Georgia Library Spotlight: Reese Library, Augusta State University

[Note: This is an archived post. This spotlight has been removed to make way for the latest spotlight.]

The July Georgia Library Spotlight has been posted: Reese Library at Augusta State University. Read more about Reese on the GLA homepage, then submit your library to be featured!

50 Words or Less That Describe The GOLD GALILEO Conference - Each One Can Take You Home With A Click!

The 2010 GOLD GALILEO Conference in 50 words or LESS

"Click" on each subject and go straight to the HOME page of our conference portal.

Please remember:

Lodging for night before
Block of Rooms at special rates (ranging from $89-$109 plus 7% tax) available for conference attendees at connecting Georgia Center hotel until JULY 13, 2010.

Conference registration rates
$30 if attendees register by Monday, August 2, 2010. After August 2, cost will be $35

"Prost" on our 21st! -- Toni Z.

Toni Zimmerman
Director, Resource Sharing & Interlibrary Cooperation
Georgia Public Library Service
A Unit of the BOR Univ System of GA
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345-4304
P(404)235.7129
F(404)235.7201
tzimmerman@georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org

GOLD/GALILEO collaboration comes of age Aug. 13

GPLS News, June 2010

Hand in hand with their observance of milestone birthdays for PINES and GALILEO in 2010, Georgia librarians will soon celebrate another coming of age when the GOLD/GALILEO Users Group Conference turns 21 this summer.

"The number 21 symbolizes progression, growth, maturity, legitimacy and civic involvement," said Toni Zimmerman, director of Resource Sharing and Interlibrary Cooperation for GPLS. "Our 21st birthday and the theme ‘collaboration comes of age' will be cause for both celebration of and respect for all that Georgia's libraries have accomplished through creative collaborations. Adding to the celestial pathos of this year's theme is the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's Starry Messenger, a published work that changed our view of the solar system and our place in it. Surely that's a clear omen that the continued partnership of the GOLD and GALILEO communities will bring a zenith of educational and economic opportunities to Georgia's citizenry."

The annual conference will take place this year on Aug. 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel in Athens. The event draws librarians, paraprofessionals and technical staff from academic libraries, public libraries, schools and special libraries throughout Georgia and the Southeast. Its goal is to provide a forum for continuing education and professional development related to the use of Georgia's interlibrary lending and resource sharing network, GOLD, and the statewide virtual library, GALILEO.

Each year, the conference showcases new collaborative trends in library resources and highlights current partnerships. Along with a spotlight session about GALILEO's first 15 years, "Collaboration Comes of Age" will include two sets of concurrent programs and updated versions of the popular training showcase. Sessions will feature presentations that demonstrate how dynamic Georgia libraries are using creative collaborations, emerging technologies and highly adaptive communication styles, tools and trends to meet the multifaceted needs of information seekers.

This year's keynote speaker will be Tom Sanville, longtime head of the pioneering consortium OhioLINK who joined LYRASIS in April as its new director of licensing and strategic partnerships. "Tom will explain why ‘coming of age' does not simply mean reaching a plateau of effectiveness or benchmarking efficiency," Zimmerman said. "He plans to show us how consortium-based activity must be exploited to its fullest extent to leverage our limited economic resources and make librarians the future's most relevant information providers!"

This conference is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to GPLS under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. Links to registration materials and hotel information will be available later this month at www.georgialibraries.org/lib/gold.html.

Hubbard and Beard Scholarship Winners

The GLA Scholarship Committee is very pleased to announce the 2010 winners of the Hubbard and Beard Scholarships:

The Charles Beard Scholarship is awarded this year to Holly Phillips, who has served in different capacities providing outreach, including bookmobile clerk and branch manager, for the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library. Holly is attending Valdosta State University for her MLS.

And, this year's C.W. Hubbard Scholarship recipient is Bonnie Moore. Bonnie has been a Library Technical Assistant at Georgia Northwestern Technical College for 10 years and is also working on her MLS at Valdosta State.

Congratulations Holly and Bonnie!

Barbara Petersohn, Chair
GLA Scholarship Committee

Recordings of First Two Wednesday Webinars Available

The first two Wednesday Webinar sessions, hosted by GLA and GPLS, took place on June 16th, and turnout was amazing. If you were unable to make the sessions, recordings are now available online.

• Introducing Transliteracy with Bobbi Newman
• Pivot Points for Change with Buffy Hamilton
  

Registration is now open for the next two sessions on July 21, The Social Library with Cliff Landis and Library on the Radio with Charlie Bennett and Ameet Doshi.

This series highlights trends, innovation, and best practices in Georgia libraries, but anyone from outside the state or country is more than welcome to register!

New Georgia Library Spotlight: Woodstock Public Library

[Note: This is an archived post. This spotlight has been removed to make way for the latest spotlight.]

Check the GLA homepage for the newest Georgia Library Spotlight feature on the Woodstock Public Library.

Would you like to see your library profiled on the GLA homepage? Please email Sarah Steiner at ssteiner [at] gsu.edu to have your name added to the list.

Academic Library Division Call for Papers - COMO 2010

The Academic Library Division of the Georgia Library Association/Georgia Chapter of ACRL invites Georgia’s academic librarians to submit papers for presentation at the 2010 Georgia Council of Media Organizations’ Conference, COMO XXII. Accepted papers are to be delivered in person at the scheduled session. This will be the fifteenth year that there will be cash awards for the two papers judged best of those submitted. The two awards – one funded by Blackwell’s Book Services and one by EBSCO – will be presented at the Academic Library Division luncheon.
Details on the ALD site.