Idaho Commission for Libraries

This link was sent to me because of the information about the Deschutes Library Spanish Language Outreach Program – however on the front page of the newsletter was an article about their Word Café Conversation!

http://newsletter.dpls.lib.or.us/NewsletterAll.pdf
World Café is invading libraries!

Shirley

In light of recent conversations regarding teaching students in the 21^st century, this article from eSchool News provides information from recent research in regard to technology and student learning.

Tech encourages students' social skills
Studies illustrate how some classroom technology can lead to student collaboration

The annual national conference of the Association for Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) will be held this fall in Sacramento on September 19-21, 2008. The conference focus is for libraries serving a population of 25,000 or fewer. Conference information and registration is available at www.webjunction.org/arsl .

Ohio? Michael Samuelson and I are learning about the new Web 2.0 platform that Web Junction will be debuting later this summer. Today we learned about the ways that the content management system handles content, how to brand our community partner page, and build community.

New Materials available through the Professional Development Service

Available for viewing 6/09/08

Available for check out by public 7/09/08

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E-branch in a Box Fall Training Schedule

The Idaho Commission for Libraries will provide a half-day update training session for all current e-Branch in a Box users. This is a great opportunity to brush up on development and troubleshooting skills for the e-Branch administrators. You will have an opportunity to work on your own site customization issues.

Mixing It Up: The Mashed up Library was a symposium sponsored by OCLC at the ALA conference in Anaheim. Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Sloan School for Digital Business, shared his perspective in his presentation "Managing Challeges of Instituional Innovation." Innovation in an institution is difficult because of its values, traditions, cultures, and bureacracies.

Attended Competencies for Your Staff: From Implementation to Integration, a CLENE-RT preconference session. Highlights:

FLASH: WebJunction Idaho will be launching in October-- more information to follow soon!

In the meantime here is a list of free WEBJUNCTION WEBINARS for July and August .. be sure to register and enjoy!

Rural Webinars: Motivating Your Board -- Money, Lawsuits, and Facilities

The first round of the WESTPAS workshops on "Protecting Library & Archive Collections: Disaster Preparedness, Response, & Recovery" was conducted in Eastern Idaho at the Portneuf District Library and then in Southwestern Idaho at the Garden City Library.

Another preservation workshop, this one focuses on AV media:

A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media Presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts

November 6 & 7, 2008 – Save the Date!

Cosponsored and hosted by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sessions:

Cuil from ALA TechSource Blog Submitted by Daniel A. Freeman on July 28, 2008 - 2:20pm.

Libraries go wild Beyond the Expected! Although the weather is hot outside, it is way cool inside spending time with so many enthusiastic, passionate, cool librarians from the Pacific Northwest!

Aaron Schmidt, Director of the North Plains Public Library in Oregon, technology and usability consultant and author of www.walkingpaper.org blog led a preconference session at PNLA entitled “The Young and the Restless: A New Breed of Library Customer.” His presentation can be found at http://w

Be part of the virtual launch!
On October 2, ICFL will be rolling out the new website and WebJunction Idaho at ILA. You can be part of it and get rewarded for your efforts! Here's what you need to do (and here is how to do it!):

The "It's All Good" blog sent out information about a new WebJunction report. The report - Latinos and Public Library Perceptions - is on the WebJunction site and is part of the Spanish Language Outreach effort which WebJunction coordinates and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded.

I have been asked about online conferencing/webinar software for meeting use and training. The Wimba tool that ICFL uses is part of the Community Partner agreement with WebJunction. ICFL uses this tool to facilitate its meetings and trainings.

Library Camp of the West
I recently had the opportunity to attend the ever-growing popular "Library Camp" -- the un-conference.

If you haven't checked it out yet, get thee to the Free Friday Forums from BCR.

And apply today to attend the March 8, 9 & 10 in-service designed for you and your key-players. Like last year, the in-service will focus on your critical contributions to student achievement in the context of 21st Century Skills.

Go ahead and dare to dream of the luxuries waiting for you in Idaho Falls...