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Free Online Event: The Digital Shift

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Library Journal & School Library Journal are hosting a free online event, October 16th from 9-4 pm (CT). This event will be focusing on how libraries may be able to reinvent themselves in the midst of a growing shift towards digital devices and technologies.

Feature Presenters: Dan Cohen (DPLA), Susan Hildreth (IMLS), Mimi Ito (U of C), Deborah Jacobs (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Barbara Stripling (ALA) and John Price Wilkin (U of I.)

Program Tracks include: Community, Instruction and New Collections

Sessions Include: Learning 2.0 Meets MOOC, Flipped School Libraries and eCollections

Information and registration materials for the Digital Shift: Reinventing Libraries can be found here.

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A Big Spoonful of Librarian Positivity!

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Things are hard in library land right now, we get that! So, if you have been feeling the least bit gloomy about your future as a librarian, you need to read this piece.  It appeared recently in Library Journal, and was authored by Barbara Fister, librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College. Barbara cites ten reasons she loves being a librarian, and it is a refreshing reminder of what is positive and noble about this profession. The post is called Ten Easy Pieces: The Profession of Librarianship.  I hope you come away feeling as hopeful and refreshed as I did. Enjoy!

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Congrats to the 2013 Movers & Shakers!

In collaboration with OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), The Library Journal has released a list of the top “Movers & Shakers” within the library field for 2013. Divided into six areas of expertise; these individuals know how to be agents of change, advocates, innovators, community builders, marketers, and leaders in technology! Since 2002, the work of nine professionals have been recognized from the State of Minnesota. Click here to see a map of the past titleholders!

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Library Journal’s List of America’s Star Libraries – Six Minnesota Libraries Named!

Six Minnesota public libraries have been named to Library Journal’s list of America’s Star Libraries for 2012.  The designated libraries include:

Minnesota:

Hennepin County Library

Grand Marais Public Library

Jessie F. Hallett Memorial Library, Crosby

East Grand Forks Campbell Library

Ely Public Library

Edgerton Public Library

For more information see:  http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/11/managing-libraries/lj-index/class-of-2012/americas-star-libraries-2012-top-rated-libraries/