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September 2023 |
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Adult Services Notes |
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Library of Virginia Training |
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The Library of Virginia offers a robust collection of resources to support genealogists, local historians, students, and scholars. Many of these collections can be accessed online without coming to Richmond.
The fall/winter Get the Most Out of LVA series connects you with the resources you need to help your patrons access and use LVA collections from their homes or local library.
Find all the program descriptions and registration information on the LDND Info Center's CE pages. |
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Generative AI in Libraries
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When: Wednesday, September 13th from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
What: Lauren Hays, Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at the University of Central Missouri, will discuss the current state of generative AI and lead a conversation about how this technology will affect libraries, how to incorporate the technology effectively, and how to address challenges that it creates.
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6316876444079/WN_oV6jFP8YTjKBUNANzqj9Kw |
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News from Library Development & Networking
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Support School Success with Find It VA
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With the new school year starting, it's a good time to review how Find It VA supports students in grades K-12, so you can connect your users with resources to build school success.
This is also a great opportunity to reach out to your local schools to be sure that they are aware of the Find It VA resources you offer as well as any additional database offerings you have for students. |
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Explora Middle and High School searches EBSCO’s MasterFILE Premiere and Read It! databases and offers middle and HS students an easy-to-use tool that contains articles, primary source documents, reference books, and multimedia content to support student research and classroom instruction, including Topic Overviews to gain the background information students need to start their research.
For students grades K-5, Gale in Context: Elementary offers age-appropriate content from magazines, newspapers, and reference materials, covering current events, the arts, science, government, history, and more. Its easy-to-use search tool makes finding content for school projects simple, even for younger students, and teachers will find that the content supports curricular needs.
Both Gale in Context: Elementary and Explora offer accessibility tools, including the ability to translate search results into dozens of languages, tools to adjust font size and legibility, and read-aloud options. Also included are citation tools to properly format citations (MLA, APA, etc.) and export them to tools such as EndNote, Mendeley, NoodleTools, ProCite, RefWorks, Zotero, etc.
Homework HelpNow from Brainfuse offers students live tutoring assistance with assignments, research, and writing.In addition to the live help, parents and students can also find resources to supplement classrom work, including practice tests, short instructional videos, study plans, vocabulary lists, flashcard sets, and more. Tutoring is available in English and Spanish. Please note we are still working with the Virginia Dept. of Education on funding for HelpNow for FY24 (10/1/23-9/30/24). We will confirm availability past 9/30/23 as soon as we hear from VDOE.
Transparent Language Online is a great supplement to classroom lessons for students studying foreign languages. Lessons include vocabulary building, speaking, listening, and writing. One way to increase use of Transparent Langauge is to put information on accessing it with the print and audio language learning materials.
Resources in the Find It VA collection can be accessed both in the library and remotely once the links are properly set up on your library website. If you need help with authentication or connection issues, contact Barry Trott, Adult Services Consultant, at barry.trott@lva.virginia.gov.
You can learn more about the individual Find It VA resources and about how to market them in the LVA Niche Academy. Look for the Public Library Staff Certificate - Find It VA and the Marketing Find It VA pathways.
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Adult Services Jam Session
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RUSA Online Training Reports
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In partnership with ALA's Reference and User Services Association, LDND is delighted to offer training opportunities for Virginia library staff. This year, we awarded 50 seats in RUSA online training classes.
Scholarship recipients are asked to report out on key points or topics. Read the most recent reports below.
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| Who Manages, Who Leads: Mentor, Progress, Succeed
Reynor K. Jones, Hampton Public Library
This session offered a valuable lesson in applying leadership principles to all levels of an organization. Typically, people inherently interpret leadership at the top level, and many organizational cultures assume the top-to-bottom leadership approach. From the course, I learned how the regulation of Emotional Intelligence is relevant in all staff member areas/service points. Your audience, including those from lower management levels, reacts to your leadership style. The environment (audience) detects movements within library communities, and our charge as managers is to harmonize areas for positive emotional intelligence. Leadership academies and RUSA courses provide fruitful career exploration and advancement. At the same time, the underlayment element builds foundational skills for a successful launch in an exciting, ever-changing information landscape.
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Niche Academy Spotlight
| Checkout the great self-paced training opportunities in the LVA Niche Academy. |
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Niche Academy is open to all Virginia library staff members and library associates such as trustees and Friends board members. If you do not have a Niche Academy account, please use your library email address to sign up. If you do not have a library work email, you may register with a personal email, and we will contact you to confirm that you are affiliated with a Virginia library.
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Virginia Commission for the Arts Grants |
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Did you know that the Virginia Commission for the Arts has several grant programs to support both arts and music in Virginia?
The Arts in Practice grants program provides support for short-term residencies focused on participatory and experiential learning conducted by professional teaching artists.
The Touring Artist grants support Virginia performing artists and ensembles touring within the state. The touring activities are restricted to those listed in the VCA's annual Touring Artist Roster.
Use the links above to get details and application deadlines. |
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Readers' Advisory Tips and Tricks
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Setting Up Alerts in NoveList
Do you ever wish you could more easily keep up with favorite authors or content searches for new materials? NoveList's Search Alert tool makes it easy to set up an email alert based on your saved searches.
You will need to create an EBSCO account, or sign in to your existing account to use this tool. Use the Sign In link in the top bar of the NoveList Plus site to create an account, and you will be all set.
To get started, do a search in NoveList and click the Create an Alert for this Search link at the top of the results list. Here you can choose how often to get the alert, limit your alerts to the most recent content, and choose your results format.
Find out more about setting up and using search alerts in the NoveList Help tools. |
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Fiscally Fit Bootcamp
"In partnership with the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Central Oklahoma (CCCS), Pioneer Library System (PLS) staff presented numerous six-week Fiscally Fit Bootcamps to library staff and vital community partners such as municipal employees, tribal groups, local utility workers and technology centers in all 12 library communities. [The] grant goals were to increase community partner employees’ access, knowledge, skills and confidence relating to savings and investment resources through the series and to enhance partnership and relationship building between the local library and the partnering community organizations including increased knowledge of library programs and services."
Read more about this innovative project. |
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Featured Virginia Programs
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CulpeperCon |
CulpeperCon: First Edition, was designed to introduce graphic novels, pop culture, and more to the masses of Culpeper with an underlying theme of mental health. It was free and open to the public with no selling allowed on the property to give attendees an equity of access to comic-book conventions.
Culpeper County Library hosted a cosplay contest, movie night, an entire day of in-library activities including panels, games, and keynote speaker, plus a special screening of Superman at the Library of Congress Packard Campus. 750+ attendees were here over the course of Friday night and Saturday afternoon! |
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For more info, contact Andrew DeNicola, adenicola@cclva.org
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Central Rappahannock Regional Library
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French Conversation Group
| We talk in French (with occasional lapses into "Franglais" or even plain English) about anything we like. Preparing to host, I brush up on my high school French using Pimsleur CDs, "French in Action" videos (among others) on youtube.com, assorted French poetry, "Green Eggs and Ham" in French, which the library owns, etc. Folks of all levels of fluency attend, which keeps it interesting.
Editor's note: This may be an opportunity to promote Transparent Language Online from the Find It VA collections. |
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For more info, contact Ed DeButts, ed.debutts@crrl.org
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Pulaski County Library System
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Survival Skills for the Zombie Apocalypse |
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Survival Skills for the Zombie Apocalypse was developed to expose our community to natural ideals and to get them excited about camping, but also highlighting exciting or unusual information about the great outdoors. We used the title because it was exciting and the information would tie in well with any impending apocalyptic disasters; this title also connected to cultural events, i.e. The Last of Us, The Walking Dead, etc.
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We worked with the rangers at Claytor Lake State Park to present this four-part program which also helped the park advertise its own great programs that sometimes do not get the traction that they deserve. This was a fun partnership and we have enjoyed bringing this to the community. The edible plant portion was especially riveting, but we still have two programs to go.
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Recent articles on topics of interest to Adult Services |
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