PLA Electronic Newsletter
Volume 7, Number 8
July 20, 2004
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SPOTLIGHT ON PLA GOLD PARTNER - EBSCO INFORMATION SERVICES
EBSCO Information Services is the global leader in providing information access and management solutions for libraries and other organizations. Our services include: comprehensive serials management for both print and electronic subscriptions through EBSCO Subscription Services; electronic journal access and management through EBSCOhost(r) Electronic Journals Service; full text and bibliographic databases available online via EBSCOhost; and Web-based book, audio and video purchasing through EBSCO Book Services.
EBSCO's newest service is A-to-Z, which provides a quick way for librarians and patrons to find the titles they need from among the numerous databases and e-journals to which a library subscribes.
A network of 31 offices in 19 countries allows EBSCO to provide the global resources necessary to deliver quick, personal service no matter where an organization is located. EBSCO maintains a comprehensive database of more than 282,000 serial titles and upholds active relationships with more than 60,000 publishers worldwide. In 2004, EBSCO will celebrate 60 years of serving the library and business communities. Visit us at www.ebsco.com.
Contact: Rebecca Walden
E-mail: rwalden@ebsco.com
Phone: (205) 980-6794
Fax: (205) 995-1636
Web site: www.ebsco.com
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GET INVOLVED IN PLA'S NEW PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN - LAUNCHING IN SEPTEMBER
PLA will launch its new public awareness campaign "The Smartest Card - Get It. Use It. @ your library" during Library Card Sign-up Month this September. While September is just around the corner, there are a few very simple things you can do to support this effort and help us extend our media reach.
1) Let PLA know that you're participating in the launch so we can include you in our media relations materials.
2) Reach out to a local elected official - governor, mayor, city council member - and ask him or her to be photographed with a library card featuring the new Smartest Card logo and the name of your local public library.
3) Schedule the photograph and develop a short press release announcing that "Governor Joan Smith has the Smartest Card - Do You?" and sharing information about the campaign and your local public library.
4) Send your local press release to your local media contacts, plus a copy to PLA.
5) Let us know how it went, plus send us a copy of your photo. We'll use as many as we can in a future issue of Public Libraries and also make them available to American Libraries magazine.
Send your stories, press releases and photos to PLA at pla@ala.org; subject line:
September Launch Story; or fax: 312-280-5029.
PLA is working now with ALA's Public Information Office on sample media and marketing materials you can easily customize and use to help get out the message that your library card is the most valuable card in every wallet - including downloadable oversized library cards in English and Spanish. These materials will be available for use by early August at www.pla.org
We hope every public library will consider participating in this nationwide media effort. Please let us know if you'll join us by July 28 so we can "count you in" among our media outreach efforts. Just send an email to pla@ala.org with subject line: "We're joining the campaign." and provide contact information in body of message.
Please post this notice widely. Thanks!
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PLA SPONSORS TRAIN-THE-TRAINER PROGRAM FOR "THE NEW PLANNING FOR RESULTS"
PLA is presenting a training program designed to help library managers and consultants learn to train library staff to use The NEW Planning for Results: A Streamlined Approach (ALA, 2001). The training program, led by Sandra Nelson, author of the book, will be presented October 18-21, 2004 in New Orleans. State library training staff, library consultants, or working librarians with training responsibilities or speaking or program planning experience are strongly encouraged to submit an application. The process is competitive and only 25 trainers will be selected to participate. Please see the PLA website, www.pla.org, for more details and application.
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POST-ORLANDO PROGRAM SURVEY DEADLINE NEARS!
If you attended a PLA-sponsored program at the 2004 ALA annual Conference in Orlando, we want to know about it. Please fill out the short online survey, found at www.ala.org, to let us know what you thought of the programs you attended and how we can improve your annual conference experience in the future. The deadline for filling out the survey is July 31. AND, randomly selected survey participants will win the PLA publication of her/his choice.
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CREATING POLICIES FOR RESULTS ONLINE COURSE TO BEGIN SOON - REGISTER TODAY!
e-Learning@PLA and elearn libraries will be offering a new session of the online course, Creating Policies for Results: From Chaos to Clarity, beginning September 20. This innovative desktop learning course lead library managers through every step required to write effective library policies. Find more information on the PLA website, www.pla.org, including course demonstrations and registration information.
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PLA PROVIDES FREE ACCESS TO "RESULTS" WORKFORMS
As a special service to the thousand of librarians who have purchased books in the ALA/PLA "Results" series of publications, the Public Library Association and E-Learn Libraries, Inc. (an online learning provider) have collaborated to provide free access to electronic versions
of the workforms (in Word format and Excel when appropriate) from the books in
the series.
Workforms and instructions from "The New Planning for Results," "Staffing for Results,"
"Creating Policies for Results" and "Managing for Results," are, or will shortly be available
online. Workforms from forthcoming "Results" titles will be added
as the new titles are published. The workforms are available at www.elearnlibraries.com and a link is available at www.pla.org.
PLA also is currently working with Sandra Nelson and June Garcia, of E-Learn Libraries, to produce online learning courses, based on the "Results" series of publications, in conjunction with PLA's E-Learning @ PLA series. The current course offering is "Creating Policies for
Results," with the "New Planning for Results" course to be offered
starting in October. Visit www.pla.org to see more information about E-Learning @ PLA, the "Results' series of publications, or the free workforms.
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