July 2008
Volume 29 No. 1

 

 

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SRC Site and/or Newsletter - Wiki? Blog? Or?
Mary Beth Train has posted personal sites as a trial. No decisions yet!

  • Ning to build a site together
  • Bloglines to collect relevant feeds.
  • Wordpress to encourage member librarians to share their knowledge.

News You Can Use
Statewide Reference Think Tank
August 25-26, 2008 - Pasadena
The California State Library and the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System are seeking think tank participants able to envision "emerging trends and future possibilities, and who want to develop transformational scenarios for providing information services to our communities." Details

CLA PR Excellence Award seeks Entries
Enter your best publicity created for 2007-2008 activities for this California Library Association award. Details

September Sizzle - What's New with Gale Databases
The free annual training with Kurt Stovall included in the 2006-2009 Gale system contract will be repeated at four different times and locations in September. There will be a make-up training in October. Details and registration

   

Free Books on Japanese-American World War II Internment
The California State Library has free copies of these two titles available for libraries: Details

  • Blossoms in the Desert, edited by Darrell Hamamoto
  • 39 Months in Tule Lake, by Margaret Lowery

Website Updates
Since the passwords on the system reference center site were so hard to remember, library staff were missing out on website tools. These pages have been updated and passwords removed:

Reference Picks
Free Children's Digital Literature
International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) contains 2657 free books in 48 languages that are easy to read on the screen or to download in a variety of formats. http://icdlbooks.org/ Details

Group Tool for Selecting Dates and Polling
Doodle will spare you from scheduling a meeting via endless emails. Your invitees select the dates and times they can come to a meeting or event. You can set up a poll to decide on a program or set an agenda. Accounts are free. Details

News from Our Members
Contra Costa County Library Debuts "Library-a-Go-Go"
The first of the library's three LSTA-funded "Library-a-Go-Go" machines went live at the Pleasanton* BART station early this year.

* Correction: Pittsburg/Bay Point BART station

Redwood City Library Project READ wins Kent Award and More
Redwood City Public Library’s Project READ, in collaboration with Cañada College, recently received the Kent award and congressional recognition for its Inmate Peer Tutor Program, a project which enables inmates to earn college credits by successfully completing a specialized literacy program with Project READ volunteer tutors. Details

ALA/LAMA PR Awards Sweep by Burlingame Public Library
At the American Library Association annual convention in Anaheim in June, the Brulingame Public Library won an unprecedented seven awards for public relations and graphic art. Library director, Al Escoffier, credited the library's graphic artist, Maryam Refahi for earning the great honor.

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Who we are:
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Linda Crowe

Executive Director
BALIS/MOBAC/PLS/SVLS
• Mary Beth Train
Search Editor
• Angel Kao Program Assistant
 

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Volume 29 Number 1
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