Election Results

The results are in and our 2016 Executive Committee will be:

President: JaDene Denniston (Mountainside Elementary, retired)
Vice President / President Elect: Paul Daybell (North Logan City Library)
Past President: Liz Woolcott (USU Merrill-Cazier Library)
Secretary: Karen Bowling (Smithfield Public Library)
Member at Large (Academic): Jennifer Duncan (USU Merrill-Cazier Library)
Member at Large (Public): Jason Cornelius (Logan Library)
Member at Large (School): Noelle Harrild (Thomas Edison Charter School North)

Please plan to attend our next business meeting on Thursday, January 21 [updated] at 4:30 PM at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum where our new leaders will be presented to the membership and you'll be able to congratulate them in person.

Thank you to everyone who voted and everyone who was on the ballot. Our organization stands on the participation of its members.

2016 Nominating Committee
Joseph N. Anderson, Chair
Liz Woolcott
JaDene Denniston
Darcy Pumphrey
Melanie Peterson

Jan Brett Visit!

From janbrett.com/index.html

From facebook.com/byjanbrett

We are very excited to be partnering with Penguin Random House and The King's English Bookshop to host beloved children's author Jan Brett in Logan!

When: Friday, December 11 at 6:00 PM
Where: Mount Logan Middle School (875 N 200 E, Logan)

This event is free and open to the public.

Ms. Brett will be on a cross-country tour promoting her latest book, The Turnip. Ms. Brett will give a talk about the book, a demonstration of her illustration techniques, and will sign copies of her books, which will be sold on-site by The King’s English.

We're also very excited that our own Melanie Peterson from Ellis Elementary won Ms. Brett's Lunch on the Bus contest! Congratulations!

Please share this information widely! You can tell your Facebook friends that you are attending here.

Call for Library Hero Award Nominations

Is there someone in the library profession or the Cache Valley community who deserves the title of "Library Hero"? Then now is the time to brag about them!

To nominate someone as the 2016 CVLA Library Hero, click here.

Tell us about your nominee at the link above. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 11, 2015. The award will be presented at the January 14, 2016 meeting of the Cache Valley Library Association.

Please note: nominees do NOT need to be employed by a library to win. There is no limit on the number of people you can nominate.

Examples of library service include:

• working or volunteering in libraries 
• developing new, innovative, pertinent, or effective library programming
• promoting libraries
• standing up for library principles in a challenging situation
• completing library related projects 

and the list doesn't end there!  We look forward to your nominations!

Nominate Your Favorite Librarian

Librarians in our valley’s many libraries make a difference in the lives of thousands of people every day. If a librarian has made a difference in your life, the Cache Valley Library Association encourages you to tell your story.

The I Love My Librarian Award, administered by the American Library Association, encourages library users to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community.

Nominations will be accepted until September 28 at www.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian.

Up to 10 librarians in public, school and college, community college and university libraries will be selected to win $5,000 and will be honored at a ceremony and reception in New York, hosted by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. In addition, a plaque will be given to each award-winner’s library. Winners will be announced in December 2015.

Each nominee must be a librarian with a master’s degree from a program accredited by the ALA in library and information studies or a master’s degree with a specialty in school library media from an educational unit accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. Nominees must be currently working in the United States in a public library, a library at an accredited two- or four-year college or university or at an accredited K-12 school.

The award is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The New York Public Library, and The New York Times.

Newsletter - Aug 2015

Our third newsletter is now available to view/download/print here. Please share it widely!

Thanks to Dory Cochran, our newsletter editor, for putting it together. You are encouraged to submit stories/anecdotes/information about your library to Dory (dory.cochran@usu.edu) for our next issue.

July 24 Events

We have two great events happening July 24th that we wanted everyone to know about. Whether you are a current CVLA Member or librarian working in Cache Valley or just a library-fan, we invite you to come and join in the festivities with us.

First, we will be participating in the Logan Pioneer Day Parade. Shawn Bliss, the Cache/Rich Bookmobile librarian will be driving his bookmobile in the parade and JaDene Denniston will be offering her convertible. There will be opportunities to ride or walk, as you need. We will meet at 10:30 along 100 W in Logan and make signs that represent our libraries or what we love most about libraries. Going along with the Summer Reading Program theme, we invite all participants to show up in superhero costumes or shirts, but it isn't required. We will have sign making equipment ready and water bottles for the participants. The parade will begin at noon and end at 1:30 at Willow Park. Please be sure to wear suncreen and bring a hat, if you need it. The map of the parade route is available here: http://www.loganutah.org/PR/Dept/images/Pioneer_Day/2015PioneerDayParadeInformation.pdf.

Second, we will be celebrating with Mendon City as they break ground for their brand new library/city office building. The groundbreaking starts at 7 pm at the Mendon Town Square. CVLA will have a brief meeting and some treats beforehand - at 6 pm at the pavilion on the square. The meeting agenda and minutes needing approval are attached for your reading pleasure. Please note that there will be showings of the "Wellsville Kid" at 5:30 and 7:45 that day, as well as the next day at 6, 7, and 8 o'clock. The Wellsville Kid is a very entertaining movie created by the residents of Mendon in 1972. (You can read about it in the Standard Examiner here: http://www.standard.net/Movies-TV/2015/07/16/The-Wellsville-Kid-rides-again-in-Mendon.html) The movie has been remastered and will be shown as a fundraiser for library. Tickets are $5/adults and $3/kids ages 12 and under or $7/adults and $5/kids at the door. Call 435-764-6610 or email wellsvillekid@gmail.com to pre-order.

We hope to see you there!

Thanks,
Liz
CVLA President

Newsletter - Jun 2015

Our second newsletter has been published! You can view/download/print it here. Many thanks to Dory Cochran once again for working so hard to put it together. Please share it widely. You are encouraged to submit stories/anecdotes/information about your library to Dory (dory.cochran@usu.edu) for our next issue.

Bike Tour 2015

We're holding our 2nd annual bike tour ("Bikes to Books") on Saturday, June 13. Feel free to join us for the entire route or only a part of it. You'll definitely want to meet up with the riders around 3:30 PM when they roll into Casper's Ice Cream in Richmond and stop for a break! You can find a route map here.

The schedule:

9:00 - 9:30 At Richmond Library (38 W Main St, Richmond)
9:30 - 11:00 Bike to Smithfield Library (Google says 56 minutes, 12 miles)
11:00 - 11:30 At Smithfield Library (25 N Main St, Smithfield)
11:30 - 12:30 Bike to Newton Library (Google says 48 minutes, 10 miles)
12:30 - 1:00 At Newton Library (51 S Center St, Newton)
1:00 - 2:30 Bike to Lewiston Library (Google says 1 hour and 20 minutes, 16 miles)
2:30 - 3:00 At Lewiston Library (29 S Main St, Lewiston)
3:00 - 3:30 Bike to Casper's (Google says 20 minutes, 4 miles)
3:30 - 4:15 At Casper's (11805 North 200 East, Richmond)
4:15 - 4:55 Bike to Richmond Library (Google says 35 minutes, 3 miles)

Snacks and drinks will be provided at each library. Don't forget to bring your own lunch, water, helmet, and sunscreen. There will be a support van & bike available.

Incredible Showing at ULA Conference!

Our own Pamela Martin
conducts the business
meeting as ULA President. 

The 2015 conference of the Utah Library Association was held May 13-15 in St. George and programs involving our Cache Valley colleagues were very prominent. In fact, CVLA President Liz Woolcott did the math and found that while Cache Valley's population is only 4% of Utah, we were represented in 33% of the conference programs! Great work, everyone!

Wednesday:
• Social, Dinner and St. George Library Tour sponsored by the Reference and Adult Services Round Table (Jason Cornelius is Chair)

Thursday:
• Personal Information Management Skills for Librarians and Library Patrons presented by Anne Dikema
• Marketing Like a Mad Man: So Easy a Librarian Can Do It presented by Paul Daybell, Adam Winger, Stephanie Western, Michelle Tippetts
• Research Data Management presented by Becky Thoms
• Local Connections: Creating a Community Librarians' Association presented by Joseph Anderson, Anne Hedrich, Shawn Bliss, Pamela Martin, Puanani Mateaki, Robert Shupe, Liz Woolcott
• Small Budget, Big Ideas: Stacking the Shelves with Help From a Stay-at-Home Librarian presented by Adam Winger & Stephanie Western
• Conference Keynote given by Lynne S. McNeill

Friday:
• What We Learned from the Air Force and a Couple Bakeries: A New and Improved Instruction Website presented by Erin Davis, Britt Fagerheim, Kacy Lundstrom
• Fifty Shades of Greatness: Removing the Handcuffs from Library Staff Bondage presented by Paul Daybell, Adam Winger, Michelle Tippetts, Chelsey Hawkes
• Library Peer Mentors presented by LaCretia Burgess, Pamela Martin, Andrea Krebs
• Extreme Makeover: Subject Guide Edition presented by Kacy Lundstrom
• Latino Outreach at the Grassroots Level: Success with a Latino Advisory Council presented by Robert Shupe, Sherrie Mortensen, Ernesto Lopez, Zinthia Acevedo
• Reporting Challenges and Self-Censorship presented by Shawn Bliss
• Minding the Gap: How the Ben Franklin Effect Can Transform Staffing Limitations Into Powerful Library Advocacy presented by Adam Winger
• The Many Faces of Marketing presented by Becky Thoms, Darcy Pumphrey, Alex Sundt
• Innovative Solutions for Library Integration: Using iPads to Support Curricula presented by Angela Neff & Erin Sorensen
• Tech Tools & Strategies for Quick and Effective Content Creation presented by Adam Winger, Paul Daybell, Michelle Tippetts, Chelsey Hawkes, Brittany Benson
• Introduction to FDSys: Free Full-Text Access to U.S. Federal Publications presented by Flora Shrode
• Copyright Overview for Librarians presented by Becky Thoms & Flora Shrode

Posters:
• Tablets Aren't Just for Moses by Bonnie Jorgensen
• Utilizing Data for a Fresh Perspective on Website User Experience by Alex Sundt
• Braaaiiinnss: The Zombie Movement in Teen Programming by Paul Daybell, Brittany Benson, Chelsey Hawkes
• UPLIFT Grant Phenomemon by Sydney Anderson
• Writing Center and Library Communication by Andrea Krebs

May 2015 Meeting

Our next business meeting and program will be held May 7, 2015 at 4:45 PM at the Mountainside Elementary School Media Center in Mendon. All are welcome to attend!

Unbelievable Oviparous Eggs & the Power of Utah’s Pioneer Library

4:45 – Meet and greet
5:00 – Business meeting
5:30 – Program

Many animals hatch from eggs. They may have fins, legs, or wings to fly. They may chatter, cheep, slither, or leap with scales, feathers, or smooth skin. Come see an array of oviparous animal eggs, shells, and birds’ nests.

Learn how to find information about them through the resources on Utah’s Pioneer Library, and learn about all of the other fun and useful tools you’ll find on Pioneer!

First Newsletter - Apr 2015

Our very first newsletter has been published! You can view/download/print it here. Many thanks to Dory Cochran for working so hard to put this together. Please share it widely. You are encouraged to submit stories/anecdotes/information about your library to Dory (dory.cochran@usu.edu) for our next issue.

Need Archival Storage Boxes?

The Logan Library has many professional grade archival storage boxes of different sizes [pictured] available for free to any Cache Valley library that will use them for archival purposes. You must be able to pick them up from the Logan Library. First come, first served. For details, contact Jason Cornelius, Logan Library's Special Collections Librarian, at 435-716-9143 or jason.cornelius@loganutah.org.

Library Hero Award

On Thursday, January 15, 2015, we presented our first-ever “Library Hero” award to the late Dr. Stephen Zsiray [pictured], a longtime valley school administrator and library advocate. The award was received on his behalf by his wife Paula during CVLA’s bi-monthly business meeting held at USU's Merrill-Cazier Library. The Herald Journal covered the event here. Congratulations to the Zsirays!