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Target Marketing
by Anna Merritt 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Hello All, We are doing a free Retirement 101 seminar at our library in early October and I would like to do come target marketing (send the info around to specific groups) but I am not exactly sure who to target? The program will cover what you need to know as you approach retirement, so, I guess... ages 50-70? Any suggestions? Our library currently markets to local free publications, online community calendars, and social media, as well as internal library signage. We don't send out anything via mail, but would consider if the attendance justified the cost. Thanks! Anna Merritt Assistant Director Richland Community Library 8951 Park Street Richland, MI 49083 (269) 629-9085 https://www.richlandlibrary.org/ -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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New Metadata Workshop from the Michigan Museum Association!
by Chelsea Denault 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Sharing for our friends at the Michigan Museum Association. Please consider signing up for this in-person workshop happening on beautiful Mackinaw Island in October! Note that this workshop will be occurring during the MMA Annual Meeting, but you need not attend the entire Annual Meeting to participate in the workshop. All best, Chelsea -- Chelsea Denault, Ph.D. Michigan Digital Preservation Network Coordinator Midwest Collaborative for Library Services www.MIpres.org<http://mipres.org/> [Logo]<http://mipres.org/> Metadata Grooming for Museum Collections, October 12 Mackinac Island, 9 am- noon This three-hour workshop led by Matt Patulski of Poplar Media, will providing an overview of metadata grooming concepts and will include hands on exercises with common office apps including Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. Topics covered include fixing the basics errors found in almost every collection, creating new metadata from existing data, and exporting data to enable importing in to your collection software. In a series of short exercises, participants will learn tools, concepts, and methods to review, organize and clean up common metadata challenges when organizations need to make system-wide or targeted revisions to their collection data. Participants will need to bring a laptop. Cost: $50 Registration: You will be registering for a “Guest Ticket<http://www.michiganmuseums.org/event-4917189>” as a part of the larger Michigan Museums Association (MMA) conference. Follow the link, click “Register”, then enter your email and other required personal information, scroll down to select “Metadata Grooming for Museum Collections”, then finalize your registration and pay. You are also invited to attend the entire 2022 MMA Annual Conference<http://www.michiganmuseums.org/2022-Conference> (including networking events<http://www.michiganmuseums.org/Conf-Events> and sessions<http://www.michiganmuseums.org/Concurrent-Sessions>) on Mackinac Island or any other Workshops, Tours, and Activities<http://www.michiganmuseums.org/Workshops-Tours-&-Activities> on the website. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to MMA Staff<http://www.michiganmuseums.org/Contact-Us>. Claire Johnston Membership & Communications Coordinator Michigan Museums Association 313-334-7643 [MMA logo]<http://www.michiganmuseums.org/>

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New FREE Workshop from the Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network!
by Chelsea Denault 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

*apologies for cross-posting!* Apply by September 16! Do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about the workshop, the application process, or about DPOE-N more generally. I encourage you to sign up for DPOE-N’s new newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/pratt/dpoenetwork_newsletter_subscription to keep in the loop re: other digital preservation trainings, workshops, and funding opportunities. All best, Chelsea -- Chelsea Denault, Ph.D. Michigan Digital Preservation Network Coordinator Midwest Collaborative for Library Services www.MIpres.org<http://mipres.org/> [Logo]<http://mipres.org/> About the Michigan Digital Preservation Network Since 2020, MDPN has collaborated with public libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies across Michigan to advance digital preservation practice and education. MDPN works to provide an accessible and reliable “gold standard” for digital preservation technology to organizations across the state and to cultivate a vibrant and knowledgeable community of diverse stakeholders engaged in digital preservation. MDPN is a program of the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services. Learn more about MDPN membership and how to get involved with digital preservation efforts in Michigan at mipres.org<http://www.mipres.org/>. From: DPOE-N <dpoe-n(a)pratt.edu> Date: Monday, August 22, 2022 at 8:59 PM To: Chelsea Denault <denaultc(a)mcls.org> Subject: Upcoming Workshop - Apply by September 16th! UPCOMING WORKSHOP: [https://mcusercontent.com/059df3812b41fe5b45f12ceb9/images/10a9087f-62c2-ca…] Operations and Systems Management for Cultural Heritage Professionals Apply Now<https://pratt.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=059df3812b41fe5b45f12ceb9&…> This workshop will be held via Zoom on September 28 & 29, 2022 from 1:00 PM-3:00 PM Eastern time. This workshop is tuition-free thanks to support from the Mellon Foundation. The deadline to complete and submit this application is September 16, 2022. Successful applicants will be notified by September 23. Introduction: As cultural heritage practitioners, we perform a variety of tasks to document, manage, and preserve cultural heritage materials. Some of these tasks necessitate hands-on piecemeal work with physical and digital collections materials, whereas others may be managed by an ecosystem of software tools, such as databases, project management software, and collection management and digital preservation systems. One frame of reference we can use to characterize the latter is operations and systems management. In this workshop, participants will learn how to identify opportunities to operationalize cultural heritage work, tools that can support operations and systems management, and how to engage in thoughtful action and collaboration with colleagues to meet institutional needs. Workshop structure: Day One (2 hours) We will start by defining what operations and systems management is, especially in terms of how it has been historically applied within and throughout the manufacturing and service industries. With this definition in mind, we will turn our eye to the cultural heritage sector, and ask, what does operations and systems management look like in terms of archival and digital preservation work? We will provide concrete examples here of tools, methodologies and approaches we have taken in our own work at two major collecting institutions. After a break, we will pose a question: is there a way to perform operations management in a way that centers and honors the worker, the creator whose works the institution is stewarding, and our communities at-large? We will also provide concrete examples here of what certain institutions (or individuals/teams at institutions) are doing in the field to accomplish this. Day Two (2 hours) Day 2 will be an interactive, skill-building opportunity for new professionals to gain experience planning, implementing, and maintaining systems in archives. Over the course of the workshop, participants will be guided through playing a role-playing game (RPG) in which they are tasked with implementing a brand-new system or initiative. Through the rolling of di, participants will build up their character’s characteristics, and be led on a journey by workshop facilitators where they will encounter certain challenges and opportunities. They must use what they have learned on Day 1 (or invent new strategies) to navigate through to the end of a fictional project. The day will end with a facilitated discussion about each participant’s experiences, and what they may have learned along the way. Learning Outcomes: * Participants will learn how to articulate problems/challenges relating to digital preservation operations and map a user’s journey re: cultural heritage systems/technology * Participants will learn how to write communication plans, system requirements, and implementation plans * Participants will gain a better understanding of the shadow administrative infrastructures that underlie processing and descriptive work * Participants will be: * introduced to systems that support operations, broadly, such as databases, spreadsheets, and common applications/software * Introduced to systems “ecosystems” (clusters/chains of solutions) * Understand what skills may be required to support, advocate for, and maintain systems * Recognize red flags that may make certain efforts or projects hard to implement or maintain Instructors: Dinah Handel is the Digitization Service Manager at Stanford Libraries, where she supports digitization services and digital access to collections. Previously, she was the Mass Digitization Coordinator at the New York Public Library and was a NDSR-NY resident at CUNY TV. She holds an MLIS from Pratt Institute in New York, and a BA from Hampshire College. Mary Kidd currently works as the Systems and Operations Manager in the Preservation Department at the New York Public Library. She leads a team developing systems-based tools to streamline special collections operations and reporting. Previously, she worked as Project Lead for the Andrew W. Mellon-funded project Preserve This Podcast, and was a National Digital Stewardship Resident at the New York Public Radio Archives. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. For more information, visit the DPOE-N website<https://pratt.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=059df3812b41fe5b45f12ceb9&…>. 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City of Champions - 2021 Michigan Notable
by Anna Merritt 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Hello All, My library is wanting to reach out to the authors of "City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit" but a general Google search doesn't seem to garner any contact information for the authors. Has anyone had Stefan Szymanski and Silke-Maria Weineck at their library and feel comfortable sharing their contact information with me? Is there any other resources I can reach out to that can put our library in contact with Michigan authors? This title was a Notable selection in 2021, but I am not exactly sure how to reach out to that organization either. Thanks! Anna Merritt Assistant Director Richland Community Library 8951 Park Street Richland, MI 49083 (269) 629-9085 https://www.richlandlibrary.org/ -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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RE RE: Library of Things - requests for input
by Dominic McLaughlin 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Good afternoon again, everyone! We appreciate all the input, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, etc. given so far! For my part, I'm waiting at least another day or two to post any compiled information here on MICHLIB. I have tried to personally reply to any contributors so far and if I have missed anyone, please know of my earnest gratitude! Most sincerely, Dominic McLaughlin Technology Services Librarian/Adult Services Romeo District Library

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Baker and Taylor TitleTalk Event!
by Julie Beukema 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Hi all! Baker and Taylor is hosting one of their fabulous TitleTalk events at the Grand Rapids Public Library Main branch on Monday, October 17 from 9-12:30pm. This event is free but registration is required! Everyone is welcome although the focus is on Kids and Teen materials. Here's some more info about the event: We are thrilled to host one of our seasonal children's and teen publishing titles and trends presentations at the Grand Rapids Public Library. Please join us for this fun and informative professional development event. Each attendee will receive a fabulous SWAG bag! *REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!* *Margaret Peterson Haddix will be giving a talk and book signing at the end of the workshop!* *https://www.eventbrite.com/e/baker-taylor-cats-titletalk-trends-spring-2023-grand-rapids-tickets-359782157117* * * -- *Julie Beukema* she/her/hers <https://www.mypronouns.org/> /Collection Services Manager/ Grand Rapids Public Library Main Library | 111 Library St NE | 49503 616-988-5402 x5488 <tel:16169885402,5488> | www.grpl.org <https://www.grpl.org>

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Re: [Michlib-l] Library of Things - requests for input
by Dominic McLaughlin 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Good afternoon, everyone. We're looking into the possibility of a Library of Things collection. Reports I have read over the years referred to seed libraries, tools, kitchen odds and ends (e.g. cake pans), some consumer tech (e.g. VHS-to-DVD converters), board games, and other things. We are reaching out to get evaluations of several aspects: different types of items for checkout, what items are "best-sellers", pros and cons, any "messy" aspects (e.g. cleaning the library-issued cake pans upon their return by patrons or keeping track of all game pieces in a circulating board game). Feel free to email me directly (dominic@romeodistrictlibrary); I would be happy to share a compilation after some time of gathering any replies. Most sincerely, Dominic McLaughlin Technology Services Librarian/Adult Services Romeo District Library

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JOB: Library Director - Northeast Indiana - Columbia City
by John Keister 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Director, Peabody Public Library (Northeast Indiana) Don’t miss this terrific opportunity located in Northeast Indiana! The Peabody Public Library <https://www.johnkeister.com/peabody/> (PPL) in Columbia City is looking for its next great Director. This position is open due to the upcoming retirement of the current Director. Columbia City is a growing community located between the cities of Warsaw and Fort Wayne. It is known for its abundant community spirit, historic charm, and family-friendly living options. Housed in a beautiful building adjacent to a large wetlands, PPL serves more than 15,000 area residents with a budget of about $1.6 million and a staff of 20 people. If you are an innovative thinker who is excited about leading a library that embraces its vital role in the life of a friendly and supportive community, please consider this opportunity! Salary is $65,000 to $74,000/year, negotiable based on experience and qualifications. Excellent benefits. Relocation assistance provided. Please visit johnkeister.com/peabody <https://www.johnkeister.com/peabody/> for additional information and to apply. We welcome inquiries. Please apply by September 30 for first consideration. John Keister & Associates <https://www.johnkeister.com/> Executive Search for Libraries peabody(a)johnkeister.com <mailto:peabody@johnkeister.com> 847-955-0541 linkedin.com/in/johnkeister/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkeister/>

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Circulating Technology
by Amy Sturgeon 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Hi All, I am compiling a list of the pros and cons of circulating electronics (specifically Nintendo Switch and Oculus/Meta Quest). We are not doing this yet but we have opened the discussion to possibly make them available for checkout in the future. I'm looking for libraries who have circulated these types of things. What are your experiences, good and bad? Any advice or tips? After I compile it I can share my list with anyone else who is interested as well. Thanks in advance! Amy Sturgeon Program Director Gladwin County District Library

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kids musical programming
by Laura Hauch 24 Aug '22

24 Aug '22

Hello everyone, We're starting to plan next year's Summer Reading Program, and we're looking for recommendations for musical performers for children. I did check the No Reservation Recommendations, and didn't see anything for musical programming. Do you have anyone you loved? Anyone you hated? We'd love to hear about it! I can compile responses and share to the list. We appreciate your help! Laura Hauch Collection and IT Coordinator Buchanan District Library 128 East Front Street Buchanan, MI 49107 269-695-3681 269-695-0004 Fax www.buchananlibrary.org<http://www.buchananlibrary.org>

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