NEFLIN Winter Schedule is UP!

There are many virtual and face to face classes in January, February and March, including:

Multi-part Copyright webinar series

HTML 4.01 Web Authoring

Boys and Books webinar

Library Management Skills with DeEtta Jones

Customer Service webinar series with Andrew Sanderbeck

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Digital Camera 101

Get Your Game on!

Cataloging Interest Group

Facebook, Twitter, LibraryThing webinars...

Much More! See it all here - online or print

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope everyone enjoys some time off with friends and family.

We will be back in the office on Monday, November 29. 

Until then, Happy Thanksgiving!

Holiday Shopping Online?

Amazon.com provides a credit to NEFLIN when anyone makes a purchase. Visit http://www.neflin.org/amazon first before shopping.

(All purchases are anonymous. We receive no identifying information on any items ordered.)

Thanks for your support!

Seats available in these NEFLIN events

Many NEFLIN workshops and webinars fill up with waiting lists, but these upcoming events still have room for you:

Word 2007 Level 1

Tuesday, November 30, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm at NEFLIN

Is Word 2007 making you crazy? Register for one or all of these progressive hands-on Word 2007 classes taught by an expert New Horizons trainer. Word 2007 Level 1: Lessons include

• Creating a basic document by using Microsoft Word
• Editing documents by locating and modifying text
• Formatting text and paragraphs
• Adding tables and graphic elements to a document
• Controlling a document's page setup and its overall appearance
• Proofing documents to make them more accurate.

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Library Tour: UF Levin College of Law, Chiles Legal Info Center

Wednesday, December 1, 2:00 - 3:00 pm in Gainesville

Register to join us for a tour of Florida’s largest law library. Named for former law library student employee and alumnus, Senator and Governor Lawton Chiles, the law library at the University of Florida underwent a multi-million dollar expansion and renovation in 2005 and houses notable research collections in Florida law, federal law, tax law, and British Commonwealth law. Free for all.

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Leadership Interest Group

Friday, December 10, 1:00 - 3:00 at Millhopper Library in Gainesville

Since 2004, the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute has been preparing tomorrow's library leaders. Register to attend this informal discussion that will be a reflection on what has been gained from the experiences and how participants have benefited both professionally and personally. Everyone is invited to attend, including:

• Leadership Institute Alumni
• Current participants
• Mentors
• Anyone interested in leadership issues

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See all NEFLIN Events at http://www.neflin.org/registration.php

Submit a Poster Session for FLA 2011

The Florida Library Association Continuing Education Committee is calling for Poster Session proposals for the FLA Annual Conference to be held at the Doubletree Hotel at the Entrance to Universal Orlando in Orlando, May 4-6, 2011. Poster Sessions are a great opportunity to share your projects, research, interests and information with your colleagues in the library community.

Poster sessions may cover an array of topics such as, but not limited to, reports on library projects and programs, research studies, current and future trends, and problem analysis. Posters should be high quality visual representation of the topic, including graphics, tables, charts, text, and images. Presenters will be present to discuss their posters with other conference attendees during a pre-assigned time slot. The poster sessions will be located near the exhibits area.

The deadline for submission is January 31, 2011. For more information, tips, and examples see http://www.flalib.org/conference_2011.php and click on Poster Sessions on the left.

Use the online submission form by clicking on "web submission form" under "To Apply". Or use the direct link at http://library.ucf.edu/Presentations/FLA2011/PosterSessionSubmit.htm

Questions about poster session submissions should be directed to:  Min Tong, Chair of FLA Continuing Education Committee, mtong@mail.ucf.edu

NEFLIN's Lending Library

NEFLIN's Lending Library is a collection of high-quality DVDs, videos, audio CDs, books, and CD-ROMs that are available for two-week loan to NEFLIN members. A few of the recently added items available are listed below.

You can search an Excel spreadsheet of the materials by topic, format, length and vendor. http://www.neflin.org/mll  Review all the titles here then email register@neflin.org to request an item to borrow.

Some of these items were purchased with proceeds from our Amazon Affiliate Account. Don't forget to start here when you shop!

Link Love

If you and your fellow staff are having trouble helping your patrons with their eBook and eReader questions, here's a resource that may help: http://sites.google.com/a/tblc.org/digital-delight/home (provided by Al Carlson at TBLC).

So we have all these ebooks and ebook readers.  Now what?  Interesting article on Creating a National Digital Library System (via Teleread).

The end of the year approaches and so do all those "Best of 2010" Lists.  Amazon has already put up these three.  (I'm obviously behind in my reading.  I have only read seven of the Editor picks. Yikes!)

• Best Books by Amazon Editors
• Best Books by Amazon Customers
• Best Kindle ebooks

I'm not sure what to make of Google TV yet, but it seems like following its progress may lead to my next big purchase.

Alachua County Library District had their Partnership Library recognized nationally by the Harvard Bright Ideas Program.  Congrats!

Through our partnership with Amazon, you have helped NEFLIN purchase a Kinect and two games Kinect games for our Equipment Loan Program.  More when we receive them.  If you haven't watched this 3 minute video about how Kinect is a huge step forward in gaming, check it out.

Library Collection Analysis Using Excel

Back by popular demand, Collection Development expert Tony Greiner (co-author of Analyzing Library Collection Use with Excel, ALA Editions, 2007) returns to NEFLIN to teach one of the most practical collection development courses you will take. In the course of the day, attendees will learn how to take raw circulation and bibliographic data from their ILS, clean it up, and then analyze the use of the collection to show which parts of the collection are heavily (or lightly) used, and to give guidance on how to improve the collection by using use data.

In this workshop you'll learn how to:

• Process raw data into usable information

• Understand the varieties of possible analyses

• Identify the most relevant types of analysis for your collection

• Identify weaknesses and build on the strengths identified in your collection

• Illustrate circulation data using charts and graphs

Librarians responsible for collection development in public, school, academic, and special libraries will learn why analyzing collection use is important and how they can analyze that use to better serve their patrons.

The hands-on class will be taught using Excel 2007 which is a definite improvement over Excel 2003. Librarians who do not have Excel 2007 at work will learn the concepts of Collection Analysis, and can use Greiner's book Analyzing Library Collection Use with Excel to learn how to do an analysis with the older system. Handouts will also be available for both Excel 2007 and 2003.

If you would like to volunteer to have your library's collection used for the class (and get a 'free analysis' in the process), contact Patricia Morris (patty@neflin.org) after registering.

Trainer: Tony Greiner, Portland (OR) Community College

Date: Tuesday, December 14

Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Location: NEFLIN, 2233 Park Avenue, Suite 402, Orange Park, FL 32073

Cost:

NEFLIN Enhanced: Free

NEFLIN Full: $40

Nonmember: $100

LIS Students: $25

Register today at: http://guest.cvent.com/d/rdqf1q

See all NEFLIN Continuing Education at http://www.neflin.org/registration.php

Library Tour: UF Levin College of Law, Chiles Legal Info Center

Come join us for a tour of Florida’s largest law library. Named for former law library student employee and alumnus, Senator and Governor Lawton Chiles, the law library at the University of Florida underwent a multi-million dollar expansion and renovation in 2005 and houses notable research collections in Florida law, federal law, tax law, and British Commonwealth law.

Host: Patricia Morgan, Reference Librarian, Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center

Date: Wednesday, December 1

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm

Free for all.

Register today at http://guest.cvent.com/d/ndqfkc

The University of Florida Chiles Legal Information Center is located in Holland Law Center (HOL).

See http://campusmap.ufl.edu/ for the campus map and http://www.parking.ufl.edu for parking information.

Leadership Interest Group

Since 2004, the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute has been preparing tomorrow's library leaders. Join State Library of Florida Consultant and Leadership Institute facilitator Jill Canono for a session of motivation and reflection.

During the first part of the afternoon Jill will give a presentation that focuses on employee motivation in today’s workplace based on Daniel Pink’s book “Drive.” Collectively, we will examine current workplace practices and discuss ways to implement different incentives that better fit today’s employees’ needs and the environment. You may want to preview Daniel Pink's TED presentation at http://bit.ly/8ZtfSC .

Then we’ll have an informal discussion that will be a reflection on the Leadership Institute competencies and how to use the skills gained in the Institute (and refined after graduation) to implement changes identified in the session.

• Everyone is invited to attend, including:

• Leadership Institute Alumni

• Current participants

• Mentors

• Anyone interested in leadership issues

Facilitator: Jill Canono, State Library & Archives of Florida

Date: Friday, December 10

Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Location: Alachua County Library District, Millhopper Library, 3145 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville, Florida 32606

Cost: Free for all

Register at: http://guest.cvent.com/d/6dqfpm

See all NEFLIN Training Events at http://www.neflin.org/registration.php

Important Dates for your 2011 Calendar

NEFLIN has scheduled two gigantic, important, exciting, thrilling, can't-be-missed events for 2011.

The NEFLIN Annual Meeting will be held on Friday, September 16, 2011, at the Thrasher-Horne Conference Center in Orange Park from 9:00am - 4:00pm. We are going back to the location for the 2010 Annual Meeting based on feedback from the membership.

The NEFLIN Technology Conference will be Friday, June 17, 2011, at the Embassy Suites hotel on Baymeadows Road in Jacksonville from 9:00am - 4:00pm. This is the site of 2009 Technology Conference and we are putting together a great line-up of speakers and topics.

FLA Board Highlights and Slate

Report from the October meeting of the FLA Board.

• Established that Florida Libraries will be published entirely in electronic format in 2011
• Approved the Association’s budget for 2011
• Accepted the Conference Committee’s proposal for programs and schedule for the 2011 conference to be held May 4-6, 2010 at the Doubletree Hotel at the Entrance to Universal Orlando
• Moved to extend the FLA member rate to register for the annual conference to current members of the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME)
• Discontinued mailing of paper membership cards except upon member request
• Set Library Legislative Day as March 29, 2011
• Decided to withdraw from membership in the Southeastern Library Association in view of proposed fee structure without clear benefit to FLA and FLA members
• Adopted recommendation of the Awards Committee to extend eligibility to organizations represented on the Awards Committee; members of the Committee may not vote on awards for which they or their organization/business are nominated.
• Approved slate presented by Nominating Committee:

Vice President/President-Elect

               Linda McCarthy, College Center for Library Automation

                Barbara Stites, Florida Gulf Coast University Library

Secretary

                Ruth O’Donnell , Library Consultant

                Bob Verbesey, Retired (formerly Southwest FL Library Information Network 
                and Ave Maria University)

East Central Director

                Elizabeth Killingsworth, University of Central Florida

                Min Tong, University of Central Florida

Southeast Director

                Sarah Hammill, Florida International University

                Jeannette Smithee, Southeast FL Library Information Network

West Central Director

                Paul Alford, Citrus County Public Library

                Gene Coppola, Palm Harbor Library

                Casey McPhee, Largo Public Library

ALA Councilor

                Alan Kornblau, Delray Beach Public Library

                Maria Treadwell, University of South Florida, School of Library and Information 
                Science