The Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange (CMLE) is one of seven regional multitype library systems established to meet the needs of and share the resources of all types of libraries.
We love libraries, and are here to support them!
Here is a great chance to be proactive, and shine a spotlight on school libraries!
I would suggest you embed this School Libraries Matter video on your school website. It is well done and a great way to share the value of the school media program. You may want to also consider including a link to a previous CMLE post called 100 Things Kids Will Miss (if they don’t have a teacher/librarian in their school). Be proactive! If and when the school media program is on the cutting board, it will be too late!
Support 50,000+ school librarians making a difference every day. Join the conversation! #SchoolLibrariesMatter
Brian Mathews is Associate Dean for Learning and Outreach at Virginia Tech, and usually has interesting things to say about libraries. Brian shares….”It is easy to develop assumptions about what a library is or what it should be, especially if you work in administration. But I encourage everyone to stop once in a while and ask people why they are in your building. Not just what they are doing, but why library space instead of anywhere else. The answers may surprise you.”
TO: Minnesota Libraries
FROM: State Library Services
DATE: October 28, 2014
SUBJECT: GCFLearnFree.org Webinar, Libraries and Service Delivery Consultant Group
Webinar: Get to Know GCFLearnFree.org
State Library Services is building a new relationship with Goodwill Community Foundation. Over the past decade, the foundation’s GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From using Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, the website offers more than 90 free, self-paced tutorials, including more than 1,000 lessons.
Please join us for an informational webinar on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 from 11 a.m. to noon. Get a virtual tour of the site and learn how other libraries have successfully used GCFLearnFree.org with their patrons. Preregistration is not required. To view the webinar, please follow this link. If requested, enter your name and email address, then click “Join.”
The Libraries and Service Delivery Consultant Group met at the Minnesota Department of Education on October 20. The PowerPoint presentation from the meeting may be found on the MDE website.
The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 17, 2014 from 1:00–3:00 p.m. at the Minnesota Department of Education, 1500 Highway 36 West, Roseville in Conference Center A, Room 13. Please note the time change. For more information about the Libraries and Service Delivery Consultant Group, please contact Jennifer Nelson at jennifer.r.nelson@state.mn.us or 651-582-8791.
You asked for it, CMLE has responded! We are proud to present this event on copyright, and are very excited to welcome the very capable, well-versed, Nancy Sims to our region. Nancy is well-known for her practical way of making copyright understandable, entertaining, and fun too!
Nancy will lead this customized workshop, which will focus on fair use and public domain as they relate to the use of existing materials. The information will be relevant to our own internal library uses, and relevant to assisting library users/teachers/faculty/and administration as well.
First, Nancy will focus on fair use,then she will lead us through strategies and exercises in sharpening our fair use analysis skills.
Pre-submitting some of your questions to Nancy’s Google form should help her target information to areas of particular interest, and help make the best use of time together. See your email for the link to the form.
Q & A: There will be plenty of time throughout the event for asking questions.
We will also spend time learning about free materials that are definitely, 100% legally usable by us and by our users – including public domain materials, open scholarship, and materials available via Creative Commons and other open licenses. Return to the workplace armed with bullet proof sources you can use immediately with no worries!
Why Come? Public, K-12, academic, and special librarians are often called upon to make decisions about copyright for themselves, their end users, and for their institutions. And, it is surprising how much all library types have in common around copyright. A 3rd-grade teacher seeking iPad activities for a science lesson faces many of the same issues as a college instructor who wants to share course readings with students online. A university archivist and a public library patron with an interest in genealogy may both benefit from knowing more about the public domain. And almost every facility that provides public copiers or scanners has at least one staff member with concerns about responsibility for others’ use of those facilities.
Feel free to also invite teachers, curriculum directors, tech integrationists, and others who may also be part of your copyright team. CMLE scholarships are readily available within the registration process for librarians and school media specialists from the central Minnesota region.
This session will provide information about general legal principles, professional ethics, and various practical approaches to copyright issues. However, no legal advice will be provided.
Learning outcomes for participants:
Strengthen understandings of copyright law concepts such as fair use, the public domain, and open licensing.
Explore personal and institutional orientations to risk and liability through a professional ethics lens.
Develop confidence applying legal concepts to example situations drawn from real-world library and teaching experiences.
Know how to locate and appropriately make use of “100% legal” materials for your own purposes, and those of people you support
Nancy Sims is a lawyer/librarian who is fascinated by the pervasiveness of copyright and licensing issues in modern life. She enjoys helping individuals, groups, and organizations understand how technology choices, copyright, and related legal and policy issues may affect their work, research, art, and everyday communications. She is currently the Copyright Program Librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries, and also does consulting and speaking with library, education, and technology organizations and institutions around the country.
Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland (Oreg) Community College and a lecturer at San Jose State University’s School of Information. She recently did a blog post brimming with ideas about how to make library end users feel a personal connection with their librarian of choice, and mitigate any fears of using the library. Her examples include academic and public libraries specifically. If terms like “personal librarian service” or “book recommendation ninja”, appeal to you, her post is worth a read. She also talks a bit about the how an Oregon library is humanizing readers’ advisory in a big way by using the My Librarian service. Read Meredith’s post now at In Practice: High tech, high touch
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