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Wednesday Word │February 9, 2022
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In This Issue Free ‘Graphic Arts and Upcoming workshops
the Reading Experience’ and important dates
Indiana library jobs
In the news virtual program with
Integrate Book Connections
New dates announced for Nate Powell scheduled Resources to Inspire Summer
Little Free Library and for Feb. 17 Reading
Overdrive Marketplace When: Feb. 17, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
webinars Where: Webinar
Free ‘Graphic Arts and the
Reading Experience’ virtual Build a Better World at Work and in
program with Nate Powell Life with Kindness and Gratitude
scheduled for Feb. 17 When: Feb. 23, 10-11 a.m.
INverse Poetry Archive now Where: Webinar
accepting entries
Building Community Engagement
PALNI welcomes new
and Awareness Through Little Free
communications director The Indiana Center for the Book at
Library - NEW DATE!
Upcoming workshops and the Indiana State Library and the
When: Feb. 24, 10-11 a.m.
important dates Arkansas Center for the Book at the
Where: Webinar
William and Lucy Bradford Arkansas State Library are
Civil War letters partnering to present a program Summer Reading 2022 Roundtable
LinkedIn Learning now free featuring Nate Powell on the theme Discussion
for Indianapolis Public “The Graphic Arts and the Reading When: March 1, 1-2 p.m.
Library cardholders Experience.” Where: Webinar
The program will take place online Getting Started with Marketplace -
via Zoom on Thursday, Feb. 17 at Indiana Digital Library (Overdrive)
7:30 p.m. Eastern Time/6:30 p.m. - NEW DATE!
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Central Time. The presentation will When: March 2, 10-11 a.m.
focus on the use of comics and Where: Webinar
graphical arts to communicate as a
mass medium, as well as how a Indiana 211 and Libraries
When: March 16, 2022, 10-11 a.m.
graphic writer envisions, creates and
Where: Webinar
curates the reading experience. The
program is suitable for teens and
Curating and Maintaining Vibrant
Indiana library jobs adults.
Collections for Users with Print
Disabilities
Powell is the first cartoonist ever to
When: March 17, 10-11 a.m.
win the National Book Award. He is
from Little Rock, Arkansas and lives Where: Webinar
in Bloomington. Powell’s work has
What's Up Wednesday - The Ins and
also received a Robert F. Kennedy Outs of On and Offboarding
Book Award, three Eisner Awards,
When: March 30, 10-11 a.m.
two Ignatz Awards, four YALSA
Where: Webinar
Great Graphic Novels for Teens
This week's new Indiana library jobs selections and two Los Angeles What's Up Wednesday: Effective
Times Book Prize finalist selections. Staff Development on Any Budget
Adult Services Manager
When: April 27, 10-11 a.m.
Danville-Center Township Public Click here to register. Registered
Where: Webinar
Library participants will be sent a Zoom link
upon registration. The event will also
Teen and Adult Services Librarian
be livestreamed on the Arkansas
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public
State Library's YouTube channel.
Library
Marketing Assistant/Library Clerk,
Public Services INverse Poetry Archive
Jeffersonville Township Public now accepting entries
Library
Outreach Services Manager
Welcome to Digital Collection
New Castle-Henry County Public
Highlights. Every other week,
Library
librarians at the Indiana State
Communications Specialist Library share images from the
Vigo County Public Library library's ever-growing digital
collections. Visit the Digital
If you would like your Indiana library Collections page to view the latest
job posting to be listed in the additions.
Wednesday Word, the position and
its description must be submitted to
the Indiana State Library. Click here
William and Lucy
for submission guidelines and to
submit. The Indiana Arts Commission, in Bradford Civil War
partnership with the Indiana State letters
Library, has announced that INverse,
In the news the state poetry archive, is accepting
entries.
INverse, an initiative of former
Indiana Poet Laureate Adrian
Matejka, celebrates and preserves
the diverse range of Indiana poetry
for future generations of Indiana
writers and readers. The works of 41
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poets were added to the poetry
archive in October 2021.
“INverse celebrates the diverse
creative voices of our state,” said
Miah Michaelsen, Indiana Arts
Commission executive director. “We
are proud to partner with the
Indiana State Library on this unique
archive that preserves and makes
accessible the work of Hoosier poets
for all to enjoy.”
Indiana State library receives rare
reprint of abolitionist's All eligible residents of Indiana are
autobiography encouraged to submit poems to the
Cunningham Memorial Library at Letters between Captain William S.
archive for review. Click here to view
Indiana State University Bradford and his wife Lucy convey a
a sample submission form. The
deep devotion to each other and to
guidelines can be viewed here.
EVPL observing Black History Month the Union during the U.S. Civil War.
with a series of programming, Entries are due by April 30. Rev. Bradford married Lucy W.
displays Adsit on April 1, 1857. The couple
Evansville Vanderburgh Public had been married only four years
Library before Bradford, minister of the
PALNI welcomes new
Methodist Episcopal Church in
Indy Now kicks off book club with communications director Muncie, enlisted with the Union
book suggestions from local librarian
Army. He served as the captain of
Indianapolis Public Library
Company F of the 57th Indiana
New meeting room reservation Regiment at the time of the pair’s
system coming for library correspondence from December
Noble County Public Library 1861 to April 1862.
*Please consult local news sources In her last letter to her husband on
and library websites for the latest April 19, 1862, Lucy Bradford wrote:
information on the closures of
“I dream of you almost evry [sic]
libraries and the cancellations of
night and am sorry when I wake to
scheduled library events and
think it was only a dream.
programs in relation to the ongoing
Sometimes I think I must send for
COVID-19 pandemic.
you I want to see you so badly and
when I hear of others coming home
I wish you would have come too but
Is your library making when I think for a while I feel
news? contented for I know those who
The Private Academic Library
come home are not half as good and
Email news links for inclusion in the Network of Indiana has announced
noble as my own little husband and
Wednesday Word's "In the news" the appointment of Molly Reed as I am very proud to think he stays
section. the organization’s new strategic
where duty calls him...”
communications director, effective
To be featured in the Wednesday Jan. 10. In the same letter, she told him, “I
Word, please email a press release have a dozen plans laid out for the
and a photo. Reed is charged with leading internal future and you may chose [sic]
and external communication
whichever one you please. Just so
management and strategy for PALNI you stay at home with me all the
and its member institutions, in time. For I am not going to let you
conjunction with its executive leave me anymore after this
director and board. She will support rebellion is crushed.” Tragically, the
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PALNI library directors in promoting couple never got that future
the value and impact of library together. A few weeks later, Captain
expertise, services and resources, Bradford contracted “camp fever” -
while upholding the organization’s typhoid or epidemic typhus - a
mission of deep collaboration. As a common wartime malady. He left
member of PALNI’s administrative his regiment and returned to
directors team, Reed will also Muncie to recover, but ultimately
provide input on current and future succumbed on May 16, 1862, less
strategic initiatives. than a month after Lucy’s final
missive.
Her responsibilities include
conceptualizing and creating These letters and other items from
promotional and communication the William S. Bradford papers
material, sharing expertise on crisis (S0155) can be read here. For more
management, identifying and information about the collection,
leveraging public relations please review the collection finding
State Library blog opportunities and managing PALNI aid. These images and more are
infrastructures to support deep online to explore in the Indiana
collaboration, among other duties. State Library Digital Collections.
With nearly 15 years of experience in
higher education marketing, Reed is
Follow the Indiana State Library's LinkedIn Learning now
highly skilled at communicating for a
blog for weekly posts covering all variety of audiences across multiple free for Indianapolis
aspects of the State Library. platforms. Her industry knowledge Public Library
includes public relations, media cardholders
Indiana library employees who
relations, crisis communication,
would like to contribute a guest blog,
publications, digital marketing and
please send an email with an idea.
more - all skill sets that will impact
PALNI’s communication with its
stakeholders.
Miss an issue of the
Wednesday Word? Reed, of Battle Creek, Michigan,
comes to PALNI from Western
Back issues of the Wednesday Word
Michigan University, where she most
are available here.
recently served as marketing
specialist senior for the Haworth
College of Business. The Indianapolis Public Library
Free training for invites patrons to boost their
Reed earned a master’s degree in business, design and technology
librarians and library
communication from Western skills with free video courses from
employees on LinkedIn Michigan University in 2020, as well LinkedIn Learning.
Learning as bachelor’s degree in journalism
from Olivet College in 2005. Prior to LinkedIn Learning offers access to
joining Western Michigan more than 16,000 courses taught by
University, Reed served as director of industry experts. Cardholders can
communications and senior writer at learn marketing, photography, how
Olivet College. She was also a to write a resume or take a course
New dates announced for reporter at the Nashville Tennessean, on a specific program, such as
Little Free Library and covering the entertainment and Microsoft Excel or Adobe
Photoshop. Courses are split into
Overdrive Marketplace living sections.
short videos that can be accessed
webinars Read the full PALNI press release from any device.
here. PALNI is a nonprofit
The "Building Community Typically, LinkedIn Learning costs
organization supporting
Engagement and Awareness Through
collaboration for library and $19.99-$29.99 per month. By using
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Little Free Library" webinar information services to the libraries their IndyPL library card, patrons
originally scheduled for Feb. 3 is has of its 23 supported institutions. can save nearly $240 to $360
been rescheduled to Feb. 24 at 10 annually.
a.m.
Individuals need a library card to
The "Getting Started with use LinkedIn Learning, which can
Marketplace - Indiana Digital be obtained at any branch location,
Library (Overdrive)" webinar or by visiting the IndyPL website. A
originally scheduled for Feb. 15 has LinkedIn account is not required.
been rescheduled to March 2 at 10 IndyPL cardholders can click here to
a.m. get started using LinkedIn
Learning.
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