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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO ALL PUBLIC LIBRARY STAFF MEMBERS IN YOUR LIBRARY
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TO: ALL TENNESSEE PUBLIC LIBRARY STAFF MEMBERS
FROM: Jane Pinkston, Assistant State Librarian for Planning and Development
SUBJECT: Statewide Continuing Education Survey
Dear Public Libraries:
Our regional libraries need your help in planning for future training needs! Please complete the survey found at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9V31Vo2qzXujqslWUioy0Q_3d_3d .
Just post the URL into your browser and follow the easy instructions. Note that we would like for directors as well as staff to participate. We welcome all individual responses!
The results of this survey will be shared with many different providers of continuing education for library staff at our first ever statewide Continuing Education Summit to be held in mid-February. Representatives from many different types of libraries and library support organizations in Tennessee and the Southeast will be in attendance. This is your chance to be heard! Please fill out the survey, and tell us what your CE needs are for the next three to five years.
We need your input! The deadline for your response is January 31, 2008. Your response will make a difference in the quality of training we provide in Tennessee.
Thanks,
Jane Pinkston
Assistant State Librarian for Planning and Development
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PLEASE SEE THAT ALL STAFF MEMBERS IN YOUR LIBRARY RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE.
It is important that all staff members in public libraries across the state participate in this survey.
Showing posts with label training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label training. Show all posts
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Monday, November 26, 2007
December's Regional In-Service Training Announcement
Topic: Focus on Copyright Issues and Ethics
Date: Friday, December 14, 2007
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Place: Fort Loudoun Regional Library Center, Athens
Trainer: Jennifer Cowan-Henderson, Director, Upper Cumberland Regional Library, Cookeville
Deadline for reservations: Thursday, December 13, 2007. Make reservations by calling 1.800.624.1982 or emailing lynette.sloan@state.tn.us
How might your library be affected by copyright law and ethics?
How can it affect your library's website?
How can it affect your library's programs?
How can it affect your library's services?
How can it affect your library's marketing?
Jennifer will be covering various aspects of copyright laws as they deal with libraries, including public domain, how long copyright lasts, permissions, fair use, copies, and infringement.
In the afternoon, Jennifer will be addressing ethical issues in libraries, in a humorous, but educational way.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Kathy Pagles featured on WebJunction!
As I mentioned in my last post, Kathy Pagles from Blount County Public Library was our trainer for the ROSA (Reaching Out for Spanish-Speaking Audiences) workshop last Friday. I failed to mention that Kathy was featured on the WebJunction website as a trainer for this program. Check it out at: http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=17853
The Feature on Kathy Pagles:
Kathy has been the director of the Blount County Public Library in Maryville, TN for the past seventeen years. She has watched her community change and grow and the library along with it, until it is now one of the largest, busiest, non-metropolitan libraries in the state, serving the entire county of nearly 115,000 folks. Kathy spent several years in teaching and banking before taking the plunge into librarianship. The world of libraries offered her the chance to remain a generalist - able to pursue many areas of study which continue to interest her - and to advocate on behalf of all to whom the library is a primary source of information and lifelong learning. The opportunity to become an advocate for outreach to the growing number of Hispanic speaking persons who are coming to east Tennessee is one she is grateful to have.
Kathy has been the President of the Tennessee Library Association and the East Tennessee Library Association. She has served as public library representative to Tenn-Share, a consortium of TennShare, an organization of about 600 members committed to resource sharing, particularly those which are digitized and she has served on the Tennessee Advisory Council for Libraries associated with the Tennessee State Library and Archives. She is currently Vice-President/President Elect of the Maryville Kiwanis, sits on the Blount County Historical Museum Board and the Blount County Education Foundation Board. She is active with the United Way and her church. She is most proud, however, of the role her library has come to play as a community center, averaging about 1200 visitors a day who enjoy annual festivals, frequent musical performances, and fanciful competitions, such as Edible Books. She looks forward to the day when the Hispanic community also looks to the Library for resources to help bridge the digital divide and close the information gap.
Looking forward to retirement, somewhere down the road, Kathy has begun to collect books and to increase her yarn and fabric stashes, sure that some day she will have "the time." Until then, she plans to enjoy her family and friends and the beautiful surroundings of Blount County - and read and knit when she can.
The Feature on Kathy Pagles:
Kathy has been the director of the Blount County Public Library in Maryville, TN for the past seventeen years. She has watched her community change and grow and the library along with it, until it is now one of the largest, busiest, non-metropolitan libraries in the state, serving the entire county of nearly 115,000 folks. Kathy spent several years in teaching and banking before taking the plunge into librarianship. The world of libraries offered her the chance to remain a generalist - able to pursue many areas of study which continue to interest her - and to advocate on behalf of all to whom the library is a primary source of information and lifelong learning. The opportunity to become an advocate for outreach to the growing number of Hispanic speaking persons who are coming to east Tennessee is one she is grateful to have.
Kathy has been the President of the Tennessee Library Association and the East Tennessee Library Association. She has served as public library representative to Tenn-Share, a consortium of TennShare, an organization of about 600 members committed to resource sharing, particularly those which are digitized and she has served on the Tennessee Advisory Council for Libraries associated with the Tennessee State Library and Archives. She is currently Vice-President/President Elect of the Maryville Kiwanis, sits on the Blount County Historical Museum Board and the Blount County Education Foundation Board. She is active with the United Way and her church. She is most proud, however, of the role her library has come to play as a community center, averaging about 1200 visitors a day who enjoy annual festivals, frequent musical performances, and fanciful competitions, such as Edible Books. She looks forward to the day when the Hispanic community also looks to the Library for resources to help bridge the digital divide and close the information gap.
Looking forward to retirement, somewhere down the road, Kathy has begun to collect books and to increase her yarn and fabric stashes, sure that some day she will have "the time." Until then, she plans to enjoy her family and friends and the beautiful surroundings of Blount County - and read and knit when she can.
ROSA Workshop report
For those of you who were unable to attend the ROSA (Reaching Out to Spanish-Speaking Audiences) workshop on Friday, November 16, 2007, at the E. G. Fisher Public Library in Athens, you missed a FABULOUS workshop!
Kathyn (Kathy) Pagles, Director of the Blount County Public Library (Maryville, TN), presented an introductory workshop on developing services and programs for the rapidly-growing Spanish-Speaking population of our region. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and WebJunction as the Spanish Language Outreach Program, this was the first of a series of workshops that will be held across the state of Tennessee between November, 2007, and March, 2008.
Kathy received "training-the-trainer" training in Seattle in October, along with three other trainers from Tennessee. Their job is to return to Tennessee to "spread the word" about how to build relationships with leaders of the Latino/Hispanic community, how to identify their needs, and how to develop a plan of action to provide the needed services and programs.
Did you know that the Spanish-Speaking population is now the largest minority in the United States?
Excellent workshop materials, activities, handouts, and resources were provided by the WebJunction program. For those of you who were unable to attend, these materials may be found at: http://webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=8122 . Unfortunately, all the excellent discussion and idea-sharing could only be accessed by attending the workshop on Friday.
For more information about the WebJunction Spanish Language Outreach Program, check out their community at: http://webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=10555
We would like to thank Kathy Pagles, for her excellent workshop delivery. We appreciate her time commitment to attend the training in Seattle in October, as well as her provision of three workshops in East Tennessee. If you were unable to attend the November 16 workshop, your next chance to participate in this important training will be on January 31, 2008, at the Pigeon Forge Public Library.
Kathyn (Kathy) Pagles, Director of the Blount County Public Library (Maryville, TN), presented an introductory workshop on developing services and programs for the rapidly-growing Spanish-Speaking population of our region. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and WebJunction as the Spanish Language Outreach Program, this was the first of a series of workshops that will be held across the state of Tennessee between November, 2007, and March, 2008.
Kathy received "training-the-trainer" training in Seattle in October, along with three other trainers from Tennessee. Their job is to return to Tennessee to "spread the word" about how to build relationships with leaders of the Latino/Hispanic community, how to identify their needs, and how to develop a plan of action to provide the needed services and programs.
Did you know that the Spanish-Speaking population is now the largest minority in the United States?
Excellent workshop materials, activities, handouts, and resources were provided by the WebJunction program. For those of you who were unable to attend, these materials may be found at: http://webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=8122 . Unfortunately, all the excellent discussion and idea-sharing could only be accessed by attending the workshop on Friday.
For more information about the WebJunction Spanish Language Outreach Program, check out their community at: http://webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=10555
We would like to thank Kathy Pagles, for her excellent workshop delivery. We appreciate her time commitment to attend the training in Seattle in October, as well as her provision of three workshops in East Tennessee. If you were unable to attend the November 16 workshop, your next chance to participate in this important training will be on January 31, 2008, at the Pigeon Forge Public Library.
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