Training will be scheduled throughout August – November. You can request one to two sessions, dependent upon availability. Sessions can be done in person or virtually.

 

If you are not interested in scheduling training, we do offer online webinars throughout the year that you can attend as well. You can also visit our website for more information on library staff training.

 

If you have questions, please contact jenn@marigold.ab.ca. 

Marigold has created website forms for some of the regular requests we get. This will ensure that the request goes to the appropriate person, as well as a backup person, to prevent anything from being missed. We’ve now added a Supplies Request form to make it easy for libraries to request supplies. You can use the Supplies Request form to request library cards, stamps, shipping supplies, delivery bins, bookmarks, and more! 

 

These forms can be found on the Marigold website under Services & Support -> Library Staff -> Member Library Forms. Please use these forms for all submissions of the following requests.

If you have any questions about the forms, please contact your consultant.

I began with booktok, arttok, and foodtok but the first time an Indigenous creator popped up, that became my main interest. I thought I would share a few of my favorite Indigenous creators with all of you, but don’t let the list limit you because if you search #IndigenousTikTok you will find a treasure trove of creators. I follow about 1800 people and I think at least 500 of those are Indigenous so it was not an easy task to narrow it down to just a few.

 

The first Indigenous creator I followed was @sherry.mckay. She is an incredibly funny woman with a big heart. Her topics range from full on comedy to serious information about issues Indigenous people face.

 

You'll find that there are plenty of creators who use the platform to sell artwork, two of my favourites are @metisprint.ca and @easternwoodlandart.  They both have a range of content that offers teaching and lets you see and purchase the amazing art they create. 

 

I also follow an Inuk woman whose passions are language, culture, family, and soap making. You can find her by searching @bernicekootooclarke. 

 

 

I must include @indigenouslibrarian who has amazing content for our profession.  The recently published “The Collector and the Collected: Decolonizing Area Studies Librarianship” includes a chapter she wrote. 

 

Lastly, one of my favourite all time creators is @thatnativeguy79. He cracks me up, teaches me, and touches my heart, and I never know which it is going to be. 

 

There are a wealth of other Indigenous TikTokkers you can follow. If you are interested in seeing who I follow or in my content you can look me up; @gagaoffive is my username.

 

Information about the project can be found here. The book/project itself is available here.

Because there are some new fields, respondents to the Annual Report and Survey will need to start collecting some new data for those fields. A checklist outlining the new data fields has been created for reference, as well as an updated Reference Key which provides definitions for each field and highlights the changes. They have also created a visual template showing a mockup of what the new survey and annual report will look like in LibPAS once it has finished being created.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the June eResources Challenge! Hopefully you’ve learned some new things about Consumer Reports.

 

This month, the eResources Challenge is all about Creativebug. Creativebug offers online arts and crafts instructional videos on a variety of topics. Click here to take the eResources Challenge and test your knowledge. You may even learn something new!

 

The eResources Challenge is designed to help library staff learn everything there is to know about available eResources. You are the first person a patron comes to with eResources questions and the eResources Challenge can help you be prepared to assist with any questions. 

 

Don’t forget, if you complete this month’s challenge you will receive an entry into the $50 Amazon or Chapters gift card grand prize draw in August! If you complete the eResources Challenge for May, June, July, and August plus the social media bonus entries, you will have 8 chances to win the grand prize! If you have questions, please contact jenn@marigold.ab.ca.

 

 

 

The Girl in His Shadow takes place in London in 1845. Raised by surgeon Dr. Horace Croft after losing her parents, Nora Beady knows little about conventional life and much about suturing and anatomical illustrations of dissections. Women face dire consequences if caught practicing medicine, but in Croft's private clinic Nora is his most trusted—and secret—assistant… until the new surgical resident Dr. Daniel Gibson arrives. To protect Dr. Croft and his practice Nora must learn to play a new and uncomfortable role—that of a proper young lady. When she makes a discovery that could change the field forever, Nora faces an impossible choice. Remain invisible and let the men around her take credit for her work, or step into the light—even if it means being destroyed by her own legacy.

Marigold is providing a number of resources for you to use to promote this display and award. This includes an 8 ½ x 11 poster featuring all of the books, a laminated poster, bookmarks, and ballots with the display. If you need extras or want them before/after you get the display, please let Barb know. There is a PDF of all of these items on the Shared Drive in a folder named YRCA.

 

There is one more component to YRCA that we encourage libraries to take part in as well, and that’s partnering with schools to share this information. These two items are on the shared drive – if you are making any changes to them, please save them on your own computer before doing so. They include the following:

Kids love to vote for their favourite title! A big part of YRCA is the kids being able to vote for their favourite title. There is a survey link at www.marigold.ab.ca/YRCA that can be used by either the children themselves, or for bulk vote entry by library staff (from the paper votes). You can also encourage teachers to collect votes in their classes so kids can see what books their peers like the best (and then submit all the votes individually). Voting will close mid-April 2023, and although we won’t be keeping track of how many times someone votes, they should only be voting once in each category, so make sure you emphasize that. We know the books circulated this past year but we didn’t get very many votes, so please encourage them to make their voice heard and vote for their favourite title!

 

Even if you don’t get a chance to book the display, or decide you don’t want it, you can still take advantage of everything else that we are offering and promote the award anyway! Hang up the poster, hand out bookmarks, do presentations at schools or talk about the award with kids in the library, and display the books that you do own.

 

As always, we would love to feature any stories or pictures about this display/program in the newsletter, so please share them with us so that we can do so!

 

Reap the benefits of a well-weeded collection! This session will discuss the life cycle of a collection, including weeding techniques, collection management policies, and how to motivate reluctant weeders. On July 14 at 1:00 join co-authors of the popular blog Awful Library Books to learn their holistic approach to collection management as they help all types and sizes of libraries find the joy in a shelf list that reflects a clean, relevant, and current collection!

 

Register here to attend!