Not for the light-hearted. The following notes are excerpted from a kickoff conversation between the American Library Association Washington Office Staff and the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA - that is, State Librarians).
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At our Quarterly Meeting last week we honored Jill Merritt as the ILS Employee of the Year 2008.
From a message from Melanie Anderson, ALA Washington Office Director of Office of Government Relations (3/11/09): "Yesterday, an email was sent out about the Senior Community Service Employment Program. This program places senior citizens in jobs at nonprofit and public facilities, including libraries. I understand there is some confusion about this program. Libraries do not apply for these funds. The funding is distributed to the states and to the 18 nonprofit organizations that have been approved by the US Department of Labor as a grantee.
The staff of the Washington State Library has compiled a list of helpful online resources for those currently affected by the recent downturn of the economy. For links to unemployment information, job and retraining resources, and federal economic stimulus programs, click here!
We began a post about changes we'd recently implemented in our post-processing of digital images of newspaper pages. Of course, we found this hard to talk about without delving first into the process of digitizing newspapers.
