Today the American Library Association issued an updated Libraries’ Guide to the 2020 Census, the premier resource to prepare libraries for the decennial count of every person living in the United States.
Source: ALA releases updated Libraries’ Guide to the 2020 Census
The White Pine Library Cooperative Advisory Meeting minutes, Board meeting minutes, and Director’s reports have been published and can be found at:
https://wplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/advisory/advisory_minutes-dec2019-draft.pdf
https://wplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/board/board-minutes-dec2019-draft.pdf
https://wplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/director_reports/director-report-dec2019.pdf
Congratulations to Howe Memorial Library!
The Library of Michigan Foundation and Library of Michigan bestow the awards yearly to highlight the importance of Michigan libraries’ services.
Congratulations to Capital Area District Libraries for being awarded the State Librarian’s Excellence Award and to Petoskey District Library for also receiving Citations of Excellence Awards.
The White Pine Library Cooperative Advisory Meeting minutes, Board meeting minutes, and Director’s reports have been published and can be found at:
https://wplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/advisory/advisory_minutes_oct2019-draft.pdf
https://wplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/board/board-minutes-oct2019-draft.pdf
https://wplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/director_reports/director-report-oct2019.pdf
The website is live as of October 16, 2019.
No Reservations Recommendations website https://nrr.ninja
A new website/database going live at MLA which showcases and highlights recommendations for vendors and services, from auditing firms to plumbers. The database will be arranged by cooperative boundaries.
Please submit your positive recommendations as this will only be successful if libraries contribute.
History:
In May 2018, the Woodlands Library Cooperative Continuing Education Committee, under Director Kate Pohjola Andrade, offered a workshop titled, “The care and feeding of our library buildings” in Jackson, Michigan. Rebecca Higgerson, Director of Brandon Township Public Library, attended and at the conclusion of the program Kate and Rebecca began discussing how public libraries could better share facilities-related information. As it often happens, the discussion grew into the larger issue of how libraries can share a wide variety of vendor information with each other without redundancy. The concept on which they settled was to offer a moderated website where directors can provide contact information for companies with whom they’ve had a positive experience. Thus No Reservation Recommendations (NRR) was born! Shauna Quick, Circulation Manager at Brandon Township Public Library, was brought into the project to design the website and ensure its functionality.
The White Pine Library Cooperative Advisory Meeting minutes, Board meeting minutes, and Director’s reports have been published and can be found at:
https://wplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/advisory/advisory_minutes-aug2019-draft.pdf
https://wplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/board/board_minutes_aug2019-draft.pdf
https://wplc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/director_reports/director-report-aug2019.pdf
The September Advisory and Board meetings have been canceled.
