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Volume 7, Issue 7 - March 12, 2010

CLC Welcomes New Executive Director

CLC is thrilled to welcome our new Executive Director, Jill Dugas Hughes. Jill brings to CLC and its members a dynamic combination of library leadership and development expertise. She began her library career in New York state, earning an MLS from SUNY Buffalo and directing the Red Jacket Community Library, a combination public and K-12 school library. She also coordinated annual giving and community outreach programs for the Geneva Public Library.  Here in Connecticut, Jill worked as a School Librarian at Thomas Hooker School in Bridgeport before spearheading what became Connecticut's first-ever library referendum campaign, resulting in a guaranteed 1 mill of the city budget allocated to the Bridgeport Public Library. Jill also brings expertise in grantwriting and oversight, marketing, web development, and project management, as well as experience in non-profits, academia, and library service to children. Jill can be reached by phone at the Middletown office (860.344.8777) or via email at jhughes@ctlibrarians.org. You'll also find her at meetings, roundtables, and other events over the coming months!

A few words from Jill: Greetings colleagues! I look forward to meeting each of you and learning how the Connecticut Library Consortium can support your libraries. I feel lucky to have joined a terrific staff, and will be taking some time over the next few months to learn from each of you. We are in the midst of revising our strategic plan and welcome any suggestions you may have. On another note, I would like to echo the thoughts of the entire staff as we say thank you, goodbye and best of luck to Donna Flatley, our Office Manager. Thank you for your commitment and loyalty to CLC, Donna. Enjoy your retirement! Thanks to the excellent leadership of Interim Directors Deb Zulick and Pattie Noren, I have had a quick transition. I hope to see you all at CLA!

Getting YOUR Word Out

Have you tried our Member Forums? Visited us on Facebook?

Never visit the page again! But forums will only be a useful resource if people use them - so why not give it a try? Here are the steps ...

1. Visit www.ctlibrarians.org and sign in with your username and password.
2. Go to the Forums page - you'll find it under the "Members" tab.
3. Choose "Preferences."
4. Check "All" next to the topics you wish to follow. You may also follow individual "threads," or subjects, from within a topic; to do this, choose "Threads" and select the threads you wish to follow from the pop-up.
5. In checkboxes at the bottom, check the first box, and either the second or third box depending on the email address you wish to use.
6. Scroll to the bottom and choose "Save Forum Preferences."
7. Post a message, or watch your email for messages to come in!

• There are many active forums, or discussion boards available on ct.webjunction.org, sponsored by the CT State Library. Pay a visit and partake in the ones that interest you.
• The CT Library Association has a Facebook group, which is slightly different from a Facebook page. Check it out - with conference time coming up, the group has been very active!
• The CT Association of School Librarians (CASL) has a social network on Ning, "the social platform for the world's interests and passions online."
• Listservs - ConnTech for all library-related topics, GoodnightMoon for children's services, Speak for YA services, or CASL-L for school librarians.

Member News

COMINGS & GOINGS

it was a bittersweet day last month when the CLC board accepted Donna Flatley's retirement letter. Sixteen years ago, Donna was hired by Eastern CT Libraries (one of CLC's predecessors) to manage information technology. She was responsible for getting us connected - and keeping us connected - to you, our members. Over the years, she moved and set up ECL/CLC's computer networks at least 5 times. She assembled a portable computer training lab and drove it to member libraries, where she would conduct customized training for library staff. She did IT consulting, troubleshooting, and taught classes. When Jan Gluz passed away in 2008 and CLC needed a bookkeeper and office manager, Donna took on this challenge as well. Donna and her husband plan on doing some traveling and spending more time with the grandchildren, and she'll finally have more time for her exquisite sewing projects. Please join the CLC staff in wishing Donna a long, happy, healthy retirement!

Erica Joncyk has been named Director of the D.M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, succeeding June "Cookie" Kubarek, who is retiring this month. Erica has served as the library's Assistant Director for twelve years. June joined the staff in 1984 as Assistant Librarian for General Duties, became the library's first official Children's Librarian two years later, and was appointed Director in 1993. Congratulations to both!

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Coming Events

CLC and WALDO present: Streaming Video Vendor Day Postponed - New Date TBA Friday, April 9, 2010 Middlesex Community College, Middletown 8:30 coffee, 9:00-12:30 program featuring: Books 24x7's Leadership Development Channel Swank Digital Campus, from Swank Motion Pictures Inc. Alexander Street Press' American History in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video, and Ethnographic Video Admission is free, but registration is required.

    Roundtables

• The Interlibrary Loan Roundtable East meets next on Tuesday, March 16 (snow date March 23) in the Hubbard Room at the Russell Library in Middletown. Gather for this afternoon meeting at 1:00 pm for networking, and 1:30 to 3:30 for the roundtable. Get more info, or register online now!
  
  
• The Interlibrary Loan Roundtable West meets next at the Easton Public Library on Thursday, March 18 (snow date March 25) for registration and networking at 9:30, roundtable from 10:00 to noon. Get more info, or register online now!
  
  
• The Young Adult Librarians' Roundtable West will meet at the Darien Library on Wednesday, March 24 for a discussion on Social Networking and New Technologies. Which social networking platforms should youth services librarians use to target their patrons? What are strategies for convincing reluctant coworkers, administrators and funders about the positive aspects of social networks? What emerging technologies should youth services librarians pay attention to? Meet at 9:30 for networking and coffee and roundtable discussion from 10 to Noon. Get more info, or register online now!
  
  
• Business Services Roundtable -  Meet your fellow business librarians at the Fairfield Public Library on Friday, March 26 for 9:00 am coffee and networking and 9:30 to 11:30 program about business databases - what they do, who could benefit, what questions do they answer, etc.  Bring your favorite to share, subscription based or free (with 1 page handout, and a sample question, if you can). The co-chair will demo Proquest Entrepreneurship. Get more info, or register online now!

New & Noteworthy from CLC & our Partners

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• New subject collections from Taylor & Francis Journals now available at great discounts. More information ... 
• Discounts available for ProQuest Entrepreneurship and Safari Business Books Online. More information ...
• Alexander Street Press has greatly reduced unlimited access pricing for Jazz Music Library, American Song, and Contemporary World Music. More information ... 
  
• Coming Soon - Discounts on all Thomson Scientific online resources
• Coming Soon - Volume discounts for the Ovid Nursing Full Text Plus Collection
• LexisNexis Academic pricing to remain the same for 2010
• A new initiative at Project MUSE will bring a wealth of additional research material to users of its online journals at subscribing institutions. Beginning in 2010, MUSE is launching a back issues program which will incorporate previous volumes of many highly respected journals already contributing current content to the MUSE collections. Contact WALDO for more information.

Now Performing ...

• Gayle Byrne, author of Sometimes It's Grandmas and Grandpas, Not Mommies & Daddies
• Jake Halpern, award-winning young adult author
• The Cat's Pajamas - very cool music for kids
• Horizon Blue - acoustic Americana
• Mariachi Fiesta del Norte
• Steve Wronker's Funny Business - Comedy, Magic and Entertainment
• Origami Fun! with Michaela Wales
• Schooner Inc - CT Coastal Classrooms
• John Porcino - To Life! Celebrations in Song & Story
• Grumbling Gryphons
• Tim Van Egmond, Folksinger & Storyteller, Multi-Instrumentalist, Artist-Educator
• Catskill Puppet Theater