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• California State Library’s Braille and Talking Book Library honors volunteers May 22 in Sacramento

  The California State Library’s Braille and Talking Book Library (BTBL) will host a spring volunteer recognition barbecue in the fragrance garden of Library and Courts II at 900 N Street in Sacramento from 12 noon to 1:30 pm on Thursday, May 22. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:11 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: Sacramento events, CSL partners, BTBL

• 2008 CCLPEP Advisory Committee to meet May 5 in Sacramento

  The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP), a grant program within the California State Library, will hold its Advisory Committee meeting May 5, 2008 from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm in Room 500 at the California State Library at 914 Capitol Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 11:51 AM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: Sacramento events, CSL website, grants

• Voices from the Street: A Survey of Homeless Youth by their Peers due online March 5, briefing to be held same day at California State Library

  A new survey from the California State Library’s California Research Bureau, Voices from the Street: A Survey of Homeless Youth by their Peers, is due online March 5. As part of the survey’s release, the California Research Bureau (CRB), in Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 10:45 AM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: Sacramento events, CSL publications, CSL website, CRB reports

• Braille and Talking Book Library to celebrate 77th anniversary of the Pratt-Smoot Act, festivities open to public

  In honor of the 77th anniversary of the Pratt-Smoot Act, legislation passed in 1931 inaugurating the "Books for the Blind" program (now called the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped ) within the Library of Congress, Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:40 AM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: Sacramento events, BTBL, US libraries

• Radio-Frequency Identification Document Advisory Panel to meet Feb. 6, 2008

  California’s Radio-Frequency Identification Document Advisory Panel will hold its second meeting February 6, 2008 at the California State Library in Sacramento. At the February 6 meeting, the panel will address several topics crucial to California Read More... Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:16 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: State Librarian, Sacramento events, CSL publications, CSL website, CRB reports

• California Research Bureau convenes Radio-Frequency Identification Document Advisory Panel

  At the request of State Senator Joe Simitian (D- Palo Alto), the California Research Bureau (CRB) at the California State Library is researching the security and privacy questions surrounding government-issued, remotely readable identification documents Read More... Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 3:37 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: Sacramento events, CSL website

• Radio-Frequency Identification Document Advisory Panel information now on CSL website

  Specific information about the October 31, 2007 meeting of the California Research Bureau’s Radio-Frequency Identification Document Advisory Panel is now on the California State Library website . Please click here: http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/rfidap/index.html Read More... Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 12:04 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: Sacramento events, CSL website

• 2007 California Public Library Directors' Orientation photos now online

  Photos from the September 2007 California Public Library Directors' Orientation at the Sacramento Sheraton are now available on the California State Library's Flickr site. Please visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/csl_news/sets/72157602369869642/detail/ Read More... Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:21 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: Sacramento events, CSL publications, California public libraries

• New Deputy State Librarian sworn into office August 6

  Stacey Aldrich was officially sworn in as the Deputy State Librarian of California August 6, 2007. State Librarian Susan Hildreth and California State Library Staff Counsel Paul Smith conducted the ceremony. For photos of the event please visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/csl_news/sets/72157601330811807/ Read More... Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:53 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: State Librarian, CSL general, Sacramento events

• California State Library political cartoon exhibit, “The Sting of Renault,” now open to public in Sacramento

  Now showing at the California State Library is “The Sting of Dennis Renault:” an Exhibition of Editorial Cartoons . The exhibit, which celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Sacramento Bee , features Renault’s ingenious and stinging Read More... Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 12:04 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: CSL general, Sacramento events

• California State Library 2007 Juneteenth Exhibit runs June 4 through July 17

  The California State Library, in cooperation with Juneteenth America , will hold a Juneteenth National Freedom Day Exhibit June 4 through July 17, 2007 in the lobby of the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building at 914 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:29 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: CSL general, Sacramento events

• California State Library’s California Civil Liberties Public Education Program public meeting May 25th

  State Librarian of California Susan Hildreth, and the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP) advisory committee, will meet on May 25, 2007 to review applications for (FY) 2006-07 CCLPEP grants. The CCLPEP meeting, which is open to Read More... Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:52 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: State Librarian, Sacramento events, CSL publications, grants

• CRB Director receives 2006/2007 Government Innovation Award

  California Research Bureau Director Dean Misczynski received the 2006-2007 Government Innovation Award from the Sacramento/State Capital Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) at its annual awards banquet May 9. The Sacramento Read More... Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 9:13 AM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: CSL general, Sacramento events

• Palos Verdes “loved” FLICKR

  Kathy Gould, Director of Palos Verdes Library District, wrote: This is great! Loved the Flickr photos....we've also been working with some of these technologies. Check out my Director's blog - http://pvlddirectorsblog.typepad.com/kathy/ . Also Read More... Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 1:22 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: CSL general, Sacramento events, CSL publications

• CLA Open House PHOTOS available now

  Please click here for photos from California State Library's November 12 CLA "open house." Full link is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/csl_news/sets/72157594375301784/detail/ Check the Winter 2007 issue of CSL Connection on the California Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:29 PM by CSL Info | 0 Comments Filed under: CSL general, Sacramento events, CSL publications, CSL website