Upcoming Trainings

Don’t forget!
We have two new Digital Library 101 trainings for Listen Up! Vermont scheduled for
Wednesday October 21st at 3pm EDT. Access Code: email Stephanie for code
Thursday October 22nd at 10am EDT. Access Code: email Stephanie for code
Simply go to http://www.readytalk.com and log in using the access code. You will need [...]

Training Options

Please let us know what trainings you are interested in attending:

Minutes of the GMLC Board of Directors Meeting – April 26, 2009

April 27, 2009
Present: Stephanie Chase, Judah Hamer, Lucinda Walker
The meeting was called to order at 1:35PM
I. Minutes from the January 9, 2009 meeting were approved.
II. Treasurer’s Report
GMLC accountant will be working on a “stub return” and GMLC’s 990 tax return for FY09.  The Consortium’s finances are healthy.
III.  The annual meeting will be held on Wednesday [...]

GMLC Seeks Development Coordinator

The Green Mountain Library Consortium (GMLC) is seeking a Development Coordinator for a short-term stipended position.
The Development Coordinator is responsible for researching funding sources and grants that the GMLC could apply for to provide funding for digital content, staffing & benefits and technical support.  Ideal grants would be multi-year  in the realm of $200,000 – [...]

GMLC Annual Meeting Minutes – May 13, 2009

GMLC Annual Member Meeting
Wednesday May 13, 2009
In attendance:
Rebecca Mueller (Richmond Free Library), Susan Barden (Carpenter-Carse Library), Kip Roberson (Pierson Library), Mary Florio (Waterford School), Jerry Carbone (Brooks Memorial Library), Pamela Burke (Marlboro
School), Deb Roderer (Dorothy Alling Memorial Library), Helen Linda( Goddard College), Stephanie Chase (Stowe Free Library), Richard Pritsky (Carpenter Carse Library), Susan Swasta (Mark [...]

Round Three for Listen Up! Vermont closed

Thank you to all of our libraries that joined the Listen Up! Vermont project during our Round Three signups — your library should be set to go live on Monday, February 16.
While we are no longer adding libraries for Round Three, we have begun collecting the names of interested libraries for Round Four, set for [...]

New Listen Up! Vermont Selection Committee Coordinator

Please join us in welcoming Kip Roberson, Director of the Pierson Library in Shelburne, as the new Selection Committee Coordinator for Listen Up! Vermont. Kip takes over for Stephanie Chase of the Stowe Free Library and joins Joan Lajoie of the Richmond Free Library, Maria Forman of the Twinfield Union High School in Plainfield, and [...]

Listen Up! Vermont Selection Committee Openings

We have two openings coming up for public librarians on the Listen Up! Vermont selection committee. Members of the committee are responsible for purchasing all of the titles for the Listen Up! collection, balancing the needs from schools and publics, children and adults, classics and new releases.
The committee tends to do all of its work [...]

Open Training Month for Listen Up! Vermont

Can’t make the Digital Library 101 trainings in July? Missed one of our old trainings? In September, OverDrive is hosting a series of free instructor-led trainings, much like those we have been doing in the past. And the best news? We can win a prize — content credit! — for participation. The winner in each [...]

A big thanks

As I mentioned over at the Listen Up! Vermont blog, I was honored at the Vermont Library Conference this past week with the Green Mountain Award, for organizing the Green Mountain Library Consortium and bringing downloadable audios to the libraries of Vermont. I was quite surprised, and am very honored — and, of course, didn’t [...]