Archive: April, 2010

A Win-Win Situation for NHLA with Gaylord Brothers

All public libraries in New Hampshire now have the opportunity to help NHLA when they place supply and furniture orders with Gaylord Brothers!

Gaylord Brothers has two Priority Codes active in the State of New Hampshire for public libraries: Priority Code #5701 and Priority Code #5116.  The advantage to NHLA of using Gaylord Brothers is that they will send our organization a check for 10% of all shipped and invoiced sales dollars in excess of $50,000 for fiscal year 2010. Even though we’re nearly into the month of May, Gaylord will include all sales for 2010 back to January 1st.  NHLA would then be able to use the money to defray conference costs, help fund future programs, allow more people to attend events, or whatever opportunity the Board determines that would best meet the needs of NHLA members.

Gaylord Brothers plans to send out an e-mail promotion to NH public libraries in mid-May about this rebate offer, but I wanted to begin spreading the news as soon as possible.

It’s important that you use either one of the Priority Codes when placing an order, or else the purchase will not be counted toward NHLA’s 2010 rebate.

If you have any questions about the above offer, please send me an e-mail and I’ll do my best to provide an answer.

Thanks,

Judy Haskell

 

ALA 2010 Virtual Conference Registration Now Open!

From ALA…

"Budget tight? Can’t attend the ALA 2010 Annual Conference in Washington, DC? Going to DC and ready for more? Not a problem-just register for the ALA Virtual Conference, July 7 and 8, 2010.

A full series of 11 interactive one-hour Web sessions right at your own computer! The sessions are listed at www.ala.org/annual. Each interactive program session focuses on some aspect of how to do your job better, and you will learn creative solutions for working smarter in this economy. You will have the opportunity to interact with speakers and other attendees during each session…"

Learn more here, http://bit.ly/b7KQNU

Membership report, April, 2010

Our current membership is 570. That will change with people joining as they sign up for the NHLA conference. There are also a couple of other updates that need to be made.

Mary Ahlgren

Small Libraries Summit a Big Hit

Just a quick note to let everyone know how well the Small Libraries Summit went yesterday. We had a full room of over 70 attendees who participated in lively discussions throughout the day. All three sessions went well, and everyone enjoyed the children’s book review, the book swap and even the food! Most importantly, the attendees unanimously expressed their hope that the event would happen again in the future.

I created a few pages on the NHLA wiki that contain my notes from the sessions and links to a number of the online resources that were mentioned. Here are links to the three pages.

Thanks again to everyone on the Summit Committee and to all our presenters!