This Month at CLC:
Annual Meeting Edition
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ANNUAL MEETING 2019:
THE MEMBERS HAVE SPOKEN!
CLC sends emails to over 2,500 library staff working in our 800+ member libraries. Each year, we hold an annual meeting to conduct the business of the organization, and we see about 40-50 of those library staff members. We know it's hard to get to our meeting, so in this issue, we're bringing the meeting to you! Please keep reading to discover all of the people, votes, and honors that made up our event on June 6, and what CLC members, board and staff did to move your membership organization forward. Thanks to them and to all of you, we had much to celebrate. With your help, we'll have even more to celebrate at this time next year. Happy summer!
Jennifer Keohane
Executive Director
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MEET YOUR CLC BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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Back row
(on riser), L-R: Kate Fuller (UConn), Janice Wilson (ECSU), Jennifer Keohane (CLC), Patricia Ubysz (Pratt & Whitney/UTC), Sue Prince (Stonington HS), Mary Hogan (Cora J. Belden Library/Rocky Hill), Ellen Paul (East Hampton PL).
Front row
(on floor), L-R: Marie Shaw (Three Rivers CC), Sarah Briggs (Jonathan Law HS, Milford), Gayle Bogel (SCSU SLIS), Veronica Kenausis (WCSU), Sally Tornow (New Milford PL), Carol Ansel (Godfrey ML, Middletown), Leticia Cotto (Hartford PL).
Not pictured
: Anthony Marrocolla (New Canaan Library), Joan Overfield (Fairfield University - retired).
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CLC is governed by a 15-member Board of Trustees comprised of staff from a broad range of CLC member library types, sizes, and geographic locations. The CLC Board fulfills a leadership and policy role, which includes setting strategic, broad directions and annual goals, approving a budget, and passing on membership concerns to the CLC management.
One of the most important functions performed at the annual meeting is the election of new members to the board. It is also a time to thank our outgoing members. See
last month's issue
for our tributes to Marian Amodeo, Randi Ashton-Pritting, and Jane Fisher. Three new board members were voted in to fill the open positions:
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Dr. Gayle Bogel
is an Associate Professor and the School Library Program Coordinator at the Department of Information and Library Science at Southern CT State University. This is Gayle's second stint on the CLC board, and she has also served on the boards of CLA and CASL. In addition to serving on the faculty at SCSU and previously at Fairfield University, she has worked professionally as both a school and public librarian in Connecticut. Gayle will serve as board secretary.
bogelg1@southernct.edu
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Kate Fuller
is the Head of Reference & Curriculum Services at UConn's Homer Babbidge Library. Her previous board experience includes serving as the CT State Representative on the Association of College & Research Libraries New England Chapter Executive Board. She is looking forward to the opportunity to work with other libraries and especially other library types to find ways to collaborate and build community and develop more resources for library staff.
kate.fuller@uconn.edu
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Anthony Marrocolla
is the Manager of Adult Services at New Canaan Library. Before coming to New Canaan in 2017 as Digital Services Librarian, he worked in a corporate environment as Digital Resources Librarian at McGraw-Hill Education in New York. Anthony is the head of all staff/library training in New Canaan, is a member of ALA, PLA and CLA, and is looking forward to working with CLC and Connecticut libraries.
amarrocolla@newcanaanlibrary.org
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While we try to make our annual meeting as much fun and as valuable a use of your time as possible, there is always some important business that must be conducted. In addition to electing new board members, the members in attendance voted on several key items on behalf of the membership as a whole. Here is a summary:
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Changes to CLC Bylaws
– Bylaws committee co-chair Marie Shaw explained that the bylaws were last amended in 2014, and a review was necessary in order for CLC to remain flexible and pursue some of its planned initiatives. This is Phase 1 of a two-phase bylaws review, consisting mainly of language cleanup, modernization of terms and processes, and creating flexibility to have multiple membership meetings if needed. Members voted in the bylaws as proposed - you can peruse them
here
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2020 Membership Dues
– Trustee Jane Fisher noted that a dues committee under the direction of the treasurer analyzed the dues to make sure the structure was sound in terms of revenue raised and appropriateness for each member type. Based on research and feedback, the committee decided that this was not the year to make changes, so the dues presented for 2020 are the same as 2019 dues. The membership voted to approve the proposed dues structure, available
here
. Please note that although CLC's dues will not change for 2020, your own dues may change based on updates to your operating expenditures (publics & specials), enrollment (schools), or FTE (academics). Invoices will go out in late fall. To pay in advance, contact your CLC Member Relations Manager (Jen V. or Julie) at
members@ctlibrarians.org
or give us a call.
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FY 2019-2020 Budget
– Per CLC's
bylaws
, the board must review a budget prepared by the finance committee, approve it, and send it on to the membership for final approval. Chair Sarah Briggs referred attendees to the proposed FY 19-20 budget in their packet, which was unanimously approved.
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JAN GLUZ COOPERATIVE SPIRIT AWARD
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The Jan Gluz Cooperative Spirit Award is given annually by CLC staff to honor a library leader who has actively promoted cooperation and cooperative projects among libraries and librarians in Connecticut. This award was named in honor of CLC’s beloved Bookkeeper/Office Manager, Jan Gluz (pictured left - or above if you're reading this on your phone). Though Jan passed away in February of 2008, her can-do attitude and cooperative spirit live on through this award.
This year, CLC presented not one, but four recipients with this honor: Mark Gore, Kim Farrington, Cathy Steele, and Terry Palacios-Baughman, chairs of our ILL roundtables.
At CLC, we take pride in our roundtable program. We have more than 30 roundtables that meet across the state and across library disciplines. Two of our oldest, most successful groups are our interlibrary loan roundtables, which began back before CLC was CLC. In the days where there were multiple cooperating library service units across the state, there was nevertheless just one ILL roundtable that typically met in Fairfield County - not the most convenient for the rest of the state. In the early 2000s, Kim proposed another ILL roundtable that would cater to eastern Connecticut. This new group became ILL East, and the statewide ILL roundtable was rebranded as ILL West.
Kim was named Roundtable Chair for ILL East, and Mark was Chair of ILL West. Cathy joined Mark in 2005, and Terry joined Kim in 2017.
These ILL roundtable chairs are a joy to work with – they come up with their dates in advance, communicate information clearly to us so we can promote meetings effectively, and facilitate smoothly run meetings. Kim, Mark, Cathy, and Terry work together to share information between groups so ILL librarians across the state have access to the same information. Each spring, the two roundtables meet jointly – a gathering that has grown so large, they have outgrown the meeting space at the Middletown Library Service Center and are now filling the Van Block Storage Facility in Hartford. They also work together to plan and execute an Academic ILL Roundtable group that meets annually to discuss ILL needs unique to the academic environment.
Mark, Cathy, Kim, and Terry are truly dedicated to the roundtables they chair and to making the interlibrary loan process smooth and easy for libraries across the state. For these reasons and more, we are thrilled to honor them with this year's Jan Gluz Cooperative Spirit Award.
Amanda Stern
Events & Special Projects Manager
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Mark Gore, Housatonic Community College
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Kim Farrington, Central CT State University
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Cathy Steele, Wilton Library (right, with Amanda Stern)
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Terry Palacios-Baughman, UConn Libraries (PC: UConn)
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP AWARD
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In years where CLC has had a particularly noteworthy community partnership, we are moved to give out our Community Partnership Award. This was one of those years, and we were proud to present our 2019 award to CT Public. Here are Jennifer's remarks from the presentation. Katie Eber, Education Specialist for Outreach at CT Public Learning (pictured with Jennifer Keohane), accepted the award.
CLC can exponentially increase our impact through strategic partnerships. We have many of these, but some just go beyond strategic into “more than we ever dreamed,” and then, “essential.” CT Public is one of those partners.
We reached out to Katie Eber in early 2018 with a clearly self-serving mission: get them to help us publicize Take Your Child to the Library Day (a mere 4 weeks away). Katie was game, and immediately countered with her own ambitious project with a short time frame – a statewide PBS Kids Writers contest planned for late spring. And thus, a wonderful partnership was born between two organizations with important missions, common goals, big ideas, very few staff, and distorted views of time.
With every meeting we have, we come up with new ideas and programs. In just over two years, we have partnered on the aforementioned Take Your Child to the Library Day, PBS Kids Writers Contest, and the Great American Read. In December, CT Public hosted an open house for librarians that included the opportunity to film a TV spot featuring a magical library moment. They professionally produced those spots, which have had tremendous reach across social media. And now we have roped them into hosting our annual meeting – because once we saw their great space we had to have our meeting here. Future collaborations for the fall and beyond are already in the works. You get the idea.
CT Public has been an enormous supporter and contributor not only to CLC, but also to the Connecticut library community. And for this reason, CLC is awarding them the 2019 Connecticut Library Consortium Community Partnership Award. Thank you all for what you’ve done for libraries and CLC. We look forward to more big ideas, short deadlines, and huge impact collaborations in the years to come.
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HONORING OUR STATE LIBRARIAN
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If you have not been living under a rock, you have probably heard that our Connecticut State Librarian of over two decades, Kendall Wiggin, has announced his retirement effective at the end of the year. Ken has attended nearly every CLC annual meeting to share his unique insights from the capitol, and we were not going to let his last official CLC presentation pass unacknowledged. Heading off what we're certain will be a slew of honors and proclamations to come, we offered our own thoughts on what Ken has meant to CLC and Connecticut's libraries over the years, which he graciously accepted with his usual good humor. Here is our "Official Statement."
By Executive Director Jennifer Keohane and the Staff of the Connecticut Library Consortium: an
Official Statement
WHEREAS, Kendall F. Wiggin has served the Connecticut library community for over twenty years, long enough to remember the ancient era before the Connecticut Library Consortium existed; and
WHEREAS, his willingness to say “yes” has made him the “Where’s Waldo” of Connecticut libraries, in that he may be found in every photo of every library event ever; and
WHEREAS, despite his quiet demeanor, he is a public relations sensation; and
WHEREAS, he has always willingly graced CLC with his presence at Official Functions, even in the face of impending tornadoes, carnivorous animals, and crayons*; and
WHEREAS, he possesses many underappreciated yet crucial superpowers, the most frequently employed being that of diplomacy; and
WHEREAS, he has tirelessly championed libraries and library funding in the face of adversity for over twenty years;
THEREFORE, let it be known, that on the occasion of his last official CLC Annual Meeting, the Connecticut Library Consortium is proud to honor Kendall F. Wiggin for his two decades of outstanding dedication to CLC and to Connecticut’s libraries, and is grateful to him for advancing library service for all of Connecticut’s citizens.
*Explanation for the curious: (1) CLC's 10th annual meeting at the Eli Whitney museum featured a "maker" theme with kraft paper tablecloths and crayon activities. (2) CLC's 11th annual meeting was held at CT's Beardsley Zoo. Carnivorous animals were present, though not in the building where the meeting was held. (3) CLC's 12th annual meeting took place at the CT Historical Society during a tornado warning for Hartford County.
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Jennifer and Ken show off Ken's new alter-ego and proclamation.
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Our CT library superhero, Captain Diplomacy.
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The real Captain Diplomacy.
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LAST CHANCE
FOR OUR EXCLUSIVE GOODSPEED EVENT!
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Wednesday, June 26
REGISTER BY THIS MONDAY 6/24
2:00-5:00pm
Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam
$20 per person. Space is limited to 40 CLC member library staff.
Register today!
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Thursday, June 27, 9:00am
Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown
INAUGURAL MEETING!
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The Genealogy Roundtable is open to anyone interested in exploring and sharing resources and strategies for genealogy and family history research. This will be our first meeting, so we will introduce ourselves and our institutions. We'll discuss as a group what our interests and concerns are, with an eye to setting up topics for future meetings. If you've never been to the Godfrey before, welcome! There will definitely be time to prowl around and peruse the collection.
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Wednesday, July 10, 10:00am
Willimantic Public Library
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Join your fellow eastern CT library directors for a meeting to discuss topics of interest to you. What is going on in your library and community? What is working well? What are your successes? What are your challenges? Let's talk about them!
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Tuesday, July 23, 10:00am
Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford
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Join your fellow library directors for an open discussion of
issues facing public libraries in the CT river valley and shoreline area. Topics include advocacy to local legislators, emerging service and staffing trends, and anything else of interest. Refreshments provided by Blackstone Library.
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Summer is typically light on roundtables, but many groups are already planning for the fall. Don't miss out - visit our continuously-updated calendar and roundtable pages and start getting dates on your calendar now!
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