Kentucky Virtual Library

Lorcan Dempsey article highlighted in the just released EDUCAUSE Review Online — New Content Alert: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog

The KYVL needs your help to evaluate our databases and their accessibility. Could you please complete a short survey by clicking on the appropriate link below?

For Elementary School Students

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AJB7VYTMR

For Elementary School Librarians and Educators

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AJDLW2ANS

For Middle School Students

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AJBZUZBH5

For Middle School Librarians and Educators

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AJE582LMH

For High School Students

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AJDF6276F

For High School Librarians and Educators

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AJPPX8FW8

For Public Libraries

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AJPPZ8FXF

For Academic Libraries

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AJR5U9BX5

For Special Libraries

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AJR869DCB

Your opinions matter very much. We strive to provide resources and interfaces that are both usable by and useful to your patrons. Any info you provide will be taken into account for future collection development and systems decisions.

Please feel free to forward this to other KYVL users.

The KySTE Conference is this week at the Galt House in Louisville.   What is KySTE, some of you might ask?

Kentucky Society for Technology in Education and it is the 2010 Annual Conference

We have two sessions at KySTE this year…  And we have great competition and complementary sessions all around us.

Today 10 March, 2pm, in the Laffoon Computer Lab, we have:    KY Learning Depot: Kentucky’s Learning Repository

Jana Hickey and Lisa Johnson of Jefferson County Public Schools Jaeger Education Center are leading the presentation with Betsy and myself. And we are grateful for their involvement and passionate belief that the Learning Depot needs to be available to every Kentucky educator.

Session description:   The KY Learning Depot is a single-point-of-entry repository of high-quality digital content aligned with standards and competencies for educators and learners in Kentucky. Formed by agency, school and postsecondary partnerships, the Depot provides Kentucky educators a centralized place to go to obtain rich, quality learning content to enhance courses, improve teaching, and engage students in learning. Learn first-hand how you can become a member of this new learning community for sharing, using and reusing peer-reviewed, digital content for your classrooms.

AND THEN, tomorrow March 11, 1:30 in the Taylor room, we have:   Introduction to KYVL: for K-12 Educators presented by Betsy and myself [but mostly Betsy because she is totally in her element when "working a room" in training].

Session description:  Whether you are an experienced user or have never seen KYVL before, this session will provide you with the perfect introduction to KYVL’s new website and search tool, as well as our wide array of resources for K12 librarians, students and educators.

If you don’t know about KySTE, then please check it out.  If you are a librarian or library staff person, into technology and seeing tech become ubiquitous as well as an integral part of the teaching and learning process, I think you would find KySTE the place to be.    Check out the KySTE website.

Have a great week!

Your KYVL and Learning Depot Director,
Enid

After spending a wonderful several days at the Fall KLA/KSMA conference last week, Enid and I are off to Somerset for the 2009 Kentucky Convergence Conference. KYVL has two sessions as part of the Convergence program this year: one showcasing the new KYVL website and another about the Kentuckina Digital Library’s K-12 tool Kyleidoscope.

For folks unfamiliar with Convergence, this fantastic conference is focused on p-20 educators working collaboratively towards a better future for Kentucky. Conference themes include: Information Technology, E-Learning, Library Information Services, Faculty Development and sessions that are Cross-Track involving more than one theme.

For more information, please visit the conference website.

I received this note yesterday regarding the 9/16 Focus Group session in Hazard.  We still have openings for the Louisville [2 sessions] and Lexington Focus Groups on 9/22 and 9/24.  Please help KYVL with its strategic planning and get registered!

“The KYVL focus group session yesterday was fabulous!  The facilitators were wonderful and the location was more convenient than Lexington or Louisville.  Thanks so much for not canceling it, despite the low attendance numbers.  We are very appreciative that an effort was made to solicit input from those of us in southeastern Kentucky.”

Chamayne Metcalfe Johnson, NBCT
Library Media Specialist
Harlan County High School

We have a little over 200 responses to the survey for the Revisioning at 10 Years — Kentucky Virtual Library’s Strategic Plan.  We know there are 1000’s of librarians, educators, tech folks,  library staff, media specialists, etc. out there and we haven’t heard from you yet.

The responses to this survey will be used to draft our first ever strategic plan and guide our priorities and projects for the next 3 to 5 years.  We are certain you want to have your voice heard and your perspective on KYVL services and resources included as we build our new vision, mission, goals and objectives.

The survey will close on Sept 18^th so please take a 10 minutes and click your way through the dropdowns and multiple choice answers.  There are a few open response questions and you can write a short answer, a long answer or none at all.

Please let us know what you think about the services and research databases and tell us what we need to be doing to better serve you.

More information about our strategic planning can be found on our wiki.

Thank you!