TBLC News

The Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS) Innovation Awards recognize and honor an individual or institution for changes they made to improve users’ access to information through resource sharing in their library, consortium or state. It is hoped that the award will encourage libraries and librarians to make changes in how they do resource sharing to improve service to users.  RRS looks for efforts where people didn’t wait for the profession to provide better services for users. 

The Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards consist of a $1,000 cash award and a citation to the entity that applies.  In 2008 Rethinking Resource Sharing expects to make three awards. The most valuable ideas will be posted to the Rethinking Resource Sharing website in the hope that by sharing a great number of creative resource sharing ideas it will inspire others to try/implement similar ideas. 

Funding for the 2008 awards has been provided by the Alliance of Library Service Networks.

Click here for more information, including eligibility criteria and deadlines. 

ATTN: PUBLIC LIBRARIANS, REFERENCE LIBRARIANS

The Information Use Management and Policy Institute (College of Information, Florida State University) is collaborating with the State Library of Florida’s Florida Electronic Library (FEL) to assess the use of medical and consumer health information resources offered by the FEL and assist the administrators, librarians, and users of FEL to better utilize the FEL medical and consumer health information. Our assessment includes focus groups of public, medical, and reference librarians.  Each focus group will be about 10-12 participants and the session should last 45 minutes.  We will be conducting two (2) focus groups at TBLC in Tampa, Fla.

Our assessment would benefit from your expertise to help improve the FEL’s medical and consumer health information resources. Your contribution will benefit other librarians and help inform the development of programs that can address the needs of librarians and schools in the provision of consumer health information.

Your participation in this research project is completely voluntary. Please be assured that all of your responses will be kept confidential and any data collected from the focus group will be reported in aggregate form. Only research personnel involved in this project will have access to the data and encoded data will be kept on secure servers at the College of Information for a period of two years after the project ends.

I hope you will agree to participate in the study and I would be pleased to answer any further questions you may have about the study and your commitment.  Please contact the MLC to sign up for the focus group.  For more information, please contact Ebe Randeree (eranderee@ci.fsu.edu).    Thanks in advance for considering this request.

1.      Representatives from Florida State will conduct focus groups at the TBLC offices on March 11 at 11 a.m.

2.      Representatives from Florida State will conduct focus groups at the TBLC offices on March 11 at 1 p.m.

The Association of College and Research Libraries, Florida Chapter (FACRL) is accepting proposals for the 2008 Fall Program to be held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville on Friday, November 7, 2008. 

Theme of the 2008 Fall Program is “Proving Your Worth and Adding Value to your Institution.” 

Click here for format and details for proposals.

The FLA Media Training Workshop scheduled for March 4, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the UCF Library has space available. The program will be presented by John Fleming of Salter Mitchell, a public relations firm, and will include individual video taping of participants in a media interview situation followed by feedback. The program also includes instruction on managing media relationships and other facets of getting the most for your library out of local media outlets.

Registration is $128 for FLA members and $150 for non-members. Please contact Ruth O’Donnell, FLA Executive Director, at flaexecutivedirector@comcast.net for a registration form.