KDLA e-Newsletter You're receiving this email because of your relationship with Kentucky Dept. for Libraries. Please confirm your continued interest in receiving email from us. You may unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive our emails. Libraries & Archives Monthly News from the Kentucky Department for July 2009 Libraries and Archives In This Issue Preserving the American Historical Record Act Trustee's Tip Introduced in Congress Carter County Public Library By Barbara Teague Founded State Archivist and Records Administrator, KDLA Public Records Division Library Director Trades Books Director for Beaches The Preserving the American Historical Record Act (PAHR), Sixth Annual Racing to Read 5k HR 2256, was introduced in the House of Representatives on Run & Walk A Success May 5, 2009. PAHR would authorize $50 million to preserve KPLA/KLTRT Conference and provide access to historical records by supporting: Success a Result of Teamwork ● Creation of a wide variety of access tools, including Brownstone Book Fund archival finding aids, documentary editions, indexes, Continues Giving and images of key records online; Friends Groups Help Kentucky ● Preservation actions to protect historical records from Libraries harm, prolong their life, and preserve them for public 2009 Summer Reading Program use, including digitization projects, electronic records initiatives, and disaster preparedness and recovery; Gears Up ● Initiatives to use historical records in new and creative World Archives Project Invites ways to convey the importance of state, territorial, Genealogy Community to and community history, including the development of Participate teaching materials for K-12 and college students, Spellbinders Program Enchants active participation in programs to provide education Children While Boosting and training to archivists and others who care for Literacy historical records. Read more... Kentucky Hybrid Library Receives Innovation Award Article Headline http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v...fcjA8WJyGvfPIngqaONWZ6x-IvZYCOtSUgpQWQgWg%3D (1 of 17) [8/24/2009 9:12:18 AM] KDLA e-Newsletter Trustee Tip Laptop Computers By Paul Poland Expand Services in President, Scott County Public Kentucky Libraries Library Board of Trustees [email protected] By Jeanna Cornett KDLA Regional Library Consultant If you attended any of the Trustee Training Sessions With public computer useage at an over the last several years all-time high and growing, several conducted by KDLA's libraries across the Commonwealth have responded to the Regional Consultant Nelda increased demand by adding laptop computers for customer Moore, you understand use on-site. what a great asset she has been to Trustees over the Libraries including Carroll County Public Library, Corbin years. Public Library, Muhlenburg County Public Library and Rowan County Public Library allow customers to "check out" laptop This past December Nelda computers, expanding the libraries' computer availability retired from KDLA and it's while conserving space - and accommodating customers in at a great loss not only to ways that desktop computers cannot. Read more... KDLA, but also to all of us as Trustees. For many Photo: A customer takes advantage of the laptop check-out program at the Corbin Public Library. years she not only helped with training to better educate all of us to do a better job as Trustees' but Kentucky Librarians Contribute to National she was also responsible Computer Technology "Cookbook" for the T-3 Trustee Training Tips. You can still By Paige Sexton read back issues of this KDLA Communications Officer publication through the KDLA website...they are Libraries across the country are experiencing significant very informative and have increases in circulation and usage - widely attributed to the great tips for all of us. country's current economic difficulties. Outpacing the Read more... increase in book and music checkouts is the use of library computers. Being used by everyone from college students who have canceled their Internet subscriptions to older individuals re- entering the workforce, library computers are getting a more strenuous workout than ever. Since libraries rarely have their own IT staffs, librarians are tasked with maintaining their public computers. How do they do it? With a little help from their friends...fellow librarians. Read more... http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v...fcjA8WJyGvfPIngqaONWZ6x-IvZYCOtSUgpQWQgWg%3D (2 of 17) [8/24/2009 9:12:18 AM] KDLA e-Newsletter Summer Reading on Love and Forgiveness Garden the Road Grows From Series By Donna Christian By Paige Sexton Rowan County Bookmobile Librarian KDLA Communications Officer The Rowan County Public A community project is blooming at Library is taking summer the Laurel County Public Library. reading to the community, Library staff, Master Gardeners and with its Summer Reading community volunteers have worked together to create a on the Road program. unique space called the Love and Forgiveness Garden. The library's new The garden is the culmination of the library's Let's Talk bookmobile will be making About It: Love and Forgiveness Reading and Discussion its way through the county Series, which included five books and scholar-led discussions this year encouraging on concepts featured in the books. Read more... readers to participate in the summer reading Photo: The Love and Forgiveness Garden at the Laurel County program. The large white Public Library van stuffed with mystery, romance, adventure, biographies and much more will also include World Archives Project Invites Genealogy reading logs, book bags Community to Participate and registration forms for the reading program. For centuries, key moments in our stories have been Well over 190 people have captured on fragile paper. These records are often all that's registered through the left of ancestors' lives. Sadly, many of the world's historical bookmobile alone. Read records are disappearing faster than they can be archived by more... experts. The Ancestry.com World Archives Project gives people everywhere a unique chance to help save the world's Library Director historical records - millions that might otherwise be lost. The Trades Books for project lets anyone from the genealogy community help bring free historical records to the public. Anyone can Beaches participate by accessing record images in the Ancestry.com system and entering relevant names, dates and other facts to make the information searchable online. Many projects are already underway, with more planned for the future. Some examples of current projects are New York and California naturalization indexes, Jacksonville, Florida city directories, and slave manifests filed at New Orleans, Louisiana from 1807-1860. Read more... McCracken County Public http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v...fcjA8WJyGvfPIngqaONWZ6x-IvZYCOtSUgpQWQgWg%3D (3 of 17) [8/24/2009 9:12:18 AM] KDLA e-Newsletter Library Director Marie Spellbinders Program Liang has retired after 18 Enchants Children While years of managing the library. Boosting Literacy By Greg Davis Liang had been the library Lexington Public Library director since 1996. During her tenure, she supervised A 1988 pilot intergenerational a 5,000 square foot program in Denver, Colorado addition, several created training opportunities for seniors to learn the art of renovations, oversaw the storytelling, through professional storytellers, and deliver implementation of several their treasures to elementary school classrooms. The great new and innovative success of this program led to a growing group of services (including the storytellers dubbing themselves "Spellbinders" due to story's library's most recent ability to keep young listeners spellbound. Instant addition of multimedia connections were created between seniors and the children downloading stations), and who heard and loved their stories. was instrumental in the Spellbinders is now a national organization of volunteer library's Comprehensive storytellers. Its mission is to nurture literacy, character and Level achievement from intergenerational community through the art of oral the Kentucky Public Library storytelling. Lexington Public Library is keeping alive the Association in 2004. The ancient art form of storytelling not just through its children's designation is the highest librarians, who are well versed in this art form, but through a library can attain in the older adults who desire to remain creatively engaged in our Commonwealth; the community. We are doing it through the Spellbinders McCracken County Public program. Read more... Library was the only institution to reach the Photo: Children listen to a story by a Spellbinders volunteer standard that year. Read more... Kentucky Hybrid Library Receives Innovation Award Sixth Annual Racing to Read 5k Run & American Libraries Direct Newsletter Walk A Success Gateway Community and Technical College in Covington has By Robin Klaene been recognized by the League for Innovation as a 2009 Kenton County Public Library Innovation of the Year Award winner for its pioneering "hybrid library" that proivdes students with print and More than 900 runners, electronic resources through onlite, virtual and regional walkers and volunteers partner libraries. made the sixth annual Kenton County Public The Innovation of the Year Award recognizes faculty, staff Library Foundation's and administrations at League member colleges who have "Racing to Read 5k Run & designed and implemented significant innovations reflecting Walk"