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Lincoln Trail Calendar for May 13-June 9, 2006: |
| May 15 | LTLS Budget/Finance Committee Meeting, 6:30 p.m., LTLS |
| May 19 | Poverty Simulator, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Mt. Vernon, IL |
| May 20 | Cultural Competency Workshop, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Rolling Prairie Library System, Decatur |
| May 24 | LINC Policy Council, 1:30 p.m., LTLS |
| May 29 | Memorial Day, LTLS closed |
| May 31 | LTLS Board of Directors Meeting, 7 p.m., LTLS |
| June 5 | LTLS Planning/Policy Committee Meeting, 6:30 p.m., LTLS |
| June 8 | Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Tour - bus trip from LTLS to Springfield |
Register online for the continuing education
and training events listed above at http://dot.lincolntrail.info:591/OnlineReg/onlinereg.htm.
If you cannot locate or do not have a login and password, please send
an email to Donna Schaal at ce@lincolntrail.info.
Or you may register at ce@lincolntrail.info.
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| 2006 - 195 | Visit the LTLS web site to see the following new information: Connections - November/December 2005 Diversity Web Site (Funded by an LSTA grant): News Releases:
LTLS Online Book Clubs Upcoming Selections for April through August 2006 |
| 2006 - 196 | Lincoln Trail Libraries System Board Meeting change: The May meeting of the Board of Directors has been postponed from May 15, 2006 to May 31, 2006, 7:00 p.m., at LTLS headquarters. |
| 2006 - 197 | LTLS bus trip to the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield on June 8, 2006
- itinerary: 7:45 a.m. - leave LTLS 9:15 a.m. - Museum self-guided tour (approximately 2.5 hours) Lunch on your own 2:00 p.m. - Library tour conducted by library staff 5:00 p.m. - estimated return to LTLS CLaSS registration fee is $35.50; non-subscriber fee is $45.50. This covers transportation costs only. Museum tickets are $5.50. Pay the registration fee in advance or on June 8. If not enough registrations are received to cover costs, Lincoln Trail reserves the right to cancel the trip by May 19, 2006. Any monies received will be refunded or credited to your account. Register at http://dot.ltls.org:591/OnlineReg/onlinereg.htm or send an email to ce@lincolntrail.info. If you have any questions, call Donna Schaal at 217-352-0047, Ext. 204, or email dschaa@lincolntrail.info. |
| 2006 - 198 | LTLS member library photos wanted: LTLS would like to include a photo of your library on the LTLS Web site. The photo could be of the outside of your building or of something inside your library, preferably with no people in the picture. Please email digital photos to kwilki@lincolntrail.info or otherwise put photos in the LTLS delivery to the attention of Karen Wilkinson. LTLS also welcomes photos of special events in your library to be included in the photo album on the Web site. In that case, please include people!! |
| 2006 - 199 | Nominations are being sought for the LTLS Board of Directors. There will be one vacant seat for a three-year term as Special Library Interest Director beginning July 1, 2006. If you would like to self-nominate or nominate someone you know who is interested, please go to the following link for the application for candidacy form, http://www.ltls.org/bodapplyforcandidacyform.pdf , or contact Jan Ison at 217-352-0047, Ext. 221, or jison@lincolntrail.info. |
| 2006 - 200 | School Library Day (6 CPDUs) has been scheduled for June 12, 2006, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (This replaces the July 8 School Library Day on the LTLS CE calendar.) The full-day session will focus on issues relevant to elementary, middle, and high school librarians. Potential topics range from collaboration, educational mandates, intellectual property, literacy, management, and technology. More details will be provided soon. Register at http://dot.ltls.org:591/OnlineReg/onlinereg.htm or send an email to ce@lincolntrail.info. If you have any questions, contact Randi Weiss at 217-352-0047, Ext. 229, or rweiss@lincolntrail.info or Amani Fouad Ayad at 217-352-0047, Ext. 228, or aayad@lincolntrail.info. The non-subscriber fee is $80.00. |
| 2006 - 201 | The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science makes student Masters' Theses available online at http://etd.ils.unc.edu/dspace. Among the papers is one written by Christopher Weir Maier, the grandson of LTLS Delivery Driver Gene Weir. "CORE576: An Exploration of the Ultra-Structure Notational System for Systems Biology Research" is available at http://hdl.handle.net/1901/310 |
| 2006 - 202 | Registration is now open for the Second Annual Community as Intellectual Space Symposium in Chicago, presented by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago. The symposium will start mid-afternoon Friday, June 16, and end Sunday, June 18, after lunch. Registration fee, which includes some meals, is $75. For additional information on the symposium and to register: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS/. |
| 2006 - 203 | Upcoming programming at Marshall Public Library: May 18, James Jones Day; June 8, The Multi-faceted Eugene V. Debs; June 15, The Great Influenza: The Plague of 1918; June 16-July 20, America Becomes a World Power, weekly film and discussion series; June 16-17, Will Rogers Now. Call the library at 217-826-2535. |
| 2006 - 204 | Position Available: Librarian I-Children's Librarian, Champaign Douglass Branch Library, full-time, $21.05 per hour, ALA/MLS required. Apply by 5 p.m. on May 30, 2006. For more information, contact the Business Office at 217-403-2050 or go to http://www.champaign.org/geninfo/jobs.html. |
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