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   Arizona  Library Association Newsletter

     Promoting library service and librarianship in all types of Arizona libraries.

Volume 42, Number 10                                                                                                      November, 2009

INSIDE:

• Conference                                                                                                 
• AzLA President
• Library News from A-Z
• CAN
• YA Korner
• PL Road
• AzLA Calendar

2009 AzLA Annual Conference                 
   Libraries Lighting the Way                                 

The 2009 AzLA Annual Conference is right around the corner! This years’ lineup includes authors Jeff Benedict and Dave Donelson as well as fantastic presentations such as Terrific Toddler Programs and Gadgets, Gizmos and Games for Non-Geeks: Tech 2.0. And don’t miss our Keynote Speaker, Peter Pearson from the Friends of St. Paul Public Library for his talk titled “Libraries Lighting the Way: But Who’s Going to Pay the Electric Bill?”

We are excited to see all of you in December and we want to share several important reminders for those who want to attend.

All conference registration fees must be paid in full prior to admittance to the 2009 Annual Conference. Payments not received at the AzLA Administrative Offices by December 1, 2009 will be due in full at the door and will be subject to an additional $25.00 on-site registration fee.

Online registration has been extended through November 13, 2009. Register online today to avoid the $25.00 onsite registration fee.

Registration for pre-conferences and luncheons closes on November 13, 2009. No onsite registration will be available for these events so be sure to register before the closing date!

Reservations at the Glendale Renaissance Hotel, the Official Conference Hotel, must be made by November 13, 2009 in order to receive the special rate of $159.00/night (including all taxes). At the time of booking, you must mention or enter the AzLA Conference Group Code, AZLAZLA, to get this special rate. This rate is valid December 7-11, 2008. Call 1-800-HOTELS1 to reserve your room by phone or visit http://www.azla.affiniscape.com/displayconvention.cfm for a link to the online reservation system.

 By:Juliann Couture
       Nancy Deegan
AzLA Conference Committee Co-Chairs. 

 
  From the President of AzLA...                

As I contemplate the past year as AzLA President, it seems that time has flown by very quickly. I began with some trepidation, wondering what I had gotten myself into, but quickly became more comfortable. Learning the processes, facing new challenges, and working with the AzLA Board have made for a very exciting year.

The most important business of AzLA is nearly upon us. December 7-9 will be the 2009 Arizona Library Association Conference at the Renaissance Hotel in Glendale. This year’s theme, Libraries Lighting the Way places emphasis on the library’s function as a source of information, new ideas, and free access to quality programs and services even when times are tough. Many of the programs offered this year reflect this central theme. Libraries are a vital part of the community, and whether it’s academic, public, school, or special libraries, we all shine at providing access to information.

My sincere appreciation and gratitude goes out to the Conference Committee, Program Committee, Conference Manager and Association Manager, who volunteered hundreds of hours in planning and organizing to make this conference a success. Our vendors deserve a special thank you for their support through the economic downturn. It is very important to have them with us at the conference, and I appreciate their support and good humor.

The conference planners have done their best to provide a wide variety of programs to appeal to as many attendees as possible while providing an atmosphere of camaraderie and networking that will enliven and refresh us all. The goal is to offer opportunities for broadening our horizons and help us harken back to earlier library days of excitement and hope for the future.

Keynote speaker Peter Pearson, President of the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, will delight and entertain while offering realistic solutions to fundraising challenges. His presentation "Libraries Lighting the Way: But Who's Going to Pay the Electric Bill?" will offer insights, helpful tips, and a dose of levity. The pre-conferences are designed to provide understanding and maybe even change our perceptions on topics like volunteerism and various technology skills. Programs range from wonderful author presentations to programming ideas for toddlers. Don’t forget the Exhibit Hall, which will be chock-full of vendor ideas, new technology, and irresistible new products.

So please take advantage of all the conference has to offer. I predict that you won’t regret it. Most importantly, have fun! It is inspiring and empowering to reconnect with colleagues that we rarely see, enjoy our successes, and share our hopes for the future.
 

By: Denise Keller
AzLA President

Library News from A-Z

ARIZONA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENTS 2009

Congratulations to the 2009 AzLA Service Award recipients! I want to personally thank you all who took the time to recognize the accomplishments of your colleagues by submitting nomination packets. Each year the quality of the nominations increases and the committee has a much harder time making the selections. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the rest of the committee for their hard work in selecting this year’s recipients. Thanks to Mark Floor, Glendale Community College Library, Trish Pelletier, Apache Junction Public Library, Pamela Gavina, Lela Alston Elementary School, Gina Macaluso, Pima County Public Library, Beth Bareham, Valley Vista High School and Michelle Schrade, Glendale Public Library for serving as this year’s selection committee. Remember it’s never too early to think about submitting a nomination for next year! See you at the conference!

Library Leadership Award
Jana Bradley—School of Information Resources & Library Science

Follett School Librarian of the Year Award
Karlene Edwards—Sunrise Mountain High School

Emerging Leader Award
Adriana Rendon—Pima County Public Library

Outstanding Decision Maker Award
Secretary of State Ken Bennett

Outstanding Library Service Award
Mary Givins—Pima County Public Library

Sharon G. Womack Library Technician of the Year Award
Sandra Mendoza—Chandler Public Library

Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award
Holly Henley—Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records

Outstanding Library Board Award
Navajo County Board of Supervisors

Outreach Services Award
Debbie Winlock—Page Public Library

By: Tami Miller-Earick, AzLA Awards Chair

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If your e-mail address is incorrect you will not receive a renewal reminder for your membership dues. If you or an AzLA member you know are not currently receiving the AzLA newsletter please contact us at admin@azla.org.

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2010 Frances Henne/YALSA/VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) Research Grant

The deadline for this opportunity is coming up! Don't miss your chance!

This grant of $1000 provides seed money for small-scale projects that will encourage research that responds to the YALSA Research Agenda, available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/aboutyalsa/yalsaresearch.cfm

Details regarding the applications for the 2010 Frances Henne YALSA/VOYA Research Grant are available from the YALSA Web site: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/awardsandgrants/franceshenne.cfm

For more information please contact us via e-mail (yalsa@ala.org) or by phone (800-545-2433 x 4387).

Applications for the grant are due i n the YALSA Office by December 1, 2009.

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Library Tech 2010 Call for Proposals

Proposals will be accepted until Friday, November 20th, 2009.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
This popular and growing two-day conference is now in its third year. The conference includes keynote, concurrent, hands-on and poster sessions highlighting many of the technologies affecting how users interact with libraries, as well as how libraries are using technology to create new and better ways to manage existing resources. This Conference is an opportunity for library staff and the technologists who support them to discuss how these technologies are affecting library services; to see examples of what libraries are doing with these technologies; and to allow participants to learn specific skills or knowledge that they can take back and adapt for use within their own library.

Sessions are geared toward all types of libraries, a wide range of topics and varying skill levels. Conference sessions will include a mix of traditional lecture-style presentations, panel discussions, hands-on workshops, and poster sessions. Anyone interested in the changing technologies that are affecting libraries should plan to attend.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR FROM YOU:
We are looking for a balance of sessions that will appeal to a broad library audience and provide a combination of “right now” solutions and “see the future” technology presentations. Projects can be already implemented or still in process. Long-term experiments that stretch the boundaries of how we work, or will work, in libraries, as well as “out of the box” solutions and ideas for libraries struggling to keep up are welcome topics. What has worked for you? Why? What brought you to that solution? What benefits has it provided to your organization?

POSSIBLE PROGRAM TYPES:  
Traditional Session - 60-minute lecture-style presentation highlighting a technology resource or service.

Workshop Session - 90 minute session offering participants a hands-on experience working with a technology or learning details of a service. Be sure to tell us if there is a maximum number of participants you feel would be appropriate. Available lab space may ultimately decide the class size.

Group / Panel Discussion - 90-minute group discussion involving a variety of presenters focusing on single topic or specific technology-based service or innovation; should also include an opportunity for audience discussion.

Poster Session - posters and handouts describing and explaining a technology resource or service offered in a library.

PRESENTER COMPENSATION:
Presenters who participate in a presentation or poster session will be given one- or two-day registration, based on these guidelines:

If presenting a full session, a presenter will be given free registration for both (2) days of the conference.
If an institution submits a panel format with three (3) or more participants from the same institution in the same session, each panel representative will be given free registration for one (1) day only.

If you have questions or if we can be of assistance as you prepare for your presentation, please contact: Laura Wight at laura.wight@sdstate.edu

To submit a proposal, please visit the conference website.  

Children's Author  / Illustrator Network
Scheduling Information & Dates

Listed authors/illustrators are not endorsed or sponsored by AZLA or Mary Wong. Listings are provided as a service to teacher librarians interested in scheduling school visits with authors and/or illustrators.

Arizona Authors By Appointment (anytime during the year)

Jean Ekman Adams. Contact author/illustrator at 480-948-3341
Brooke Bessesen. Go to www.brookebessesen.com for info and scheduling
Larry Dane Brimner. Go to www.brimner.com for info and scheduling
Rhody Cohon. Go to www.blasttothepastbooks.com for info and scheduling
Lynne Avril Cravath. Go to www.lynneavril.com for info and scheduling
Chris Gall. Go to www.chrisgall.com for info and scheduling
James M. Deem. Go to www.mummytombs.com or www.jamesmdeem.com for info and scheduling
Terri Fields. Go to www.terrifields.com for info and scheduling
Juanita Havill. Contact author at lemotjuste@theriver.com
BG Hennessy. Go to www.bghennessy.com for into and scheduling
Barbara Gowan. Go to www.barbaragowan.com for info and scheduling
Laura Jacobsen. Go to www.laurajacobsen.com for info and scheduling
Susan Lowell. Go to www.susanlowell.com for info and scheduling
Lisa McMann. Go to www.lisamcmann.com for info and scheduling
Guy Porfirio. Go to www.guyporforio.com for info and scheduling
Charline Profiri. Go to www.cprofiri.com for info and scheduling.
Janette Rallison. Go to www.janetterallison.com for info and scheduling.
Adam Rex Go to www.adamrex.com for info and scheduling
Joan Sandin. Go to members.authorsguild.net/joansandin/ for info and scheduling
Amanda Shepherd. Go to www.paintdog.com/ for info and scheduling
Jennifer J. Stewart. Go to www.jenniferjstewart.com for info and scheduling
Conrad Storad. Go to www.conradstorad.com for info and scheduling
Mike Venezia. Go to www.mikevenezia.com for info and scheduling
Jennifer Ward. Go to www.jenniferwardbooks.com for info and scheduling

 Fall 2009

December 1 – 4 Wallace Edwards. Contact Mary Wong for info and scheduling.

December 1 - 4 Diane de Groat. Go to www.dianedegroat.com for info and scheduling.

Spring 2010

February 16 – 19 Nicole Rubel. Go to www.nicolerubel.com for info. Contact Cathy Bonnell at cathy.bonnell@wesdschools.org or cbonnell@cox.net to schedule

February 22- 26 Ashley Wolff. Go to www.ashleywolff.com for info. Contact Mary Wong to schedule

March 1 - 5 Neal Shusterman. Go to www.storyman.com for info. Contact Mary Wong to schedule

March 8 – 12 Ying Compestine. Go to www.yingc.com for info and scheduling.

March 8 – 12 Matthew Holm. Go to www.matthewholm.net for info. Contact Mary Wong to schedule 
 

Contact: Mary Wong
623-486-2582
For further information or to schedule a visit, leave a message with daytime & evening telephone numbers.

YA KORNER

End of the Year Round-up

I hope you’ve enjoyed this year’s columns on programming. I know that we all struggle with programming ideas and it helps to hear about other libraries’ events. There’s no reason we need to re-invent the wheel every time. Let’s just borrow from one another! As I write this column, I have library Monopoly almost ready for this month’s program, I’ve just finished the publicity blurbs for programs in December, January, and February. I feel tapped out of ideas! Whenever I feel this way, I look to inspiration on the listservs, online, and in my collection.

YALSA has many free to join listservs that help teen librarians, but the YA-YAAC listserv (http://lists.ala.org/sympa/info/ya-yaac) is all about programming. It doesn’t have as heavy of traffic as their book listserv, but in a month you can expect a few hundred emails about programming. If that feels intimidating, check out their archives section and browse for a few minutes.

Once I have a basic idea that I want to do, I do some searching online to see if someone else has done something similar. For example, this week I was trying to come up with a craft with a medieval flair. A google search or two later, I stumbled across stained glass painting. Success! Other times, I don’t have an idea as to what I want to do, just that I need to do something else in a month. Usually this is, again, a craft. When this occurs I check out some blogs. This blog, 4YA (http://www.the4yablog.com/) is fairly new, but has had some fun craft and program ideas already. It’s helpful that the blog owner is a teen librarian. Most of the other sites I peruse are craft sites, which can assume that the reader is craftier than I really am. But it can give me some good brainstorming ideas! The site Instructables (http://www.instructables.com/) is probably my favorite since the crafts have step by step instructions with images to help you along the way!

And finally, the collection. Usually this is my source for inspiration. This school year my teen programs are loosely focusing on popular books/book themes for each month’s programming. So January’s medieval themed events are influenced by the Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan. February’s Greek themed events are for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I had to scour the ancient Greece and Greek culture books looking for a craft idea that would entice teen girls to attend the boy-centered month’s programs. Finally, I came across a paragraph about protecting oneself against the evil eye with protection beaded necklaces and bracelets. Success!

So there you have it, a year of teen programming suggestions and ideas. I hope you all enjoyed reading about the different types of programs as I did writing the columns—and creating some of the events! Next year’s columns will have a different theme. Any suggestions are greatly welcomed! Email them to me at kfletcher-spear@glendaleaz.com and I’ll see you next year!

By: Kristin Fletcher-Spear
Teen Librarian II,
Foothills Branch Library
Glendale Public Library

  On the PL Road

Harmon Library
 

Evelyn Howley and I attended the grand opening of the new Harmon Library of Phoenix Public Library (PPL) on Sat., Sep. 12, and re-visited the Library on Fri., Oct. 9. We took I-17 to the 7th Avenue exit. Then we went north to Buckeye Road and turned east. At 5th Avenue, we turned south. The Harmon Library is now located at 1325 S. 5th Ave. in Phoenix.

According to the publication “Out of the Ashes” on the City’s website, the Hohokam occupied the Phoenix area until around 1400 A.D. In 1867 Jack Swilling began construction on a canal. A Post Office was established in 1868, and Phoenix was incorporated in 1881. Today the City has an estimated population of over 1.5 million.

The story of PPL began In Nov. 1897, when fifteen women formed the Friday Club to begin a public library, which opened in June 1898. After several location changes, the Library moved to the Carnegie Library on Feb. 14, 1908.

Then the first permanent PPL branch library, Harmon Library, opened in September 1950 at Harmon Park. The Library and Park were built on land donated by the Harmon Foundation, named after the philanthropist William E. Harmon (1862-1928). He established the Harmon Foundation to recognize the achievements of African-Americans in literature, education, and the arts.

The original Harmon Library at 411 W. Yavapai Street occupied 5800 square feet, expanded to 7800 in 1975. In 2001, Richard+Bauer remodeled the old Library.

Richard+Bauer also were chosen to design the new Harmon Library at 1325 S. 5th Ave., which was built by Mortensen Construction with funds from the 2006 Citizens Bond Program. The new Harmon Library occupies 12,300 square feet. The long building has large shaded clerestory windows on the north and south ends. The entrance to the Library is in the northwest corner of the building. Decking on the outside continues inside to the service desk.

The interior of the building is spacious with high ceilings and exposed trusses. Three of the trusses have banners that each represent a third of a ceramic mural that moved from the old Library to the new one. This mural is entitled “Cultural Connections” and is the work of Niki Glen and Helen Helwig. The mural was transferred to one of the reading patios on the east side of the new structure.

Besides the light from the clerestory windows, other windows have alternating glass and translucent panels. Long, narrowed colored windows in the walls as well as skylights introduce amber, green, red and blue light patterns to brighten up the surroundings.

The teen room on the west side is wonderful. Visible through 2 study rooms, words in different languages are superimposed on the glass walls. Two separate entrances lead to a room with a large-screen TV and comfortable seating.

There is a meeting room that accommodates 60 people and has a kitchen. The storytime room has a pullout puppet stage that is very innovative.

Well, I have run out of space but there is much more to tell about this Library. Please visit to find out more!
 

By: Louis Howley
Phoenix Public Library  

Arizona Library Association

AzLA 2009-2010 Calendar

December 7-9            AzLA Annual Conference, Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa
January 15-19           2010 ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
March 23-27              2010 Public Library Association National Conference, Portland Oregon

Arizona Library Association Newsletter

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