News from Newfoundland and Labrador

 Submitted by Louise McGillis

 
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
http://www.nlpl.ca/ 

The Provincial Information and Library Resources Board is conductimg a review of the services offered by the St. John’s Public Libraries. In order to get input from Library users the Board carried out a town hall meeting December 1, 2008 at the St. John’s City Hall. What did users tell the Library Board? Stay tuned, we will report back in the next bulletin.

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

Memorial University
http://www.library.mun.ca
 
The Standing Committee on Research at Memorial University Libraries presented its annual Research Fair on November 27. Twenty people attended to hear two presentations. Lisa Goddard, Division Head for Systems and the Emerging Services Librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland Libraries gave a presentation entitled, “Getting to the Source: a Survey of Quantitative Data Sources Available to the Everyday Librarian”. Gillian Byrne, Division Head for Circulation and Document Delivery at Memorial University of Newfoundland Libraries, presented an interactive talk on “Demystifying Stats: a Primer on Basic Statistics”. Both presentations were based on their articles published in the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, Vol 2, No. 1 (2007).. 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Newfoundland and Labrador Library Association
http://staff.library.mun.ca/nlla/

This year the NLLA is very busy with the development of several new committees. The first is the Library Support Staff Interest Group to give library support staff a stronger voice in our Association. The second is the Website Committee who will develop a new site for the Association. We also have a Logo Committee who is organizing a contest for a new logo design with a $500.00 cash prize (details on our website if you want to participate): http://staff.library.mun.ca/nlla/logo.html