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February 10, 2012
Plan to attend the 2012 SEFLIN Annual Meeting at the Ft. Lauderdale Sheraton Airport Hotel. This year, the Annual Meeting will include Table Talks as a part of the Strategic Planning process. Members will have an opportunity to participate in defining strategic priorities for the next five years. Attendees will discuss and rank the service areas identified in this fall's surveys and regional forums. Barbara Stites, Associate Director of the Florida Gulf Coast University Library and president-elect of the Florida Library Association will facilitate discussions. Join us to let your voice be heard.
Register to attend this important networking event. The Annual Meeting lunch is $25 per person.
Reduced registration fee for SEFLIN members
Use the online registration link to receive the SEFLIN consortial discount for the 3-day conference. The SEFLIN member price is $289, more than $200 less than the regular price.
The preliminary program is on the conference site, Computers in Libraries 2012, Washington DC, March 21 – 23, 2012. For questions about the SEFLIN group discount, contact Jeannette Smithee (smithee@seflin.org).
CIL Online Registration - SEFLIN Discount Code SEF12
SEFLIN looks forward to 2017
So much has changed since SEFLIN's last Five-Year Strategic Plan in 2006. This year, SEFLIN's Board will examine roles for SEFLIN that fit South Florida's library services and needs for cooperative services. SEFLIN will seek member input to review the state of libraries and the needs for cooperative services. Please take this opportunity to shape SEFLIN with this short online survey!
SEFLIN members will again have a chance to help set service priorities through table talks at the SEFLIN Annual Meeting on February 10, 2012. Save the date.
Welcome to Everest Institute, ITT Technical Institute, and Riviera Beach
SEFLIN welcomes new members for the 2011-2012 year. Two former Affiliate Members have become Associate Members with options for resouce sharing. These are Everest Institute (Melissa Del Castillo, Library Director) and ITT Technical Institute - Miami (Ida Tomshinsky, LRC Director
The Riviera Beach Public Library has joined SEFLIN as an Affiliate Member (Cynthia Cobb, Library Director). We look forward to working with these new members.
Library Resource Sharing: Emerging Trends & Technologies
This conference, delivered through SEFLIN Connect online meeting service, highlighted new trends and new technology for resource sharing among libraries. Leaders in the field and subject-experts provided live presentations and interacted with attendees.
Click on the presentation titles below for more information and to register for viewing the recording:
• Future Trends: Will Libraries Be At The Table?
Stephen Abram (Gale Cengage Learning)
• Interlibrary Loan: The Future is Now!
Russell Palmer (LYRASIS)
• Library eBooks: Past, Present & Future
Lindsey Levinsohn(OverDrive, Inc.)
• Statewide Patron Initiated ILL: Florida & OCLC's Excellent Adventure
Al Carlson (Tampa Bay Library Consortium)
• The Future of Digital Libraries
Sarah Houghton-Jan ("The Librarian in Black" - San Rafael Public Library).
www.floridalibrarytraining.com
To find classes and other training, search the Florida Library Training Calendar. A project of the Florida multitype library cooperatives and the Division of Library and Information Services, this web-based calendar provides one-stop shopping for information about face-to-face and online library training available statewide to Florida library staff.
Training opportunities are listed chronologically in the Calendar and Event List formats. View the Blog tab to see the latest postings, search by topic, or subscribe to the RSS feed.
We encourage you to visit www.floridalibrarytraining.com to find out about available training.
http://www.facebook.com/seflin
SEFLIN is now on Facebook."Like" us to get the latest news sent right to your Facebook news feed, view upcoming CLP courses and events, share your comments, and interact with other SEFLIN fans. You do not have to be a Facebook user to see our page. Join us today!
Visit the SEFLIN Facebook page.
CLP News
SEFLIN is pleased to announce that as of October 1, 2010, Instructor Led and Live Online workshops will be open to staff from all Florida libraries free of charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members, and non-members will be added on a space-available basis. Course listings for eligible workshops will contain a link to a Non-Member Registration form.
Visit the CLP homepage to see what classes are coming up!
Service Opens Doors to Libraries
Five library organizations in Palm Beach County offer a program to provide cooperative borrowing services. The Sunshine Library Card Program allows registered users to borrow materials from participating libraries.
This program is the first in Southeast Florida to demonstrate reciprocal borrowing
among academic, public, and school libraries.
For 2011-2012, the libraries participating in the Sunshine Library Card Program are:
- Boynton Beach City Library
- Florida Atlantic University Libraries
- Palm Beach State College Libraries
- Palm Beach County Library System
- School District of Palm Beach County
Sunshine Library Card Program Homepage
Online Training for Library Staff
SEFLIN has created an online training presentation for library staff using the SEFLIN Library Card Program site. The presentation runs for seven minutes and covers the basics of:
1. Logging into the SLCP site
2. Creating a New SEFLIN Library Card
3. Validating the Use of a SEFLIN Library Card
The presentation is available on the SEFLIN Library Card Program homepage.
SEFLIN Library Card Program Homepage
Professional Networking Service for Member Library Staff
The Library Staff Networking Directory offers an online service designed to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and professional expertise among the library staff in member libraries. More than 1,500 staff persons from the Southeast Florida region are listed in the directory.
Library staff may post a professional biography, upload photos, select job duties and professional interests, add hyperlinks to useful Web sites, upload documents and presentations, and identify contacts among the other staff persons in the Directory.
