It's not too soon to start thinking about applying for the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute (SSLLI) and what project you could propose to accomplish. JPL selects participants in the spring. The Institute is designed "to assist in preparing library leaders to provide the highest quality library services to the citizens of Florida in the most effective and innovative manner that will meet today's needs and tomorrow's challenges."
The program application process is competitive and it is an honor to participate. Each participant has to select a project to complete as part of SSLLI. Don't know what that might include? In the 2013 session, JPL's five participants completed these projects:
Ron Block, Circulation Service Supervisor - His focus: community outreach events. Capitalizing on successful past events, he created a "success toolkit" to use in future large scale event planning and execution involving partnerships. Templates were created, including a list of ongoing and potential future event partnerships with contact information, a document to assist with discussion points and mutual advantages for entering into partnerships, sample agreement forms, steps to finalizing event plans, including staffing, materials, CR&M assistance and timelines, event plans with setup information, etc.
Mia Brack, Children's Librarian at AR - Collected library resources that addressed each of the Common Core State Standards in pre-k - 2nd grade and placed them in a tote for ease of checkout, which ensured that library customers had resources to help children be on target for their grade level.
Keli Likins, Librarian Senior/Manager, SE Branch - Created a newly designed web page,Teen Created Content. It is more attractive and holds all the content local teens have created for the library, such as Teen Read Week videos, short story contest entries, photos of art submitted for contests, etc. The intent is to attract more teens to participate in these kinds of programs by providing a public forum for their work. Keli is not aware of a comparable library website around the country so it could set a trend in teen services to keep the teen user engaged.
Rebekah Mitchell, Children's Library Associate, Main - She utilized Traveling Tales, JPL's collection of thematic storytime program kits, as a tool to connect the library with our literacy community. This was done by inviting key members of the community to a launch event for the new Traveling Tales and by creating a training based on the kits.
Eric Soriano, E-Library Specialist, Support Services - His goal was to explore opportunities to initiate and expand current technology education and economic success programs to library customers from diverse cultural, ethnic, and language backgrounds. He was able to either lead or help organize one special program for Filipino-Americans; two digital literacy special sessions for deaf and hearing impared children in collaboration with UNF's Department of Exceptional, Deaf, and Interpreter Education, and expand computer classes in Spanish to six classes a week in five branches, representing every library region.The program was featured in Spanish language Hola Noticias and Eco Latino as this is the only free program of its kind in town. He has helped grow the bilingual volunteer base to six active volunteers. The e-government/job search open computer lab at Main also continues to offer assistance in Tagalong, American Sign Language, and Spanish--all well attended.
Got a wonderful project to propose? Talk to your supervisor about it and apply for the 2014 Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute.
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