Second-Level Reference is Alive, Well, and Seeks Your Questions
Recently we received this question from a librarian at a PLP member library:

Q: Will you continue to field questions now that PLP is upon us?
A: Yes, BALIS, MOBAC, PLS and SVLS are all part of PLP (Pacific Library Partnership). The System Reference Center's service is the same as before. Your staff members are welcome to send any questions they have.

See a sample of our questions and more resources on Twitter.

How Can I Help You? The Joys and Challenges of Reference Work with Children
KT Horning, director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books, will offer tips, tricks and examples of how to answer children's questions.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 9:30am - 11:15am
San Francisco Public Library (Koret Auditorium)
100 Larkin Street, CA 94102
Cost: $15 - Online Registration

Cross-Pollinating: Collecting, Collaborating, & Sharing Among Information Communities
The Northern California Technical Processes Group's annual meeting features talks by Tim Spalding, founder of LibraryThing; Cathy Marshall, Senior Researcher in MSR's Silicon Valley Lab, working on Community Information Management applications and issues associated with personal digital archiving; and Günter Waibel, Program Officer in OCLC Research, working on describing, sharing, aggregating and disseminating cultural materials in a networked environment.

Friday, May 7, 2010 - 9:00am - 12:30pm - Registration form
San Francisco Public Library (Koret Auditorium)
100 Larkin Street, CA 94102
Cost: $25 for NCTPG members and $5 for support staff, student, or not employed

Quick and Easy Library Mobile Services
The San Francisco Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA-SF) in cooperation with Baynet presents an evening with Sarah Houghton-Jan, the Librarian in Black and Digital Futures Librarian at San Jose Public Library who will present the quick and free mobile-phone services that any library can create with minimal time or expertise.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Astaria Restaurant, 50 East 3rd Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94401 (650) 344-9444
5:30-6 p.m. - Registration and dinner
7-8:30 p.m. - Program with Q&A following
Cost: $35 for SLA members, $45 for non-members and guests, and $25 for students, retired, and unemployed - Online Registration

Picturing America - NEH/ALA Book Grants - Deadline now April 26
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the ALA Public Programs Office have extended the deadline for public libraries to apply for a $2,000 grant to support programs incorporating the Picturing America art book collection. Details

Adobe Show Your Impact Design Contest - Submissions : May 10-May 21
Adobe and TechSoup Global will award a $1,000 grant and/or Adobe products to as many as nine libraries. Submit a piece of work created with Adobe products that demonstrates how your library addresses issues that impact the communities you serve. Deadline: Submissions must be received from May 10-May 21, 2010 - Details

Children's Book Day, Asian American Heritage Month and more
Look at the links for spring events for tie-ins to your programs. Register your program presenters on Big Box Program or paste the link in your confirming emails to them.

• April - National Library Week , National Poetry Month, Dia de los Ninos
• May - Asia/Pacific Month, National Bike Month
• June - Summer Reading!, Flag Day, LGBT Pride Month

Kidsdata.org Launches Data Points
Data Points, provides insights how California children are faring. The blog will also foster conversations among people who use data to improve the health and well-being of children.

On the blog, you'll find:

• Information about children's data efforts taking place throughout the state
• Examples of how others use kidsdata.org in their work
• Data analysis and information from kidsdata.org's expert staff
• A forum to ask questions about data

Resource Guide for After-School Programs - Just Updated
The companion Resource Guide to the report, Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens, has just been updated. This online Resource Guide provides recent research and tools to help service providers strengthen their after-school programs, particularly those serving preteens. The guide is organized around the six principles of quality after-school programs that are described in the above-mentioned report from 2008. Both the report and this companion guide were commissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health.

Gale and EBSCO Need Branch Addresses to Make Mobile Aps Work
Both EBSCO and Gale need the physical addresses of each of the libraries, including branches, for mobile phone users to find the nearest library at the moment when they find an article while surfing the web on their phones. Libraries that have tested these mobile aps like them. To learn more, contact your Gale or EBSCO representative.

InfoExplore Clip Blog's Recent Clips
The System Reference Center's InfoExplore Clip Blog also contains highlights from the 2010 PLA conference, building a viral community, grant opportunities, CLA's Spring Fling and 2010 Summer Reading links and more.

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Volume 30 - Number 7
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