The Walk and Talk Webinar: Touring the Indiana State Library - webianr
Event Details
(No need to travel to the Indiana State Library, you can attend from the comfort of your own library)
Please join us on a behind the scenes & public area tour of the Indiana State Library. Suzanne Walker will be taking us on this journey, Paula Newcom will be behind the camera and Courtney Brown will host and monitor the chat. This will be in real time and you will have the opportunity to ask questions of library staff as we walk through the different divisions. We will begin the journey at the public entrance on West Ohio Street. These are the places we will visit: Circulation; Indiana Historical Bureau; Genealogy; and Indiana Education Center. Next, we well walk up the Grand Staircase that leads to the beautiful Great Hall; History Reference Room; Author's Room; Young Reader's Center; Browsing Room & Manuscripts; Indiana Division and Reference; and Newspaper Room. We'll go behind the scenes to the stacks Cataloging division; Preservation Lab; and finish in the Administration office. Other ISL services will be highlighted in webinars this year: the new Imagination Library initiative (February 14) and the Talking Books & Braille Library (February 28) and will be eventually linked on our Archived Webinars webpage.
Suzanne Walker - Indiana Young Readers Center Librarian,
Indiana State Library. Suzanne Walker
received her Master of Library Science from Indiana University. She is
currently the Indiana Young Readers Center Librarian and Director of the
Indiana Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress. She
coordinates Indiana’s Letters About Literature competition annually. Suzanne
judged the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards in 2013 and 2014
and the Indiana Poetry Out Loud competition in 2017. Most recently she was a
judge for the 2020 and 2022 Indiana Authors Awards and the 2021 Lee Bennett
Hopkins Poetry Award. She has presented for the American Library Association
and numerous times at Indiana Library Federation’s District conferences, annual
conferences, and youth conferences and is proud to have been interviewed about
Indiana authors by NPR.
Paula Newcom is the Northeast
Regional Coordinator for the Indiana State Library. Her experience in libraries for the past
thirty-four years ranges from very small libraries to large county-wide
systems. She has varied experience as Head of Youth Services (Crown Point
Community Library); Reference Librarian and Webmaster (Marion Public Library in
Grant County, Indiana); Audiovisual Services (Akron-Summit County Public
Library in Ohio). She is a graduate of
Indiana University with a B.A. in English and Film Studies. She obtained her Masters in Library Science
from Indiana University.
Courtney Brown is the Indiana State Library’s Southeast Regional
Coordinator. She received her Master of Library Science from Indiana
University. In her current role, she works closely with libraries in Southeast
Indiana, facilitates in-person and online trainings, and manages in-house and
statewide projects. In the past, she served as chair of the Indiana Library
Federation’s Read Alouds Too Good to Miss committee, and the Evergreen Indiana
Patron Services Committee. She’s currently on the board of the American Library
Association’s Learning Roundtable. She has an interest in technology in
libraries, innovative community outreach, and graphic novels.
- Presenters: Suzanne Walker, Paula Newcom & Courtney Brown / Indiana State Library
- Webinar date and time: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Eastern
- This webinar is eligible for 2 LEUs
- Register at: Click here to register
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