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17 California institutions, of 154 grantee organizations nationwide, have received Museums for America (MFA) grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). MFA grants, part of the Institute’s largest museum grant program, support institutions which strengthen their services by either engaging communities (education, exhibitions, and interpretation); building institutional capacity (management, policy, and training); or collections stewardship. IMLS Director Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, says museums “play an integral role in the education of their communities. Museums for America grants support projects and ongoing activities that build museums’ capacities and help these institutions serve their diverse constituencies to the best of their abilities.” The 17 California MFA grant recipients (in alpha order by city) are: UC Botanical Garden, University of California – Berkeley; UC Davis Arboretum, University of California – Davis; Institute for American Research – Goleta; Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology – Hemet; Rotchev House Museum, Fort Ross Interpretive Association – Jenner; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Los Angeles; Oakland Museum of California Foundation – Oakland; Pacific Asia Museum – Pasadena; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego - San Diego; San Diego Society of Natural History - San Diego; Zoological Society of San Diego - San Diego; National Japanese American Historical Society - San Francisco; National Japanese American Historical Society - San Francisco; Chinese Historical Society of America - San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco; Santa Barbara Botanic Garden - Santa Barbara; UC Santa Cruz Arboretum, University of California - Santa Cruz. For the full IMLS press release, please visit: http://www.imls.gov/news/2008/072208.shtm
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Security and Privacy Recommendations for Government-Issued Identity Documents Using Radio Frequency Identification Tags or Other Technologies Christopher J. Marxen (CRB-08-008, July, 2008)
This report was produced in response to a request from Senator S. Joseph Simitian to provide policy recommendations regarding the use of technology-enhanced, government-issued identification documents. After examining the technical and personal security issues and concerns of these next-generation documents and their accompanying electronic infrastructure, assembling an expert advisory panel, and holding a series of public meetings to obtain input, CRB developed the report's recommendations for the selection and use of these technologies by state and local government agencies. PDF version (1MB) is available online.
For this and other online California Research Bureau reports, please visit the California Research Bureau page on the California State Library website.
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The California State Library has free multiple copies of Booktalking That Works by Jennifer Bromann (Neal-Schuman, 2001) available to California libraries. A Booklist reviewer describes Booktalking as “practical, smart, hip, and irreverent. This guide to booktalking for reluctant readers shows and tells how to reach ‘today's media-savvy, plugged-in teens.’” The copies are from an earlier California State Library program. If you would like to receive a copy, please send your request via email to the California State Library’s Library Development Services Bureau at csllds@library.ca.gov and include the name and address of your library, and the number of copies you would like.
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The free California State Library webcast, "Attracting Baby Boomers to Volunteer Services: We're NOT Senior Volunteers," is next week on Tuesday, July 22 from noon to 1 pm.
To access the webcast link, just go to:
http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/la50/index.html Both the webcast and the webinar will be recorded and archived at: http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/la50/index.html Webcast Description
Many libraries throughout the state have just completed their community assessments for the California State Library’s recent initiative -Transforming Life After 50: Libraries and Baby Boomers. How to utilize Boomer talent and experience in volunteer roles that support libraries and build communities was a priority in most library assessments.
Join the California State Library’s Carla Lehn as she addresses how libraries can re-engineer volunteerism to align with the desire and potential of boomers. Whether you have participated in the Transforming Life After 50 Initiative or not, we encourage your participation New technical tips for CSL webcasts:
1) Use email to send in questions and comments .Just click on the “Email Presenter” link right underneath the video window. 2) Request technical assistance by calling 562-856-4750. 3) To view the webcast, you will need RealPlayer installed on your computer. For more information, see the “Note to Webcast Viewers” at the bottom of the webcast event page at http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/la50/index.
4) For those who may have trouble viewing the video portion of the webcast, there will also be a link to a webinar option (slides plus presenter audio, no presenter video) For more information about the Transforming Life After 50 Initiative, please contact Suzanne Flint at (916) 651-9796 or email at sflint@library.ca.gov.
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Beginning at 5:00 PM on Friday, July 18, all California State Library (CSL) network services will experience disruptions while CSL changes Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and upgrades the network's bandwidth. Services that will be disrupted include our main website, main and picture catalogs, and Braille and talking book catalog. The disruptions may occur throughout the weekend while updates about CSL’s new web addresses replicate throughout the Internet. All of CSL's domain names, such as www.library.ca.gov, will remain unchanged. See updated connection specifications if your library catalog connects to ours via Z39.50 using an IP address.
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August 10, 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which offered reparations to Japanese Americans detained in internment camps during World War II. The California State Library’s California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP) provided grants to publish the following books related to the internment and offers them free of charge to libraries: Blossoms in the Desert, ed. by Darrell Hamamoto. [S.l]: Topaz High School Class of 1945, c2003. Teenagers share their memories of living in the Topaz Internment Camp in Utah.
Lowery, Margaret. 39 Months in Tule Lake. [S.l.]: Xlibris Corporation, c2004. Diary and notes of a non-Japanese American who sought an administrative position at the Tule Lake Internment Camp in order to help the internees.
Please email requests to CCLPEP at cclpep@library.ca.gov and provide a contact person’s name, library name and address, name of the book, and number of copies requested. For more information, contact Christopher Berger at (916) 653-8313 or email at cberger@library.ca.gov, or Linda Springer at (916) 651-6509 or email at lspringer@library.ca.gov.
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Four Butte County Library staff members have been evacuated from their homes in Paradise and Berry Creek and are staying with friends or family. Two more live less than a block away from immediate threat evacuation areas, but are remaining at home with their families as of this time. Several others live in precautionary evacuation areas. A volunteer bookmobile driver has likely lost her home in the Concow area, but as evacuation orders are still in place for the area that cannot be confirmed. As of this moment, all of the evacuation orders issued Tuesday and Wednesday are still in place. No library branches are under immediate threat, but the Paradise Branch is still under a precautionary evacuation status. It remains open for business and is still serving the vital community information needs Rochelle so succinctly described yesterday. As I learn more, I will pass it along. ~ Derek Wolfgram, Butte County Library Director
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As of 8:45 AM this morning [July 9, 2008], portions of the upper ridge of Paradise have been evacuated. Feather River Hospital has closed all services on Pentz Road, and the emergency room is closed due to smoke/ash conditions. The Paradise Branch library is under Precautionary Evacuation Orders and remains in a relatively safe area, though the air is thick with smoke. Staffs that live in Paradise are safe, and their homes are currently out of harm’s way, though with our last scare in June several had to evacuate. They have masks to wear should they need them. I continually post news bulletins, fire locations and the evacuation maps as I get them and tape them to a large easel for patrons to view and examine. I have a radio tuned to the local emergency information station for the latest news about precautionary evacuations as well. Our library director, Derek Wolfgram, is at the Emergency Command Center here in Paradise. He regularly checks in with the latest information as he gets it. Apart from some smoky air, the library and staff are safe.
On another note, I was surprised at how many patrons came into the library. They were waiting at the door, many with face masks. All ages came in wanting books and trying to communicate with friends via email and to get news. Today has fewer people in the library as it is unsafe to be out but they're dropping by some on their way out of town.
~ Rochelle Carr, Branch Librarian Paradise Branch, Butte County Public Library
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As I write you, the Big Sur Branch Library of Monterey County Free Libraries is being evacuated. A mandatory evacuation was issued about an hour ago and we have our delivery van enroute to load up the historical items and as much of the collection as possible. The Basin Complex fire is only about 3% contained and has apparently changed direction this morning, endangering Big Sur village. This area has many campgrounds, hotels, the post office, and our branch library.
~ Mary Housel, Monterey County Free Library
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Save the date for “Attracting Baby Boomers to Volunteer Service: We’re NOT Senior Volunteers,” a special webcast scheduled for July 22. More information about accessing the program will be distributed before the event. The webcast also will be recorded and archived for later viewing. Webcast Description Many libraries throughout the state have just completed their community assessments for the California State Library’s recent initiative -Transforming Life After 50: Libraries and Baby Boomers. How to utilize Boomer talent and experience in volunteer roles that support libraries and build communities was a priority in most library assessments. Join the California State Library’s Carla Lehn Tuesday, July 22, from noon to 1 pm for a live webcast, sponsored by the Transforming Life After 50 Initiative, which will address how libraries can re-engineer volunteerism to align with the desire and potential of boomers? Whether you have participated in the Transforming Life After 50 initiative or not, we encourage your participation. For more information about the Transforming Life After 50 Initiative, please contact Suzanne Flint at (916) 651-9796 or email at sflint@library.ca.gov.
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The California Wellness Foundation has renewed a 3-year $240,000 grant to the California State Library’s California Research Bureau (CRB) for CRB’s highly acclaimed research and policy education project on homeless youth.
The upcoming Summer 2008 CSL Connection, due online July 15, will feature an overview of the project, and Voices from the Street: A Survey of Homeless Youth by Their Peers, is available in PDF on the CRB website.
For more information about the CRB project, please contact Ginny Puddefoot or Lisa Foster at (916) 653-7843.
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Beverly Goldberg, Senior Editor at the American Library Association’s American Libraries, wants to know whether there are any libraries affected/threatened by the California wildfires. “I have noted in the press that Big Sur's Henry Miller Library was saved from the flames,” she writes. If you know of a California library threatened by wildfire, please contact Beverly Goldberg directly at 800-545-2433 x4217 or email at bgoldberg@ala.org.
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Redwood City Public Library’s Project READ, in collaboration with Cañada College, has received not only the San Mateo County School Boards Association’s J. Russell Kent Award, but also a Certificate of Recognition from the California Senate and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives. The library’s literacy program, funded in part by California Library Literacy Services, was singled out for its Inmate Peer Tutor Program, a project which enables inmates to earn college credits by successfully completing a specialized literacy program with Project READ volunteer tutors. By partnering with Cañada College, program tutors participate in Literacy Tutoring in the Community, another avenue for students to gain new skills to help improve the community through enhancing literacy. For more information call Project READ at (650) 780-7077 or go to www.projectread-redwoodcty.org.
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