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We Appreciate Your Feedback!
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If you haven't had a chance to offer your feedback yet, please take a moment to fill out our Workshop survey here and let us know how we can continue to improve!
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Michelle Toombs on Advocacy and Collaboration
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More good news from this year’s provincial budget: - Another year of funding to provide access to libraries and library resources for residents of Alberta’s First Nations and Métis settlements, including Siksika and Stoney Nakoda Nations within Marigold’s boundaries.
- Current population for provincial library grants. In other words, your library grant will be calculated with the population that your municipality reported to Municipal Affairs for 2016.
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"Collaboration is not without risk, so we have to be strategic about how we collaborate, when, and with whom."
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"My message today is to encourage you to take a risk, try something new [...] Tell your story. Blow your horn."
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An awesome example of collaboration comes from the Calgary Public Library. If you have a chance to go downtown to the Central Library to see the fire truck in the library, please do so. Bill Ptacek, CEO, had the idea of putting a fire truck in the library after he saw children flock to a small fire truck at a children’s museum, so he phoned the Calgary Fire Department to propose the idea, and he learned that Engine 23 was being decommissioned after 18 years of service. How do you get a 20 ton fire truck into a library? With the library doors and the wheels on the fire truck removed, the fire truck was shoehorned into the library. What an amazing feat!
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Today’s Member Libraries' Workshop theme is Advocacy: Words Worth Sharing. Another example of advocacy and collaboration is this: Marigold has begun discussions with Northern Lakes College for another round of management skills training that we hope will be delivered via live online training. This is interactive training with a live instructor that you can do from your computer in the comfort of your home or office. The intent of this course, for library staff and board members, is to advocate for funding and support. We expect that participants will gain practice, confidence and techniques to advocate for more funding, and to walk away from this course with a toolkit that is ready to use. If this interests you, please let us know. If there is a preferred time to hold this live online course over several weeks, please let us know that too. If this course is not of interest, we would like to hear from you, along with other training ideas.
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"I believe that one of the most effective ways to demonstrate value is through collaboration and by getting our champions to spread the word."
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Making a Difference Awards 2017
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This year, Marigold's Advocacy Committee received 13 entries for the 7th Annual Making a Difference Awards! Winners were chosen from a small, medium, and large library, and they received a commemorative plaque and cheque for $500. We congratulate and thank everyone who submitted an application, and encourage all libraries (including past winners or libraries that submitted this year) to send in applications next year! |
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Category: Large Library Winner: Cochrane Public Library for Community Benefit Pictured: Cochrane Public Library staff member, Gail Ames, and Director, Jeri Maitland
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Category: Mid-sized Library Winner: Hanna Municipal Library for Future Focus Pictured: Michelle Toombs and Hanna Municipal Library Manager, Pam Mathieu
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Category: Small Library Winner: Delia Municipal Library Pictured: Delia Municipal Library Manager, Leah Hunter, with Michelle Toombs
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Congratulations to the Marigold member library managers who celebrated their anniversaries this year!
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Janae and Grant are Back!
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Marigold's summer students have returned and we couldn't be more excited! Janae will be taking on the role of Summer Program Support Assistant again, while Grant will be Marigold's Summer Programmer. Contact them to run a program at your library or for programming ideas. Janae can be reached at student@marigold.ab.ca and Grant can be reached at programmer@marigold.ab.ca. Alternatively, you can call them at 403-934-5334, ext. 259.
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Congratulations to the Minister's Award Winners!
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ALC Subsidy for Libraries Serving Under 10,000
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Conference Presentations Available on The Library Toolshed
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Upcoming Library Board Basics Workshops
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Project Gutenberg Titles on OverDrive
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Students Succeed with SOLARO!
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The girl who drank the moon by Kelly Regan BarnhillLuna, whose magical abilities are emerging, was raised in the forest by a witch, a swamp monster, and a dragon, but when a young man from the Protectorate is determined to kill the witch, Luna must use her magic to protect her family.
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Freedom over me : Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan by Ashley BryanDrawing on original slave auction and plantation estate documents and inspired by the actual will of a plantation owner that lists the fiscal worth of all his "workers," a poignant tale that contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences combines evocative imagery with poetic text that illuminates the human lives and dreams behind them.
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The inquisitor's tale, or, The three magical children and their holy dogby Adam GidwitzCrossing paths at an inn, three 13th-century travelers impart the wryly whimsical tales of a monastery oblate, a Jewish refugee and a psychic peasant girl, who, in the company of a loyal greyhound, must escape evil knights, sit alongside a king and save their land from a flatulent dragon.
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Wolf Hollow : a novel by Lauren WolkGrowing up in a rural Pennsylvania town in the aftermath of two world wars, 12-year-old Annabelle confronts a bullying newcomer and must defend a traumatized but gentle World War I veteran who is wrongly implicated in the bully's disappearance.
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Marigold Library System 710 - 2nd Street Strathmore, Alberta T1P 1K4 403-934-5334www.marigold.ab.ca |
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