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    October 31st, 2012LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Indiana Librarians, Professional Development Opportunity, 12 LEUs Online Arts and Crafts for Youth Librarians Workshop Opens November 12, 2012

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    San Diego, California (Online)— October 31, 2012

    Contact: Valerie Colston art259@hotmail.com 858-453-2278

    Unique online professional development opportunity for Indiana Librarians. Enroll today in the Arts and Crafts for Youth Librarians @ http://www.artmuseums.com/youthlibrarians.html offered by Art Teacher on the Net

    Course Title-Arts and Crafts for Youth Librarians

    Course Description

    Are you the one responsible for creating arts and crafts programs? Do you need new creative art project ideas for your Summer Reading Program or other events? Tired of the same ole, same ole. This is your opportunity to develop a portfolio of ideas that you can use with your Preschool through Teen visitors. This 4 week online workshop is taught by an art professor who has first hand experience developing library art programs. Interact with other Youth Librarians and a real art professor. The online class is open 24/7. Access the online workshop at your convenience.
    Arts and Crafts for Librarians is a highly recommended four week online workshop that provides participants with art projects and programming ideas that can be used throughout the year in your library.
    Presenter
    Instructor Valerie Colston, M.A. is an author and art professor with many years of experience developing and teaching art programs in libraries in San Diego, California. This 12 hour online workshop is taught by the author of Teens Go Green! Tips, Techniques, Tools, and Themes for Young Adult Programming Libraries Unlimited 2011 . Ms. Colston was an art consultant to the Wyland Foundation Ocean Challenge program for teachers. Her book 200 Projects to Strengthen Your Art Skills published by Barrons Educational Series has received outstanding reviews appearing in School Library Journal, National Art Education Association newsletter, and more. Her It's Easy to be a Green Teen appeared in the youth librarian publication Voices of Youth Advocates magazine.
    Format
    4 week online workshop. 12 hours overall. 12 LEUs Approved for Indiana Librarians Enroll online @ http://www.artmuseums.com/youthlibrarians.html Fee: $59. 00 per participant.
    Access the workshop 24/7 online.
    Illustrated Lecture, Discussion Board Topics, and Class Assignments.
    Course Objectives
    Librarians and staff taking this class will learn teaching techniques for working with children and teen of all age group, they will learn how to organize groups, supplies they need, basic art making skills, specific art projects for children and teens, lots of art project ideas and themes.
    No prior art experience needed.
    Join other Indiana Librarians in this fun and informative class. Starts November 12. Enroll Today.

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    October 31st, 2012LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Birmingham, Ala. — Wednesday, October 31, 2012 The — American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO are partnering to offer seven scholarships for librarians to attend the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. The meeting — which will take place June 27 – July 2, 2013 — offers an opportunity for continuing education, meetings, and interaction with colleagues.

    Each EBSCO scholarship will be in the amount of $1,000. The scholarship money is to be used for conference registration, travel, and expenses.

    The deadline for entries is Dec. 1, 2012; scholarship recipients will be notified no later than March 15, 2013.

    To apply, candidates must complete the application and submit an essay that addresses the following topic: “How will attending this ALA Conference contribute to my professional development?” Essays and applications will be judged by a jury designated by ALA.

    About ALA
    The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit professional organization of more than 65,000 librarians, library trustees, and other friends of libraries dedicated to providing and improving library services and promoting the public interest in a free and open information society: www.ala.org.

    About EBSCO
    EBSCO Information Services — the provider of EBSCONET® Subscription Management — is the world’s leading information intermediary, offering cutting-edge technology and personalized consultative services for managing and accessing content, including e-journals, e-packages, e-books, and more. Today’s libraries and research organizations are looking for new ways to manage their collections more efficiently, so EBSCO Information Services has developed comprehensive, highly integrated management solutions to help librarians save time and money while empowering their users. EBSCO serves clients through our offices worldwide and has more than 140 librarians on staff. To learn more about products and services from EBSCO Information Services, visitwww.ebsco.com.
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    For more information, please contact:

    Rossi Morris
    Media Relations Coordinator
    EBSCO Corporate Communications
    www.twitter.com/EBSCOInfoSvcs
    rmorris@ebsco.com
    205-980-3885

    Cheryl Malden
    Program Officer
    American Library Association
    cmalden@ala.org
    312-280-3247

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    October 31st, 2012LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Birmingham, Ala. – October 31, 2012 – EBSCO is pleased to announce the winner of its 2012 Charleston Conference Scholarship: Zeeshan Ullah, assistant librarian at Central Library, Islamia College Peshawar, Pakistan. This year’s event — the 32nd Annual Charleston Conference, titled “Accentuate the Positive” — will be held November 7 – 10, 2012, in Charleston, S.C.

    Applicants for the scholarship were asked to consider the topic “Looking for the Silver Lining: Positive Outcomes from Troubled Times” and submit a short essay detailing how a potentially negative situation could yield or has yielded a positive outcome as a result of implementing resourceful strategies in the library.

    Mr. Ullah’s winning essay outlines how academic libraries can better serve their users through continued collaboration with other institutions through resource sharing. He explains that this collaborative information exchange can be expanded through virtual libraries by way of “an e-services branch — a place where users can do anything online that they could do in a library, such as accessing all content and services (text, audiovisual materials, etc.); interacting live with a librarian anytime; talking to other users; getting book suggestions; reserving titles; obtaining online information about meticulous topics; issuing and returning books online; and more. You can read Mr. Ullah’s entire essay at the Charleston Conference website.

    This is EBSCO’s fourth year sponsoring a Charleston Conference scholarship; funds must be used by the winning librarian for conference registration and related expenses. Judges for this year’s scholarship were Katina Strauch, head of collection development, College of Charleston; Rick Anderson, associate director for scholarly resources and collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah; and Kittie Henderson, director of academic and law divisions, EBSCO Information Services.

    About EBSCO
    EBSCO Information Services — the provider of EBSCONET® Subscription Management — is the world’s leading information intermediary, offering cutting-edge technology and personalized consultative services for managing and accessing content, including e-journals, e-packages, e-books, and more. Today’s libraries and research organizations are looking for new ways to manage their collections more efficiently, so EBSCO Information Services has developed comprehensive, highly integrated management solutions to help librarians save time and money while empowering their users. EBSCO serves clients through our offices worldwide and has more than 140 librarians on staff. To learn more about products and services from EBSCO Information Services, visit www.ebsco.com.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Rossi Morris
    Media Relations Coordinator
    EBSCO Corporate Communications
    www.twitter.com/EBSCOInfoSvcs
    rmorris@ebsco.com
    205-980-3885

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    October 30th, 2012LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    ~ New Resource Available from EBSCO Publishing Focuses on Mexican-American,
    Chicano and Broader Latino Experience ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — October 30, 2012 — Information designed to explore the broad dimensions of class, race and gender within the Chicano and Latino U.S. experience is now available through EBSCOhost® from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO). Chicano Database™, a bibliographic index formerly available via First Search from OCLC, furthers research, teaching and scholarship for Chicano studies programs and broader ethnic studies curricula.

    Produced by the Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley, Chicano Database covers a wide range of materials focused on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants since 1992.

    Chicano Database content includes nearly 60,000 records from more than 2,400 journals and other resources including newspapers, books and book chapters. The database provides extensive depth with coverage dating back to the 1960s and selective indexing dating back to the early 1900s. Chicano Database also includes The Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database covering psychological, sociological and educational literature.

    The expansive content in Chicano Database enables subject coverage to be wide-ranging in scope — including art, bilingual education, education, labor, literature, mental health, law, poetry, politics and sociology.

    About the Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California at Berkeley
    The Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California at Berkeley was established in1997 by merging the Asian American Studies Library, the Chicano Studies Library, and the Native American Studies Library. In the late 1960s, the collections of the founding libraries grew out of student interest in collecting and preserving a perspective that was lacking in other campus libraries. In February of 1997 these collections moved from three cramped classroom spaces to their new home on the ground floor of Stephens Hall.

    The Ethnic Studies Library, a unit of the Ethnic Studies Department, consists of these four collections: Asian American Studies Collection; Chicano Studies Collection; Native American Studies Collection; and Comparative Ethnic Studies Collection. The Library's Publications Unit has produced first-of-their-kind reference books such as: Arte Chicano: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981, the Chicano Anthology Index, the Chicana Studies Index, and A Sense of Place: Rudolfo A. Anaya: A Bio-bibliography. The Chicano Database is its current ongoing publication.

    About EBSCO Publishing
    EBSCO Publishing is the producer of EBSCOhost, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives, and e-books. The company provides more than 350 databases and more than 325,000 e-books. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Public Relations Director
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

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    October 27th, 2012LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    The Libraries and Access to Justice Webinar Series concludes with our forth webinar, Thursday November 1. Pro Bono Net is producing these webinars in collaboration with the Legal Aid Society of Louisville, Central Minnesota Legal Services and Legal Services State Support (MN), with funding from the Legal Services Corporation's Technology Initiative Grants program. The series will help librarians better assist library patrons with legal needs by presenting a range of free online access to justice resources, and will showcase successful models for legal aid-library collaboration. A description with the link to register for the fourth and final webinar, Developing Legal Aid-Library Collaborations: Models and Replication Resources can be found below.

    Webinar 4: Developing Legal Aid-Library Collaborations: Models and Replication Resources
    Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012
    Time: 10am PDT / 11am MTN / noon CDT / 1pm EDT
    Registration: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/236132246

    Our final webinar in the series will highlight innovative, technology-enabled collaborations between legal aid programs and public and public law libraries in their communities to connect people with legal information. Panelists from legal aid programs and libraries in several states will discuss why and how they forged these partnerships and how they work. We will also provide nuts and bolts resources to replicate these and similar partnerships in other communities, and potential funding opportunities to seed them. We will also discuss opportunities for library involvement in project advisory groups and state commissions.

    These webinars are free to public library and public law library staff, as well as stakeholders from the legal aid, court and access to justice communities. Attendees are welcome to join for the entire series or attend individual webinars on topics of interest. Recordings and presentation materials will be made available online afterwards.

    For more information, to register for the upcoming webinar, or to view our past two webinars, please visit us at http://www.probono.net/librarywebinars/. If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at xkarsten@probono.net.

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