Announcements

Random Bits
Talking about funding for your library? Need statistics and support? Try ALA’s Advocating in a Tough Economy toolkit.

Use the District Dispatch to stay current with federal activities that impact libraries. (Recent announcements of CPSC’s stay regarding children’s books printed after 1985.)

Ice cream? Try Dreyers Foundation for program support.

Calendar
February 18, 2009, Tekkies assemble at 9:30 am and meet at 10:00 am at the Carrollton Public Library at Josey Ranch Lake. The Library is located at 1700 Keller Springs Road in Carrollton. Meeting is open to all.

By February 23 RSVP to 1.800.875.2785 or elaines @ midwesttapes.com for Midwest tapes demonstration events March 4 in Greenville and March 5 in Longview.

By February 27 members of TLA and SCLRT (Small Community Library Round Table) apply for TLA Conference Stipend 2009 sponsored by Biblionix.

By February 27 NETLS is offering to pay the registration fee for several people to attend the Association for Rural and Small Libraries Annual Conference in Gatlinburg, TN in September.

Librarians from NETLS who have been to an ARSL Conference say they were the most beneficial, enjoyable library conference they had attended. They enjoyed the intimate feel and valued the opportunity to get practical ideas they could use in their libraries. Attendees also appreciated the opportunity for one-on-one meetings with staff members from libraries similar to theirs and
with conference speakers.

The conference registration fee includes a few meals. Housing at the conference hotel, which is where all activities are held, is a reasonable $70 per night.

If you and/or members of your library staff would like to be considered for payment of the ARSL Conference registration fee, please reply to sseale@netls.org by Friday, February 27, with the following information:
§ Library name
§ Staff member name(s)
§ In 100 words or less, how you think your community could benefit from your attending the
conference

If you have questions, please contact Steve Seale, NETLS Continuing Education
Consultant, 972/205-6332, sseale@netls.org.