LSSC Program updates

 Here's some recent info about the Library Support Staff Certification Program that was sent out by Ian Lashbrook of the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association. 

There is a lot going on in the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association’s  Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program lately, which now has over 430 enrollees and 65 graduates!  We recently posted links of our two archived Conversations with Graduates webinars, which can also be helpful when learning about the program. Those can be found here:

·         2013, April 25 – Conversations with Graduates (YouTube archived webinar)

·         2013, June 18 – Conversations with Graduates (Adobe Connect webinar recording)

The October edition of Breaking News is now available! And finally, please take a look at our Facebook page if you haven’t already. We recently sent out Certified Library Support Staff pins that we had made for our current and future graduates and some of them have been kind enough to send in pictures of themselves sporting their new designation. If you have any questions regarding the LSSC Program, please email lssc@ala.org.

American Library Association-Allied Professional Association

50 E Huron St

Chicago IL 60611-2795

http://ala-apa.org

Look at your library. Now look at mine.

A brilliant video from the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young: You can easily get sucked down the YouTube path to more library videos - what are your favorites?

I hope I don't ever do this...

One of our past presenters, Sam Wallin from the Woodland Community College in Woodland, WA, has some absolutely hilarious videos on his YouTube channel .  They are called "Libraryland!" and are "little shows about working in the public library."  If you hit play after following the link, it will play the entire series for you. Most are under a minute and well worth watching. Sam was part of the Marketing Your Library: Strategies for the 21st Century presentation at our 2011 conference.

It was hard to choose just one for an example, because they're all good, but I 've heard people do this before:

Oops!

Which of these videos made you laugh the hardest? For me, the laughs were cumulative - the more I watched, the funnier they got.

Have any of you used YouTube as a marketing tool for your library? How has it worked for you? What strategies have you implemented from this conference session?

I'm a Child of the Lib'ry...

Here's another "save our libraries" effort...

You can find more information about this at Piers Cawley's blog and feel free to spread it far and wide!

SSD breaks ground on Youtube!

Greetings fellow support staff. Please take 1-1/2 minutes out you schedule and click on the attached video link. It just might be the best investment of your time you make today!

Feel free to contact me if you have questions, comments or interest at cathyz@deschuteslibrary.org

Thank you,
Cathy Zgraggen
Deschutes Public Library

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEnThh1sIow