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VTLIB Presents at VLA Conference
Learned Grants Awarded to 10 Public Libraries
VT Children Choose Favorite Picture Book for 2013
Center for Cartoon Studies Awards Teen Scholarship
Teachers, Librarians Learn, Laugh, Weep at DCF Conference
VTLIB Welcomes Brittney Wilson to Staff
Rita Robinson Receives Employee Recognition Award
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The Vermont Department of Libraries will have a robust presence at the Vermont Library Association Conference this year, with six VTLIB staff speaking at seven different programs during the May 21 conference at St. Michael's College.

 

Kicking off the first session, Assistant State Librarian Christine Friese will lead a panel discussion on Digital Literacy and Public Libraries. The discussion will define what "digital literacy" is and will look at the current state of digital literacy in Vermont. Current needs and programs for digital literacy will be examined, and strategies for ongoing enhancement of digital literacy in Vermont will be discussed.

Learned Grants Awarded to 10 Public Libraries

Ten libraries were awarded grants from the Winnie Belle Learned Fund of the Vermont Public Library Foundation to improve services to youth. Topics covered range from collection development to science centers to eBook readers. The Winnie Belle Learned Fund was established in 2006 by Dr. Burnett Rawson of Essex in honor of his benefactress, Winnie Belle Learned, a Vermont educator. Dr. Rawson's goal for the fund is to help the public libraries of Vermont "foster literacy, love of learning, critical analysis and intellectual exploration in their communities among children of all ages and their families." Read more 

VT Children Choose
Favorite Picture Book for 2013  
princess and pig Jonathan Emmett and Poly Bernatene won this year's Red Clover Award for The Princess and the Pig, a tongue-in-cheek fractured fairy tale about a piglet and a princess who were switched as infants. A total of 22,583 children in grades K-4 voted this year.
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Center for Cartoon Studies  

Awards Teen Scholarship  

Kristen Deutsch The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction is fabulous for many reasons, including their programs, students, and faculty. In addition, a few years ago they started an annual program with the Department of Libraries (VTLIB) to award a full scholarship to a Vermont teen to attend the week-long Create Comics workshop held in the summer. This spring VTLIB publicized this opportunity through schools and public libraries, and many teens entered the contest. This year's winner is Kristen Deutsch, a senior at Hartford High School. Read more

Teachers, Librarians Learn, Laugh, Weep
at DCF Conference    
DCF speakers

The eleventh annual Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award conference was held at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee on May 3. The more than 150 people in attendance learned from and enjoyed Barbara O'Connor's keynote address on the perils of writing for middle-schoolers, and wept at Kate Messner's affirmation of the abilities of children in the endnote address. Workshop topics ranged from iPad apps and social reading tools to different ways to make the DCF books come alive such as Reader's Theater, student-written reviews, and games. One of the highlights of the conference was the fact that students co-presented four of the workshops. Read more  

VTLIB Welcomes Brittney Wilson to Staff

Many of you have already met Brittney Wilson, who joined the Department of Libraries in March as the new Executive Assistant to the State Librarian. Since day one, she has been taking phone calls from libraries, sending out letters, emails and grant agreements to libraries and implementing new policies and procedures. She is a fast learner and it didn't take long for her to get up to speed and bring her own ideas to our operation. One part of her job will be to develop new PR tools so that the work of our Department can be more visible to State government, libraries and Vermont citizens. Brittney came to the job with plenty of experience, having served as Executive Assistant to the Commissioner at the Vermont Department of Forests and Parks and as Executive Assistant to State Auditor Tom Salmon. Brittney is expecting (any day now) her first baby and so will be taking a break for maternity leave - but she promises she will return to work later in the summer. (We'll keep you posted about her baby.) Welcome, Brittney.

Rita Robinson Receives
Employee Recognition Award

Rita Robinson, Coordinator of Support Services in the State Librarian's Office, has received the 2013 Employee Recognition Award for the Department of Libraries. Rita received her award from Governor Peter Shumlin at a May luncheon in Montpelier, where she was joined by her fiance Walter Brink and State Librarian Martha Reid. Rita was nominated for the award by a fellow VTLIB employee - and the whole Department agrees that she richly deserves this recognition. Her award was presented with this commentary: "Rita has worked at the Department of Libraries since 2002, and as the Support Service Coordinator in the Central Office, she has been praised as 'perky & pleasant.' She is also super helpful, highly professional and efficient. Rita wears many hats: she is the Department's main receptionist; maintains the online State Public Meeting list; provides administrative support for the libraries that participate in Department programs; coordinates printing and mailing projects; and is the Department's "go to" person for time sheets. We salute her for her terrific organizational skills, her up-beat attitude and her ability to meet deadlines. We couldn't get along without her." Congratulations, Rita!


In preparation for PTSD Awareness Month in June, we feature the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, whose Executive Division is based at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction. For downloadable flyers and ideas on recognizing PTSD Awareness Month, see http://www.ptsd.va.gov/about/ptsd-awareness/ptsd_awareness_month.asp. In addition to the wealth of information on the NCPTSD web site, Victoria Bedi of the Resource Center recommends:

 

what nurses know What Nurses Know: PTSD, by Mary Muscari. Demos Health, 2012. ISBN 9781936303069.

A holistic overview of the disorder describing symptoms, causes, and currently available treatments while providing tips for managing stress, discussing the situation with a doctor, and finding sources of help. 

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MARTYVTLIB Presents at VLA Conference, May 21 

The Vermont Department of Libraries will have a robust presence at the Vermont Library Association Conference this year, with six VTLIB staff speaking at seven different programs during the May 21 conference at St. Michael's College.

 

Kicking off the first session, Assistant State Librarian Christine Friese will lead a panel discussion on Digital Literacy and Public Libraries. The discussion will define what "digital literacy" is and will look at the current state of digital literacy in Vermont. Current needs and programs for digital literacy will be examined, and strategies for ongoing enhancement of digital literacy in Vermont will be discussed.

 

Grace Greene, VTLIB Youth Services Consultant, will co-present Vermont's Child-Selected Book Awards with Kat Redniss of the Brownell Library in Essex Junction. This first session program will present these wonderful children's books through multimedia.

 

Also part of the first session, VTLIB Collections and Digital Initiatives Librarian Tom McMurdo will join Vermont Cataloging Roundtable colleagues Amber Billey (UVM), Helen Linda (Goddard College), and Christine Webb (Fletcher Free Library, Burlington) in presenting an RDA Boot Camp. This boot camp will give the audience an understanding of RDA and provide the basics for creating RDA cataloging records.

 

VTLIB Continuing Education Coordinator Mara Siegel will be part of an afternoon presentation that asks What's a Makerspace? Joining Mara will be Sam Maskell and Emily Zervais from the Rockingham Public Library in Bellows Falls. Many of us have heard the word "makerspace" over the last couple of years. This presentation will frame the term and will show us what kinds of awesome things are happening in Vermont makerspaces.

 

Tom McMurdo will co-present Chronicling America / Chronicling Vermont: Historic Newspapers at the Library of Congress with Birdie MacLennan and Erenst Anip from UVM, and Chris Kirby of the Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury. This presentation will showcase some of the interesting historical topics that are available at your fingertips in the massive, free online historical newspaper database Chronicling America.

 

Later in the afternoon, VTLIB Regional Consultant Amy Howlett will be part of the popular Rapid Reviews session. Other reviewers are Ernie Drown, Selene Colburn of UVM, and Ed Graves from the Rockingham Public Library in Bellows Falls. Rapid Reviews gives participants a chance to share some great reads with the VLA audience. We look forward to seeing what these reviewers will bring us this year.

 

In the final session, April Kelley, VTLIB Assistant for the Children's Book Exhibit Center, will discuss her experiences as a recent graduate of an online MLIS program as part of Online MLS Programs: A Survey. Joining April will be Jimmy Allen, Coco Zephir, and Dan DeSanto of UVM, Cindy Weber of the Stowe Free Library, and Joy Worland of the Joslin Memorial Library in Waitsfield. The panel will talk about several online MLIS programs.

 

VTLIB is proud to be a partner with the Vermont Library Association and we will all look forward to seeing you at the conference.

 

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Learned Grants Awarded to 10 Public Libraries fivestar2

Ten libraries were awarded grants from the Winnie Belle Learned Fund of the Vermont Public Library Foundation to improve services to youth. Topics covered range from collection development to science centers to eBook readers. The Winnie Belle Learned Fund was established in 2006 by Dr. Burnett Rawson of Essex in honor of his benefactress, Winnie Belle Learned, a Vermont educator. Dr. Rawson's goal for the fund is to help the public libraries of Vermont "foster literacy, love of learning, critical analysis and intellectual exploration in their communities among children of all ages and their families."

 

The libraries and their projects are as follows:

 

Alburgh: $850 to spruce up the YA section with materials requested by the teens.

 

Barton: $450 to create early literacy backpacks, each one focusing on a different early literacy skill, and containing books, activities, materials, and information on the skill featured.

 

Bradford: $1,500 to develop themed kits, many of which will be related to this summer's theme of Underground.

 

Castleton: $2,000 to create science discovery centers and "wonder boxes" for children to explore various aspects of science on their own.

 

Georgia: $1,454 to create preschool themed bags to be loaned to childcares.

 

Moretown: $600 to buy audio books for family use.

 

Newbury: $2,500 to begin comprehensive early literacy services for preschoolers, both in the library and through outreach.

 

Orwell: $1,000 to develop the easy reader collection.

 

Pittsford: $1,900 for a series of after-school teen programming.

 

Springfield: $1,084 to purchase eBook readers and load them with children's fiction and nonfiction.

 

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 worldVT Children Choose Favorite Picture Book for 2013   

Jonathan Emmett and Poly Bernatene won this year's Red Clover Award for The Princess and the Pig, a tongue-in-cheek fractured fairy tale about a piglet and a princess who were switched as infants. A total of 22,583 children in grades K-4 voted this year. Here are the vote totals:

 

The Princess and the Pig     4,928

Three by the Sea     4,811

Blackout     3,604

Grandpa Green     2,330

Balloons Over Broadway     1,422

Me Jane     1,383

Neville     1,312
Tia Isa     1,310

Swirl by Swirl     882

All the Water     601

 

The annual Red Clover conference will be held at the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee on Tuesday, October 2. James Solheim, winner of the 2012 Red Clover Award for Born Yesterday,and Vermont illustrator Eileen Christelow will be the speakers. The Vermont Center for the Book will send out registration materials at the beginning of the school year.

 

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tomCenter for Cartoon Studies Awards Teen Scholarship 

The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction is fabulous for many reasons, including their programs, students, and faculty. In addition, a few years ago they started an annual program with the Department of Libraries (VTLIB) to award a full scholarship to a Vermont teen to attend the week-long Create Comics workshop held in the summer. This spring VTLIB publicized this opportunity through schools and public libraries, and many teens entered the contest. This year's winner is Kristen Deutsch, a senior at Hartford High School.

 

Kristen has been fascinated by the world of comics since she was seven years old. She says, "Comics, Graphic Novels, and Manga seamlessly combine my two passions, storytelling and art. Marvel's X-Men, as well as DC Comic's Watchmen and Justice League were my early favorites. Iconic characters and storylines such as those continue to inspire me and ultimately influence my work."

 

Kristen started out drawing and painting, but in high school her artistic repertoire expanded to include Photography, Digital Illustration, Animation, Web Design, Painting, Logo Design, Ceramics, Stone Carving, and more. In the fall she will go to Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she will do a double major in illustration and animation. Ultimately, she hopes to have a career in game design, concept art, animation or illustration. Perhaps this summer course will have an influence on which career she chooses.


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VTLATeachers, Librarians Learn, Laugh, Weep at DCF Conference

The eleventh annual Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award conference was held at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee on May 3. The more than 150 people in attendance learned from and enjoyed Barbara O'Connor's keynote address on the perils of writing for middle-schoolers, and wept at Kate Messner's affirmation of the abilities of children in the endnote address. Workshop topics ranged from iPad apps and social reading tools to different ways to make the DCF books come alive such as Reader's Theater, student-written reviews, and games. One of the highlights of the conference was the fact that students co-presented four of the workshops.

 

The conference committee consisted of: Kate Davie, Caroline Demaio, Donna Goodhue, Katrina Hill, Stacy Holbrook, Joanna Rudge Long, Sally Margolis, Kat Redniss, Marita Schine, Megan Sutton, Patty Thomas, Sandy Zelazo, and Grace Greene, chair. Thanks go to the Vermont School Library Association, Vermont Library Association, VT-NEA, and the Agency of Education for their financial contributions.

 

Next year's conference is planned for Friday, May 2, at the Stoweflake Conference Center in Stowe. Gary Schmidt, author of The Wednesday Wars and Okay for Now, among many stellar books, will give the keynote address.

 

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In preparation for PTSD Awareness Month in June, we feature the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, whose Executive Division is based at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction. For downloadable flyers and ideas on recognizing PTSD Awareness Month, see http://www.ptsd.va.gov/about/ptsd-awareness/ptsd_awareness_month.asp. In addition to the wealth of information on the NCPTSD web site, Victoria Bedi of the Resource Center recommends:

 

what nurses know What Nurses Know: PTSD, by Mary Muscari. Demos Health, 2012. ISBN 9781936303069.

A holistic overview of the disorder describing symptoms, causes, and currently available treatments while providing tips for managing stress, discussing the situation with a doctor, and finding sources of help.

 

 

 

 

 

beating combat stress Beating Combat Stress: 101 Techniques for Recovery, by John Henden. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. ISBN 9780470974803.

Handbook of 101 field-tested techniques and strategies designed to help service personnel and veterans deal with the psychological effects of combat and live life to the fullest. The book equips readers with helpful tools, coping mechanisms, and techniques.

 

 

 

coping with ptsd Coping With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Guide for Families (2nd ed.), by Cheryl Roberts. McFarland, 2011. ISBN 9780786449743.

A user friendly discussion of PTSD as it affects individuals and families. New to this edition is information regarding Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and the new policies and treatments in use as well as information about women war veterans, who are a newer demographic for combat PTSD

 

surviving the shadows Surviving the Shadows: A Journey of Hope into Post-Traumatic Stress, by Bob Delaney and Dave Scheiber. Sourcebooks, 2011. ISBN 9781402263552.

Powerful and inspiring stories-marked by perseverance and personal courage-about an array of people who have suffered directly or indirectly from PTSD. PTSD education and awareness leader Bob Delaney introduces you to medical experts who have developed groundbreaking methods in dealing with the disorder, and profiles one-of-a-kind programs around the country devoted to assisting PTSD sufferers.

 

 

when someone you love When Someone You Love Suffers from Posttraumatic Stress: What to Expect and What You Can Do, by Claudia Zayfert and Jason DeViva. Guilford Press, 2011. ISBN 9781609180652.

Highly practical guide packed with information, support, vivid stories, and specific advice. Readers learn to navigate the rough spots day by day and help their loved one find a brighter tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

trauma essentials Trauma Essentials: The Go-to Guide, by Babette Rothschild. Norton, 2011. ISBN 9780393706208.

Clearly-written and accessible book for anyone suffering from trauma-related disorders, and for their therapists. Covers psychological effects of traumatizing experiences (especially PTSD), introduces several approaches and adjuncts to treatment, and helps individuals determine how to tell if a treatment works for them.

 

 

 

For more in-depth information, try PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress), a free database from the National Center for PTSD. Although sponsored by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, PILOTS also includes information on PTSD in individuals who are not affiliated with the military.

 

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