The TBLC staff wishes you and your family a safe and happy holiday season!
TBLC will be closed for the holidays Dec. 24-25 and Dec. 31-Jan. 1.
Please contact Vickie Frost with any questions. Thanks!
Archive for December, 2007
TBLC holiday schedule
Friday, December 21st, 2007TBLC closed for staff holiday party
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007TBLC will close at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 19, for our staff holiday party. We will resume normal business hours on Thursday, Dec. 20.
Happy holidays everyone!
REMINDER: T-shirts still available!
Monday, December 17th, 2007REMINDER: T-shirts are still available for $10 each through our website. We have a limited quantity, so the shirts will be sold on a first come, first served basis.
The shirts are Jerzees heavy weight 100% cotton in sandstone. The “world” image is approximately 9” wide by 7” tall and appears only on the front of the shirt.
Please click here for more information or to place an order.
Contact Vickie Frost at (813) 622-8252 (ext. 224) with questions.
Sign up now for new CE2U classes
Thursday, December 13th, 2007We’ve updated our CE2U page with more FREE online PALINET workshops. Click here to check them out.
Through our CE2U program, TBLC brings Continuing Education To You with ongoing PALINET workshops and other various free online opportunities, such as NEFLIN teleconferences and SirsiDynix Institute webinars.
To ensure your free registration, simply choose “Tampa Bay Library Consortium Member $0.00” from the dropdown menu on the PALINET registration page.
(Remember, our CE2U page will always be available through our regular Continuing Education page here.)
Tell your teens about The Director’s Chair
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Are your high school students looking for something
to do during winter break?
Ask a Librarian’s The Director’s Chair contest is well underway, but we still need your help to promote it! With winter break quickly approaching, your students will have some free time to fill up. This is the perfect time to promote The Director’s Chair to them.
We are asking Florida high school students to flaunt their directorial skills by creating a 30-second video about Ask a Librarian and uploading it to YouTube by Jan. 18, 2008, for the chance to win some awesome prizes.
In order for The Director’s Chair to be a success, we need YOU! Please let teens in your community know about the contest. We’ve posted some information here that you are welcome to copy and paste into your own teen blog.
We also have flyers available as a PDF (here) or a JPG (here). Or feel free to post the contest logo (available here) on your website.
This is a great chance to get our students involved in Ask a Librarian. We hope you’re as excited by the contest as we are, and we thank you for promoting The Director’s Chair!
Visit www.askalibrarian.org/thedirectorschair for more information, including prizes, official rules, YouTube submission info and release forms.
New registration approval feature available for workshops
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007TBLC has added a new *optional* feature to our workshop registration process.
In some libraries, supervisors or training coordinators may need to approve staff attendance at workshops. To do so, they may register the staff themselves, or the staff member might have to wait for approval before signing up.
Now, through our new *optional* registration approval process, staff can sign up for a class and secure a spot, and then his/her supervisor will be notified and can approve or decline the registration.
It works like this:
- Library staff member John Smith completes the online registration form
- If there are available spots at the time he registers, he secures a slot in the class
- If there are no available spots, he gets his place in line on the Wait List
- As soon as he completes registration, an email is sent to the supervisor or person designated to approve
- The email notifies the approver that John Smith has registered for X class, and provides a link to the description of the class
- It asks if the approver would like to approve or decline the registration and provides a link to click on for each process
- If the approver approves the registration, everything will stay the same – John still has his slot in the class or on the Wait List
- If the approver declines the registration, John will be removed from the class and will receive an email informing him that the approver has declined his registration and he has been removed from the class.
- If the approver takes no action in response to the email, John retains his place in the class or on the Wait List
Sending registrations through the approval process is entirely up to you. This is institution-wide, so if you choose to do this it will apply to all staff members from your institution who register for workshops.
If your institution decides that they would like to have registrations go through the approval process, then the person who approves the registrations just needs to email cannone@tblc.org and indicate that they want to use the approval process. They should also include their email address and contact info.
If at any time you decide you do not want to “approve” anymore, just let us know and we will change it to direct registration again for you.
Call for proposals for the 2008 LITA National Forum
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Due date for proposals: December 15, 2007
Theme: Technology and Community: Building the Techno Community Library
The 2008 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions and poster sessions for the 11th annual LITA National Forum to be held at the Hilton Netherland Plaza hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio from October 16-19, 2008.
The Forum Committee is interested in presentations that highlight specific technology implementations; just over-the-horizon technologies that aren’t quite ready for implementation; or information technology research. We are interested in all types of libraries: public, government, school, academic, special, and corporate. Proposals on any aspect of library and information technology are welcome.
“Libraries. Changing the World.” T-shirts now available
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Several of you expressed interest in purchasing the “Libraries. Changing the World” t-shirts that we introduced at our Annual Meeting. Well, we heard you!
T-shirts are now available for $10 each through our website. We have a limited quantity, so the shirts will be sold on a first come, first served basis. Depending on the number of requests we receive, we will consider ordering more shirts.
The shirts are Jerzees heavy weight 100% cotton in sandstone. The “world” image is approximately 9” wide by 7” tall and appears only on the front of the shirt.
Please click here for more information or to place an order.