ibrary ParaProfessional Support Staff
are the back bone of Libraries.

Today, more than ever Support Staff fill
NEW Roles!,
in helping Libraries grow, and connect to their Communities.
Both Online and In house, Changes are Happening!

et Us Grow Together.

et Us Learn, Teach, Share and Support Each Other.
This site was created to be your first line
of finding resources to Empower YOU!

Remember "WE" can be a library's best resource, maintain your commitment
for growth and personal development and, "together" we can, partner
with Librarians for our mutual career development!
Be sure to check out my sites resources for Staff Development
and Educational Opportunities for a variety of skills, and read about the new roles
we can all share in, working in Today's Libraries.

Notice: March 2005
Associates the online ezine for Library Support Staff, lost its entire subscription database 
during February 2005. If you were a subscriber to this email publication or 
would like to subscribe, please visit their website and sign up.
The ezine is published and emailed 3 times a year March, July and October.
Visit:
http://associates.ucr.edu
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Twenty-six years ago Trish Palluck started as a page, shelving books at the Wyoming State Library.
In a year she moved up to cataloging. Even at the entry level as a library assistant, she loved it.
"She mastered not only all the mechanics of cataloging but, most significantly, the philosophy
that cataloging is a public service activity," says Lesley Boughton, Wyoming State Librarian. 
For her excellence in her position—now resource sharing specialist at the library—
and the work she has done for Wyoming paraprofessionals and support staff, 
Trish Palluck has been named Library Journal's Paraprofessional of the Year 2005.

Read remainder of article online:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA504644

Links of interest:
Wyoming Library Association
http://www.wyla.org/
WLA Paraprofessional/Support Staff Section
http://www.wyla.org/paraprofessional/index.shtml

Read about LJ's 2004 and 2003  winners : Linda S. Porter and Susan Knoche

To find information about Library Awards for staff visit the 4awards.html page

COLT and Library Mosaics announce award winners for 2005

Excerpt quoted from COLT website
http://colt.ucr.edu
2005 OUTSTANDING SUPPORT STAFF OF THE YEAR AWARD

Diane M. Fay

The winner of Library Mosaics’ and the Council on Library/Media Technician’s 2005 award for Outstanding Support Staff is DIANE M. FAY, retired supervisor, cataloging department at the Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts. The award is presented annually for noteworthy service by a library support staff member.

Ms. Fay has made significant contributions to the continuing growth and development of library support staff around the country through active involvement on both local and national levels. As a member of the staff at Boston Public Library she served on the Change Team and the Strategic Planning Team.

Diane Fay served as Vice President/President-elect of the American Library Association’s Library Support Staff Interests Round Table (LSSIRT) and represented LSSIRT as a delegate at the 3rd Congress on Professional Education: Focus on Support Staff. The results have been positive, partly due to Diane’s tireless efforts to remind ALA staff and members of the value and contributions support staff make to the Association, the profession, and their individual libraries.
Read remainder of story
http://colt.ucr.edu/awards05.html

2005 OUTSTANDING SUPPORTER OF SUPPORT STAFF OF THE YEAR AWARD

Linda A. Dobb

The winner of Library Mosaics’ and the Council on Library/Media Technician’s 2005 award for Outstanding Supporter of Support Staff is LINDA DOBB, Executive Vice President of Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. The award is presented annually for outstanding service to library support staff.

Dobb was selected for her dedicated work on behalf of support staff at both local and national levels. As Executive Vice President and former Dean of Libraries and Learning Resources, she has given active and ongoing support to library paraprofessionals and remains involved with both local and national support staff organizations. She has encouraged support staff to attend conferences, has brought programs to the University, promoted benefits of membership in state/national organizations, encouraged participation of staff with University Libraries by rejuvenating the Classified Staff Council and has provided funding for staff to attend meetings and conferences. She has been working on a grant that would offer a BS degree program at Bowling Green State University to follow up on the library services AAS degree programs being offered in Ohio.

Dobb supported the Academic Library Association (ALAO) Support Staff Interest Group (SSIG) serving as keynote speaker and assisting with workshops and initiatives around the state. Linda was recognized by the ALAO-SSIG as the 2004 Ohio Library Outstanding Supporter of Support Staff.
Read remainder of story
http://colt.ucr.edu/awards05.html

Read about past award winners for 2003, 2004

Find out about:

The LAMA program: [Library Administration and Management Association]
"Leaders of the Pack: Bringing up the Next Generation of Library Leaders through LAMA"
on the Happenings page. A former LJ Paraprofessional of the Year, Dorothy Morgan, is now a Leader of the Pack.

ALA's New Membership Initiative
on the Sites for Staff page, under LSSIRT's information.
The LSSIRT site has a Membership form
and other information regarding this offer
which will be in affect for 3 years
2001 - 2004.
LSSIRT = Library Support Staff Interests Round Table
which is part of ALA (American Library Association)

Are you Stressed at Work???
Find some HUMOR in Your Jobs!
Laughter is the Best Medicine!

Discover what I have found lately
that is either
Fun, Free or Practical

I have 2 search engine choices to aid you
as you try to find the information you need.
Choose the Search box at top of each page (from ATOMZ),
or, use my favorite utility GOOGLE!
Choose the "search LibrarySupportStaff.com" to Limit
your search to just this sites pages.

LibrarySupportStaff.com is a compilation of Links
to "other websites" and individual pages within a website
that I hope you will find useful.
But there will be many times that "links" are no longer there
or they have relocated and left no "forwarding address".
Please note the following information for such times:
Remember if you should ever find a link (linking from this site or any other)
that is no longer available at the past url.
You may want to try these 2 options, to try and access the former content of the pages.

Use the Wayback Machine at www.archive.org.
Copy and paste or type in the exact URL (no spelling errors or incorrect entries) of the URL
as you last saw it, or have bookmarked or as it appeared on the webpage you linked from
and put in the address box of the Wayback Machine.
If the page was archived, you will be presented with dated versions
of the individual page. Choose, from the versions till you find
the content you were looking for.
The Wayback Machine

Another option if you are trying to access a page from the results of a Google Search
and receive an error or are told the page is no longer available
Go back to search results and click on the "cached" version of the page
This will take you to the page as it appeared the last time that Google spidered the site.

Search WWW Search librarysupportstaff.com

Since this site is made of pages of LINKS to
websites that I feel are useful
to anyone working in Libraries
often you may come across a website,
you might want to send or post to someone
with a long url (website address)
Visit this useful site:
Excerpt quoted from website:
TinyURL!
Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent
causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together?
Then you've come to the right place.
By entering in a URL, we will create a tiny URL that will not break
in email postings and never expires.
tinyurl.com/

FYI  I have made a page with resource links for help with doing research using the Internet referring to the Terrorist Attacks on the USA September 11, 2001. Also See: Current "NEWS" Resources/News Feeds available from my Yahoo/Geocities site page on Link2Mary.com Check out some of the more "soothing" links and stress reduction resources and links to resources specific to dealing with the events of September 11, 2001 on my Relaxing Links page

To Contact, Me ~ Mary N.
via e-mail, write to: libmary at yahoo.com

Things turn out best for people who make
the best of the way things turn out.
-Anon. 

If you're too busy to help
those around you succeed,
You're too busy.
Bob Moawad
And
There is NO Traffic Jam
Going the "Extra Mile"
Business Axiom