1. PLDT website showcases library youth services
2. Public libraries to lead initiative to ensure public access to digital content
3. Let's Read! Let's Move! Summer Enrichment Series
4. Website of the Week - Exercise Your Brain
5. Calendar
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EDITOR'S NOTE - Channel Weekly will not be published for the next week (July 19, 2012). The next issue of Channel Weekly will be the July 26, 2012, edition.
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1. PLDT WEBSITE SHOWCASES LIBRARY YOUTH SERVICES
Check out the July edition of the Wisconsin Youth Services Showcase from the Public Library Development Team (PLDT): http://pld.dpi.wi.gov/pld_showcase.
Faces and places featured include:
2. PUBLIC LIBRARIES TO LEAD INITIATIVE TO ENSURE PUBLIC ACCESS TO DIGITAL CONTENT
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a grant to OCLC to more fully understand the challenges that U.S. public libraries face in providing e-book content to borrowers, as they ensure that all Americans continue to have access to commercially produced content through their local public libraries, even as formats change. This initiative is called "The Big Shift: Advancing Public Library Participation in Our Digital Future." OCLC will partner with the American Library Association (ALA) and the Public Library Association (PLA) to review the e-book landscape and jointly develop recommendations for managing the e-book environment, in order to ensure adequate public access to these emerging resources. Read more at http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201243.htm.
3. LET'S READ! LET'S MOVE! SUMMER ENRICHMENT SERIES
Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education; Samuel Kass, personal chef to the First Family; Cornell McClellan, fitness consultant and personal trainer to the First Family; and Susan Hildreth, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), launched this year's Let's Read! Let's Move! summer enrichment series at the U.S. Department of Education headquarters building in Washington on Wednesday, July 11. The goal of the series is to keep children moving, active, and reading over the summer months. More than 560 museums and gardens are participating in Let's Move! Museums & Gardens, and libraries in nearly all communities across the country are engaged in summer reading programs. For more information about Let's Move see http://www.letsmove.gov/.
4. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Exercise Your Brain -- http://www.onlineschools.org/resources/brain/ -- This site provides links to a variety of sites featuring educational games, puzzles, and brain teasers to provide mental exercise for children of all ages.
5. CALENDAR
July 13, 2012 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Hartford
September 14, 2012 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Oshkosh
October 11, 2012 - Public Library System Youth Services Liaison meeting, DeForest
October 12, 2012 - Public Library System Continuing Education and Certification Consultants meeting, DeForest
October 23-26, 2012 - Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) annual conference, La Crosse
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To access previous issues of Channel Weekly, or to subscribe or unsubscribe,
go to: http://channel.dpi.wi.gov/chn_chweekly
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Roslyn M. Wise
Editor, Channel Weekly
Department of Public Instruction
Division for Libraries and Technology
PO Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
Phone: (608) 266-6439
FAX: (608) 267-9207"
2. Public libraries to lead initiative to ensure public access to digital content
3. Let's Read! Let's Move! Summer Enrichment Series
4. Website of the Week - Exercise Your Brain
5. Calendar
=================================================
EDITOR'S NOTE - Channel Weekly will not be published for the next week (July 19, 2012). The next issue of Channel Weekly will be the July 26, 2012, edition.
**************************************************************************************
1. PLDT WEBSITE SHOWCASES LIBRARY YOUTH SERVICES
Check out the July edition of the Wisconsin Youth Services Showcase from the Public Library Development Team (PLDT): http://pld.dpi.wi.gov/pld_showcase.
Faces and places featured include:
- Kristine Millard at the Lodi Public Library brings Pinterest ideas to life with library displays.
- Laurie Solawetz at the Monroe Public Library introduces Dracula as means to "Own the Night."
- Betsy Bromley's Oconomowoc Public Library teen volunteers explain their fundraising campaign in a video.
- Irma Keller's teen volunteers at the Tomah Public Library produced library FAQ videos.
2. PUBLIC LIBRARIES TO LEAD INITIATIVE TO ENSURE PUBLIC ACCESS TO DIGITAL CONTENT
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a grant to OCLC to more fully understand the challenges that U.S. public libraries face in providing e-book content to borrowers, as they ensure that all Americans continue to have access to commercially produced content through their local public libraries, even as formats change. This initiative is called "The Big Shift: Advancing Public Library Participation in Our Digital Future." OCLC will partner with the American Library Association (ALA) and the Public Library Association (PLA) to review the e-book landscape and jointly develop recommendations for managing the e-book environment, in order to ensure adequate public access to these emerging resources. Read more at http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201243.htm.
3. LET'S READ! LET'S MOVE! SUMMER ENRICHMENT SERIES
Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education; Samuel Kass, personal chef to the First Family; Cornell McClellan, fitness consultant and personal trainer to the First Family; and Susan Hildreth, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), launched this year's Let's Read! Let's Move! summer enrichment series at the U.S. Department of Education headquarters building in Washington on Wednesday, July 11. The goal of the series is to keep children moving, active, and reading over the summer months. More than 560 museums and gardens are participating in Let's Move! Museums & Gardens, and libraries in nearly all communities across the country are engaged in summer reading programs. For more information about Let's Move see http://www.letsmove.gov/.
4. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Exercise Your Brain -- http://www.onlineschools.org/resources/brain/ -- This site provides links to a variety of sites featuring educational games, puzzles, and brain teasers to provide mental exercise for children of all ages.
5. CALENDAR
July 13, 2012 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Hartford
September 14, 2012 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Oshkosh
October 11, 2012 - Public Library System Youth Services Liaison meeting, DeForest
October 12, 2012 - Public Library System Continuing Education and Certification Consultants meeting, DeForest
October 23-26, 2012 - Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) annual conference, La Crosse
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To access previous issues of Channel Weekly, or to subscribe or unsubscribe,
go to: http://channel.dpi.wi.gov/chn_chweekly
==================================================
Roslyn M. Wise
Editor, Channel Weekly
Department of Public Instruction
Division for Libraries and Technology
PO Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
Phone: (608) 266-6439
FAX: (608) 267-9207"
For questions about this information, contact Roslyn Wise (608) 266-6439