Fourth Quarter
Winter 2005 UTAH Libraries News
The Official Publication of the Utah Library Association Special Interest Articles: President’ s Message
• National Dear ULA Members, ULA. Beginning with this issue of the Recovery Team newsletter, we will publish bimonthly, Heads to Gulf Catastrophe and compassion – these instead of quarterly, meaning m ore news Coast two words have gone through my mind in a timely manner. We will begin the constantly since Hurricane Katrina dealt search for a designer to create a new • ULA and Utah her horrible blow to the Gulf Coast. Great logo for ULA, to unify our image and all State Library efforts have been seen by so many to documents. Meet with State assist those affected. Below you will find Representatives information on a relief fund created by December, and the holiday season, is ALA, on page 5 is an article on how our upon us. Our Board of Directors meeting • Utah Kids own Randy Silverman offered his expert will be held on 2 December. Anyone can Ready to Read! assistance. Compassion, it seems, attend! Peace and best wishes to your always wins out over catastrophe. and yours during the season. • Utah State University The September Board of Directors My best, Opens Doors meeting as brought several changes to Hikmet , ULA President 2005 -2006
Individual Highlights: ALA’s Hurricane Katrina Library Relief Fund
Strategic Plan 2 Dear ALA Member, With so many needs for assistance it Membership 3 seems particularly appropriate for ALA to Recently you received an appeal from organize efforts to make sure that Quotable Facts 4 ALA President Michael Gorman urging libraries are not left out of the rebuilding you to contribute to ALA's ‘Hurricane MPLA Honor 6 process. Your donation will make a big Katrina Library Relief Fund.’ So we have difference in many communities where Nominations 9 raised $50,000. libraries might otherwise be forgotten. Back Page 11 I would like to join Michael in I hope you can help them by donating to encouraging you to contribute to this the ALA Hurricane Katrina Library Relief fund by challenging every ALA member Fund at to contribute a minimum of $10. If each https://secure.ga3.org/03/alakatrina of us contributes just $10 we have the potential to raise more than $500,000 toward the library rebuilding effort. Leslie Burger, Director Princeton Public Library Hurricane Katrina and Rita created President-elect, ALA unthinkable devastation in the Gulf 65 Witherspoon Street Coast. Over 100 school libraries and 25 Princeton, NJ 08542 public libraries were destroyed or 609.924.8822 x253 damaged beyond repair, and academic 609.924.7937 fax libraries such as Southern University in New Orleans lost half their collection. UTAH Libraries News Page 2 of 11
ULA Strategic Plan, 2006 -2009
ULA’s Strategic Plan is shaping up! Thus The priorities are: far we have gathered information from • Advocacy our members and from government agencies on Utah’s future demographic • Intellectual Freedom trends. We are analyzing ULA • Continuing Education membership demographics. • Membership In November, we held a meeting with ULA Committee Chairs to receive input • Building the Profession on the six areas we have identified as • Organizational Excellence our future priorities. Priorities will have action plans created, our next step. Your feedback is always welcome! HSL
RFID: Ready or Not?
The annual Great Issues Forum was self checkout, security, and automated held on October 26 th and focused on sorting systems at two new County RFID in libraries. ULA has hosted the libraries. Great Issues Forum for a number of Speaking to issues of privacy was Dani years as a way to bring librarians and the Eyre, Executive Director of American interested public together to engage in a Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, of Utah. dialogue on a specific topic. Over forty Dani’s background spans political librarians from around the Wasatch Front science and law; she also owned and gathered in the Salt Lake City Public operated Atticus Books, an independent Library’s auditorium to hear four bookstore and was the President of speakers discuss the current Intermountain Independent Booksellers marketplace, technologies and privacy Association. The intersection of privacy issues. and technology are issues the ACLU Charles Coldwell, Applications and handles on a regular basis. System Manager at Seattle Public The final speaker was Steven Harris, Library, began the Forum with an Collection Development and overview of their library's integration of Management Librarian at Utah State the circulation system with the Tech University. Steven wrapped up the Logic RFID-based automated sorting, evening with an overview of how RFID is self-checkout, and security systems used at USU. installed in the City's highly acclaimed new Central Library. Their sorting system Gretchen Freeman Chaired this year’s is the largest of its type installed by Tech Great Issues Forum Committee and was Logic. responsible for organizing an excellent forum. You may contact Gretchen for Gretchen Freeman, Associate Director further information, or look on the ULA for Reference and Technology with Salt Website for a copy of her talk, as well as Lake County Library Services spoke next Charles’ talk. on the current RFID market place and uses of RFID. Gretchen recently HSL oversaw the installation of RFID tags, Page 3 of 11 UTAH Libraries News
ULA Membership : What do the Numbers Mean?
One of American Library Association’s According to ULA’s Executive many offices is Chapter Relations Office. Secretary/Treasurer Chris Anderson, They have been compiling information these numbers are squishy. ULA from national Chapters on membership membership cycle changed in the 2000 numbers. Following is a breakdown of and 2001 period, with expiration dates ULA’s membership: changed from end of summer to end of calendar year. "Final numbers" fluctuate
because many members renew very late 2000 - 556 2001 - 329 into the year while others skip a year for 2002 - 441 some reason. Of note is a change in dues 2003 - 561 in the period beginning 2005, when we 2004 - 429 implemented our first dues increase in 2005 - 453 about 25 years.
New Church History Library Started
The First Presidency of The Church of 111,775 linear feet, the majority in archival Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints broke and manuscript holdings. The library ground on October 7, 2005 for a new includes 210,000 publications by or about Church History Library in downtown Salt the Church and 50,000 audiovisual Lake City. Located across the street to productions in a variety of formats. Of the east of the Conference Center, the special interest to many historians are the new facility will incorporate updated 100,000 photographs that document the technology to help protect the records of history of the Church and the settlement of the Church and will significantly expand the Intermountain West. archival storage capacity. The new library is being designed by MHTN Plans are for a four-story, 250,000 Architects, Inc., a Salt Lake City based firm, square foot building, portions of it and consulting architects, Pfeiffer Partners underground. The Church History of Los Angeles. Jacobsen/Swinerton, a joint Library will house printed, archival, and venture, will serve as the general manuscript collections, with a single contractors. Completion is scheduled for reading room providing access to both 2008. published and unpublished materials. Grant Anderson , LDS Church History Library The current size of the collection is
Many Voices, One Nation @ your library
The Many Voices, One Nation @ you one), were invited to contribute library program, initiated by American annotated book selections, representing Library Association President Carol Brey- unique or special qualities of our regions. Casiano (2004-2005) “celebrates the To see the full list and view ULA’s diverse voices in literature of our nation contributions, go to: and the unifying role that libraries play in www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/governan building a literate nation.” Many groups, ceb/executiveboard/breycasiano/MV6pa including ALA Chapters (of which ULA is ge.pdf UTAH Libraries News Page 4 of 11 First Annual Park City Literary Festival
Twenty-nine authors participated in the Treasure Mountain Inn served as first annual Park City Literary Festival headquarters and hosted a majority of held September 9th through 11th. the programs while a space in the Main Among the headliners were Michael Street Mall was transformed into a Blake (Dances with Wolves), Mark Childrens Literary Garden. The Egyptian Spragg (An Unfinished Life), Jim Fergus Theater hosted opening night and a (1000 White Women), Irmgard Hunt (On documentary film, and two restaurants, Hitler's Mountain), Brad Thor (Lions of Shabu and 350 Main, served as venues Lucerne) and Peter Reynolds (Ish & for author dinners. The close proximity of Dot). the venues made moving between events easy and allowed attendees to The Park City Literar y Festival's focus is become acquainted with Park City's to generate excitement about reading. vibrant Main Street. Thus, interactive programs, dinners with the authors, and panel discussions were designed to be active and interesting. Planning is already underway for next Some events charged a fee but most year's festival in September of 2006 and were free. three authors are already confirmed. All events were centralized in Park City's Stay tuned for more information or visit historic Upper Main Street area. The www.parkcitylitfest.org .
“Quotable Facts ” Needed from Utah’s Libraries
To help ALA celebrate National Library • They should be as local (state Week 2006 and the re-launch of @ your related) as possible. library®, The Campaign for America's • They should be creative. Libraries, they are encouraging each state to create their own Quotable • They should include a "value" Facts. ALA will highlight the best component. (Examples can be quotable facts from across the country found on the ALA Website at during National Library Week, and ALA www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/quotabl will reward three states with the free efacts.) design and printing of 10,000 copies of • There should be a minimum of their Quotable Facts to distribute! two public, two school and two In a recent Campaign member survey, academic examples. The rest are ALA learned that libraries across the up to you. country are looking for research and Please include data sources and the statistics that can help them make the organizations you worked with to collect case about their value to their schools, the information in your state. campuses and communities. All we need to do is come up with at least ALA is also looking for new and 10 Quotable Facts and send them to ALA interesting data to share with the no later than Monday, February 13. I national media and use in our advocacy would like to receive the facts no later than and Campaign activities. You can help Monday, January 16. I'll compile the us make that happen. quotes and send them on to ALA. A committee of ALA members will judge Thanks for your input! our Quotable Facts on a series of guidelines as follows: Hikmet Page 5 of 11 UTAH Libraries News
National Recovery Team, I ncluding ULA Pa st President Randy Silverman, H eads to Gulf Coast
Randy Silverman, preservation librarian remediation mold - simply opening for the University of Utah's Marriott windows and spreading out water Library and materials recovery specialist absorbent materials to begin air drying." on the U of U's Comprehensive Silverman stated that some of the Emergency Management Team, collections had been wet for as long as recently returned from a disaster four weeks. recovery mission focused on cultural materials on Mississippi's Gulf Coast One of the institutions Silverman and his damaged by Hurricane Katrina. team visited was the Beauvior, the historic Biloxi, Mississippi home of As part of a national recovery team Jefferson Davis, President of the selected by the American Institute for Confederacy. Silverman met with the Conservation (AIC) and funded by the director and the curator of the Beauvior, American Association for State and Patrick Hotard and Richard Flowers Local History (AALSH), Silverman and respectively, who not only had lost much "Our goal was to be as his team consisting of one other of the museum, but also their homes. useful as possible - to conservator (Gary Frost from Iowa), a One was now camping out with federal museum association get onsite to assess the security guards onsite while the other current condition of coordinator (Joy Barnett from Texas), was living temporarily with in -laws. library, archives, and and an EMT (Ashley Barnett, from Silverman comments, "It was very Texas), visited thirteen institutions inspiring to work with people such as museum collections, including museums, libraries, historic Hotard and Flowers, people who had lost and offer assistance societies, and County Courthouses. All everything yet were able to remain stabilizing wet or thirteen institutions suffered damage to upbeat and optimistic about salvaging damaged materials," their facilities and their collections their institution's treasures." explains Silverman. ranging from minor to total building Institutions having suffered collection failure. A second team was sent to the damage are eligible to apply to the New Orleans area. National Endowment for the Humanities The goal of the team's work was to (NEH) for grants of up to $30,000 to assess damage and coordinate with assist in recovery costs, and the team local agencies, such as the Mississippi drafted a number of letters of inquiry for Department of Archives and History, to qualifying institutions. FEMA is also get recovery and preservation plans providing assistance with cleanup. implemented. The team arrived in "Because there is no federal agency Jackson on September 22nd, beginning charged with disaster recovery of historic its work with the Old Capitol Museum books and artifacts, it was excellent that 170 miles from the coast. AASLH and AIC were able to combine "Our goal was to be as useful as forces and mobilize specialists as quickly possible - to get onsite to assess the as they did. And we were delighted that current condition of library, archives, Randy was selected to participate in the and museum collections, and offer recovery process," comments Joyce assistance stabilizing wet or damaged Ogburn, director of the Marriott Library. materials," explains Silverman, "When buildings were standing and collections were still wet, we took the first steps in UTAH L ibraries News Page 6 of 11
Utah Li brary Media Supervisors Meeting
The September 30th meeting of Utah discussion included a legislative report Library Media Supervisors (ULMS) was and updates on advocacy issues. the first I’ve had the honor of attending We also discussed more collaboration for this library organization. As ULA between public, academic, and school President, I was asked to join this group libraries within school districts, which is to see how ULMS and ULA can work an excellent way to begin a meaningful together to partner on program sessions dialogue. Rebecca Simmons is President and other ventures. We discussed the of ULMS and would appreciate hearing liaison groups that meet as part of the from ULA members on how to make this ULA Board of Directors, which includes happen. You may contact Rebecca at UELMA, and the opportunity to use the [email protected]. ULA listserv to get ULMS information out to ULA members. A major topic of HSL
Mid -year Symposium on Books for Young Readers
We have a rare opportunity to hear from Tentative Schedule two-time Newbery Medalist and two- 8:00 - 8:45 Check-in and on-site time National Book Award winner registration. Bookstore Katherine Paterson on Saturday, opens January 28, 2006. 8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and announcements Katherine will be joined by Caldecott 9:00 - 9:50 first speaker Medalist author and illustrator Eric 10:00 - 10:50 second speaker Rohmann and award-winning author 11:00 - 11:30 BREAK and teacher Kimberley Heuston. The 11:30 - 12:20 third speaker program will be held in the Provo Public 12:30 - 1:30 LUNCH and "Buzz about Library. Books" groups in Ballroom led by local librarians and For more information, contact BYU teachers Conferences and Workshops at 1:45 - 3:15 small groups w/ authors, [email protected] or (801) 422-2568. rotating every 30 minutes 3:15 - 4:30 book signing in Ballroom
Utah State Librarian Receives MPLA Honor
The MPLA Distinguished Service Award currently the Utah State Librarian. was presented to Donna Jones Morris in Donna also served as MPLA President. recognition of her exemplary service to Donna exhibits outstanding skills in and leadership in the Mountain Plains leadership. She has taken on significant Library Association for over 35 years. time-consuming projects for MPLA that During these years, Ms. Morris has have had far-reaching results and taken on numerous tasks for MPLA and enduring impact. She is admired for her exhibited outstanding skills in hard work, her good sense, her solid leadership. judgment, her leadership, and her Donna has been an active member of wisdom. She is the consummate library MPLA for over 35 years. She has professional. Award presented by worked in Kansas, Colorado, and is Rosario Garza and accepted by Donna Jones Morris. Page 7 of 11 UTAH L ibraries News
ULA and Utah State Library Meet with State Representatives
This year’s Legislative Committee initiated property and the ways that information is a new cooperative venture: to have dispersed via digital means. members of the committee, along with Congressman Cannon’s viewpoint is the State Library staff, meet with staff from our broader the dispersal of information, the State’s Congressional offices. These better. The second issue of importance is meetings proved to be enjoyable and very privacy. We had an interesting discussion educational for all involved. Below is a centered on the Patriot Act and the brief summary from each meeting. current status of provisions that are set to expire. We all left the meeting feeling we Senator Bennett’s Staff had a good connection to Congressman Jessica Christopher, Constituent Liaison, Cannon’s office. (Hikmet Loe) and Lori Pehrson, Office Manager from Senator Hatch’s Staff Senator Bennett’s Utah office met with Melanie Bowen, State Director in Senator librarians (Julie Williamsen, ULA Hatch’s Office, met with Hikmet (ULA) President-elect, Linda Fields, Richfield and Donna and Jane (State Library) on Library Director, Jerri Davis, Richfield September 8 th . We had similar Library Trustee, and Linda Tillson, ULA discussions with Melanie pertaining to Legislative Committee Chair, Donna ULA, the State Library, and library issues. Jones Morris, State Librarian and Jane Melanie discussed Senator Hatch’s long Smith, State Grants Coordinator) on history of service to the State and his September 19. The discussion centered interest in working with libraries. On a on familiarizing Jessica and Lori with ULA, humorous note, we talked about the the State Library, and issues of concern to Senator’s many recordings and their all libraries. The importance of LSTA place in our collections! (Hikmet Loe) funding was emphasized and success stories of LSTA projects were shared. Congressman Matheson’s Staff
Issues discussed included fair use as it The September 28 th meeting with Emily relates to copyright, continuation of E-rate Merchant, Policy Advisor for funds, and the Patriot Act’s impact on Representative Matheson was attended libraries. Jessica was well versed in by Hikmet (ULA), Donna and Jane (State library issues as her mother is a librarian Library), and Linda Tillson, ULA in Southern Utah. Both Jessica and Lori Legislative Committee Chair. Emily is encouraged librarians and trustees to Matheson’s policy advisor for education contact them when there are concerns including libraries and child and family about issues and specific legislation. issues. The presentation to Emily was They took contact information from the similar to the other discussions. Emily group present, so that we may serve as complimented librarians for bringing contacts for them when issues affecting about public awareness regarding the libraries come up. They also requested to privacy issues related to the Patriot Act. be added to the ULN Listserv. (Linda She is a frequent user of the Salt Lake Tillson) City Main Library and the County Library Congressman Cannon’s Staff and was complimentary of the service provided by each. She is interested in Chief of Staff Joe Hunter met with Hikmet working with ULA. She stated, “If there is (ULA) and Donna and Jane (State Library) anything we can do, let me know. Feel on September 7 th . After the preliminary free to contact me and send e-mail.” She discussion on familiarizing Mr. Hunter with will also assist with scheduling visits with ULA, the State Library, and issues of Representative Matheson or his D.C. concern to all libraries, we heard about staff for Library Legislative Day in May. two issues important to Congressman (Linda Tillson) Cannon. The first issue is intellectual
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Utah Kids Ready to Read!
Whether you call it emergent literacy, organized to inform and train public early literacy, or pre-literacy, it’s one of librarians and library staff about the most exciting new trends in library emergent literacy philosophy and services for families. What is it, exactly? techniques so that they, in turn, can then Emergent literacy is what a child needs teach parents and other caregivers the to know before he or she can learn to skills to help their children learn to read. read. Research shows that there are six The vision of Utah Kids! is for all parents pre-reading skills that must be acquired and caregivers to nurture their children's before a child can learn to read. These early literacy skills, and for all children to are: develop as independent, lifelong Print Motivation – thinking that books and readers. The Steering Committee reading are fun intends Utah Kids Ready To Read! to be a source of early literacy information, and Vocabulary – knowing the names of of training resources for library things professionals and friends throughout Print Awareness – recognizing print and Utah. understanding how books work Utah Kids Ready To Read! is sending Letter Knowledge – understanding that children's services specialists to libraries each letter has its own name and sounds around the state to train librarians, "The commitment of library board members, and their Narrative Skills – being able to tell stories librarians in teaching community partners in the principles of and describe things emergent literacy emergent literacy, and to help them to principles is changing Phonological Awareness – being able to implement these approaches effectively recognize and play with the smaller in their communities. Adriane Juarez , lives,” says Carla sounds that make up words chair of the ULA Children's Services Morris. Roundtable, is anxious that all librarians Children begin to learn these skills at and staff who meet the public—not just birth, if they are lucky enough to have children's librarians—take advantage of parents or caregivers who speak and the training because "not just children's read to them often. Unfortunately, many librarians have opportunities to help children aren’t so lucky. The good news parents understand and develop literacy is that we, as librarians, can make a big skills in their children." Stephanie difference! Carla Morris of the Provo Goodliffe , Literacy Coordinator for the City Library oversaw her library's Salt Lake City Public Library affirms the participation as a national demonstration value of the training: "It's important to site for PLA's Every Child Ready to Read remember that the training that will be @ your library Project. From her given in these workshops is based on experience, she reaffirms that "the actual scientific research into the commitment of librarians in teaching necessary preconditions of literacy." emergent literacy principles is changing lives." Librarians can find emergent literacy information and other Internet resources What can you do? By learning about on the Utah Kids! webpage at emergent literacy, you become an even http://library.utah.gov/utah_kids, or by more valuable resource for your clicking on the Utah Kids Ready to Read! community. You can talk to parents logo from the Utah State Library’s about the six pre-reading skills in story webpage. times and lap-sit programs, provide parent/caregiver workshops, or create Jennifer Fay , Riverton Library, Salt Lake informative displays in your library. County Library Services Utah Kids Ready To Read! is a new state-level initiative that has been Page 9 of 11 UTAH Libraries News
Award Nominations Sought
Do you know of any “unsung heroes” Librarian of the Year Award among you who deserve a song? Well, Must be a librarian (worked in library or the fat lady is warming up so unless you media center or have been involved in want to hear a polka, you need to library science education; not necessarily nominate those outstanding people you MLS). Outstanding service in recent work with for an award from ULA. past. The awards recognize outstanding Special Service to Libraries Award achievement in librarianship, service to Honoring Groups (library staffs, libraries and the library profession, and committees, library boards, similar library service to the Utah Library Association. groups) or Individuals who have made Recipients may be librarians, trustees, significant contributions in support of legislators, news media personnel, and libraries or library service. Sustained friends of libraries. contribution over several years or a notable effort over a shorter period of What constitutes award material: time. Contributions in leadership, creativity, pioneering effort, and teaching. They may ULA Special Recognition Award have developed a library, extensively Librarians (as defined above) who have participated in local, state or national "contributed to the profession as a whole library bodies, developed statewide public and who have benefited the library relations campaigns beneficial to libraries, community in general over a period of successfully implemented new ideas for many years. library services, or provided innovations in the library world. Being a ULA member is Email your nominations to: not required. Lori Stevens, awards chair 2005-06 ULA Distinguished Service Award [email protected] This is the creme de la creme. Here is a Nominations must be received by 5pm person "whose achievements in service to February 15, 2006 to be considered. libraries are of the highest caliber." You do not have to be a librarian to be eligible. Lori Stevens Your accomplishments must "represent a sustained contribution over a period of several years." Emporia State Commencement Announced
Emporia State University, School of commencement speaker. Library & Information Management (SLIM), announces commencement The fourth SLIM-Utah cohort of students ceremonies for twenty-eight Master of began their studies in August 2005. Library Science graduates of its Utah distance education program. For tickets or information about the SLIM-Utah MLS Distance Program, please contact SLIM invites members and friends of the Pamela Foster, director of SLIM-Utah, at library community to attend the December [email protected], 877-486-8068, or visit 10 th ceremony, which will commence at SLIM’ s web site at slim.emporia.edu. The two o’clock in the Gould Auditorium of the program operates at the invitation and with the Marriott Library on the University of Utah strong support of the State Library Division of campus in Salt Lake City. Utah and numerous professionals and alumni in the local professional community. Randy Silverman, Preservationist Librarian at the Marriott Library, is the Pamela Foster Page 10 of 11 UTAH Libraries News
Utah State University Opens Doors to the New Merrill -
Cazier Library
On September 19, 2005, Utah State in each aisle, accessing the shelving University opened its doors to the new units. The crane delivers the appropriate Merrill-Cazier Library. The new library shelving unit to a station in the circulation "We felt on-site ASRS building was integrated with and expands work areas where a staff member picks storage was a better the previous Cazier Science and the requested item from the shelving unit option than off-site Technology Library, uniting all university and brings it to the respective service storage, which would library functions under one roof. The area for delivery to the patron. 189,000 square foot addition to the have required a 24-hour “We felt on-site ASRS storage was a SciTech Library has resulted in a new turnaround time to better option than off-site storage, which 304,000 square foot facility at the center access materials,” would have required a 24 -hour of campus. states Betty Rozum turnaround time to access materials,” The new Merrill-Cazier Library was built states Betty Rozum, associate director of with leading -edge and innovative technical services for the Library. “The elements in every corner of the facility. system is very fast. Depending on the One of the most anticipated features of traffic, patrons can expect to have the Merrill-Cazier Library is the materials in five to ten minutes.” expansive Information Commons that All bound journals, approximately houses 150 computers with online 170,000 of less frequently used books, resources and productivity software for and most microforms are currently stored one-stop research. For those who seek in the BARN, totaling nearly 480,000 collaborative spaces, the Library offers items. At full capacity, the BARN will hold over 30 group study and project rooms, a 1.5 million items. “The BARN is unique in 50-seat café with a canyon-view patio, that the Merrill-Cazier is the only library and multi-media suites for digital in the world to use an automated audio/video production. Wireless access retrieval system with materials in call and laptop computer checkout cater to number order,” adds Rozum. “This visitors who prefer the freedom to roam system allows patrons the opportunity to the building for that perfect space to sit sit and browse approximately 200 and be inspired. The Merrill-Cazier volumes at a time.” Library greets patrons with such inviting elements as a grand four-story glass The BARN allows for increased storage atrium, abundant natural lighting, of library materials in a high density and inspiring mountain views, sleek climate-controlled manner, at a lower architecture, and modern décor. cost per book than traditional library storage. This new technology will enable The Merrill-Cazier Library houses an Utah State University to maximize the automated storage and retrieval system use of space in the new facility, covering (ASRS), the first of its kind in a Utah the anticipated growth of the collections academic library. Termed the BARN for the next 25 to 30 years. Patrons can (Borrowers Automated Retrieval watch the BARN at work from viewing Network), the system is critical to windo ws located on the third and fourth housing the current collection and floors. allowing for future growth of the library collections. Items are stored in shelving Plans are underway for a formal units in a five-story rack structure that dedication of the Merrill-Cazier Library, has four aisles. A robotic crane operates which will be held in the spring of 2006. Reforma de Utah Wins National Award
REFORMA, the National Association to Illustrators Contest & a Spanish Promote Library and Information Language Children’s Poetry Contest. Services to Latinos and the Spanish- Eight different Latino artists entertained ULA President Speaking, is pleased to announce that families, and every child in attendance Hikmet Sidney Loe REFORMA de Utah of Salt Lake City, was given a free book to take home. has been selected as winner of the 2004 SLC Public Library Contestants for the Mora Award are Estela and Raúl Mora Award promoting 210 East 400 South judged on several different aspects of participation in the celebration of Día de SLC, UT 84111 their Día de los Niños/ Día de los Libros los Niños/ ía de los Libros (Day of the programs: quality of their program, Children/ Day of the Books). encouragement of bilingual or PHONE: The program of the local chapter of multilingual literacy, and successfulness (801) 322.8155 REFORMA, REFORMA de Utah was in reaching their target audience; presented in Salt Lake City. The involvement of partnering organizations; program was designed and carried out change in level of activity over the E-MAIL: by Melanie Tucker, president of previous years (or, for first year [email protected] REFORMA de Utah, and Tessa Epstein, celebrations, the level of activity in its Associate Librarian at Salt Lake City own right); and quality of publicity. In Public Library. addition, the committee considers what impact the award would have on next Editor: The focus of the winning program’s year’s Día de los Niños/ Día de los Lesli Baker events was a fun celebration of children Libros program. [email protected] and bilingual literacy at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, which enabled the The award is donated by writer Pat Mora celebration to accommodate over 4,000 and her three siblings in honor of their attendees. The day was centered on 10 parents and was established to honor different bilingual children’s events children, promote bilingual literacy and featuring a Spanish Spelling Bee, a encourage reading among all children. Reading Rainbow Young Writers & We’re on the Web! See us at: www.ula.org
About Utah Libr ary Association…
The mission of the Utah Library employees, especially at its annual Association is to serve the professional spring conference. ULA also offers development and educational needs of members a number of opportunities for its members and to provide leadership library leadership, professional growth, and direction in developing and networking, and community service. We improving library and information hope you find the Utah Library services in the state. In order to Association to be an organization that accomplish these goals, ULA supports makes a difference for you, for Utah and provides continuing education librarians, for Utah Libraries, and for the programs for Utah librarians and library citizens of Utah.