Apply now for the Nebraska Library Leadership Institute! This unique professional development opportunity is scheduled for August 5-9 at the St. Benedict Retreat Center in Schuyler. Librarians of all types (public, school, academic, and special libraries) are encouraged to apply.
Application Deadline: June 25, 2013
Information about this title is from the ALA Store.
The vast array of social media options present a challenge: it’s tough to keep current, let alone formulate a plan for using these tools effectively. Solomon, a librarian with extensive experience in web development, design, and technology, cuts to the chase with this invaluable guide to using social media in any kind of library. With a straightforward and pragmatic approach, she broadens her best-selling ALA Editions Special Report on the topic and
Including a bibliography of additional resources, Solomon’s guide will empower libraries to use social media as a powerful tool for marketing, outreach, and advocacy.
If you would like to borrow this book, please contact the RVLS Office.
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Secrets From the Past by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Daddy’s Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark
Let the Dead Sleep by Heather Graham
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
The Chance by Karen Kingsbury
Loving by Karen Kingsbury
Crystal Cove by Lisa Kleypas
Starting Now by Debbie Macomber
A Higher Call by Adam Makos
Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman
Don’t Go by Lisa Scottoline
Sand Castle Bay by Sherryl Woods
Visit us on LibraryThing to see all the available audiobook titles. Call or email the Republican Valley Library System Office to borrow a specific book or to get an assortment every other month for your patrons
Sandy Wallick and Alice Boeckman offered some terrific tips for story times at the Children’s Services Workshop at the Grand Island Public Library yesterday. Sandy focused on story telling for preschoolers and Alice gave us insight on why we should have storytime for babies and how to go about it.
Here are some of the online resources they recommended:
Flannel Friday–http://flannelfridaystorytime.blogspot.com/
Kizclub–http://www.kizclub.com/
Virtual Vine–http://www.thevirtualvine.com/
Sunflower Storytime–http://sunflowerstorytime.com/
Center for Early Literacy Learning–http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pgparents.php
Mel’s Desk–http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/
Kids’ Songs–http://www.kididdles.com/
What a great workshop on a beautiful day. Thank you, Sandy and Alice!
Hear “Casey at the Bat” read by NLC staffers—one line at a time. Inspired by Bob Barringer’s presentation at Big Talk from Small Libraries, and because April is National Poetry Month, and this is National Library Week, and, even if the weather isn’t cooperating, it’s spring, we decided to try out a group poetry reading. The technique could make a terrific library program—fun, funny, inexpensive, and involving lots of community members of all ages. We uncovered some unexpected thespian talent here at the Commission.
The Nebraska Regional Library Systems contracted with Susan K. Sapp, Attorney and Senior Litigation Partner with Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather, L.L.P. in Lincoln, to put together a template of a personnel policy for Nebraska libraries. The project was in response, in part, to the signing into law, LB470, which requires library personnel policies to be approved by their local municipality. We hope this will prove to be a guide for library boards and directors in reviewing policy and complying with federal and state requirements.
The handbook was compiled in August and the recording in November of 2012. Print copies of the sample employee handbook and a recording of Susan Sapp reviewing the handbook are available through Nebraska Regional Library Systems. You’ll note that the template provides ample space on the page for each segment to add specifics pertinent to your individual community. There are blanks to fill in and shaded areas that each library will want to address to make sure it complies with their policies and rules, e.g., vacation, sick leave amounts and accrual; contact people for FMLS leave, etc. Thus, each library will want to pay careful attention to the specifics. Policies can be modified to fit the culture of each library, e.g., dress code, time cards, etc.
Sharon Osenga, Director of the Meridian Library System, and I are offering two joint Valley Visit/Talk About It sessions for librarians to get acquainted with this resource before presenting it to their Library Boards. You may attend either session. Please call or email the RVLS Office to sign up. You will earn 2 Continuing Education Credits.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Grand Island Public Library
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Or
Friday, May 3, 2013
North Platte Public Library
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
If you wish, I am available to come to your library and work with you and your board to update (or create) personnel policies and an employee handbook.
We received a shipment of new audiobooks for the RVLS collection.
Stringer by Lou Cameron
Six Years by Harlan Coben
Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner
Family Pictures by Jane Green
Deadly Stakes by J.A. Jance
Dream Eyes by Jayne Ann Krentz
The Key-Lock Man by Louis L’Amour
Little Wolves by Thomas Maltman
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
The man in 3B by Carl Weber
Visit us on LibraryThing to see all the available audiobook titles. Call or email the Republican Valley Library System Office to borrow a specific book or to get an assortment every other month for your patrons.
The responses are in and the results have been tabulated. If you would like to see the information we gathered with the 2013 RVLS Services Survey, click on this link. If you would like to suggest a program idea or make a comment about RVLS services, click on the “Leave a Comment” link at the end of this post.
Didn’t make it to the PLTS Spring Meetings this year? Click on this link to see our presenter, Carolyn Davidson Brewer, in a 10 minute video training. It is called “Why So Angry? Dealing with Upset People.”
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