Presented by the following organizations: Booklist, Infopeople, Library Journal, The Nebraska Library Commission, School Library Journal, Texas State Library & Archives Commission, and WebJunction will be webcasting the following FREE programs during September. These programs and others are listed on the Virginia Libraries Planning Calendar: http://host5.evanced.info/lva/evanced/eventcalendar.asp
Thursday, September 9 (3 – 4 pm)
Finding Health and Wellness @ [...]
Copyright and the Library Part 1: The Basics Including Fair Use (Online Seminar: September 13 – October 1, 2010) – Build an understanding of current copyright law, creating a “copyright palette” for your library, and assessing a library’s legal risk with regard to current U.S. copyright law. Gain an understanding of the Fair Use [...]
Dr. Carol Doll, Dr. Gail Dickinson, and Dr. KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson recently received an ILMLS grant to establish a multicultural continuing education center at Old Dominion University (Librarianship Upgrades for Children and Youth Services (LUCY).
One of our first tasks is to identify the specific needs of public librarians in the area of multicultural materials, programs, services, and [...]
Many thanks to Dr. Carol Doll/Lisa Castellano for informing us about these opportunities:
Culturally “In”sensitive Materials
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010
Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm
Location: Old Dominion University Education Building Room 244
This one day workshop will focus on identifying materials for children that use inappropriate stereotypes. Specific examples from historical books will be used first, and then participants will [...]