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3rd Annual FLA Virtual Job Shadowing Event April 14-27, 2013

by Jessica Posted on March 13, 2013

job_shadowing_graphicJoin library staff from around the state in tweeting about your daily activities to raise awareness about the importance of librarians and to advocate for the librarianship profession, April 14-27, 2013

This is the third annual Virtual Job Shadowing event coordinated FLAby the Library Personnel Recruitment Committee of the Florida Library Association.  Virtual Job Shadowing is a way to share the interesting aspects of library work with those considering this field as a career.

Participating staff will use the hashtag #libjobshadowFL. Follow the tweeting on http://twitter.com/LibJobShadowFL

For a list of tweeters and the days they will participate, stop by the Virtual Job Shadowing Project Facebook page.

Follow this project on Twitter: @LibJobShadowFL and on Facebook: FLA Virtual Job Shadowing

Let the local media know that you are participating. Consider sending a press release to the local newspaper or news outlets. Here is a template for creating a local press release.

To volunteer to tweet about your workday, please let us know by completing this online form.  Questions? Contact Susan L. Smith via email: ssmith1@hodges.edu or phone (239) 598-6134.

Please consider joining us, as I know many of you have interesting and diverse library jobs

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TBLC Meet Up: Library Legislative Day

by Jessica Posted on February 13, 2013
TBLC members and friends will be gathering at 
on the evening of Monday, March 11 at 7:00 pm

Come join other librarians from around the state for a social gathering. 

Andrews is located at 228 South Adams Street 
1 block North of the Capital
Food and drinks will be a dutch treat. 
If you have questions, please contact 
Charlie Parker at cparker@tblc.org or Jessica Riggins at rigginsj@tblc.org
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The Next Chapter: A Look into the Library Future

by Jessica Posted on April 23, 2012

TBLC is proud to announce two sessions with library futurist Joan Frye Williams entitled The Next Chapter: A Look into the Library Future, News of Successful Changes, and a Preview of Opportunities for Moving Forward.  

Every day brings news about one trend or another: print books are on the way out, people under thirty conduct their entire lives on their smart phones, social media are replacing traditional advertising, and the Baby Boomers are trying to prove that 70 is the new 50. OK, fine but which of these stories have real relevance for libraries? And what are we supposed to DO about them?

According to library consultant and futurist Joan Frye Williams, we won’t keep libraries strong in a changing world just by chasing the latest trends. On the other hand, we won’t fulfill our mission by hanging back, content to rest on our laurels. To keep our work focused and meaningful, we’ll need to ask new questions, set new priorities, exploit new techniques, and renegotiate our relationships with the communities we serve.

Fortunately, the prospects for this kind of transformation are quite hopeful. Joan will share her insights about

  • Emerging and submerging roles for libraries
  • Promising tools and technologies
  • Opportunities for innovation and collaboration
  • What we can stop doing and what it’s safe to ignore
  • How to stop worrying about doing more with less and start thinking about doing different with less

Be prepared for a lively discussion, a few surprises, and lots of ideas about how we can focus our energies to do the right work, get credit for doing it, and maybe even have a little fun in the process! Whatever your view of the future, you won’t want to miss this workshop.

Please plan to attend one of these two opportunities:

June 18, 2012, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm at SouthShore Regional Library in Ruskin 

June 19, 2012, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm at Orlando Public Library in Downtown Orlando

You can register using the links below:

June 18th at SouthShore Regional Library, Ruskin

June 19th at Orlando Public Library, Downtown Orlando

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REFORMA de Florida Re-Elections 2012

by Jessica Posted on April 9, 2012

Please see the message below concerning the REFORMA de Florida re-elections for 2012

Nominations for the following two positions are being accepted now through April 13th, 2012.  To be eligible to nominate, vote, and be a candidate, individuals must be members of REFORMA de Florida in good standing as of March, 2012.  If you are not a current REFORMA de Florida Member, you can JOIN or RENEW online at www.reforma.org

Nominees (self-nominations accepted) please submit a statement of intent by email to President Loanis Menendez-Cuesta atloanis.menendez@delraylibrary.org by April 12th, 2012.  Candidates will be announced on April 13th, 2012.

REFORMA de Florida members in good standing will receive an email requesting their vote.  Members are asked to use their registered email address to submit their vote to the Recording Secretary: Alicia K. Long at Alicia K. Longalicia.k.long@gmail.com by 6:00PM on April 18th, 2012.

Election results will be announced at the 2012 FLA Conference in Orlando Florida during the Annual 2012 REFORMA de Florida meeting on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM in Room Azalea A.

Below is a list of the positions; duration of term and description of duties:

Recording Secretary: One Year from April 2012 to April 2013

  1. Shall be in charge of the recording and the preservation of all records, publications and history regarding the functions and activities of this organization.
  2. Shall take minutes for meetings of the general membership.
  3. Shall pass on all records to the succeeding officer who is elected to this position.

Membership Secretary: One Year from April 2012 to April 2013

  1. Shall maintain information on members of REFORMA de Florida
  2. Shall oversee efforts to recruit new members.
  3. In the event that a membership committee is established at a later date, the Membership Secretary will serve as chair.

 

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FLA 2012 Annual Conference

by Jessica Posted on March 29, 2012

Come Visit us at the 2012 FLA Annual Conference! We will be at booth #111 in the exhibitor hall. Swing by, Say hello, and See what’s new at TBLC and Ask a Librarian. We will be holding a small meet and greet on Thursday, April 19th from 12:00pm -1:00pm in the exhibitor hall at booth #111. We hope you can join us for some sweet treats! 

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Teen Tech Week March 4-10, 2012

by Jessica Posted on March 1, 2012

Teen tech

 

Teen Tech week starts next week from March 4-10! Are you ready to Geek Out @ your library? Teen’s use technology as part of their everyday life. Over the last few years technology has exploded! It has changed the way teens interact with each other and the way they learn. The library has become a place for them to explore new things, find information, and get expert advice from librarians on how to access electronic resources effectively.

How will you celebrate Teen Tech Week? What are some of the activities you are doing at your library?

Teen Tech Week: Geek Out at your Library

Teen Tech week on Pinterest

Teen Tech week on Twitter

ALA Press release: Teens look to libraries for tech support

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REFORMA de Florida Regional Meeting

by Jessica Posted on February 15, 2012

Please join REFORMA de Florida for their First Regional meeting on February 23rd from 4:00 to 5:45pm in Delray Beach.

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 First Regional meeting for Florida REFORMISTAS!

WHEN? Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 from 4:00 to 5:45 pm

WHERE? Hagen Ranch Road Branch Library 14350 Hagen Ranch Road, Delray Beach, FL 33446 591-894-7500

WHY? Lots has been accomplished behind the scenes since we were officially accepted as a Florida chapter    of  REFORMA!

Get updated on what’s new! Website, survey, FLA, Strategic Plan, Call for Program Proposals. President’s Update from Loanis Menendez-Cuesta:

Come meet, and network with, other Florida REFORMISTAS!

Learn about new programs, ideas and venues for Latino library services. Become part of our REFORM-A-Friend campaign to raise awareness and increase membership! Board Officers will attend via Skype!

Meeting Agenda will shortly follow.

Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. If you are able, please bring a small treat to share!

Please RSVP, by February 20th, 2012

Loanis Menendez-Cuesta

Reference and Young Adults Librarian

Delray Beach Public Library

100 West Atlantic Avenue

Delray Beach, Florida 33444 Phone: 561-819-6299 Fax: 561-266-9757 Loanis.Menendez@DelrayLibrary.Org

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Are you ready? The Florida Visioning Challenge

by Jessica Posted on February 8, 2012

Florida’s libraries need a vision for the future.  In fact, they need several. And we think that you may have one of them.  If you do, you can help Florida’s libraries identify their vision and become the great 21st Century organizations they deserve to be.  And you can win fabulous prizes. The Tampa Bay Library Consortium wants to hear from you! 

Here’s what you do:

Put your creative hat on and write up a vision for library service.  It can be for library service overall, or for some thinner slice of the big picture, such as Mobile or Video Reference, or Academic Study Groups, or E-books and Adolescents, or whatever you get excited about.  

The Accomplishment:

Our (ahem!) distinguished Panel of Judges will rate the incoming ideas, pick a winner, and announce her or him (which could be you!) at the FLA Conference in April.  You’ll get a certificate, a trophy, and a celebrity poster with your face on it. (And possibly job offers from all over, but we can’t promise that.)

Here are some guidelines:  

Come up with a positive vision, something we can get excited about. A vision of “Omigod!  Icebergs! Turn back!” is not likely to win. Technology and the way libraries thrive is changing everyday. As librarians we have to adapt with those changes and make them reality! 

Here are the rules:  Articulate your vision in 100 words or less.  Give us permission to share your vision with others during and after the contest. Even if your vision doesn’t win the grand prize, it may still inspire a library in the state to take on a service they’d never thought of before.    

Submit it to Jessie Riggins (rigginsj@tblc.org) at the Tampa Bay Library Consortium by Friday March 9th. We want the visions you submit to be practical as well as, um, VISIONARY.  So our judges will look at the nuts and bolts as well as the soaring rhetoric.  They’ll use the traditional rating scale for this kind of competition, and each submission will get one of these ratings:

As if!

Good luck with that!

Hmmm.  Not bad.

That could totally work!

Awesome!

We’re confident that your vision will fall into one of the top two categories.

Got all that?  Good!  Gentlemen–and ladies–start your brains!

Questions? Call or email us! 813-622-8252 

Al Carlson or Jessie Riggins

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Florida Library Day

by Jessica Posted on February 3, 2012

Leadership. Advocacy. Communication.

 

Issues: Florida Library Legislative Day

February 1, 2012

State Aid to Public Library Funding – Thank You Legislators & Governor Scott for $21.3 Million in 2011-12 and please provide the same in 2012-13!  Floridians are turning to their public libraries more than ever in this challenging economy and state funding helps libraries serve them.  Special thanks to Governor Scott for including library funding in his proposed budget.  State Aid enables libraries to provide:

  • Help for job seekers
  • Assistance with E-Govt services
  • Early voting & voter registration
  • Early learning and literacy activities for pre-schoolers
  • Support for parents as their kids’ 1st teachers!
  • Safe places for teens to learn & socialize
  • Technology assistance for young & old
  • Opportunities for community participation
  • Provide books!

We appreciate the good will legislators have towards libraries! Library supporters are team players but libraries have already taken their share of state funding cuts – down from $33.4 million.

Regional Multi-Type Library Cooperatives (MLCs)

Increase MLC funding from the current $1 million to $1.2 million.  

Florida’s 5 MLC’s help libraries add book records to the Florida Catalog’s 20 million items for Floridians to find and borrow.  MLC’s also support resource sharing and provide staff training on topics such as providing ebooks.

University & College Libraries

We support the Chancellors’ proposed Unified Library Services Business Plan for a single library automation and electronic services program to support Florida’s university and college libraries. University and college libraries play a major role in student learning.  Libraries support instruction and research and increasingly support creation of content and faculty publishing.  The popular new learning commons in academic libraries are so helpful to students that it is hard find a seat!

State Library of Florida

We support the funding proposed by the Governor for the Division of Library and Information Services.  The Division provides invaluable services to Floridians including the State Library of Florida, the Florida Archives, and the Florida Electronic Library!

School Libraries

We support continued funding for school media materials.

Thank You for Your Consideration and Support!

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