2017 Executive Committee!

We're very excited to announce our 2017 Executive Committee!

✴ President: Paul Daybell (North Logan City Library​)
✴ Vice President/President Elect: Dory Cochran (The Merrill-Cazier Library​ at USU)
✴ Past President: JaDene Denniston (Mountainside Elementary, retired)
✴ Secretary: Flora Shrode (The Merrill-Cazier Library at USU)
✴ Member at Large (Academic/Special): Coral Larson (The Logan Family Center​)
✴ Member at Large (Public): Brittany Benson (North Logan City Library & Mendon Library and City Hall​)
✴ Member at Large (School): Nancy Krogh (Adams Elementary)

Thank you to all the great people who ran for office this year and also to all those who served on our nominating committee!

2017 Leadership Election

✔ Did you vote? All CVLA members should have received an email this morning with a link to the ballot for our 2017 leadership (check your spam folder if you haven't seen it yet).

✔ According to our bylaws, voting will take place from December 1-15.

✔ Please take a few minutes and vote. It's simple and important.

Pictures from November Membership Meeting

Maralin Hoff, the 'Earthquake Lady' from Be Ready Utah, presented on earthquake preparedness at our membership meeting 11/10/16 at Logan Library. Click here to see more photos of the event.

Call for Nominations

It’s time to nominate your next CVLA Executive Committee! The positions that will be open are:

• Vice President (3-year commitment: also becomes Present and Past President in turn)

• Secretary (1-year commitment)
• Member at Large (1-year commitment)
• Member at Large (1-year commitment)
• Member at Large (1-year commitment)

Nominations are due by November 15.
Self-nominations are very welcome! Send nominations to cachelibraries@gmail.com or the Nominating Committee Chair liz.woolcott@usu.edu.

Newsletter - Oct 2016

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

Thanks to Dory Cochran and her team 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.

URGENT: How You Can Help Save The Cache/Rich Bookmobile

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

➨ Call or email the Cache County Executive and you council member ASAP (Contact info here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/save-the-cacherich-bookmobile/cache-county-contacts/1786452141632798). Respectfully tell them you're not okay with the bookmobile being de-funded. Ask your friends, family, coworkers, library patrons, etc. to do the same.
➨ Attend the next Cache County Council meeting in support of the bookmobile: https://www.cachecounty.org/countycouncil/countycouncil.html. Bring signs, friends, family, coworkers, library patrons, etc.
➨ Invite your Facebook friends to like the campaign page for updates and to show their support.

Urgent: Library Advocacy Needed

Dear CVLA and community members,

As reported on Cache Valley Daily on Sep. 14, Cache County Executive Craig Buttars is currently considering de-funding the Cache / Rich Bookmobile and Cache County Library. We are very concerned about the impact of such a move on our communities, and also the employees of these essential organizations.

Last week, our CVLA Executive Committee created an advocacy committee to explore ways we might promote our libraries, especially the bookmobile and county library at this time. You'll hear more from the committee in the near future. If you are interested in assisting in this effort, even if only for a short time, please contact me ASAP at joseph.anderson@loganutah.org.

In the meantime, if you feel so inclined, please respectfully express your opinion on this issue to Executive Buttars at (435) 755-1850 or craig.buttars@cachecounty.org before he presents his preliminary budget to the council during their Oct. 11 meeting. You can also like the new Save the Cache/Rich Bookmobile Facebook page for updates and to show your support.

We know how important libraries are in the lives of our community members. We know how important the bookmobile is, especially to our rural communities. We know the amazing rate of return on investment in libraries. We're not giving up on our communities, their libraries, and their employees!

All the best,

Joseph N. Anderson
CVLA Advocacy Committee Chair

September 2016 Meeting

2016 Bikes to Books & Family Summer Social Photos

Bikes to Books 2016

From BicycleBettie.com, used with permission

Inspired by the great Little Free Libraries CVLA program earlier this year, your Bikes to Books

planners have chosen a Cache Valley Little Free Libraries tour as our Bikes to Books route for 2016.

When: Saturday July 16, 10:30 a.m. start, ride time estimated between 2.5 and 3 hours
Where: City of Logan area (this will be much shorter than last year’s ride). See below for route details.
Stops: Little Free Libraries

Start: Just East of Hillcrest Elementary (Fourhig Little Free Library) 10:30 a.m.
Stop 2: 357 Boulevard (CS Little Free Library) 10:55 a.m.
Stop 3: 361 E 300 N (East 3rd North LL) 11:15 a.m.
Stop 4: 100 west block of 500 North 11:45 a.m.
Stop 5: 300 west block of 200 North (Ma’s Little Free Library) 12:00 noon
Stop 6: east end of Rainbow Drive (End of the Rainbow LL) 12:30 p.m.
End at Willow Park to meet for our annual summer family event! 1:00 p.m.

Click to enlarge

Things to note: the route is downhill and flat – total distance of about 7.5 miles! Times listed are approximate. The Little Free Libraries are really clever and cute! Some of the owners will be able to come out and talk to us briefly about their libraries. Feel free to ride with the group or on your own. We can work out carpooling or take the CVTD buses to get back to the start to get vehicles.

Please bring:
Yourself! | Your bike | A helmet | Water | (optional) snacks for the ride, lunch for the picnic | sunscreen or other sun protection | You also might want to bring a book to donate to a Little Free Library (very optional)

Questions? Contact anne.hedrich@usu.edu or dory.cochran@usu.edu

2014 Ride

2015 Ride

Photos From May 26 Meeting

Local Library Featured

The North Logan City Library and the family of director Adam Winger are featured in & on the latest Cache Valley Family Magazine!

Thanks to the magazine for featuring one of our great local libraries!

You can read the article here.

2016 USU Common Literature Experience

From Joseph, CVLA Webmaster:

The 2016 USU common literature experience book is How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson.

The Connections program has asked that I let you all know about it and I am glad to oblige as a former member of the book selection committee. This year they are once again planning to include our libraries in the experience by distributing free posters/postcards and books to at least the public libraries. You may even have received them already. I have emailed promotional images to all CVLA members.

Visit http://www.usu.edu/connections/literatureexperience/ for more information about the book, the convocation talk by the author on Friday, August 26 at the Spectrum (open to the public and also streamed online), and to view episodes of the PBS documentary of the same name.

I'd encourage you to promote the reading of How We Got to Now with your patrons this summer. Let's get our whole community reading the same book at the same time!

Local Libraries in the Newspaper

Local libraries are all over the May 13th Bridgerland section of The Herald Journal!

🌟 "Grant aims to develop maker culture in local libraries"
http://bit.ly/24WDLPu
Congratulations, Utah State University & North Logan City Library!

🌟 "Cache Valley enamored with little libraries"
http://bit.ly/1X7GDTC
Good work, Cache Valley Little Free Libraries!

National Library Week 2016

President JaDene Denniston wrote a great column for National Library Week which was published in The Herald Journal.

"Libraries are many things to different people but to me they are places of wonder. They are places where adventures begin and keep on going, where questions and answers merge together, yet they are so much more. They can take us to places we will never visit like “Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,” or the planet Jupiter.

"This year’s theme, “Libraries Transform,” makes me think of how libraries can and have changed people’s lives. Suppose you need the manual for your old 1967 Mustang. Libraries have it. Perhaps you need help learning how to use your smart phone. Libraries have that as well. Whether school, university, private or public, libraries transform lives and communities.

"Libraries of Cache Valley play a vital role in the lives of many people from helping a sixth grader find information on ancient civilizations, to a family planning a trip to Europe. Today’s libraries continue to provide books, resources, and information to their patrons. But today they are so much more. Libraries are living organisms continually adapting to better serve their communities. They transform lives through literacy programs. They offer employment support. Technology training is available. And don’t forget entertainment. Libraries provide vast activities for individuals, families and groups..."

You can read the full article here.

Failure...Again! Professional Workshop

In a workshop, librarians in the Cache Valley will be meeting for an interdisciplinary discussion of failure. Although the focus of the discussion will be intended for implementation by librarians, those of other disciplines are welcome to attend.

Saturday, April 30, 9:00-11:30 AM
North Logan City Library (475 E 2500 N North Logan)

‣ Frank discussion will be conducted about how to cope with mistakes, accept imperfection, and learn from failure.
‣ Participants will learn from attendees of the recent Utah Library Association Strikethrough Failure Workshop and two guest presenters:

Mark Lee Koven – Assistant professor in the USU Art + Design department will discuss failure as it’s perceived in the art community.

Pat Sadoski – Trained nurse will speak on what losses and challenges seniors face in our community and how we might learn from these experiences.

Our Public Libraries in the Newspaper

Cache Valley's public libraries were featured on the front page of the Herald Journal on Saturday, April 2, 2016! Thanks to the Herald Journal and reporter Lis Stewart for highlighting the many great things local library staff members are doing! You can access the article here: http://bit.ly/1W635fq.

2016 MPLA Fellows

Congratulations to our members Jason Cornelius (Logan Library) and Becky Thoms (The Merrill-Cazier Library at USU) who are 2016 Fellows of the Mountain Plains Library Association Leadership Institute!

Jason and Becky are spotlighted with other Fellows in the most recent MPLA newsletter: http://bit.ly/25yGxbA.

CVLA Serving in ULA

Congratulations to the following CVLA members on their election to positions in the Utah Library Association!

🌟 Shawn Bliss (Cache / Rich Bookmobile) will be a Member-at-Large on the Executive Board!
🌟 Sherrie Mortensen (Logan Library) will be a Member-at-Large on the Youth Services Round Table (YSRT)!
🌟 Becky Skeen (USU Merrill-Cazier Library) will be Vice Chair of the Archives, Manuscripts & Special Collections Round Table (AMSC)!
🌟 Anne Diekema (SUU Sherratt Library, formerly of the USU Merrill-Cazier Library) will be Chair of the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT)!

We know you'll all do great!

Angie's Pie Social Photos

Pie Social
Posted by Cache Valley Library Association on Sunday, 21 February 2016

January Meeting Photos

Please tag yourselves!
Posted by Cache Valley Library Association on Friday, 22 January 2016