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Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

Register Today for the Library Technology Conference 2013!

ConferenceREGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Don’t delay! Fewer than 100 seats are available.

Library Technology Conference 2013
March 20-21, 2013
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Registration is limited to no more than 450 total participants. Once this level of participation is reached, registration will be CLOSED! Please register early in order to ensure your spot at the conference.

This year’s Library Technology Conference is again intended to provide an opportunity for library professionals and the technologists who support them to discuss the technologies that are affecting library services; to see examples of what libraries are doing with these technologies; and to provide a venue where participants can learn specific skills or knowledge that they can take back and adapt for use within their own libraries.

The two-day conference will also include more than 70 conference sessions – traditional lecture-style sessions, hands-on / workshop sessions, interactive technology dialogue sessions, and poster sessions. From APIs to GIS, iPads to e-books, and digital collections to digital literacy – a wide range of library technology-related topics are covered during Lib Tech 2013 sessions.

For more information, visit the conference website.

General, School Media Specialist

Authors for Earth Day Initiative

Authors Earth Day

Do you typically arrange to have a professional author and/or illustrator  do a school visit with your students? And, would you like to do some Earth Day programming that does not take a lot of your time? Authors for Earth Day (A4ED) is an international coalition of award-winning children’s authors and illustrators (over 70 to choose from and growing), who care about kids and nature, and the future of both! If you choose to participate in this program you schedule one A4ED school visit in the month of April. The visit doesn’t cost a penny more than a standard visit, and the author donates at least 30% of their speaking fee to a nonprofit conservation organization. Before their arranged visit, the author shares their favorite five non-profit conservation organization “nominees”. You then encourage your students to research these organizations and share with the other students what they have learned. Then, on the day  of the author visit, hold a raise of hands vote to see who gets the donation. You pay the author in the traditional way, and the author sends the donation to the winning conservation organization in honor of your school.  More often than not, the organization sends your  school a thank you note. The website leads you through the whole process and includes the list of available authors/illustrators too. For all of the details, go to www.AuthorsForEarthDay.org. There is also an A4ED Blog, where readers can meet some of their favorite authors any time of the year: www.AuthorsForEarthDay.org/blog

Good luck, and be sure to consider sharing the stories of your author visits. We love to share your stories with other schools in the region!

School Media Specialist

Register for Ebooks and K-12 School Media: Video Presentations and Discussion!

Register today for Ebooks and K-12 School Media: Video Presentations and Discussion!
School Media personnel from Central MN
RJ’s American Grill and Bar, St. Cloud
Tuesday, January 8, 3:30 PM-7:00 PM

School Media personnel, please join your colleagues from around the region for this local event with outstanding national content!! Recently, CMLE staff participated in the virtual SEFLIN eBook conference called eBooks: Benefits, Challenges, and the Future, and paid for group access to the recordings of the five national presenters. We selected the messages of national e-book experts, Sue Polanka and Chad Mairn, as being of most interest to you for this first event. Besides listening to their best thinking on e-books, we would like to offer this opportunity to network informally and discuss local e-book developments and ideas too. CMLE is hosting and arranging this event.Kindle

Come ready to listen, engage, discuss, and eat pizza!!

Cost: $5.00/person, please pay at the door!

Agenda
3:30-3:45 Introductions & logistics
3:45 – 4:45 Sue Polanka (Head of Reference and Instruction, Wright State Universities Libraries) – eBook Licensing and Access: Now and in the Future
This session will analyze barriers to ebook lending models currently available for libraries including licensing, packaging, DRM, use models, and pricing. Trends in the publishing industry such as self-publishing, enhanced ebooks and digital textbooks, which may impact libraries, will be highlighted, demonstrating new opportunities for the future.
4:45-5:15 Group Discussion
5:15 – 5:30 Break and pizza!
5:30 – 6:30 Chad Mairn (Information Services Librarian and adjunct professor at St. Petersburg College & Chief Technology Officer, Novare Library Services) – Getting the Most from Your eBook Readers: Tips and Tricks
New examples of electronic reading material — e-books, e-magazines, e-textbooks — are appearing every day as well as devices and software to read them on. Accessing, transferring, and interacting with electronic text via Nooks, Kindles, and other e-reading devices, however, can be complicated. Join Chad Mairn as he offers tips and tricks for library staff to help their patrons use their e-reading devices to their full potential. This session will include information on: dedicated and non-dedicated e-readers, new and innovative e-reading devices and software, current and upcoming e-formats, digital Rights Management, privacy issues, and emerging technologies impacting reading in a digital age.
6:30 – 7:00 Group Discussion

Registration is requested. Deadline is end of day on Friday, January 4. Register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EbooksandSchoolMedia

Please pay at the door.

We hope you’ll join us! Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

WebJunction MN Webinars

Check out the WebJunction Events Calendar to see the list of new, free webinars that are available to the full Minitex library community. The calendar also provides access to archived versions of recent webinars.

Several upcoming webinars available to the full library community are:wj_logo

Outreach Programs in Rural Communities: Simple Steps for Surprising Results
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1 p.m. Central

What Would Walt Do?: Quality Customer Service for Libraries
Wednesday, Dec. 12, noon Central

The Impact of an Ice Cream Sundae
Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1 p.m. Central

Creating a Culture of Innovation in your Library and Community
Wednesday, Jan. 23, noon Central

School Media Specialist

Digital Learning Day is Coming!

Celebrate the potential of technology in schools!DLD

Digital Learning Day (DLD) will be on February 6, 2013, and  is a great opportunity to highlight the school library program and its role in creating a digitally literate school community. Now is the time to start making plans for you and your students to participate in this nationwide celebration of great teaching and learning!

Participation in Digital Learning Day can be as simple or complex as you like. Some celebrations last one day; others continue all year. And, almost anyone can participate. As long as you are  interested in learning about how digital learning is changing education, you can join in. The link below has materials broken out by specific audience type to keep things simple and direct.

Check out how you can get involved in Digital Learning Day by going to http://digitallearningday.org/participate/