PLA e-News January 28, 2004
Volume 7, Number 1
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Spotlight on PLA Platinum Partner
Baker & Taylor
Baker & Taylor is the leader in library services, as well as a full line distributor of adult and children's book, video, music audio, and spoken-word titles. The Title Source II (tm) is the foremost electronic ordering and collection management resource in the industry and contains full text reviews from nearly 20 review sources. ED(tm), Baker & Taylor's integrated circulation and management solution for eBooks, is a web-based solution that allows libraries to present and distribute eBooks to their patrons 24x7. For more information, please call us at 1-800-775-1800 or visit our website at www.btol.com. If you are attending the PLA National Conference, be sure to visit Baker & Taylor at Booth 900.
Baker & Taylor
2709 Water Ridge Parkway
Charlotte, NC 28217
1-800-775-1800 ph
btinfo@btol.com
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TLC Raises $5,000 for PLA/ALSC Literacy Effort at ALA
TLC donated $5,000 to PLA/ALSC’s Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library, thanks to the participation of hundreds of librarians at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego. The donation was part of a fundraising program TLC created to celebrate the company’s 30-year anniversary and assist Every Child Ready to Read. TLC will continue the program at the Public Library Association Conference (Seattle, WA) and the ALA Annual Conference (Orlando) this year. About Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library: This project helps parents and caregivers prepare preschool children for a lifetime of the pleasures of reading. PLA and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) formed a partnership, the PLA/ALSC Task Force on Early Childhood Literacy, to pilot the materials in public libraries. Demonstration sites have enthusiastically participated in the project and developed a wide range of materials for their communities. The intent of these partnerships and programs is to firmly establish public libraries as a partner in the educational continuum and to validate PLA’s contributions by linking its activities to relevant research and evaluation. Learn more at www.pla.org.About The Library Corporation: TLC is owned and operated by the same family that founded the company 30 years ago. The company’s automation solutions include integrated automation systems built using the world’s most advanced technologies, cataloging with access to millions of MARC records, acquisitions that incorporate all the necessary resources into one place, and a premier service and support team that sets the standard in the library profession. For more information about TLC, contact Gary W. Kirk at gwkirk@TLCdelivers.com, call 1.800.325.7759 or visit www.TLCdelivers.com .
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E-Learning@PLA
PLA has launched an online education program, "E-Learning@PLA." The first course of study to be offered in this new venture will be "Creating Policies for Results." In this course, which is based on the popular American Library Association (ALA) Publication, "Creating Policies for Results - From Chaos to Clarity," participants will work with the publication's authors Sandra Nelson and June Garcia, as they encounter real library policy problems. Participants will gain useful knowledge, skills, and judgement that will enable them to produce useable policies tailored to their individual libraries. The curriculum features interactive exercises, collaborative work, and online chats with instructors and colleagues. Each participant will have approximately six months to finish the course, and then another six months access to the e-Learning@PLA system. The first course will start March 22, 2004. Visit www.pla.org for technical requirements and registration information.
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We need you! Volunteer to Serve as a Mentor
If you are a public library leader and experienced national conference-goer, read on. PLA needs 8 public library leaders to serve as mentors to ALA Spectrum Scholars who will be attending the upcoming PLA National Conference in Seattle. As you may know, PLA has provided travel grants to Spectrum Scholars to attend the conference so that they are introduced to public librarianship and to provide networking opportunities for them. This is an unstructured mentoring program. Mentors are encouraged to introduce themselves in advance of the conference (via phone or e-mail) and to answer any pre-conference questions and then will meet up with scholars at conference during the New Member Reception, Wednesday, February 25, 6:00 p.m. After the new member reception, we hope that you will touch base with your Spectrum Scholar occasionally during the conference to ensure that they are having a successful experience.
Please let Shannon Distel know sdistel@ala.org by Friday, Jan. 30, if you are willing to serve as a mentor during the PLA conference. Shannon will provide information on the Spectrum Scholars who will be attending conference including their e-mail addresses.
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PLA @your library Advocacy Campaign Seeks Focus Group Participants in Seattle
If you will be attending the PLA National Conference in Seattle (February 24-28), consider participating in one of the advocacy focus groups PLA will host there. For your effort, we will supply breakfast, lunch or an afternoon snack!
At the National Conference, PLA will unveil plans for an exciting new advocacy campaign designed especially for public librarians and libraries. Advocacy is a fundamental goal of the PLA Strategic Plan and the campaign will focus on the value of public libraries.
The campaign won’t succeed without you and we need to hear what you think. To test message and themes and find out how PLA can best help libraries, we will host focus groups at the Seattle convention center on Friday, February 27. Focus groups will be 1.5-2 hours in length. The schedule and requirements are:
8:00 a.m.
Participants needed: Library staff (10 participants). Breakfast will be served.
12 noon
Participants needed: Library directors (10 participants). Lunch will be served
3:30 p.m.
Trustees and Friends (10 participants). Afternoon snacks will be served.
As we are trying for a representative sample of rural, suburban, and urban libraries, participants will be selected based on: request to PLA by Feb. 2 and representative sampling.
If you are interested, please email pla@ala.org no later than Feb. 2. In the email subject line, please note: PLA Advocacy Focus Group and in the body of message, include your name, job title, name of library, size of population served, address, city, state, phone, fax and email. If not obvious, please indicate whether your library is urban, suburban or rural. Your participation will be confirmed asap. Thanks!
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Tutor.com
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