Question: Where can you or staff spend the day leaning about key preservation issues such as disaster recovery and collections, network with colleagues old and new about shared issues, listen to an engaging dinner speaker, and watch a preservation film festival? And receive this all at NO COST. Answer: At the two-day Preservation Boot Camp [...]
The State Library of Ohio is pleased to announce that the State Library Board recently awarded $24,500 in special Choose to Read Ohio LSTA grants to six libraries. Choose to Read Ohio, a project of the State Library of Ohio and its partner Ohioana, is a statewide initiative to encourage the reading of Ohio literature [...]
Are you planning to attend ALA’s annual conference in Washington D.C this year? If so you have the unique opportunity to also participate in Library Advocacy Day. For one year only, Library Advocacy Day will replace National Library Legislative Day (NLLD). On June 29, 2010, library advocates from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. will [...]
It is with mixed feelings that I send you this note. I am resigning as State Librarian of Ohio and have accepted the position of State Librarian of Kansas. After much deliberation, the lure of new and different challenges (and the proximity of family) in Kansas proved too strong! It has been an honor to [...]
61 Ohio Public Library Systems Receive Grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Program to Help Generate $3.7 Million in Local Funding for Public Technology Access in 11 States SEATTLE – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today $6.5 million in grants to help public libraries in 11 states increase and sustain free, [...]
Lakewood, Ohio — Following the conclusion of a national search, the Lakewood Public Library Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of James Crawford as Director of Lakewood Public Library. For the past nine years, Mr. Crawford has served as the Director of the Ida Rupp Public Library located in Port Clinton, Ohio, [...]
Birchard Public Library is pleased to announce that effective May 1, 2009 Pam Hoesman will become the library director of Birchard Public Library. Mary Anne Culbertson, who’s currently the director, is retiring April 30. Most recently Pam has worked as the director of the Oak Harbor Public Library, a position she’s held for 13 years. [...]
Contact: Robert J. Rua Communications Coordinator 216.749.9487 rrua@cuyahogalibrary.org Parma, OH – April 14, 2009 – Kacie Armstrong is the newly appointed Branch Manager of Cuyahoga County Public Library’s North Olmsted Branch, located at 27403 Lorain Road. Armstrong, a North Olmsted resident, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Notre Dame College of Ohio and went [...]
Library Journal has named Ohio University Business Librarian Chad Boeninger to the “Innovators” category of their “Movers & Shakers 2009″ list. Launched in 2002 to identify librarians and others who are ‘shaping the future of libraries,’ the list represents a “Who’s Who of creativity and library trends in the field.” Read more about Chad and [...]
Parma, OH – March 6, 2009 – The USA Toy Library Association (USA-TLA) has awarded Cuyahoga County Public Library Executive Director Sari Feldman with its “Player of the Year” award. Under Feldman’s leadership, the Library expanded the Toy Library Collection housed at its Brooklyn Branch for over fifteen years into a system-wide Toy Lending Service [...]