For further details about the Big Box program, authors, and scheduling, contact Sarah Kimmel:
Kimmel - AT - plsinfo - DOT - org or 650-356-2129.
Out-of-School Online Homework Help Program Applications
Application form, instructions, and description for this LSTA-targeted grant for 2008-2009 are now available. Deadline: Friday, May 16, 2008 - Link
Events and Training
Gale and EBSCO - Databases, Enhancements and Forthcoming
Since the current three-year system database package is coming up for renewal, product managers and sales teams from Gale and EBSCO will conduct training at two locations. Both companies have expanded their content and enhanced their interfaces. Gale will explain their digital archive program, which can modify pricing, and introduce key new products.
Thursday, April 10, 2008 - San Francisco Public Library (Latino/Hispanic Room)
9:00am - 12:30pm - Details and registration
Thursday, April 22, 2008 - San Jose Public Library
9:00am - 12:30pm - Details and registration
Registration deadline: Friday, April 7, 2008
Music and Play for Babies and Toddlers with MaryLee Sunseri
In this workshop sponsored by the SVLS Children's
Services Committee,
ALA Children's Notable recording artist and Parent's Choice Gold winner MaryLee Sunseri will teach her techniques for young children's programs by singing and moving.
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Santa Clara City Library
8:30am to noon - $15 - Details and registration
Helping People to Help Themselves
Brainstorm and explore good instructional materials in written, audio, and video form in this Infopeople workshop. Attendees will create their own handout and short audio and video spots.
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Alameda County Library - Fremont
9:00am - 4:00pm - $75 - Details and registration
Who Are We Today? - Support Staff and Paraprofessional Conference
Sponsored by the Library Staff Development Committee of the Greater Bay Area, the 11th annual conference features Jenifer Grady, Director, ALA APA (American Library Association-Allied Professional Association.) Agenda
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - Berkeley Public Library - Central
8:30am - 1:00pm - $40 -Registration
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - San Jose Public Library
8:30am - 12:30pm - $40 - Registration
Registration deadline: Monday, April 21, 2008
XML for Librarians
This workshop, sponsored by CLA-ACTSS (Access, Collections and Technical Services Section) and NCTPG (Northern California Technical Processes Group,) will introduce participants to extensible markup language (XML) through numerous examples, demonstrations and structured hands-on exercises. Eric Lease Morgan, the featured speaker, is Head of Digital Access and Information Architecture at the University Libraries at Notre Dame University and the CEO of Infomotions, which provides consulting, teaching, and computer programming services to libraries, librarians, and library organizations.
Wednesday, May 30, 2008 - Santa Clara University Library
9:00 am - 3:30 pm - $95 - CLA and NCTPG members: $80. Includes box lunch.
Limited to 35 participants. Details and registration
Spring Workshops
We Recommend - Readers Advisory with Duncan Smith
April 30 and May 1 - Details
Certified Public Library Administrator Local Courses
April 29-30, 2008: Fundraising with June Garcia
Information, full schedule, instructor profiles, CPLA description and registration
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News from Our Members
Sunnyvale Podcasts
When Steve Sloan launched Sunnyvale Public Library's first podcast in May 2006 at www.librarypodcasts.org, he was a pioneer in library podcasting. Instead of patrons' going to the library, the library came to them, via its audio-video blog, or vlog, of library programs and oral histories. The oral histories are 21 short memoirs by longtime Sunnyvale residents made by teen videographers between 1999 and 2001 as part of the Sunnyvale Voices digital storytelling grant. Previously, the stories were only available on VHS tapes, which had to be checked out at the library; now these stories are also available on YouTube and Google Video.
Although the library issued a press release announcing the site's launch, the library has kept the podcasts' promotion to the public low-key, preferring to promote content, rather than its use of podcasts. The site is listed on libsuccess.org, was in a primetime news story in Idaho about libraries' use of podcasting, has generated inquiries from other libraries, and is included in Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals by Ellyssa Kroski, just published by Neal Schuman Publishers. The site receives about 550 unique visitors a month.
These are the sites and technology Steve uses to create the vlogs:
Steve's advice to other libraries:
- Focus on content.
- Have one RSS feed for the entire library. People get confused by separate feeds.
- Publish on iTunes also. Make content freely accessible wherever patrons are.
- Garner IT support for compatibility issues with browsers, plug-ins and editing RSS and PHP.
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