Tuesday February 9, 2010 Go To Top 10:00 AM  -  12:00 PM CANCELLED - Technical Services Roundtable     Contact: Jan Resnick   413-665-9898 x115   jresnick@wmrls.org     This Tech Services roundtable will cover all aspects of the technical services field. Come and meet your colleagues, share your questions, and learn about the state of the profession. Carolyn Platt, Jones Library, will moderate. DIRECTIONS         Location: WMRLS     The registration period has ended. Wednesday February 10, 2010 Go To Top 2:00 PM  -  4:30 PM WMRLS Executive Board Meeting     Contact: John Ramsay   413-665-9898 x113   jramsay@wmrls.org     Directions         Location: WMRLS Conference Room Friday February 12, 2010 Go To Top 7:30 AM Legislative Breakfast: Senator Brewer     Contact: Nancy Menard, Director, Palmer Public Library     nmenard@palmer.lib.ma.us     Library Legislative Breakfasts are held annually in each state senatorial district of Western Massachusetts. The breakfasts provide library supporters with the opportunity to meet with their state Senators and Representatives both to thank them for past library support and to let the legislators know what challenges the libraries in each district are facing. Please attend the breakfast in your Senator's district and get to know your elected representatives! For complete information, visit the WMRLS Library Legislative Breakfast Website DIRECTIONS         Location: Palmer Public Library   10:00 AM  -  10:30 AM Manage Your Research Projects with Gale Databases: WMRLS CE Coffee Break     Contact: Shirley Keech   413-665-9898 x125   skeech@wmrls.org     Join our live online continuing education coffee break! This week's WMRLS CE Coffee Break focuses on the new “Log-in” feature in the Gale databases and how it can be used to manage your research projects and make your research portable! Shirley Keech, WMRLS Research & Database Specialist, is the session leader. [EQUIPMENT NEEDED:]     Location: Online Continuing Education Course     The registration period has ended. Monday February 15, 2010 Go To Top Online Continuing Education: At Your Convenience     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     One of the many benefits of WMRLS membership is free admission to WebJunction's online library continuing education workshops. The WebJunction course catalog covers a wide range of topics and is continually updated. Consult the WMRLS WebJunction Online Continuing Education Website and complete our WMRLS Online CE Registration Form (below). On February 15, WMRLS will send all registrants a confidential coupon code that will enable you to take the course(s) that you select for free. You will have access to the course(s) that you select for one full year. WEBJUNCTION COURSE DESCRIPTIONS         Location: Online Continuing Education Course     The registration period has ended. Friday February 19, 2010 Go To Top 8:00 AM Legislative Breakfast: Senator Rosenberg     Contact: Adam Novitt, Director, Pelham Library      taxonomy@gmail.com     Library Legislative Breakfasts are held annually in each state senatorial district of Western Massachusetts. The breakfasts provide library supporters with the opportunity to meet with their state Senators and Representatives both to thank them for past library support and to let the legislators know what challenges the libraries in each district are facing. Please attend the breakfast in your Senator's district and get to know your elected representatives! For complete information, visit the WMRLS Library Legislative Breakfast Website DIRECTIONS         Location: Pelham Library   10:00 AM  -  10:30 AM Best Free Desktop Software: WMRLS CE Coffee Break     Contact: Wes Hamilton   413-665-9898 x105   whamilton@wmrls.org     Join our live online continuing education coffee break! This week's WMRLS CE Coffee Break focuses upon best free desktop software. Wes Hamilton, WMRLS Technology Coordinator, is the discussion leader. [EQUIPMENT NEEDED:]     Location: Online Continuing Education Course     Tuesday February 23, 2010 Go To Top 10:00 AM  -  12:30 PM Libraries and Autism     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Community Resources for People with Autism provides support, information, and practical help for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their families living in Western Massachusetts. This interactive discussion roundtable is an opportunity to learn about the training, education, advocacy, and family support that this organization provides. In addition, participants will view “Libraries and Autism: We’re Connected”, a customer service training video for library staff. The video focuses on what library staff need to know about autism and includes specific techniques on how to offer more inclusive service to this growing and underserved population. Jason Litto, Family Support Manager, Community Resources for People with Autism, and Janet Eckert, Youth Services Librarian, WMRLS, will lead this interactive discussion program. DIRECTIONS         Location: Community Resources for People with Autism, Easthampton     Thursday February 25, 2010 Go To Top 10:00 AM  -  12:30 PM Libraries and Autism     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Community Resources for People with Autism provides support, information, and practical help for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their families living in Western Massachusetts. This interactive discussion roundtable is an opportunity to learn about the training, education, advocacy, and family support that this organization provides. In addition, participants will view “Libraries and Autism: We’re Connected”, a customer service training video for library staff. The video focuses on what library staff need to know about autism and includes specific techniques on how to offer more inclusive service to this growing and underserved population. Jason Litto, Family Support Manager, Community Resources for People with Autism, and Janet Eckert, Youth Services Librarian, WMRLS, will lead this interactive discussion program. DIRECTIONS         Location: Lee Library Association     Friday February 26, 2010 Go To Top 9:00 AM Legislative Breakfast: Senators Buoniconti and Knapik     Contact: Nancy Contois, Director, Chicopee Public Library     ncontois@cwmars.org     Library Legislative Breakfasts are held annually in each state senatorial district of Western Massachusetts. The breakfasts provide library supporters with the opportunity to meet with their state Senators and Representatives both to thank them for past library support and to let the legislators know what challenges the libraries in each district are facing. Please attend the breakfast in your Senator's district and get to know your elected representatives! For complete information, visit the WMRLS Library Legislative Breakfast Website DIRECTIONS         Location: Chicopee Public Library   10:00 AM  -  10:30 AM LibraryThing: WMRLS CE Coffee Break     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Join our live online continuing education coffee break! This week's WMRLS CE Coffee Break focuses upon best practices for libraries on utilizing the social networking tool LibraryThing. Jeremy Goldstein, Senior Supervisor of Technical Services at the Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, is the discussion leader. [EQUIPMENT NEEDED:]     Location: Online Continuing Education Course     Friday March 5, 2010 Go To Top 8:00 AM Legislative Breakfast: Senator Downing     Contact: Linda M. Kaufmann, Freel Library, MCLA   413-662-5325   l.kaufmann@mcla.edu     Library Legislative Breakfasts are held annually in each state senatorial district of Western Massachusetts. The breakfasts provide library supporters with the opportunity to meet with their state Senators and Representatives both to thank them for past library support and to let the legislators know what challenges the libraries in each district are facing. Please attend the breakfast in your Senator's district and get to know your elected representatives! For complete information, visit the WMRLS Library Legislative Breakfast Website DIRECTIONS         Location: Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge

Tuesday March 9, 2010 Go To Top Library Legislative Day - Take the Friends Bus to Boston!     Contact: Lynn Coakley, Friends of WMRLS   413-755-4565   lcoakley@stcc.edu     The Friends of the Western Massachusetts Regional Library System have arranged for a bus to Boston for Library Legislative Day. Please consider taking the bus and using this opportunity to advocate with your legislators, specially this year, to fund libraries, networks and regions. The pick-up spots are: 6:45 am WMRLS Headquarters, Whately - Directions 7:30 a.m. Table & Vine Liquors, West Springfield- Directions 8:15 a.m. Palmer Public Library- Directions 9:15 a.m. CMRLS Headquarters, Shrewsbury- Directions The bus will leave Boston at 2:30 pm and will arrive in Whately by 5:45 pm. The cost per person is $20 for Friends of WMRLS/CMRLS members and $25 for nonmembers. Register for the Friends of WMRLS & CMRLS Bus by completing this form     Location: WMRLS | Table & Vine | Palmer Public Library | CMRLS Wednesday March 10, 2010 Go To Top 10:00 AM  -  12:00 PM Summer Reading Programs for Adults: A Roundtable     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Join colleagues to brainstorm ways to extend your library’s upcoming summer reading program to include adults. Topics suggested for discussion include: Tips and techniques in planning a successful adult reading program; Effective publicity and promotion suggestions; and Questions and concerns – what works & what doesn’t. Wendy McAnanama, Agawam Public Library, and Janet Eckert, WMRLS will lead the discussion. DIRECTIONS         Location: Agawam Public Library       2:00 PM  -  4:30 PM WMRLS Executive Board Meeting     Contact: John Ramsay   413-665-9898 x113   jramsay@wmrls.org     Directions         Location: WMRLS Conference Room Monday March 15, 2010 Go To Top Online Continuing Education: At Your Convenience     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     One of the many benefits of WMRLS membership is free admission to WebJunction's online library continuing education workshops. The WebJunction course catalog covers a wide range of topics and is continually updated. Consult the WMRLS WebJunction Online Continuing Education Website and complete our WMRLS Online CE Registration Form (below) to receive a WMRLS coupon code that will enable you to take the course(s) that you select for free. You will have access to the course(s) that you select for one full year. WEBJUNCTION COURSE DESCRIPTIONS         Location: Online Continuing Education Course     Tuesday March 16, 2010 Go To Top 9:30 AM  -  3:30 PM 2010 Teen Summit     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Calling all teen librarians -- and anyone else interested in teen issues! The Massachusetts Regional Library Systems present their Second Statewide Teen Librarian Summit. Award winning author Nancy Garden will present the Keynote Address about her book Endgame and her research on bullying. Come hear from other teen librarians about topics like programming, award books, teen spaces, reader's advisory, and more. At the end of the day, you will leave with program ideas and solutions you can implement as soon as you get back to your library. You'll learn what works, and doesn't work, from other librarians facing the same issues you have. Join us for an information-packed day of roundtables, panel discussions and networking. Lunch is included; please indicate special dietary requests on your registration form. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Regional Library Systems DIRECTIONS         Location: Tower Hill Botanical Gardens, Boylston     Tuesday March 30, 2010 Go To Top 10:00 AM  -  4:00 PM Basic Library Techniques in Cataloging: March 30 and April 13     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Basic Library Training in Cataloging is intended as an introduction to help library staff who have no formal education in cataloging and also as a refresher course on the basics of cataloging for librarians and school library media specialists. The two session course will cover an introduction to the following: • Technical Services and Descriptive Cataloging • Subject Headings • Dewey Classification • MARC Cataloging Barbara Andrews, Andrews Consulting, will lead this workshop. Requirements: To fulfill the Cataloging component of the Basic Library Techniques requirement of the State Aid to Libraries program of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and/or to receive 12.5 Massachusetts Department of Education Professional Development Points Certificate of Completion, participants must attend both the March 30 and the April 13 training sessions at the Western Massachusetts Regional Library System (10 hours) and complete all homework assignments (2.5 hours). DIRECTIONS         Location: WMRLS Conference Room     Wednesday March 31, 2010 Go To Top 9:30 AM  -  3:00 PM Summer Reading Program Power Workshop     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Meet with colleagues to brainstorm effective and creative ways to encourage children, teens, and families to visit the library and to read during summer vacation months. Featured presentations will include effective library displays, unique ways to conduct environmentally friendly summer programs, tips and techniques on effective summer programming, and more! Lunch is included. DIRECTIONS         Location: Delaney House, Holyoke     Wednesday April 7, 2010 Go To Top 10:00 AM  -  1:00 PM Consumer Health Information     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Meet with medical librarian Margot Malachowski for a hands-on exploration of MedlinePLUS and other sources of consumer health information. We will review the basics of providing reference for health care issues, including issues of confidentiality and objectivity. We will also take some time to talk about information access (internet/mobile devices), collection development, library programming, and other relevant issues. Learn about free opportunities for continuing education to boost your confidence in providing consumer health reference. Margot Malachowski is the Outreach Librarian at Baystate Medical Center Health Sciences Library. DIRECTIONS         Location: WMRLS Computer Lab     Friday April 9, 2010 Go To Top 9:00 AM  -  3:30 PM Project WILD: Environmental Education for Grades K to 12     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Project WILD links students (grades K-12) and wildlife through its mission to provide wildlife-based conservation and environmental education that fosters responsible actions toward wildlife and related natural resources. Through the use of balanced curriculum materials and professional six-hour training workshops, Project WILD accomplishes its goal of developing awareness, knowledge, skills and commitment that result in informed decisions with regard to nature and the environment. Gini Traub and Alexander Gillman of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation are the program leaders. DIRECTIONS         Location: Lenox Memorial Middle High School Library     Tuesday April 13, 2010 Go To Top 10:00 AM  -  4:00 PM Basic Library Techniques in Cataloging: March 30 and April 13     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Basic Library Training in Cataloging is intended as an introduction to help library staff who have no formal education in cataloging and also as a refresher course on the basics of cataloging for librarians and school library media specialists. The two session course will cover an introduction to the following: • Technical Services and Descriptive Cataloging • Subject Headings • Dewey Classification • MARC Cataloging Barbara Andrews, Andrews Consulting, will lead this workshop. Requirements: To fulfill the Cataloging component of the Basic Library Techniques requirement of the State Aid to Libraries program of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and/or to receive 12.5 Massachusetts Department of Education Professional Development Points Certificate of Completion, participants must attend both the March 30 and the April 13 training sessions at the Western Massachusetts Regional Library System (10 hours) and complete all homework assignments (2.5 hours). DIRECTIONS         Location: WMRLS Conference Room Wednesday April 14, 2010 Go To Top 2:00 PM  -  4:30 PM WMRLS Executive Board Meeting     Contact: John Ramsay   413-665-9898 x113   jramsay@wmrls.org     Directions         Location: WMRLS Conference Room Friday April 16, 2010 Go To Top 9:00 AM  -  3:30 PM Project WILD: Environmental Education for Grades K to 12     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Project WILD links students (grades K-12) and wildlife through its mission to provide wildlife-based conservation and environmental education that fosters responsible actions toward wildlife and related natural resources. Through the use of balanced curriculum materials and professional six-hour training workshops, Project WILD accomplishes its goal of developing awareness, knowledge, skills and commitment that result in informed decisions with regard to nature and the environment. Pam Landry, Education Coordinator, MassWildlife, and Gini Traub, Regional Environmental Education Coordinator, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, are the program leaders. This event is co-sponsored by the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge at the Great Falls Discovery Center. DIRECTIONS         Location: Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Go To Top 1:00 PM  -  4:00 PM Opening Your Feng Shui Eyes in the Library!     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Feng Shui literally means WIND and WATER. Tap into the wisdom of this ancient practice to refresh and enliven your Library! In this very practical workshop, you will learn about the Feng Shui “Hot Spots” in your library; find your most “Commanding Position”; and meet the informative “Bagua” map -- a fascinating key to understanding and working with your space. In addition, you will gain some new insights on dealing with the perpetual challenge of Clutter. Susan LaForte, CFSP, Feng Shui for Home & Business, is the workshop leader. DIRECTIONS         Location: Agawam Public Library     Thursday May 6, 2010 Go To Top 1:00 PM  -  4:00 PM Opening Your Feng Shui Eyes in the Library!     Contact: Janet Eckert   413-665-9898 x127   jeckert@wmrls.org     Feng Shui literally means WIND and WATER. Tap into the wisdom of this ancient practice to refresh and enliven your Library! In this very practical workshop, you will learn about the Feng Shui “Hot Spots” in your library; find your most “Commanding Position”; and meet the informative “Bagua” map -- a fascinating key to understanding and working with your space. In addition, you will gain some new insights on dealing with the perpetual challenge of Clutter. Susan LaForte, CFSP, Feng Shui for Home & Business, is the workshop leader. DIRECTIONS         Location: Bushnell-Sage Library, Sheffield     Wednesday May 12, 2010 Go To Top 10:00 AM  -  12:30 PM WMRLS Executive Board Council of Members Meeting     Contact: John Ramsay   413-665-9898 x113   jramsay@wmrls.org     Directions         Location: Agawam Public Library Wednesday June 9, 2010 Go To Top 2:00 PM  -  4:30 PM WMRLS Executive Board Meeting     Contact: John Ramsay   413-665-9898 x113   jramsay@wmrls.org     Directions         Location: WMRLS Conference Room

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