SEMLS News

Can you believe that this year's fall feels like winter? I have to tell you that I feel robbed, short-changed, and bamboozled by Mother Nature.  I expect to have at least one whole month of bright blue skies before the rust and gold-colored leaves changed. "Sigh" Oh well, I guess change is a part of nature.  But here's one event that hasn't gone under transformation--our Performer's Showcase! This year, our 9th annual celebration will take place at the Elizabeth Pole Elementary School in Taunton on Tuesday, November 17.  Come view next year's performers this year as we prepare the celebration of our Summer 2010 Go Green theme.  To register, lease visit http://www.semls.org.

Best Wishes in Your New Position:

Susan Scott, Reference Librarian, Holmes Public Library, Halifax.

Jane Murphy, Youth Services Librarian, Millicent Library, Fairhaven

Karen Arnold, Librarian, Sacred Heart High School, Kingston

Marcia Griswold, Interim Director, Wareham Free Library

Best Wishes in Your Retirement:

Ilene Kramer, Circulation, Canton Public Library

Betty Gregg, Director, Bridgewater Public Library

Best Wishes to Our Newest Members

Martin E. Young Elementary School, 30 Lou Courtney Drive, Randolph, MA 02368; Pat Henderson, Library Teacher

Thacher Montessori School, Maureen E. Coughlin Library, 1425 Blue Hill Avenue, Milton, MA 02186; Karen Lempert, Librarian

Barnstable Intermediate School, 895 Falmouth Road, Hyannis, MA 02601; Jane M. Kenney, Library Teacher

West Villages Elementary School, 760 Osterville/West Barnstable Road, Marstons Mills, MA 02648; Jane M. Kenney, Library Teacher

Join us at the Lakeville Public Library Thursday, January 14 for a full-day technology program on the mobile library.

More people than ever are using mobile devices to access the Internet and communicate. There is now a growing expectation that business, government and libraries meet the needs of these mobile users. Join us for a full-day technology conference where we will highlight developments in mobility and discuss ways libraries are meeting the needs of mobile users.

Tom Peters of TAP Information Services will deliver the keynote address, "Mobile Libraries: The Future of Libraries and of Our Sense of Place." Joe Murphy, Coordinator of Instruction & Technology at the Yale University Science Libraries, will provide an overview of ways libraries can reach out to mobile users in "Mobile Tech, Mobile Users, Mobile Libraries." Jill Erickson of the Falmouth Public Library will give an update on the early months of Falmouth's "Text-a-Librarian" service. SEMLS Assistant Administrator for Technology Kathy Lussier will explore e-Book options for libraries. The day will end with small group discussion as participants brainstorm ways to incorporate mobile technologies into library service.

Participants will also have an opportunity to try various gadgets from the SEMLS Technology Sandbox during the breaks. In addition to the Amazon Kindle 2, SEMLS plans to have a Sony Reader and Nook by January 14.

Participants should bring a brown bag lunch. SEMLS will provide drinks.

Register through the SEMLS event calendar.