Colorado Starts to Migrate
Submitted by Lisa Priebe, Assistant Director, Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), lpriebe@clicweb.org The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) was awarded a 2012-2013 LSTA grant to help pay migration costs for several small rural libraries to AspenCat, a union catalog of 35 small public, school, academic, and special libraries. AspenCat runs on an open source Koha system...
Services for Older Adults
Submitted by Diantha Dow Schull, DDSchull Associates, www.ddschull.com It is my pleasure to announce publication of 50+ Library Services: Innovation in Action, published by ALA Editions. This book examines the key issues driving change in how libraries work with older adults, and explores the implications of these changes for the library profession. The research...
Managing Data in Arizona
Submitted by Jason LeDuc, Director of Sales, Counting Opinions, jleduc@countingopinions.com The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records is a multi-faceted organization with six divisions. The Library Development Division provides consulting and best practices services, continuing education, and summer reading and early literacy programs, as well as administering LSTA grant funding and collecting public...
Project ENABLE: Effective Library and Information Services to Students with Disabilities
Submitted by Jessica Stewart, Master’s Degree Candidate, Library and Information Science-School Media Librarians who are well trained in providing high level services to their patrons with disabilities results in patrons who will have access to information resources and technologies for learning equal to their non-disabled peers. The ultimate consequence to these patrons is the...
New Rules for Web Accessibility
Submitted by Carrie Banks, Supervising Librarian, The Child’s Place for Children with Special Needs/Kidsmobile, Brooklyn Public Library The Office of Budget and Management has issued new proposed rules for web accessibility. Please see the link below for additional information. http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201210&RIN=1190-AA65 Along the same lines, Raising the Floor is a great source for information on...