2012 Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute SSLLI Graduates

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Create St. Johns Speaks, a new oral history project for the St. Johns County Library System that provides equipment for patrons to record their stories.

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Create an Open Access resource pathfinder on the Bartow Public Library’s website that will be disseminated to the other libraries of the Polk County Library Cooperative (PCLC), to allow for patron access to a one-stop-shopping location for free online sites categorized by subject.

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Create a new partnership to promote a greater awareness of the library and its resources that serves as a means to connect with non-library users and supports efforts to further the library mission.

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Create floating “deposit” collections of approximately 50 items each which will be left at daycare centers around town to supplement their libraries.

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Co-develop a new capstone course to assess student proficiency skills prior to graduation. The course will represent summative assessment efforts and address overall student learning in terms of the General Education Assessment.

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Provide health care information that addresses co-occurring community health disorders, specifically mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, and HIV prevention.

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Create a local music collection in the library including a mobile website with streaming music; develop partnerships with local musicians, record labels and music venues.

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Develop a local authors’ collection.

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Conduct a student and faculty user satisfaction and awareness survey.

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Develop a program series for adults with a focus on civic and community engagement, featuring guest presenters and participant discussion.

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Develop a project to implement educational, literacy and technology services without additional cost to the library.

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Create a Friends of the Library group to provide and attract support for library collections and activities.

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Develop a Civility in the Workplace program for the five individual libraries in the north region of Hillsborough County.

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Develop an E-Government portal for the Sarasota County Library System Website.

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Create a website specifically for special collections.

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Use QR codes to deliver readers advisory services to readers. QR codes provide a quick list with links to similar authors or titles; codes are placed in physical books or printed on business cards with featured books.

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Design and facilitate library programming that will promote, enrich and preserve community art and music resources through a series of discussions and partnerships.

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Develop a partnership with the Jacksonville Children’s Commission to help prevent summer learning loss among summer camp attendees.

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Organize a group to create a wiki that would help One Person Libraries (OPL) get started and help them with tips and links to recover lost or forgotten skills.

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Obtain tablet computers in order to teach technology classes, as well as having locked-down tablets for public access computing.

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Establish a set of programs to celebrate El Dia de los Niños (Children’s Day) and El Dia de los Libros (Book Day) every year; include partnerships with literacy organizations in the area as well as community involvement.

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Coordinate, develop, market and implement financial literacy workshops at the library and at selected local hotels.

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Increase communication with stand-alone, National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center libraries by combining efforts to save budgetary dollars and assist in collection development.

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Create a user friendly workshop, held several times a semester, designed to educate thesis and dissertation students on exactly what each form means, and the ramifications of their decisions.

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Create a committee to include the acquisitions librarians at Florida’s 11 law libraries. The committee will report to and advise the Florida Law Library Directors Committee regarding trends in Acquisitions at academic law libraries.

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Market the new Learning Resources Department (LRD) to students and faculty.

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Guide the development of public computer instruction curricula for system-wide use.

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Develop a pilot family festival to kick off summer reading at the library; upgrade the summer reading program for elementary children and their caretakers to better encourage recreational summer reading.

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Develop a Cone Park Branch Library Strategic Plan that sets the direction and establishes priorities for a new library branch.

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Develop a method for recognizing and evaluating paraprofessionals within the Roux Library.

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Work with library Teen Advisory Board to create three how-to videos showcasing some of the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library’s most teen-relevant databases. These will be shown during local high school morning shows and will be linked on the library’s teen page.

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Create a series of short, interactive, Library Research Learning Modules for use by faculty teaching online, blended, or face to face courses.

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Develop Going Greener – Saving the Environment One Notice at a Time.

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Organize a library committee to ensure all branches are represented in the library’s social media presence, and that a consistent social media presence is bolstered by regular posting, generating conversation among our stakeholders.