Quick updates 3/30/11

I’m getting a lot of questions on the TSLAC budget for the coming year.  Remember TLA is your advocacy agency for libraries.

 

1.        See their recent posting  requesting support for the following before Friday’s debate.

 

Support Library Amendments to CSHB 1  Protect funding for library programs

Funding for statewide library programs is in jeopardy, and we are at a critical point in budget deliberations. The Texas House will consider a budget proposal. While this budget draft restores $2.5 million/biennium for TexShare,  funds were not restored to Loan Star Libraries and the K-12 Databases.

It is IMPERATIVE that all library supporters contact their representative and ask them to vote in favor of three amendments which restore some funding to library programs.

·         Amendment by Anchía to appropriate $1.5 mil/yr.  to Loan Star Libraries

·         Amendment by Gutierrez to appropriate $2.5 mil/biennium for the K-12 Databases

·         Amendment by Gutierrez to appropriate $2 mil/biennium to Library Resource Sharing

 

2.        It is annual report time.  We’re here to help as needed.

 

3.     Can’t make it to TLA?  Check out Information Literacy from Birth to Earth: an Unconference.

The Unconference: “It's been called passion bounded by responsibility, the energy of a good coffee break, intentional self-organization, spirit at work, chaos and creativity, evolution in organization, and a simple, powerful way to get people and organizations moving -- when and where it's needed most.” (http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace)

Unconferences are the latest thing in library conferences.  In unconferences, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme.  This year, at the Texas Library Association’s unconference preconference on April 12, librarians of all types will discuss the theme “Information Literacy from Birth to Earth.”  Attendees will address solutions to improving Texans’ ability to find the information they need, whether preparing individuals for higher education, improving their research skills, preparing for careers, or life problem-solving.

Sign up by March 31 for TLA’s first unconference! http://www.txla.org/annual-conference Just $15 for TLA members and $30 for nonmembers.

For more information: http://2011tlaunconference.wiki.zoho.com/HomePage.html (feel free to edit in your own ideas about what you’d like discussed at this unconference).

This program is sponsored by College and University Libraries Division, Public Libraries Division, Special Libraries Division, and Texas Association of School Librarians, and the Conference Program Committee.

 

 

4.        I recently asked NETLS area directors to complete an online survey to identify the most important TSLAC service and the most important NETLS service.  The TexShare Database program was the TSLAC top selection with 46% of responses, ILL came next with 18% of the selections.  Of the NETLS offerings In-person training and gatherings had 35% of the responses,  On-line training followed with 22.5% of the responses.  Over 86% of the respondants said they agree that a program of accreditation should continue.

Speed Bump Comic Strip, March 16, 2011 on GoComics.com

Speed Bump Comic Strip, March 16, 2011 on GoComics.com

Pluggers Comic Strip, March 21, 2011 on GoComics.com

Pluggers Comic Strip, March 21, 2011 on GoComics.com

Baldo Comic Strip, March 21, 2011 on GoComics.com

Baldo Comic Strip, March 21, 2011 on GoComics.com

Library Futures, Peter Bromberg

Bright opportunities in an exciting time for libraries. New Jersey's Princeton Public Library Assistant Director, Peter Bromberg, discusses the future of libraries and speaks to students and new librarians.

Proposed Texas Budget 2012-13 Eliminations

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Proposed Texas Budget 2012-13 Elimnations

View more presentations from Samantha E.

End of Statistical Abstracts?

From the proposed 2012 Budget of the Census Bureau (.pdf)

From ALA HarperCollins E-book Access

See also next the post, it links to sites identified in the press release.

Dear Members,

First and foremost, I want to thank you for your patience. I held back on a public statement on the recent decision by Harper Collins to restrict the lending of e-books until the Equitable Access to Electronic Information Task Force (EQUACC) met last week. Please know that I heard your voices of concern about the impact of additional costs on your libraries and ability to meet the needs of the communities you serve. A press release was issued today that speaks to our shared alarm at announced and potential limitations to the access to knowledge, information and the creative written works of authors in the electronic era. We know that libraries are essential to an informed nation and therefore our democracy. I have been and will continue to highlight our commitment to access in every media interview I give.

As an outgrowth of EQUACC’s working retreat, a website will be launched within the next week. The site will allow you to provide your comments and ideas. The site’s availability will be announced using the many ways we have within the association to “get the word out.”

I want to express my thanks to the task force members, the representative from the E-Book Subcommittee and staff of the Office of Information Technology and Policy. Their collective efforts to tackle this complicated topic and provide a means to reach out broadly to our members and organizations affiliated with ALA are important to our being informed and taking wise actions.

I also wanted to give you the heads up that equitable access to information and e-books will be the subject of the first virtual Membership Meeting. The meeting is scheduled for June 1. More information will be forthcoming as we get the plans in place.

Thank you for your support,

Roberta Stevens, ALA President

Restrictions on library e-book lending threaten access to information

Restrictions on library e-book lending threaten access to information

NETLS Updates & Information 3/11

Geographic Meetings – LAST SESSION

¶ Balch Springs; Tuesday, March 15, 10 a.m. to noon
Balch Springs Public Library, 12450 Elam Rd; (972)913-3000

We discuss NETLS services and ask attendees to note services used in the past year and to rank services in their order of importance.

We also reviewed the proposed state budget for SFY 2012 and SFY2013 noting the priorities outlined by Peggy Rudd, State Librarian in her letter to supporters.

In light of the current uncertainty, in particular for SFY2013, I ask you to review services offer by NETLS or TSLAC that you rely upon and use the coming fiscal year to shift this reliance to your local community.

State Budget Issues

Stay up to date with legislative issues impacting libraries with TLA’s Texline. Use these advocacy resources to respond to local, state and national issues. Use ALA’s advocacy publication, Libraries: The place of opportunity, for analysis of current and recent issues.

TLA just released another TexLine. See the latest, March 10. Says House has NOT recommended funding K-12 databases, Senate has set telecom bill aside for two weeks, TSLAC Senate budget hearing was Monday (more here).

Just Received from CTLS:

This is a link to library data sheets for each State Rep and Senate district, and it has just come to our attention that these may not have been distributed to all the systems:

http://www.ctls.net/docs/datasheets.html

My understanding is that these were produced by the PIO at TSLAC.

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Book Pricing (Nonfiction adult)
Yankee Book Peddler (a B&T company) continues to analyze sales of nonfiction adult books. Based on their review plan they note overall titles per Dewey area and average the price. If you are have to value your collection or are planning to develop nonfiction collections try this chart ( .xls from September, 2010). Here is a list of trade publishers (.xls) with the number of items published and their average cost.

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Libraries making their impact
Maximize the Potential of Your Public Library, a publication of ICMA (ICMA International City/County Management Association, presents library partnerships with other entities to improve communities.

Members of the Texas Municipal League will find brief library use statistics from ALA’s 2010 State of America’s Libraries Report (Apr. 11, 2010) and the Texas Voter Survey on Libraries, 2008 in the January 2011 edition of Texas Town and City.

Futurist Steven Abram lists three additional reports that factor in Local Government Strategies for Public Libraries.

Mr. Abram and State Librarian offer this podcast examining expectations for our library futures. See more on this topic on the Library Developments blog.

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Seeking
Volunteers for our NETLS Awards committee… please contact Robin Hayles if you are interested in contributing to this program of recognition.

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¶NETLS In- person training

Feedback from this series has been great – do yourself a favor and attend!

The Four R’s of Volunteer Management – Presenter, Mary Beth Harrington, Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations

All workshops 9 to noon. Register here.

• March 16, Texarkana (rescheduled)

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"Getting Up to Speed: Understanding and Sustaining Your Broadband"

Join Christine Peterson in Balch Springs on Wednesday, March 23 for this important workshop sponsored by TSLAC. Registration and more information here.

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Upcoming webinar hosted by the TX Workforce Commission.

WorkInTexas and Other Career Tools for Your Library- Tuesday, March 29^th, 10 AM:

WorkInTexas is the official job matching system of Texas that helps job seekers search for jobs online and find the perfect job match. In this second webinar hosted by the Texas Workforce Commission, Scott Eychner, Program Supervisor, will explain how you can assist library patrons looking for a new job, applying for unemployment insurance benefits or looking for local labor market information using WorkInTexas and related career tools.

You can register for this webinar at http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/webinars/index.html.

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Computer and Job Hunting Classes

I attended and received positive feedback from last week’s TSLAC sponsored webinar on the TWDL.org project. A collection of workshop offerings for job hunters and computers novices was mentioned in the discussion. If you would like your workshops listed, please send me your schedule of classes.

Tecknimedia computer training disks

These CDs have a limited lifespan. They were distributed to NETLS member libraries last spring and summer and have an end date of May 31, 2011. If you aren’t using them, please do! If you are using them make sure you take them out of use on the end date.

To make sure you have this disk look on the face of the white label to the right of the TWDL logo for the words “End Date: 05/31/2011”. The disks have mouse and basic commands to master moving, resizing, minimizing windows, etc.

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TLA Conference Stipends

Several TLA Units and Supporters offer financial assistance to assist funding for attendance at the TLA Annual Conference. Check out these resources from the TLA website:

Conference Stipends

• Automation & Technology RT
• Biblionix - SCLRT
• Escue (paraprofessionals)
• Genealogy (AGLHRT)
• Library Media Connection (YART)
• Laura Edwards Memorial (CRT/TASL)
• Library Instruction RT- Devin Zimmerman
• New Members RT/Quality Books
• Public Libraries Division
• Tocker Foundation
• Young Adult RT- Library Media Connection

Congratulations to Shala Stone, of the Rains County Public Library! Shala was chosen from a pool of 13 applicants for the District 5 Annual Conference Scholarship. This is a $300.00 award given to a first-time attendee of the TLA Annual Conference.

Jay Blint of Ingram Library Services offers library staff and supporters free exhibit hall passes for the coming conference. If you did not receive this offer, ask NETLS to forward the invitation to you OR contact Jay Jay Blint, Regional Account Manager for Texas. phone: 214 605 0562 or email: Jay.Blint(at)ingrambook.com

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TLA Webinars

TLA offers a variety of webinars. Some of the session are premium sessions for which there is a fee. TLA also offers webinars that are free to everyone, even nonmembers. Visit the TLA CE page for course listing. Note the link to archived webinars (on the left) the archives contain free and premium ($35) webinars. Upon completion of a webinar generate your own certificate of completion by clicking the CE Registration and Credit Certificate link on the left to access the account information you provided when you took the course. The certificate appears on the browser screen and can be email to yourself.

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Tweet, Tweet – a little birdie told me… NETLS tweets

Annual Book Price Update http://t.co/IPWSrfU from Yankee Book Peddler figures average adult nf cost, inc. by Dewey 10's, recent is 2009-2010

Philbradley ebooks on borrowed time | Books | The Guardian http://bit.ly/i7wIL2 Very short item, but a good set of comments. 4:50 AM Mar 7th via bitly Retweeted by you and 6 others

Five-store Michigan chain Schuler Books adapts and diversifies by offering Google e-books and expanding sidelines http://bit.ly/gFMkTL 6:43 AM Mar 7th via web Retweeted by you and 9 others

RT: Cool: Mr. Edison’s Kindle: Fifteen amazing gadget ideas that were way, way ahead of their time. http://bit.ly/ezyz56 8:00 PM Mar 5th via HootSuite Retweeted by you and 4 others

How to spell the name of that Libyan leader. http://n.pr/ewyFru 11:31 AM Mar 6th

Truth in Advertising - http://pcweenies.com/2011/02/17/truth-in-advertising/

Ebooks and Libraries - A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy http://bit.ly/h0bFhK @Liz Burns's take 8:03 AM Mar 6th via HootSuite Retweeted by you and 3 others

Navigating e-gov resources will be important for thee forseeable future. Learn important skills in new e-course: http://t.co/oLyvaPm ~~$200.

'Tweet Viewer' Virus Spreads On Twitter http://tcrn.ch/enxriU by @alexia 1:51 PM Mar 5th via WordPress.com VIP Retweeted by you and 100+ other

10 Ways Twitter Will Make You a Better Employee, Better at Your Job and Benefit Your Library... http://fb.me/PPHzWBpo

Book Industry Communication - Blog: AT LAST, A LIBRARY RFID STANDARD http://t.co/7L35KzZ

Ten Years Of Library Internet In A Small Town http://t.co/hia0CWL. ~~Great testiment on how libraries help change lives ~~

· RuralLibAssoc The ARSL Conference will be held September 8-11, 2011 in Frisco, TX. More information and early registration coming soon! arsl.info

If your library Tweets, let us know and we’ll add you to our list!

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.. & If you offer downloadable e-books..

Check out the Sony Reader library program.

Help the library community

Library Journal compiling a national Job Satisfaction Survey: http://app.fluidsurveys.com/s/LJjobsatisfaction/ reporting the results in the June issue. Please take a moment to complete the survey – tell them how things are in Texas!

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Grant Help

Check out these ideas from Movie Licensing USA about finding grant funding for public performance rights. They added tips to strengthen your application here.

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Itsy Bitsy Babies

Dr. Jim Thomas is seeking libraries in (relatively) close proximity to work with him on grant applications to offer a series of weekday morning classes introducing infants and their caregivers to very early learning activities. Dr. Thomas will conduct 4 sessions in the fall of 2011 or spring 2012 to help your library kick off the series. If you are interested in discussing this possibility please complete this brief form.

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Save with Group Purchase

If your library plans to subscribe to the RDA Toolkit, order through LLIBS to get in on a group purchase discount.  Contact Lisa Winter for more information.

Did you know…  Among Mobile Phone Users, Hispanics, Asians are Most-Likely Smartphone Owners in the U.S. http://t.co/v1qIkOl (Nielsen)

~~ Implications here for reaching people in these demographic groups

 See the new publication from the Pew Hispanic Center, Latinos and Digital Technology, 2010 by Gretchen Livingston

Compares rates of Internet use, including cell phone use, home broadband access, and types of online activities engaged in by race/ethnicity, nativity, dominant language, age, education, income, and area of residence. Discusses factors behind disparities.

American Academy of Dermatology Invites Applications for Shade Structure Grant Program Grants of up to $8,000 will be awarded to nonprofits working to provide permanent shade structures designed to provide ultraviolet ray protection for outdoor public spaces frequented by children under age 18....
Deadline: April 22, 2011

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Opportunities…share your favorites

· Schedule science exhibits through University of Texas at Dallas Contact Science Program.

· Humanities Texas mini-grants throughout the year support visiting scholars for library programming.

· The Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections exhibit is one of the traveling exhibits from The Women’s Museum.

· Astronomy on Wheels through the Fort Worth Museum of Science and Industry provides a mobile planetarium.

· Turn your students on to SlimeKids – don’t miss the book trailers.

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Coming soon on a computer near you:

Upcoming Webinars listed on TSLAC Library Developments Blog

See the listing of archived presentations. Guest access is available.

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Q. So, what exactly is a courseinar?
A. Archived webinar + online course = courseinar

Huh? A courseinar is a recording of a webinar (often referred to as an archived webinar) that TSLAC places into short course format on their online training site here: https://onlinetraining.tsl.state.tx.us/.

More on courseinars

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Upcoming Infopeople Webinars

Also available: Librarian Live Podcasts

Management and Training topics

Ebsco’s free online training schedule

Webinar tip…

Find webinars here, too. Note some are *not* free.

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Check our CE Page, too….

March 13 Begin daylight saving time

March16 Four Rs of volunteer management, Texarkana

March 15 Geographic meeting, Balch Springs

March 23, Getting up to speed: understanding and sustaining your broadband, Balch Springs

March 31 Postmark deadline for TLA Annual Conference mailed registration

March 31 Submit annual library reports and system membership application

April 4 Deadline for TLA Annual Conference online registrations

April 10-16 Celebrate National Library week (visit for resources and special days)

April 12-15 TLA Conference, Austin Convention Center

April 18 Deadline for Why I Need My Library video contest for teens

By April 22 Apply for sunshade grant

By April 30 Apply for Target Store Early Childhood Reading Grants

Save the date! NETLS membership meeting May 24!

Below the line …

Lightweight e-readers are too light?

Read an auto biography (Readers advisory is needed)

Maximize Your Public Library

From the ICMA


Maximize Your Public Library -

This report is currently featured on the TSLAC Library Development website.

Senate Budget Testimony

This link will take you to the March 7 Senate Budget hearings (in RealAudio format).

Budget Board presentation on TSLAC budget begins at 2:53:00

Library Commissioner Pickett begins testimony 3:01:25

State Librarian testimony begins at 3:05:30 followed by witness testimony.

Congratulations to ALBA

Great Open House today.

Under 500 residents, 135 library cards issued so far. This is a brand new library, a huge undertaking.

Hmmm... I'm not asking enough questions

I'm way below even 1 million questions. Who is asking the rest of the questions?

NETLS Updates & Information 3/3/2011

Geographic Meetings – LAST SESSIONS

¶ Van Alstyne; Friday, March 4, 10 a.m. to noon
Van Alstyne Public Library, 117 N Waco; (903) 482-5991

¶ Balch Springs; Tuesday, March 15, 10 a.m. to noon
Balch Springs Public Library, 12450 Elam Rd; (972)913-3000

We discuss NETLS services and ask attendees to note services used in the past year and to rank services in their order of importance.

We also reviewed the proposed state budget for SFY 2012 and SFY2013 noting the priorities outlined by Peggy Rudd, State Librarian in her letter to supporters.

In light of the current uncertainty, in particular for SFY2013, I ask you to review services offer by NETLS or TSLAC that you rely upon and use the coming fiscal year to shift this reliance to your local community.

State Budget Issues

Stay up to date with legislative issues impacting libraries with TLA’s Texline. Use these advocacy resources to respond to local, state and national issues. Use ALA’s advocacy publication, Libraries: The place of opportunity, for analysis of current and recent issues.

NETLS In-person training

Kim Lehman is back! Sign up now to join Kim for tricks, tips and support for planning and executing your summer reading programs. Sign-up for the make-up session.

Kim’s previously scheduled presentations were iced out and she’s agreed to present in our area ONE more time in preparation for this summer’s reading events.

Kim has extensive experience with the Texas Summer Reading Club and will share her techniques with you:

March 9 in Balch Springs 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (lunch on your own)

In addition to this in-person program , Kim presented these one hour webinars available through the TSLAC webinar archive:

Go Global and Stay Connected with Texas Teens Read! 2011

· View the Archived Webinar
· View the PowerPoint Slides PPT)
· View the PowerPoint Slides (PDF)

Dig Up a Good Book for Your 2011 Summer Reading Program

• View the Archived Webinar
• View the PowerPoint Slides
• View the PowerPoint Slides (PDF)

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NETLS In- person training

Feedback from this series has been great – do yourself a favor and attend!

The Four R’s of Volunteer Management – Presenter, Mary Beth Harrington, Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations

All workshops 9 to noon. Register here.

• March 8, Lindale
• March 10, Longview
• March 16, Texarkana (rescheduled)

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"Getting Up to Speed: Understanding and Sustaining Your Broadband"

Join Christine Peterson in Balch Springs on Wednesday, March 23 for this important workshop sponsored by TSLAC. Registration and more information here.

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Upcoming webinars hosted by the TX Workforce Commission.

Your Library and the Texas Workforce System- Thursday, March 10^th, 10 AM:

Job seekers flock to their public libraries to search for employment opportunities, work on their resumes, and submit online job applications. In this first webinar hosted by the Texas Workforce Commission, John Fuller, Director of Workforce Network Support, will introduce the Texas workforce system, highlight the services and resources available through local workforce solution offices and explore how libraries and local workforce solution offices can work together to meet the needs of job seekers more effectively.

WorkInTexas and Other Career Tools for Your Library- Tuesday, March 29^th, 10 AM:

WorkInTexas is the official job matching system of Texas that helps job seekers search for jobs online and find the perfect job match. In this second webinar hosted by the Texas Workforce Commission, Scott Eychner, Program Supervisor, will explain how you can assist library patrons looking for a new job, applying for unemployment insurance benefits or looking for local labor market information using WorkInTexas and related career tools.

You can register for both webinars at http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/webinars/index.html.

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Computer and Job Hunting Classes

I attended and received positive feedback from last week’s TSLAC sponsored webinar on the TWDL.org project. A collection of workshop offerings for job hunters and computers novices was mentioned in the discussion. If you would like your workshops listed, please send me your schedule of classes.

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TLA Conference Stipends

Several TLA Units and Supporters offer financial assistance to assist funding for attendance at the TLA Annual Conference. Check out these resources from the TLA website:

Conference Stipends

• Automation & Technology RT
• Biblionix - SCLRT
• District 8
• Escue (paraprofessionals)
• Genealogy (AGLHRT)
• Library Media Connection (YART)
• Laura Edwards Memorial (CRT/TASL)
• Library Instruction RT- Devin Zimmerman
• New Members RT/Quality Books
• Public Libraries Division
• Tocker Foundation
• Young Adult RT- Library Media Connection

TLA Webinars

TLA offers a variety of webinars. Some of the session are premium sessions for which there is a fee. TLA also offers webinars that are free to everyone, even nonmembers. Visit the TLA CE page for course listing. Note the link to archived webinars (on the left) the archives contain free and premium ($35) webinars. Upon completion of a webinar generate your own certificate of completion by clicking the CE Registration and Credit Certificate link on the left to access the account information you provided when you took the course. The certificate appears on the browser screen and can be email to yourself.

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Tweet, Tweet – a little birdie told me… NETLS tweets

· Jeff Dawson/Lester Library: Report confirms public libraries have a future htrnews.com/article/201101…

· Study these talking points about public libraries: http://j.mp/gGdqib

· Grand Opening ALBA this Saturday~~ their first library! Best wishes to supporters & residents for continued success.

· New library catalog in Coppell, http://catalog.coppelltx.gov ~~congrats~~

· Financial help for small library staff to attend TLA - Biblionix SCLRT Stipend http://j.mp/eeGm8F ~~Thank you, Biblionix!~~

· She wrote the book on saving libraries shar.es/3Zw1n ~~ Thanks to Alice at STLS for sharing ~~

· NETLS Updates and Information: Leading, inspiring shar.es/3ZdNF ~~ A TEDx talk from a few years back ~~

· For 40,000 Gmail Users, Google Has To Leave The Cloud To Review The Tapes tcrn.ch/gXWvDd via @techcrunch

· International hug a librarian day! shar.es/3ZYfS ~~ Facebook link ~~

· Wither libraries? Not so fast, new survey says - SmartPlanet smartplanet.com/business/blog/… ~~ Discussing LRG ResearchLine Report

· Library programs may get the ax - Longview News-Journal: news-journal.com/news/local/art… ~~ Upshur Co., Longview, Sammy Brown, Pittsburg-Camp Co quotes

· Funding and priorities: the library resource guide benchmark study on 2011 library spending plans: LibraryResource.com libraryresource.com/Downloads/Rese…

· New Blog Post March 2011 Free Online Training: March 2011: Another month of great training opportunities! There... http://bit.ly/e4JJGb

· RT: Video: OverDrive eBooks on the iPhone http://bit.ly/eyog0x

· New on our blog: @maxitoricardo weighs in on E-Book Lending Clubs http://bit.ly/fE5sZJ

· Library Users, Librarians, and Libraries Boycott HarperCollins Over Change in Ebook Terms http://tinyurl.com/6h866x9

· NYT on HC & ebook lending http://pulsene.ws/13zck

· Check out: http://twitthis.com/2n8ehb ~~ a nice summary of the current state of e-books and libraries and service possibilities.

· There is an app for that, hehehe! That is right library friends there is now a TumbleBooks app for facebook. Just... http://fb.me/HJJbhmhZ

· 26 Feb Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

· What if your paperback library book exploded after 26 check outs? http://bit.ly/h5GEAr

· Texas House tackles TSLAC budget request. Latest info from TLA. http://www.txla.org/texline-269

· New Blog Post What You Don’t Get: Posted with permission from author, John Pecoraro, Big Country Library System ... http://bit.ly/dH7wp9

· Pittsburg-Camp County Public Library added Project Gutenberg records! shar.es/3dw1Y ~~ Sample _Pride and Prejudice_ , good job! ~~

· Search Lindale Public Library shar.es/3dlim try James Joyce ~~ Good job adding the free MARC ~~

· How Open library differs from Project Gutenberg shar.es/3dJ5g

· RuralLibAssoc The ARSL Conference will be held September 8-11, 2011 in Frisco, TX. More information and early registration coming soon! arsl.info

If your library Tweets, let us know and we’ll add you to our list!

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.. & If you offer downloadable e-books..

Check out the Sony Reader library program.

Help the library community

Library Journal compiling a national Job Satisfaction Survey: http://app.fluidsurveys.com/s/LJjobsatisfaction/ reporting the results in the June issue. Please take a moment to complete the survey – tell them how things are in Texas!

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Grant Help

Check out these ideas from Movie Licensing USA about finding grant funding for public performance rights. They added tips to strengthen your application here.

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Itsy Bitsy Babies

Dr. Jim Thomas is seeking libraries in (relatively) close proximity to work with him on grant applications to offer a series of weekday morning classes introducing infants and their caregivers to very early learning activities. Dr. Thomas will conduct 4 sessions in the fall of 2011 or spring 2012 to help your library kick off the series. If you are interested in discussing this possibility please complete this brief form.

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Save with Group Purchase

If your library plans to subscribe to the RDA Toolkit, order through LLIBS to get in on a group purchase discount.  Contact Lisa Winter for more information.  

 Did you know... among mobile phone users, Hispanics, Asians are most-likely smartphone owners in the U.S. (Neilsen report)

Have you seen the new publication
from the Pew Hispanic Center, Latinos  and Digital Technology, 2010 by Gretchen Livingston
Compares rates of Internet use, including cell phone use, home broadband access, and types of online activities engaged in by race/ethnicity, nativity, dominant language, age, education, income, and area of residence. Discusses factors behind disparities.~~ Implications here for reaching people in these demographic groups

American Academy of Dermatology Invites Applications for Shade Structure Grant Program Grants of up to $8,000 will be awarded to nonprofits working to provide permanent shade structures designed to provide ultraviolet ray protection for outdoor public spaces frequented by children under age 18....
Deadline: April 22, 2011

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Opportunities…share your favorites

· Schedule science exhibits through University of Texas at Dallas Contact Science Program.

· Humanities Texas mini-grants throughout the year support visiting scholars for library programming.

· The Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections exhibit is one of the traveling exhibits from The Women’s Museum.

· Astronomy on Wheels through the Fort Worth Museum of Science and Industry provides a mobile planetarium.

· Turn your students on to SlimeKids – don’t miss the book trailers.

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Coming soon on a computer near you:

Upcoming Webinars listed on TSLAC Library Developments Blog

See the listing of archived presentations. Guest access is available.

Upcoming Infopeople Webinars

Also available: Librarian Live Podcasts

Management and Training topics

Ebsco’s free online training schedule

Webinar tip…

Find webinars here, too. Note some are *not* free.

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¶First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative for Texas Announces 2011 Grant Program
Grants of up to $50,000 will be given to Texas organizations working to implement a family literacy program; this year, grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to organizations in the planning stages of such a program....
Deadline: March 4, 2011

Check our CE Calendar, too….

March 4 Geographic meeting, Van Alstyne

By March 4 Family Literacy Grant applications due

March 8 Four Rs of volunteer management, Lindale

March 9 Making your summer reading program a success! Balch Springs

March 10 Reader-friendly Library Design free webinar

March 10 Four Rs of volunteer management, Longview

March16 Four Rs of volunteer management, Texarkana

March 15 Geographic meeting, Balch Springs

March 23, Getting up to speed: understanding and sustaining your broadband, Balch Springs

April 12-15 TLA Conference, Austin Convention Center

By April 22 Apply for sunshade grant

By April 30 Apply for Target Store Early Childhood Reading Grants

Save the date! NETLS membership meeting May 24!

Below the line …

Awesome job! What a great life.