Suncoast Information Specialists and Tampa Theater present “The Hollywood Librarian” on Wednesday, August 27, at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome! Tickets are $9 for adults, $8 for students with ID, and $7 for seniors. Visit www.tampatheatre.org or www.tblc.org/sis/ for details.
Nominations are now open for TBLC’s 2008 Library Champion Award.
The TBLC Library Champion Award recognizes elected or appointed officials in any level of government who have demonstrated exceptional support for and attention to libraries.
The 2007 recipient was Sen. Mike Fasano of New Port Richey. In the past, we have also honored local officials including Rick Baker, Mayor of St. Petersburg, and Bob English, a Polk County Commissioner.
Voting representatives of any TBLC member library and the TBLC executive director may nominate someone for the Library Champion Award. The TBLC Board of Directors will review all nominations and select the recipient.
To nominate an elected or appointed official for this award, send an email to Charlie Parker at cparker@tblc.org by August 22, 2008, with “Library Champion Nomination” in the subject line. Please include two to three paragraphs about why you believe your favorite official should receive this recognition.
Through our group purchase program, TBLC members are eligible for a discount on Global Road Warrior (www.globalroadwarrior.com), a comprehensive social, cultural and travel database covering 175 countries and territories.
Global Road Warrior signed us up for a FREE trial period to share with our members until Aug. 31. To access the content for the entire site, visit www.globalroadwarrior.com and use the following codes:
User name: grw
Password: madrid
Please note that your subscription to Global Road Warrior will depend on the total number of member libraries that subscribe through TBLC. If you’re interested in a quote, contact Vickie Frost no later than Sept. 5, 2008, at frostv@tblc.org or (813) 622-8252 (ext. 224).
The Tampa Bay Library Consortium welcomes Traci Avet as the new Ask a Librarian virtual reference coordinator. Traci was with the Palm Beach County Library System for five years before accepting the position with Ask a Librarian.
“Traci has a combination of face-to-face and virtual reference experience that is vital for this position,” said Diana Sachs-Silveira, virtual reference manager for Ask a Librarian. “We’re confident that she’ll go far with Ask a Librarian.”
Born and raised in Houma, La. – a town just south of New Orleans – Traci earned her Master of Arts in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. Her wide range of interests include glass mosaic tiling, sewing, snorkeling, reading and writing. She and her longhaired Chihuahua relocated from West Palm Beach to the Tampa area for this position, and Traci looks forward to exploring the area and getting to know the Ask a Librarian community.
Welcome, Traci!
We will soon be distributing the July issue of Wavelinks, TBLC’s member newsletter. If you have news and announcements about your library that you would like to appear in the member news section, please email them to Karyn Bardes at bardesk@tblc.org. Photo submissions are encouraged as well.
Please note that the newsletter is only emailed to those of you on our Wavelinks mailing list. Please visit http://lists.tblc.org/mailman/listinfo/wavelinks to start receiving our quarterly newsletter.
Thank you!
The Tampa Bay Library Consortium is excited to announce the launch of our newly designed website at www.tblc.org. The new site has a dynamic homepage, an enhanced news section and a more informative navigation panel for easier use.
Please note that although most of our pages’ URLs have not changed, we have reorganized some sections for efficiency. If you have bookmarked any pages on our site, you may find that those URLs no longer exist.
As with most websites developed today, we recommend viewing our site at a 1024×768 screen resolution, although 800×600 will work as well.
If you have any questions or would like TBLC to help you redesign your own website, please contact Karyn Bardes at (813) 622-8252 (ext. 235) or bardesk@tblc.org.
Please check out our new site at www.tblc.org, and let us know what you think. We hope you enjoy it!
Congratulations to Stephanie Race, assistant director of NEFLIN, for being chosen as WebJunction’s Member Spotlight!
Stephanie will be honored with a WebJunction Advocate Award this Friday evening at the ALA Conference in Anaheim.
Through our member discount program, TBLC members may subscribe to Facts on File for a discounted rate of $874 per library location per year. Facts on File offers curriculum-related databases for high school, public, and academic libraries. For more information, visit www.factsonfile.com.
If you are interested in an annual subscription to Facts on File, contact Vickie Frost no later than July 18, 2008 at frostv@tblc.org or (813) 622-8252 (ext. 224).
After decades of cramped storage in an old facility, the art books owned by circus entrepreneur John Ringling (1866–1936) now have a glorious home inside the 13,000-square-foot art library that opened last year in the Education and Conservation Building at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla.
Click here to read the rest of this great Herald Tribune article!
