Once a year we take time out of our busy schedule to formally survey and then acknowledge our WebJunction Community Partner administrators. This year we asked partners two questions:
1) What 1-3 programmatic efforts using WebJunction are you most proud of this year?
2) Which partner(s) do you look to for advice/consultation/guidance as you plan your WebJunction programming and why?
The responses we collected from our partners were fantastic reminders of all the work that has gone into their programming and state partnership over the last year. We were energized by the work that has gone on and wanted to share with you the broad array of accomplishments achieved by our community partners. Hold on to your hats… a LOT has been going on in 2010!
Course Usage
WJ Idaho: Effective and broad reaching course marketing
WJ Indiana: Certification program
WJ Iowa: Public Library Management and Course of the Month online programs
WJ Pennsylvania: Epic end of year course sale and member engagement
WJ Washington: Fantastic end of year course efforts and marketing
Course Creation
WJ Georgia: GALILEO (Georgia’s Virtual Library) courses available in WebJunction Georgia’s course catalog
WJ Illinois: Brand New Course: There will always be Storytellers in all WebJunction course catalogs
WJ Pennsylvania: 3 new Access PA courses in WebJunction Pennsylvania’s course catalog
Content Creation
WJ Connecticut: Using Library Statistics to Make the Case For Your Library – Online!
WJ Idaho: Implementation of groups, including ID_Teen Read Week 2010. See more!
WJ Illinois: ILEAD U statewide library leadership skills focused on addressing local community needs
WJ Indiana: Jobs in IN libraries managing an up to date list of library jobs in the state of Indiana
WJ Kansas: 2010 KLA Virtual Conference and 23 Things Kansas
WJ Minnesota: brand new content – Public Libraries & Access to Justice
WJ Missouri: A great use of RSS home page feeds
WJ Ohio: a commitment to add 3 new pieces of content per month and LSTA spotlights
WJ Pennsylvania: Self-directed Reading on Leadership Topics and Legal Resources
WJ Rhode Island: Active groups including RI Children’s Services
Programming
WJ Arizona: Implementation of a new live online library leadership institute: ALIVE!
WJ Georgia: Blended learning efforts with Pat Wagner and Wednesday Webinars
WJ Idaho: Statewide workshop efforts focused on learning more about WebJunction Idaho service
WJ Iowa: Public Library Management Discussion
WJ Kansas: A series of programs focused on librarians and Everyday Ethics
WJ Minnesota: Super Tweeter including contributions to #libs4jobs hashtag
WJ North Carolina: ARSL Scholarships group NC Stars and outreach to library directors
WJ Ohio: Financial Literacy and Choose to Read Ohio
Online Conference and Webinars
WJ Arizona: Involvement in our February Online Conference with Building Digital Community: Arizona Memory Project
WJ Connecticut: Douglas Lord’s content, discussions and programming around Services to Older Adults, including webinar in April
WJ Florida: Highest attendance and webinars presented: Re-tooling Frontline Staff with E-government Resources and Hurricane Preparedness & Response for Florida Public Libraries Project
WJ Georgia: Involvement in our February Online Conference with Learning When There’s No Time (or Money) to Learn
WJ Indiana: Involvement in our February Online Conference with Funding for Broadband: Indiana & Beyond
WJ Iowa: Sharing Karen Burns with us so that we can learn from Iowa Small Libraries Online Conference and her contributions to PLA AND in an encore webinar presentation: Expanding Your World Through Web Conferencing
WJ Kansas: Again, 2010 KLA Virtual Conference and presentations and contributions to Group: Online Conferencing. And also presenter recruitment, eg: Jim Minges for The Rural Library Trustee: Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships
WJ North Carolina: An Introduction to Digital Preservation
WJ Washington: Involvement in our February Online Conference with Helping Washington Libraries in Hard Times
Project Compass
WJ Connecticut: CT Jobs Conference
WJ Florida: Superstar Project Compass Summit participants Nancy Fredericks and Juliet Douglas http://www.webjunction.org/workforce-resources/-/articles/content/94111089
WJ Georgia: Super host of the Atlanta Project Compass Summit
WJ Illinois: Small Business Association project showcase with Project Compass and Joe Natale’s participation in the Group: Libraries and Business Community Connections and Karen Egan at Project Compass in Portland.
WJ Maine: Maine Answers Tough Times
WJ Minnesota: Upcoming 2011 webinar series with MELSA on workforce recovery issues
WJ North Carolina: Project Compass Partner – without this partnership this could never have happened!
WJ Rhode Island: Project Compass Summit hosts and letter of support for second year.
New Partners:
WJ Florida: WebJunction’s very first Custom Course Catalog!
WJ Missouri: building out their new membership, use of their events calendar and blog
WJ North Carolina: building out their new membership, use of their events calendar and stellar launch marketing
WJ Pennsylvania: building out their new membership, use of their events calendar and blog and statewide collaboration
Special Mention:
WJ Connecticut: broad team involvement
WJ Florida: first to launch a custom catalog
WJ Indiana: Evergreen self-paced course
WJ Iowa: custom catalog
WJ Maine: providing the new ARSL president – Sonja Plummer-Morgan
WJ Missouri: most survey responses to this partner survey
WJ Ohio: leading session around content development
WJ Washington: WJ advisory committee role model
Shining Stars – peer awards nominated by state library partners
Illinois: Lisa Barnhart & Dawne Tortorella – We turn to Illinois to look at new ideas for programming. WJ Illinois is always the first to figure out the technical aspects of WJ releases and are always willing to share. I look to Illinois because of LibraryU. Taxonomy, content organization. I borrow all of their ideas – they are fantastic.
Kansas: Cindi Hickey – We always look to Kansas to see what they are doing on their site. I get inspired by the blended learning opportunities created by WebJunction Kansas.
Idaho: Shirley Biladeau – For her great examples of WebJunction Idaho workshops and how to get the word out. She is truly an inspiration.
Georgia: Pat Carterette – Pat has provided such inspiration, guidance and leadership. Her creativity has pointed me in new directions.