraries acquire new, quality, hardcover children's books they could not otherwise afford to buy. Since October 1990, the Foundation has donated over $2,800,000 worth of new children's books to more than 2,200 libraries in 48 states.
March 15, July 15, December 15
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation The Mitsubishi Foundation is committed to helping young Americans with disabilities reach their full potential within society. Nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for grant funds that help young disabled people have full access to educational, vocational and educational opportunities to participate with their peers.
June 1
Rockwell Collins Charitable Corporation Rockwell Collins Charitable Corporation awards funds of $5,000 or more to nonprofit organizations providing programs to the youth in math, science and engineering or culture and the arts.
June through September
Ongoing
Grant Name Application Deadline
Baker and Taylor Audio Music/Video Product Award The purpose of PLA’s Baker & Taylor Entertainment Audio Music/Video Product Award is to promote the development of a circulating audio music/video product collection in public libraries and increase the exposure of the format within the community.
Check the Award’s website for an updated deadline.
PLA New Leaders Travel Grant The purpose of these grants is to enhance the professional development and improve the expertise of public librarians new to the field by making possible their attendance at major professional development activities. This grant has been established to enable PLA Members new to the profession and who have not had the opportunity to attend a major PLA Continuing Education Event in the last five years to do so. Eligible events are the PLA Spring Symposium workshops; PLA National Conferences; and other PLA Events, such as Preconference’s, held in conjunction with ALA Annual Conferences.
Varies
The National Gallery of Art Free-Loan Program The National Gallery of Art’s Division of Education provides slide teaching programs, multimedia programs, videocassettes, CD ROMs, DVDs and videodiscs to millions of viewers each year. These programs are intended to foster awareness of the visual arts and make Gallery collections accessible to a broad audience beyond the Gallery's walls. They
Apply at least one month before materials are needed.
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are circulated free of charge to educational institutions, community groups, and individuals throughout the United States.
Library of Congress Surplus Books Program The Library of Congress has surplus books available to non-profit organizations. The books are a mixture of topics with only a small percentage of publications at the primary and secondary school levels. Your library needs to send or designate someone to choose books from the collection and pay for shipping the material.
Ongoing
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation The Foundation provides grants primarily in the Pacific Northwest Region. They have four priorities: nurturing the arts and cultural endeavors, engaging children more deeply in the learning process, responding to the needs of vulnerable population, and advancing scientific and technological discoveries that expand our understanding of the universe.
Letters of inquiry are accepted throughout the year.
Verizon Foundation: Literacy To help move America to a more literate society, Verizon uses a combination of corporate philanthropy, employee participation, celebrity volunteers, partnerships with literacy organizations and contributions from our customers. In 2005, Verizon awarded more than 900 literacy grants totaling more than $13 million.
Apply online
Poets & Writers P&W pays fees to writers giving readings or conducting workshops in New York and California, and in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, and Seattle. While our support is limited to events taking place in these five areas, writers from all states are eligible for P&W funding.
Eight weeks before the event
The Lisa Libraries Children’s author Ann M. Martin and friends began Lisa Libraries as a memorial to a friend. Lisa Libraries donates new books to organizations serving children in low-income areas and helps to start or expand children’s libraries in places such as day care centers, prison visiting areas, and after school programs.
No deadline
MBNA Foundation The MBNA Foundation is dedicated to supporting results-oriented programs that make significant and positive differences in the quality of education. Grants are available to teachers, school administrators, and other educators for programs in grades kindergarten through 12.
No deadline
Barnes & Noble Booksellers Barnes & Noble considers requests for national and local support from non-profit organizations that focus on literacy, the arts or education (K-12). In addition, Barnes & Noble is committed to literary-based sponsorships and seeks to partner with organizations that focus their core businesses on higher learning, literacy and the arts.
No deadline
Office Depot Office Depot's Caring and Making a Difference program operates in communities where employees live. Every store makes regular product donations, and the focus of their grant giving is on the health, education, and welfare of children. Nonprofits with those goals in mind can request funds of up to $2,000.
No deadline
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Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program The Art Resources Transfer Inc. is a non-profit organization that donates books on art and culture to any library through their Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program. This program also pays for the shipment of the books to the library. Their goal is to make information on contemporary art and cultural issues available to all.
No deadline
RGK Foundation RGK Foundation awards a wide variety of grants that fulfill their mission in the following areas: Education, Community, and Medicine/Health. Grants of up to $25,000 are available to nonprofit organizations.
No deadlines, Grants Committee meets three times a year, only one Letter of Inquiry will be
entertained per year
PEN American Center: Readers & Writers PEN Readers & Writers invites New York City public high schools to attend its free literary panel discussions, created with curriculum and student interests in mind. From those attendees, a limited number of schools may be invited to become PEN Partner Schools. These Partners receive literary resources from PEN American Center in support of students and the school body, including books, author visits, creative writing workshops, and other help.
No deadline
New York Life Foundation The Foundation’s Nurturing the Children Program provides funding for nonprofits that focus on safe places to learn and grow, educational enhancement, and mentoring children. Grants are given to organizations in New York City and Westchester County, NY, where New York Life employees and retirees volunteer.
Deadline not yet announced
National Endowment for the Humanities: Consultation Grants Consultation grants help museums, libraries, historical organizations, or community organizations develop a new public humanities project or chart a new interpretive direction of an existing program. They support the costs of conferring with a team of advisers to help identify key humanities themes and questions during the early stages of a project's development.
TBA
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions, such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine arts, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and historical objects.
TBA
First Book National Book Bank First Book Advisory Boards, nonprofit organizations with at least 80% of their children coming from low-income families, and Title 1 schools can receive books from the First Book National Book Bank. The books these programs receive must become the personal property of the children.
Watch for an active distribution
W. K. Kellogg Foundation The foundation supports new ideas about how to engage children and youth in learning and new ways to bring together community-based systems that promote learning.
No deadline
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The Library of Michigan Foundation's State Librarian's Excellence Award The State Librarian’s Excellence Award will be awarded to a library (any type) that exemplifies excellence in customer service. One library per year in the state of Michigan will receive a check for $5,000 to be used as the recipient library wishes to provide library service.
TBA
Universal Service Administrative Company The Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund makes discounts available to eligible schools and libraries for telecommunication services, Internet access, and internal connections. The program is intended to ensure that schools and libraries have access to affordable telecommunications and information services.
No deadline
The Prudential Foundation The Prudential Foundation provides support to innovative direct-service programs that address the needs of communities in three areas: Ready to Learn, Ready to Work, Ready to Live.
ALA Great Stories Club Grant Deadline: July 9, 2018 The American Library Association (ALA) is accepting applications for the Great Stories Club, a grant program in which library workers lead reading and discussion programs with underserved teens in their communities. The Great Stories Club is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Up to 150 grants will be awarded. Working with small groups of teens, grantees will host reading and discussion programs for up to four thematically related books. The titles — selected in consultation with librarian advisors and humanities scholars — are chosen to resonate with reluctant readers struggling with complex issues like academic probation, detention, incarceration, violence and poverty. Participating libraries may choose to work with one or both of the following themes during a 12-month programming period (September 2018 – August 2019): “Empathy: The Cost of Switching Sides” and “What Makes a Hero? Self, Society and Rising to the Occasion.” All types of libraries are eligible, as long as they work in partnership with, or are located within, organizations that serve under-resourced youth, such as alternative high schools, juvenile justice organizations, homeless shelters, foster care agencies, teen parenting programs, residential treatment facilities and other nonprofit and community agencies. (Read an account of a Great Stories Club grantee and her partnership with a juvenile detention center.) Grantees receive:
• 11 paperback copies of up to four book selections (10 to gift to participants; 1 for discussion leader/library collection)
• Travel and accommodation expenses paid for one staff member to attend a 1 ½-day project orientation workshop in Chicago
• Programming materials, including discussion guides, related reading lists and promotional resources
A free webinar is offered to learn more about this opportunity at 1 p.m. CT on Monday, May 21.Reserve a spot for the webinar. Read the project guidelines and apply online.
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Grants.gov: A centralized location to find and apply for federal funding opportunities. The system houses information on over 1,000 grant programs and vet’s applications for 26 federal grant-making agencies.
ALA Grants: A diverse assortment of public and private grants for libraries and librarians administered by the American Library Association.
Scholastic Grants: A frequently updated listing of public and private library grants that support library programs and initiatives that help young people.
K-12 Grants: Financial awards available for U.S. schools, continuously updated by THEJournal.com.
Finding the Funds: Renaissance Learning provides valuable advice on writing grants for educational initiatives, plus a comprehensive list of funding opportunities.
Library Works: A variety of time-sensitive and ongoing grant opportunities for libraries.
IMLS Services: The Institute of Museum and Library Services offers a searchable database of grants available for libraries across the United States.
Etc. Multilingual Glossary for Today’s Library Users from the ACRL Instruction Section Language Table Understanding library jargon can be difficult for anyone who is not a regular user of the library. The difficulty of understanding library terms is compounded for English as a second-language (ESL) speakers who must process these specialized terms in a language that is not their native one. This Multilingual Glossary is designed to assist ESL speakers, as well as the librarians who work with them. It consists of commonly used terms in academic libraries today.
The Glossary is divided into two parts: (1) the Language Table, which presents a list of these terms in seven languages, and (2) the Definitions, which give explanations in English for each of the terms.
Showing up for LGBTQ+ readers at the library
Tirzah Price writes: “In a small rural library, no one is ever hired into just one role, and I was expected to cover everything from acquisitions to cataloging, circulation, and teen programming. I had a semi-secret agenda to diversify our collection, but in those first weeks I was still getting a feel for the job, the patron community, and my fellow staff members. As June approached, it occurred to me that it would be cool to create a Pride display for GLBT Book Month in the teen section, but I worried how it would be received.” Here are some other ideas and resources for June LGBTQ+ programs....
Book Riot; Intellectual Freedom Blog
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The librarian’s guide to homelessness
Ryan J. Dowd writes: “It was 3 a.m. A woman struggling to carry her three children—a newborn and twin toddlers in car seats—shuffled along an urban bicycle trail during the first thunderstorm of the season. Her days-old C-section incision was infected. Every flash of lightning must have thrown ghastly shadows. Every thunderclap and gust of wind probably made her feel like even the elements were conspiring against her.
American Libraries feature
THE DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARIES AND A.B.L.E. LIBRARY, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND & PHYSICALLY DISABLED, WILL BE CLOSED ON JUNE 18TH AND REOPEN JULY 2ND. (A=AUDIO, B=BRAILLE, L=LARGE PRINT, E=ELECTRONIC) TO CONTACT INDIVIDUALS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARIES, HERE IS A LIST. * NOTE – UPON ARRIVAL IN BARRE, PHONE NUMBERS FOR STAFF MEMBERS MAY CHANGE. EMAILS WILL REMAIN THE SAME.
• State Librarian Scott Murphy, [email protected] (802) 828-3261
• Executive Staff Cherie Yaeger, Executive Staff Assistant, [email protected] (802) 828-3266 Chrissy Geiler, Grants Management Specialist, [email protected] (802) 828-6952
• Advancement Division
Jason Broughton, Assistant State Librarian for Library Advancement, [email protected] (802) 828-2740 Cass Mabbott, Library Consultant – Youth Services to Children & Teens, [email protected] (802) 828-6954 Joy Worland, Library Consultant - Continuing Education and Small and Rural Libraries, [email protected] (802) 828-2727 Lara Keenan, Library Consultant – Governance [email protected] (802) 828-2734 Vincent Livoti, Library Consultant – Special Populations, [email protected] (802) 828-3273 Jennifer Johnson, Library Advancement Assistant, [email protected] (802) 828-2721
• Special Services Unit (ABLE Library) Sara Blow, Program Services Clerk, [email protected] (802) 828-3273 Wendy Clark, Library A, [email protected] (802) 828-3273
• Information & Access Division Tom McMurdo, Assistant State Librarian, [email protected] (802) 828-6953 April Shaw, Government Services & Reference Librarian [email protected] (802) 828-2735 Joshua Muse, Library Consultant – Library Technology, [email protected] (802) 585-8056 Cindy Titus, Program Services Clerk, [email protected] (802) 828-2745 Linda Bullard, Program Technician I, [email protected] (802) 828-2738
• Interlibrary Loan Linda Willis-Pendo, Library Assistant, [email protected], (802) 828-3267 Vance Asselin, Program Services Clerk, [email protected], (802) 828-2725
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