Turning the Page 2.0 addresses core issues of advocacy in a convenient format with weekly one-hour virtual classroom sessions, development of an Advocacy Work Plan and personalized feedback from facilitators. Highly interactive units cover topics such as creating and telling your library’s story, building relationships with key decision makers, project management, and making the all-important ask.

Participants will spend three hours per week on this training. Registration for Turning the Page 2.0 is open to all public librarians, library staff, and library supporters, including board members, Friends, and local officials. Libraries are encouraged to complete Turning the Page 2.0 with an advocacy team that works through the program together. For more information about the program, please email Lynn Slawsky, .

Turning the Page 2.0 Kick-Off, 8:30–11:30 a.m., Friday, June 22, FREE EVENT
Turning the Page 2.0 addresses core issues of advocacy, communications and relationship building in a convenient blended-learning format. This half-day kickoff introduces librarians and supporters to the six-week course, which will include virtual classroom sessions and self-paced online work aimed at completing an individual advocacy work plan. Attendance at this meeting is encouraged but not mandatory for the six-week course.

Speakers: Judith A. Drescher, former director of libraries, Memphis, Tenn., and Steve Yacovelli, EdD, owner, TopDog Learning Group, Orlando, Fla.

Cost: There is no cost to attend this preconference.

Build a Great Team: One Year to Success, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday, June 22
Based on the self-development style of the popular publication “Be a Great Boss: One Year to Success,” this new project focuses on a year of education and exercises to foster team building. The preconference will introduce attendees to both the habit of continuing one’s own professional learning and the value inherent in building and sustaining strong teams in any organization.

Presenter: Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, executive director, Northeast Ohio Regional Library System (NEO-RLS), Warren, Ohio

Early Bird Cost:$200 (PLA Member), $255 (ALA Member), $310 (Non-member)

Mental Model Busting, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Friday, June 22
“The library is all about books.” “Libraries can’t charge for services.” “The customers don’t want to learn.” “We must have databases!” When we have a mental model of something, it shapes our behavior and limits our creativity in finding solutions. With all the changes in the library world, innovative, out-of-the-box thinking is required. Come do some mental model busting and experience how shifting your thinking can open a new world of possibilities for you and your library.

Presenters: Cheryl Gould, consultant, Petulama, Calif.; Gail Griffith, consultant, Glen Bernie, Md.

Early Bird Cost: $140 (PLA Member), $195 (ALA Member), $250 (Nonmember)

Enhance your ALA Conference experience with one of these public library focused preconferences. Register today.

My name is Sian Brannon and I am a doctoral student in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University. I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research study entitled Examining the Fieldwork Experience from the Site Supervisor Perspective: A mixed-methods study using Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development theory.

The purpose of this research is to determine the current practices of public library fieldwork supervisors. Little other research delves into the practices of the supervisor with regard to their role as the “more capable peer” in the fieldwork experience. The researcher aims to describe interactions with students, identify activities performed, and gather information about student assessment.

You may participate if you hold a Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited library school and have supervised at least one fieldwork student in a public library within the past five years. Participants will be asked to complete an online survey which is expected to take between 15 and 30 minutes to complete. You may then elect to provide contact information with which I can contact you for a brief follow-up interview.

A possible risk in this study is discomfort with the questions you are asked. You may stop answering questions at any time and end the survey. Another risk in this study is loss of confidentiality. Confidentiality will be protected to the extent that is allowed by law. The survey responses will be deleted within 1 years after the dissertation is finished. The results of the study may be reported in scientific magazines or journals, but your name or any other identifying information will not be included.

There is a potential risk of loss of confidentiality in all email, downloading, and Internet transactions.

More information about the study can be found at this website:
https://sites.google.com/site/fieldworksupervisors/. If you decide to participate after visiting the site, you can access the survey there.

If you have any questions, please contact me at or my advisor, Dr. Lynn Akin at . Thank you for your consideration.

Background
At this moment in our profession, an increasing number of libraries are engaged in the creation, publication, and preservation of digital content. This may represent an opportunity, or shift in our profession, moving us from the end of a publishing and distribution chain to somewhere closer to the source. The issue we’re investigating here is not generally library relations with existing publishers, but activities where the library takes a lead or key partnership role in getting the content into digital format and delivering it over the long term. That takes us into archiving and preservation. In addition to the processes of gathering, preparing, and posting such content, we are also grappling with the challenges of copyright, fair use, and licensing in the digital environment.

What we’re trying to find out
We are NOT looking for a comprehensive list of every digitization effort in libraries. We ARE looking for experiments that can help ALA recommend policies, address issues, or promote information exchange about this emerging area.

What the DCSG would like you do do
BY June 1, 2012, SEND TO :
* A brief description of your institution’s efforts to create digital content. For instance, this might include Open Access scholarship, the co-creation of ePub files featuring local authors, or the unique gathering of local history photographs and/or oral histories.
* Some key observations of important issues, roadblocks, and discoveries. For instance, what group of authors or publishers have you worked with directly? Which approaches do you believe to be important to your institution or our profession? At what point has your project moved from your own agency to a larger consortial environment, and why?
* Where do you think ALA could make a difference? Have your issues been legal (dealing with copyright, for instance), technical (defining file type standards), policy (guiding documents), political within your institution or region, and/or financial (you just need more money)? Or have you found new concerns worth noting?
* A contact email and phone if we have questions.
A DCWG subgroup will then review the responses, meet to discuss them at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference, then select a few key studies and issues for further examination. They plan to share findings and recommendations broadly, concluding their work by mid-winter, 2013.

PLA President 2013–2014
Carolyn Anthony

Directors-At-Large (Three-Year Terms)
1st position: Felton Thomas Jr.
2nd position: Pamela Sandlian Smith

Congratulations to all the 2012 PLA election winners. Terms begin immediately following the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. Find results from the ALA election here.

Time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm (Central Time)
Place: Just go to www.facebook.com/pla.org at 1:00 p.m. (Central Time) on Thursday, May 3, to join the conversation.

The next report in this research series will look specifically at people’s experiences in public libraries, especially their use of e-books and other digital services. To inform this research, Pew is supplementing its usual nationally representative phone surveys with two online surveys to draw out the deeper, richer stories behind the data:

1. The first survey is targeted at librarians and other people who work at public libraries that lend e-books. We’d like your input; please take the survey!! It is available here: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/participate/survey/e-book-lenders and takes about 15 minutes. To log in, please use your preferred email address as your username; the password is PEWLIBS.

2. The second survey is for patrons who check out e-books from their local public library. It is available here: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/participate/survey/e-book-borrowers. It also takes about 15 minutes. This survey is not password protected.

Pew has created a brief message (available below) that you can share via your website, e-newsletters, social media and other dissemination methods, as well as a flyer and code that can be used to embed the survey on your library’s website. To get the Web code and/or flyer, please contact Kathryn Zickuhr at . The surveys will be live April 16 through May 18, and the next report will be available this summer. Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, will provide an update on the Pew library research on Sunday, June 24, at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim.

Thank you in advance for your participation in and support of this effort!

Patron message template: Have you ever checked out an e-book from your public library?

The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, a non-profit research organization in Washington, DC, is conducting an online survey of public library patrons who borrow e-books. If you have checked out or downloaded e-books from a public library, please consider taking Pew Internet’s survey, available at the link below. All responses will be confidential, although your answers may be quoted anonymously in a future report. The survey should take about 15 minutes.

To take the survey, visit: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/participate/survey/e-book-borrowers

The Pew Internet Project will also be doing broader surveys of public library patrons general, as well as people (including non-library-users) who own e-readers or tablet computers. If you want to participate in those, you can sign up to be notified of future surveys here.

To learn more about the Pew Internet Project’s research on e-reading and public libraries, which is entirely free and available to the public, visit libraries.pewinternet.org.

There’s no denying it; e-books and e-readers are growing in popularity every day, and they’ve gone from nice-to-haves to must-haves in library collections. If your library is just getting started delivering these digital resources or you’ve hired new staff that needs to get up to speed, attend the informative one-hour PLA webinar, “E-Books 101: A Look at Devices, Platforms, and Training Ideas,” Tuesday, April 17 at 1:00 p.m. Central. Instructor Lynnanne Pearson, manager of adult popular services, Skokie (Ill.) Public Library, will provide an overview of e-readers and lending platforms available to libraries. She’ll also provide some insights to get you started on training library staff and building an e-reader and e-book service at your library.

“E-Books 101: A Look at Devices, Platforms, and Training Ideas” is the first in the four-part, e-book webinar series, “Public Librarian’s Guide to E-Books: A PLA Webinar Series.” This series features something for libraries at every stage of e-book adoption. Save when you register for all four webinars!

Registration Information
E-Books 101: A Look at Devices, Platforms, and Training Ideas
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. Central
Individual Registration
• PLA Member: $28.00
• ALA Member: $31.50
• Nonmember: $35.00
Group Registration
• Group of any size: $129.00
FIND COMPLETE DETAILS AND REGISTER HERE!
Deadline to register is 4:30 p.m. Central on Friday, April 13, 2012.

We’ve updated it and it is better than ever. In fact, good implementations of One-Pager will be better than most library websites.

With this update the code is cleaner and more efficient, and we’ve added some responsive elements so that it formats well on any browser. Check out what happens on a mobile device. The image disappears and the menu adapts so that the most important tasks can be taken care of easily.

One-Pager is intentionally different than most library websites. Try out the demo and read more about the ideas behind One-Pager on Influx’s site.