News & Updates from
Around the State
Round 'em up in
Burley
Howdy
pardner come and join us around the campfire at the annual ILA
conference. We'll be in Burley on September 1, October 2,
and October 3 at the Best Western Inn & Convention Center.
Check out our blog for more information and registration at
http://www.2009ila.blogspot.com/
Keynote Speaker: Jamie LaRue. Based on his responses to over 200 attempts to remove or restrict library materials over the past 18 years, Jamie LaRue offer both philosophic and practical advice for surviving and thriving in the latest "inquisition." Jamie LaRue is the director of the Douglas County Libraries (Colorado) since 1990, and is the author of "The New Inquisition : understanding and managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges."
Luncheon
speakers include:
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C.J. Box is the author of eleven novels including the award-winning Joe Pickett series. Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor and fishing guide. He is an avid outdoorsman and has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. Box lives with his family outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. His novel Blue Heaven is about a girl and her younger brother who go on the run in the woods of North Idaho.
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Randy Stapilus is a local author and the owner/publisher of the Ridenbaugh Press in Boise. He has written a number of books about Idaho including "Outlaw tales of Idaho," "It happened in Idaho," "Camping Idaho", and "Governing Idaho : politics, people and power" He has been a reporter for the "Idaho State Journal" and the "Idaho Statesman" and won the 1989 ILA book of the year for "Paradox Politics.
Workshops
include: readers advisory on westerns, how to evaluate electronic databases,
gaming, funding, childrens literature, childerns programming, web services, web
tools, green libraries, consumer health, FRAD, librarian images, Small business
resources, and much more.
- submitted by Rena Ferguson
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Fundraising
Course through Boise Public Library Funding Information Center
Boise
Public Library - Funding Information Center will host to a one-day Foundation
Center training entitled "Foundation
Fundraising: An Introductory Course" on May 20, 2009 in the Boise Public
Library Hays Auditorium. For details, see
http://foundationcenter.org/
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Announcements
from The University of Idaho Library
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Mike Pollastro will retire from the University of Idaho Library, where he currently has been a stellar member of our faculty.
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Robert Perret has accepted the position of Head of U.S. Government Documents.
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The Library is working with the Miller Hull architectural firm to create a feasibility study for Archival Space and an Information Commons.
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The University of Idaho Library is working with BSU, UI Law, and LCSC on the Just In Time grant to examine the potential of using WorldCat Local as its user discovery tool to its resources.
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submitted by Lynn Baird
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Libraries
= Learning Organizations Online Conference
To
take place on May 14, 2009, 9 AM-12 Noon MDT (8 AM-11 AM
PDT)
For
more information and registration click
http://libraries.idaho.gov/page/libraries-learning-organizations
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submitted by Shirley Biladeau
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Free
copy of Transformation Through
Partnerships: Systems Change To End Chronic Homelessness
The
DVD video series, Transformation Through Partnerships: Systems Change To End
Chronic Homelessness presents the real-world stories of two cities as they
implement strategic planning to coordinate services and collaborate with other
organizations. The films chronicle two community organization's efforts to end
chronic homelessness. It follows the organizations as they craft internal and
external partnerships to leverage resources to effectively meet the multiple
needs of persons who are homeless and have mental illnesses and substance abuse
disorders. Included in the DVD package are guides for using the videos as
planning tools in the community. Adult, 71 min. 2007. Ten free
copies are available. Contact Dottie Blackwell, Idaho RADAR Network Center,
http://hs.boisestate.edu/radar,
208-426-2946
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Boise State Launches Publishing
Consortium
Boise
State University is undertaking a new plan to market and publish books of
popular scholarship about Idaho and the West, starting with 35 titles that have
a tie to the university. The project's intent isn't to be a university-wide press,
but instead a flexible publishing consortium that will feature juried
non-fiction and popular scholarship with proven market appeal that focuses on
Idaho and the American West. The project will expand beyond books to include
on-line and downloadable works, print-on-demand publications and DVDs. Overall,
the project will consolidate and coordinate the university's research and
publication efforts.
A
sample of the publications available include:
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The Hemingway Western Studies Series, edited by English professor Tom Trusky.
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The Idaho Landscape Series, including the magazine by the same name, Western titles and books, edited by history professor Todd Shallat.
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The Idaho Metropolitan Research Series, featuring books about urban-rural problems and policy. The series is edited by social sciences and public affairs dean Melissa Lavitt.
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The Otter Pre K-12 Idaho Education Series, developed by education professor Stan Steiner, history professor Todd Shallat and Idaho first lady Lori Otter. The series includes education books including Steiner's "P is for Potato," "Ida," and others directed at the K-12 market.
In
addition to juried works published in the Boise State series, a publications
catalog, "New U Writings," is available now and a Web site,
www.booksboisestate.com,
will include writings by Boise State professors published elsewhere by notable university
and commercial presses. For more information, call 426-1514.
- submitted by
Julie Hahn
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INL Research Library
Supports Summer Intern Students
Between 160 and 200 university and high school students from all across the
United States spend their summers at the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho
Falls. These students work with scientists, engineers, and staff on projects
supporting INL initiatives, including: Nuclear Science and Technology, National
and Homeland Security, Computer Science and Engineering, Energy and the
Environment, Engineering, Material Science, Business Administration and
Communications. These summer interns are welcomed each year by their mentors,
INL Education Programs and the INL Research Library staff.
This June, the Research Library will host its 5th Annual Intern Breakfast & Tour. The Library and INL Education Programs have worked together since 2005 to include library activity information in their communications with summer student interns and their mentors. Education Programs co-hosts the Breakfast & Tour, providing the continental breakfast. This is the third year that the event will be held on two different days to accommodate the increased number of students who attend each year. This event provides student networking opportunities, a chance to meet the library staff and discuss their summer projects, a tour of the library, a time to sign up for free classes on how to use the information resources available to them during their internships and, of course, a free breakfast.
Last year, the Library added a Brown Bag Session to the summer Intern activities. This single session, presented on two different days, was so well received that this year's sessions will feature four speakers. Topics include: "Making the Most of Your New Technology" by INL Technology Transfer, "Blogging and Needle the INL Research Library Findability Tool" by INL Software Applications, "Getting Published and Increasing Your Visibility" by INL Journal Article Service, and "Work Ethics and Professional Development" by Idaho Women in Nuclear.
In addition to the Brown Bag
Session, the Library's Information Research Group - Instructional Services team
has developed two new instruction classes that will be available to the interns
this summer Effective Internet Information Research and Using eBooks for
Research. These classes complement the five classes that address Information
Resources to Improve Engineering Performance, Science and Engineering State
-of-the-Art Research, Patent Research, Funding Opportunity Research and Using
EndNote.
- submitted by Sandra Biermann
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