1. Public Libraries and the EveryoneOn Ad Campaign: Getting Prepared
2. Jamie McCanless appointed DPI's new Library Data and Finance Coordinator
3. Wisconsin SpeakUp 2012 data results now available online
4. Wisconsin Heritage Online is now Recollection Wisconsin
5. BadgerLink Resource of the Week: BadgerLink Training
6. Website of the Week: Occupational Outlook Handbook
7. Calendar
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1. PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND THE EVERYONEON AD CAMPAIGN: GETTING PREPARED
Join the Department of Public Instruction library teams for a webinar at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, February 21, to learn how individual Wisconsin libraries can benefit from EveryoneOn, an upcoming nationwide library marketing initiative. The EveryoneOn campaign, which launches on March 21, 2013, has the potential to heighten public awareness of the key role libraries can play in fostering digital literacy. During Tuesday's webinar, library directors in Wisconsin will learn about next steps your library can take to participate in this program. One goal of the program is to encourage members of the public to learn the skills they need to do one new thing online to facilitate education, careers, and connecting with family.
Through the webinar you'll learn about the next steps your library can take to ensure your programs and services are accurately represented on the EveryoneOn website and resource list. Public library systems and resource libraries are encouraged to help coordinate the rollout, by highlighting local digital literacy resources and tools, planning local outreach efforts, and sharing the training resources being developed by DPI, BadgerLearn, the Public Library Association, and the Connect2Compete community.
The February 21 training session for public library directors or their training staff will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 21, as a Blackboard webinar. To login (within 30 minutes of the session), please go to (shortened link) http://bit.ly/VUbh6a and enter your name to join the session.
Login recommendations:
- If you have not used Blackboard Collaborate before, please allow at least 5 minutes before the session to download the software and login. More time may be required if you need to update your version of Java.
- You should have speakers or headphones for your computer for the audio (a microphone is not required-questions can be submitted via chat)
- A recent version of Java is required. To test to ensure that your current version of Java works with Collaborate, please go to: http://bit.ly/BbSystemTest
- If you need to update or download Java, go to: http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
Comprehensive information about the EveryoneOn and Connect2Compete projects is available at http://bit.ly/YgLNMv. For more information about the webinar, please contact John DeBacher, director of Public Library Development, at john.debacher@dpi.wi.gov, or Martha Berninger, director of Resources for Libraries & Lifelong Learning, at Martha.berninger@dpi.wi.gov.
2. JAMIE MCCANLESS APPOINTED DPI'S NEW LIBRARY DATA AND FINANCE COORDINATOR
The Department of Public Instruction's Division for Libraries and Technology is pleased to announce that Jamie McCanless will join the Public Library Development team in a new position, Library Data and Finance Coordinator. In that position, Jamie will assume many of the duties previously carried out by Al Zimmerman, who retired at the end of 2008, including public library and library system annual report collections, public library system plans and state aid payments, and the federal library data submission. Jamie will also work with the rest of the Public Library Development team on forms and website development and the LSTA grant program.
Jamie brings to the team over 25 years of experience in information systems support, technical writing and editing, as well as website development and training. In addition, Jamie has worked at the DPI as an Information Systems Resources Support Technician, both in IT and for the Public Library Development Team.
Jamie assumed his new duties at DPI on February 14, 2013, joining consultants Walter Burkhalter, Terrie Howe and Tessa Schmidt, and team director John DeBacher.
3. WISCONSIN SPEAKUP 2012 DATA RESULTS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
This year, over 20,000 Wisconsin teachers, administrators, students, and parents took part in the SpeakUp 2012 survey, an increase of over 4,000 from 2011. The annual Speak Up survey is a unique research project designed to collect and report on the authentic, unfiltered ideas and views of K-12 students and their parents, teachers, and administrators.
Wisconsin school and district Speak Up 2012 data results are now available online, along with the national results from Speak Up for comparative benchmarking. If you not have your password on file, please contact Jenny Hostert (jhostert@tomorrow.org) or Jeff Knutsen for your administrative password. The results will be displayed and may be printed or copied onto an Excel Spreadsheet or this Speak Up 2012 Excel Template.
This early release of the Speak Up data was part of Digital Learning Day on Wednesday, February 6, a national event to recognize and celebrate the role of technology within education today. It is hoped that the Speak Up 2012 data results will stimulate new conversations about the value of digital learning, and in particular, to underscore the importance of including the views of your stakeholders - students, parents and educators - in these vital discussions.
Nationally, SpeakUp reached a new all time high in the number of online surveys submitted in 2012, with over 466,000 K-12 students, parents, teachers, librarians, school site administrators, and district administrators from over 8,000 schools and 2,400 districts nationwide participating this year.
More information about the SpeakUp initiative can be found at http://www.tomorrow.org/about/about_SU.html.
4. WISCONSIN HERITAGE ONLINE IS NOW RECOLLECTION WISCONSIN
What did Mineral Point's High Street look like in the 1870s? How did a Milwaukee magazine help lead the American craze for bicycling in the 1890s? Which stars performed at the Northernaire Resort in Three Lakes in the 1950s? The answers can be found on the newly redesigned website of Recollection Wisconsin, the collaborative statewide digital program formerly known as Wisconsin Heritage Online.
Recollectionwisconsin.org (http://recollectionwisconsin.org/) provides free access to history resources from the collections of libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies across the state. Students, teachers, family history researchers, and the general public can use the website to explore more than 120,000 historic photographs, postcards, maps, letters, diaries, articles, books, artifacts, oral histories and other materials from dozens of Wisconsin communities.
But this site is a place for more than just viewing digital resources. Visitors are also invited to contribute their own memories, images, knowledge and comments through a variety of social features. These new features, which incorporate social media tools including Tumblr, Pinterest and Flickr, are central to the updated vision of the program: to create opportunities for audiences to discover personal connections to the past. Since 2005, the program has offered training and guidelines for Wisconsin libraries, archives, museums and historical societies to share their collections online and has provided the technology to bring together these disparate digital collections in a single search portal.
DPI's Division for Libraries and Technology has played a role in the program from the start as the state's administrator for Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grants. These grants provide financial support for public libraries in Wisconsin to work with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center to digitize and make available online thousands of historic photographs, books, maps, and other unique local materials.
New features visitors can find on recollectionwisconsin.org include:
" Share a story. Recollection Wisconsin has partnered with Wisconsin Life, an audio essay series on Wisconsin Public Radio that celebrates what makes Wisconsin unique, to collect and share stories contributed by visitors.
" Stories from Wisconsin collections. This ongoing series provides a closer look at small slices of state and local history, told through photographs and documents from participating organizations.
" Browse by category or on a map. A user-friendly browse interface enables visitors to explore collections by subject categories, such as cranberries, music or World War I, or by types of materials, such as plat maps or scrapbooks. Visitors can also use an interactive map to locate digital collections in or near their hometowns or other locations of interest.
The Recollection Wisconsin program is sponsored by Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) in partnership with the Milwaukee Public Library, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Financial support is provided by a grant from the Nicholas Family Foundation.
5. BADGERLINK RESOURCE OF THE WEEK
Looking for speakers at your next in-service/training day? Contact BadgerLink staff to request a in person or webinar training designed for your staff! kara.ripley@dpi.wi.gov
6. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
U.S. Dept of Labor: Occupational Outlook Handbook --
-- The Occupational Outlook Handbook provides career guidance featuring hundreds of occupations. The handbook is revised very two years; the current version contains employment projections for the 2010 to 2020. (Website reference courtesy of refdesk.com)
7. CALENDAR
March 8, 2013 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Monona
April 3, 2013 - Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Committee Meeting, DeForest
April 7-9, 2013 - Wisconsin Education Media and Technology Association (WEMTA) annual conference, Madison
April 14-20, 2013 - National Library Week
April 23-26, 2013 - Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians annual conference, Elkhart Lake
May 1-3, 2013 - Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries (WAPL) annual conference, Lake Geneva
May 7-8, 2013 - American Library Association National Library Legislative Day, Washington, DC
May 10, 2013 - Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND) meeting, Portage
May 10, 2013 - Public Library Special Services Consultants annual meeting, DeForest
June 27-July 2, 2013 - American Librarian Association (ALA) Annual Conference, Chicago
October 3, 2013 - Public Library Youth Services Liaisons annual meeting, DeForest
October 4, 2013 - Continuing Education and Certification Consultants annual meeting, DeForest
October 23-26, 2013 - Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) annual conference, Green Bay
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Roslyn M. Wise
Editor, Channel Weekly
Department of Public Instruction
Division for Libraries and Technology
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Madison, WI 53707-7841
Phone: (608) 266-6439
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