Alaska OWL Project IT Position Open

by Seldovia Public Library

Alaska OWL (Online With Libraries) Project IT Aide Job Description

Purpose of the OWL Library IT Aide position:
Aides will be trained to provide maintenance and troubleshooting support for Alaska OWL (Online with Libraries) Project technology and equipment in the local public library. As a library staff member, OWL aides will be paid by the OWL Project five hours per week.

Primary Responsibilities of OWL IT Aides:

• Attend any required training in Anchorage or other location as determined (Travel, lodging, and per diem will be reimbursed or

New (More) Library Hours

by Tracie Merrill

Sunday 1–3 pm
Monday 3-5pm (new!)
Tuesday 2-4:30 pm
Wednesday 12-2 pm
Thursday 2-4:30 pm
Thursday 6:30-8:30 pm
Saturday 3-7 pm

 

Thursday Story Hour

by Tracie Merrill

Position Available: Library Director

by Tracie Merrill

The Seldovia Public Library Board of Directors is seeking interested persons for the position of library director.  The position requires approximately 10-15 hours a week on a flexible schedule. This is a volunteer position that provides no salary.

Requirements are that you:

1. reside in the Seldovia area
2. be 18 years of age or older
3. be a Seldovia Public Library Card holder
4. and have an interest in the library.

The library director will:

• maintain membership in the Alaska Library Association and meet the continuing education requirements under the library’s operating grant from the State of Alaska;
• be responsible for collection development: selecting and purchasing new materials and removing outdated materials from the library collection;
• develop, revise, and work within an annual budget determined by the state operating grant regulations;
• write and revise the annual state operating grant and report annually to the state on library operations as required under grant terms;
• maintain the corporate licensure;
• participate in fund-raising;
• recruit, manage, and schedule volunteers for staffing;
• handle circulation database maintenance and web presence;
• attend board meetings, report to the board on all areas of library operations and serve as a non-voting member of the board;
• work with other local entities to produce joint programs of interest to the community;
• other such tasks/special projects as the board might assign and are needed.

Letters of interest should be sent to the library board either by email to seldovia.library@gmail.com or by mail to the following address no later than October 8, 2012.:

Seldovia Public Library
att: Library Board
PO Drawer H
Seldovia, AK 99663

Questions? Contact the library board at seldovia.library@gmail.com.

A Successful Summer Lecture Series Comes to a Close

Reprinted with permission from the Seldovia Public Library, photo by Savannah Lewis

The second annual Summer Lecture Series co-sponsored by Seldovians for Science and the Seldovia Public Library has finished another successful season. We hope to continue to bring in scholars from a variety of disciplines to share their research and interests with us here in Seldovia.Last summer, we addressed the Big Bang, the age of the Earth, and Evolution. This summer we continued with the theme of directly addressing science denial.

In July, Ed Berg, retired Ecologist at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and instructor at Kenai Peninsula College talked about the effects of climate change

New Saturday Hours Start Next Week

by Tracie Merrill

Seldovians For Science

by Jere and Sandy Murray

Seldovia Public Library Seeks A Director

by Tracie Merrill

The Seldovia Public Library Board of Directors is seeking interested persons for the position of library director.

The position requires approximately 10-15 hours a week on a flexible schedule. This is a volunteer position that provides no salary.

Requirements are that you: reside in the Seldovia area, be 18 years of age or older, be a Seldovia Public Library Card holder, and have an interest in the library.

The library director will:

• maintain membership in the Alaska Library Association and meet the continuing education requirements under the library’s operating grant from the State of Alaska;

• be responsible for collection development: selecting and purchasing new materials and removing outdated materials from the library collection;

• develop, revise, and work within an annual budget determined by the state operating grant regulations;

• write and revise the annual state operating grant and report annually to the state on library operations as required under grant terms;

• maintain the corporate licensure;

• participate in fund raising;

• recruit, manage and schedule volunteers for staffing, tech support, circulation database maintenance, web presence, and special programs and projects as needed;

• attend board meetings, report to the board on all areas of library operations and serve as a non-voting member of the board;

• work with other local entities to produce joint programs of interest to the community;

• and other such tasks as the board might assign.

Letters of interest should be sent to the library board either by email to seldovia.library@gmail.com or by mail to Seldovia Public Library–att: Library Board, PO Drawer H, Seldovia, AK 99663 no later than September 4, 2012.

Questions?   Contact the library board at seldovia.library@gmail.com.

Our Seldovia Library Needs Your Help!

by Tracie Merrill

With the end of summer approaching, we are really in need of volunteers these days.

Under our grant terms, we must keep the library open a certain number of hours a week.  Our current schedule does that; if we slash our hours, not so much. So, we don’t have a lot of wiggle room.

And there’s the whole thing about being open enough that we cover the times when you want to use the library. We need our schedule to be handy for folks who are out and about during the day, kids who need to be able to use the library when they’re not in school, and working folks who can only run errands at night or on the weekend.

Can you help us out? We need folks who can give us just a couple hours in an afternoon, once a week. Or even every other week. You’ll get all of the (very simple) training you’ll need. It’s not hard and it’s not terribly time-consuming but it’s all-important in keeping our library operating. We really need your support.

If interested, please contact Tracie Merrill either by stopping in, emailing traciemerrill@hotmail.com, or calling 907-750-2918 and letting us know that you can share a little of your time with the rest of Seldovia’s library community. It will mean so much to all of us. Thank you.

Sweeney Book Signing

by Seldovia Public Library

Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 7:30 pm
At the Seldovia Library

Alaskan author James Sweeney will join us for a book reading and signing (copies will be available at the event for purchase). There is no charge to attend.

About James – taken from James’ website. 

A cold north wind blows down from the arctic but otherwise it is sunny and beautiful out and James P. Sweeney would rather do anything than write a bio, but if you need to read something about him here you go.

Over the last seven years Jim has had stories published in the Anchorage Press, The Anchorage Daily News, Alpinist Magazine, Alaska Dispatch and Cirque Literary Journal to name a few. He’s read his stories on KSKA, KZFR, and KEUL Public Radio stations. Jim also starred in Alaska Avalanche, the finale of Discovery Channel’s hit series, I Shouldn’t be Alive.

Jim was forty eight when he wrote The List. The year was 2004 and the Anchorage Press published the story the following week. Jim was crippled from an old mountain climbing fall and his handicap almost forced him to become a serious hard working writer. His fall, injury and ensuing epic of survival are Alaskan legend and the motivating force behind his drive as a writer. James P. Sweeney has many stories to tell.