Category Archives: Communications

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Recent email contact list – UPDATED

Hi everyone, I’ve just posted the most recent email contact list to the blog. Please update your contacts so everyone who is on the mailing list is receiving emails.

Please note that the post is set to private, meaning only those with blog administrator status can see it (to protect us all from the evil spam-bots). If you would like to have admin status (so you can post to this blog, or just see top-secret posts), send me a request and I will hook you up. Trust me, the power is intoxicating.

I hope you’re all having a lovely fall!
Jocelyn

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Fundraiser Book Sale a Success!

Our recent fundraiser over the Mother’s Day weekend was a success. We raised $546.00 for our various projects and garnered some media attention too! Check out the Edmonton Sun article and the CTV news item (starts at about 14:09) covering the event. A big thank you to our volunteers and all those who stopped by to chat and donate to the EIFW library. And thanks to the weather for cooperating–especially on Saturday!

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Next general committee meeting: Thursday, February 25 2010

The next general meeting of the GELA Prison Library and Reintegration committee will be held: Thursday, February 25th at 5:30 pm at Henderson Hall at the University of Alberta.

For those of you unfamiliar with Henderson Hall  - you can access it from the Rutherford South Atrium entrance at the University of Alberta. There is some street metered parking as well as surface lots (rates drop after 4:30 pm)

Agenda items include:

  • reports from subcommittees:
  1. bookclub,
  2. storybook,
  3. CLA presentation,
  4. bookdrive (wish list etc)
  • technological literacy for the women
  • fundraising ideas

You can read the minutes from the December 2009 meeting here.

See you next week!

Kirsten

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Meeting Notes, April 14th, 2009

Notes—Meeting with Cathee, Tuesday, April 14, 2009.

Library needs:

  • Magazine covers—Liz FL will bring these (she discovered a stack of basic matte plastic covers recently)
  • Labels and label protectors
  • Dewey cataloguing key. Cathee needs assistance cataloguing the non-fiction. (Didn’t we have something like this?)

    • Specific collection requests:

  • The Kite Runner
  • Book of Negroes
  • Ken Follett, Pillars of the Earth and World Without End
  • Wicked, Twilight

    • As well as:

  • Graphic novels
  • First Nations material
  • “Cultural” books (books about other cultures)
  • Healing, addictions, psychology non-fiction
  • Knitting and crochet books (there is one crochet book that is missing and everyone’s been waiting for it to reappear)
  • Any book with the Oprah label (they are very popular)

    • Additional Notes:

  • Cathee would like to move all the law books from the non-fiction section to somewhere else so that all the other non-fiction is together. I know this is something we’re working on.
  • Cathee wants to register borrowers and search by borrower’s name. I’m not familiar with the system yet. Can this be done?
  • Cathee asked about weeding. I said if they are really damaged (i.e. pages torn, covers ruined), delete them. For all the others set aside for now and we can talk about this. I told her this would be covered in the policy that the committee is working on.
  • Cathee is very keen and very nice. I think she’ll be great to work with.

    • Next steps:

  • I’m going to get Cathee a list of Oprah books so she can check off what the library already has (and hopefully we can supply what is missing.
  • Reissue notices about Storybook program and Book Club because of the long gap between Megan leaving and Cathee coming on board. This was Cathee’s suggestion.
  • Written policy. Cathee was very glad to hear we’re working on this. Missing books are a problem, and she’d like circulation and collection guidelines to work with.
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    Federal Prison Library Survey

    Kim Rempel from William Head Institution Library is trying to distribute a library survey to federal prison libraries. (He hasn’t had much luck with Edmonton Prison for Women – he was told that inmates are running the library.) Since I am the only member of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) Prison Special Interest Group (along with Kim), he’s asked if I could either do the survey or get someone to do it. The results are going to be presented at the Libraries in Canadian Prisons session at the CALL annual conference this May in Halifax. I will also be there.

    Anyhow, here is the letter from Kim and the survey. Tanya, Laura and I are going to the prison tomorrow so we could fill out the survey ourselves with Cathee (the new prison librarian) unless someone else would like to do it.

    federal-prison-library-letter

    kims-prison-library-survey-final

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    Comments from our Volunteers Needed!

    Allison and Liz are giving a presentation for the Education Institute on Thursday, March 19th. Since this presentation is about leadership, we would like to convey what this experience has meant to our volunteers and specifically, what leadership skills they may have gained through their involvement. Please share your comments! If you wish to do so privately, email Liz or Allison.