WELCOME TO THE STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING OFFICE HOMEPAGE.

This learning page is a great place to find information about training, learning portfolios, and get helpful tips on customer service, managing employees, or other library issues. We'll also be posting post-conference reflections and ideas discovered by staff members at programs they attended.

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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Have you joined the Maryland Library List Serv?

Maryland's electronic discussion list for librarians
MARYLIB is an electronic discussion group intended to provide Maryland area librarians with a fast, convenient way to interact on problems and opportunities of local interest. Keep up with ALA/MLA events. Share job openings with colleagues. Offer weeded items from your collection to others. Ask a question. Hear about new issues of The CRAB first!
This list is open to all who are employed by a library such as librarians, library associates, paraprofessionals, circulation and support staff. It is also open to library school students, library volunteers and trustees.
Subjects for this list should be related to Librarianship in general and to the Maryland area in particular. Requests for assistance, offers of material, and legitimate library job postings are all fair game. This is a professional forum. Persistently sending off-topic posts and violations of common courtesy may result in removal from the list.
To subscribe to the list:
1.     Send a message to sympa@lists.umaryland.edu from the address you want to subscribe to the list.
2.     In the subject line of your message, type in: subscribe marylib Firstname Lastname (indicate your own first and last name).
3.     Leave the message body blank.
4.     When your request is accepted, the message you receive confirms your subscription to the list.

To post a message to the list:

Address your message to marylib@lists.umaryland.edu.
REMEMBER that when you reply to a message sent through the listserv, your message will go to EVERYONE on the listserv. To reply privately, you must send a separate message addressed to the original sender. Therefore, it's a good idea to include your e-mail address in the body of any message you post to the list. In some systems, the reader won't be able to see the address in the sender line.
Did you once receive MARYLIB mail, but are no longer getting messages? Please subscribe again from your current email address.
Questions?
 Contact: Brian Oberle (Anne Arundel County Public Libraries), boberle@aacpl.net; Audrey Schadt (Salisbury University), ahschadt@salisbury.edu; or Tim Van Fleet (Anne Arundel County Public Library), tvanfleet@aacpl.net .

Learn more about MLA on their website www.mdlib.org

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

ALA and MLA annual conferences 2017 - EPFL deadlines for funding requests

Here are the deadlines for applying to the MLA or ALA annual conferences.

If you are interested in attending the MLA/DLA conference from May 10 - 12, 2017 at the Hyatt-Chesapeake in Cambridge, MD, your completed paperwork must in the SD&T office by Friday, February 3, 2017.

If you wish to attend the ALA annual conference from June 22-27, 2017 in Chicago, IL, your completed paperwork must in the SD&T office by Friday, February 10, 2017.

All paperwork must be original, signed, and complete to be considered "on time," and on the SD&T Coordinator's desk by the end of the day on the date listed above.  Any late or incomplete paperwork will receive limited or no funding for the event.

Registration and other information is not yet available for these conferences, but we wanted to put the deadlines out now.  We will provide reminders and further information as the information becomes available.