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Discounted rate for Internet Librarian 2007

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

We can help you get to Internet Librarian 2007!

TBLC members who sign up through us for this year’s Internet Librarian conference will receive a special discount rate of $255 for the three-day event. This is a savings of $174 off the regular registration price.

To ensure you get your discount, print this registration form, fill it out and fax it to the TBLC at (813) 628-4425 no later than Sept. 21, 2007.

The Internet Librarian 2007 conference will take place in Monterey, Calif., October 29-31, 2007.

Click here for more information about the event.

Click here to download a registration form.

Contact Ellen Cannon at (813) 622-8252 (ext. 231) or cannone@tblc.org with any questions.

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Seats still available for our Tax Reform conversation

Monday, June 25th, 2007

June 29, 2007
1 to 3:45 p.m.

The Florida Legislature is scheduled to meet in Special Session June 12-22 to “reduce and/or restructure ad valorem taxes.” Though there is uncertainty about which of the proposals the legislature will select, there is little doubt that they will reduce taxes and local government revenue and that it will affect libraries.

With the Special Session ending June 22, things should be sufficiently clear by June 29 for local governments and library administrators to assess the legislature’s actions and identify the implications for their communities, and, hopefully, libraries and library budgets.

There appears to be agreement for administrators to get together to discuss the tax issue and find out how their colleagues are responding to budget reductions.

Click here for more information or to sign up.

AGENDA
The Revisions – What exactly did the legislature do?
Implications for Libraries – How are the revisions affecting libraries and library budgets?
Creative Library Responses – How are libraries adjusting to budget reductions, and are there innovative responses that others can benefit from?

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Ask a Librarian usage soars

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Ask a Librarian’s May 2007 statistics are in, and usage continues to increase!

Ask a Librarian had 2,607 live chat sessions and 993 email sessions in May 2007. From May of last year, AAL had an increase of over 140% in live chat sessions and an increase of 38% in email, totaling an increase of almost 100% from last year’s use.

Ask a Librarian had an average of 87 reference chat sessions each day, with the typical weekend totaling at over 100 sessions. Ask a Librarian has had 21,232 live chat sessions this grant year, a 131% increase over the previous grant year.

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Any Means Necessary: Beyond Interlibrary Loans (SAVE THE DATE!)

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

SAVE THE DATE!
Any Means Necessary: Beyond Interlibrary Loans
Monday, Sept. 24, 2007
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Crowne Plaza
10221 Princess Palm Ave.
Tampa, FL 33610

Does your patron want something you don’t have? You may soon have hundreds of new ways to obtain it for him. Join us to discuss the exciting future of interlibrary loans, which includes getting materials for our patrons quickly and by any means necessary, and delivering those materials to our patrons in a way that is most convenient for them.  

This could mean ordering a DVD from Netflix and having it mailed directly to the patron’s house, or purchasing a book from Amazon.com and giving the patron the option of keeping it or offering it to circulation.  

To stay relevant in a world where our patrons can get anything they want with the click of a mouse, we must consider going drastically above and beyond traditional interlibrary loans to get them what they want.

More information is coming soon, but in the meantime, be sure to mark this on your calendar!

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No budget for expensive marketing? Make the most of PUBLIC RELATIONS.

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Andrew Sanderbeck leads the Working and Winning with the Media workshop by showing you the most effective ways your library can partner and work with the local media.

As a result of this workshop, participants will learn and begin to master:

  • Three easy ways to build relationships with the local media
  • What to say and do when the media wants to interview you
  • The basics of journalism lingo and how the media uses it
  • The role of the appointed spokesperson for your organization
  • The anatomy and “Five W’s” of a successful press release
  • Seven elements of a professionally prepared email press release
  • How to work with the media when there’s a crisis in the library
  • The dos & don’ts of creating Public Service Announcements
  • The essential components of a media kit for your organization
  • Creating your own media: How other libraries use social networking sites like You Tube and MySpace to create their own public relations communications

Click here for more information or to register for this class.

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Annual Meeting: SAVE THE DATE

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

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SAVE THE DATE!

Friday, Nov. 2, 2007
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Crowne Plaza
10221 Princess Palm Ave.
Tampa, FL 33610

We are excited to announce that David Lee King will be this year’s featured keynote speaker. David is the digital branch and services manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library in Kansas. He is a frequent speaker on Web 2.0/Library 2.0 topics, library Web sites and emerging digital technology. David, we look forward to your presentation!

More information coming soon.

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Come see our TBLC quilt

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

All of us at the TBLC would like to give a special thank you to Joyce Pelegrina, our administrative services assistant. Joyce spent many hours designing and sewing a beautiful quilt out of the TBLC t-shirts we’ve had over the years, including the first TBLC polo from 1998.

The next time you visit TBLC headquarters, please ask to see it! It’s on display in the north wing of our building.

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SARC IV: Call for Participation

Monday, June 11th, 2007

SOUTH ATLANTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE (SARC) IV
February 27-29, 2008
St. Petersburg, Florida

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CONFERENCE THEME: “The Surreal Landscape: Information professionals mastering the challenges of time and space”

Participate in the South Atlantic Regional Conference (SARC IV), a division of SLA, by proposing a presentation for the Conference. In addition to topics generated by the conference theme, we are interested in receiving presentation proposals in the following areas:

  • Emerging technologies
  • Interdisciplinary research between information centers of varying types
  • Unstructured data and the digital universe
  • Scholarly research and publication alternatives and solutions
  • Collaboration between business, science, profit/non-profit and information professionals – breaking the barriers
  • Emerging special libraries and information centers – where are they needed or disappearing to, what’s needed in the future
  • Digital-only “libraries” and the services to support them

Please send an abstract (not exceeding 250 words) of your proposed presentation by Aug 1, 2007 to the Program Chair. All accepted presentations will receive a speaker’s honorarium of $350. We will notify you by Sept 1, 2007 if your presentation has been accepted. Send all proposal abstracts via email to: Pam Doffek, Program Chair, at doffek@ci.fsu.edu. Please put “SARC Proposal” in your subject line.

The SARC IV Conference will be attended by approximately 300 librarians from the South Atlantic Region (VA, NC, SC, GA, FL).

Click here for more information.

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FLA/PLAN Unconference in the Panhandle

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Web 2.0 & Library 2.0 – Up Close and Personal
August 6, 2007
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Niceville Community Center

What’s an unconference? Shorter, less expensive, and closer to home than a conference! FLA and the Panhandle Library Access Network (PLAN) invite you to join us for a day of conference-quality speakers and discussion.

SPEAKERS
Keynote by Lee Logan, Alliance Library System (Illinois), where they built the first library in Second Life. If you don’t know about Second Life, you definitely need to come!

Lunch speaker Gary Ross, vice president for technology, Thomson Gale, talking about the future of technology in libraries.

Web 2.0 guides Diana Sachs-Silveira, Tampa Bay Library Consortium, and Chad Mairn, St. Petersburg College, will lead you by the hand through all the new stuff on the Web.

Florida Electronic Library Director Mark Flynn will talk about the future of FEL.

BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
Meet and greet by library type to discuss Web 2.0/Library 2.0 in Panhandle libraries.

So you want to be a librarian? Learn how to do it in the FSU distance learning program. Dr. Christy Koontz, Florida State University College of Information.

REGISTRATION
Please register online at www.plan.lib.fl.us. FLA will then send you an invoice payable by check, credit card or purchase order.

FEE (includes AM and PM breaks and lunch)
$35 for FLA members and employees of PLAN member libraries
$45 for non-members

QUESTIONS?
Contact Alicia Hedgecock (ahedgecock@plan.lib.fl.us) or Ruth O’Donnell (flaexecutivedirector@comcast.net).

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2008 Emerging Leaders Program Information

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Two workshop days with Maureen Sullivan and Connie Paul, participating in projects, networking with 119 of your peers, getting an inside look into ALA structure, and having an opportunity to serve your profession. Regular conference fees apply. There is no additional cost to attend the Friday programs.

When and where:

  • Friday, January 11, 2008 in Philadelphia 8:30-5:00
  • Friday, June 27, 2008 in Anaheim 8:30-5:00
  • Virtual workgroups between the two sessions

    Click here for detailed information.

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