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.