STSJLA Annual Meeting

The St. Thomas St. John Library Association will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, September 24 at the Lockhart Elementary School Library at 10:00am. Please bring a dish that can be shared by all. New members are welcome.

IFLA-GENLOC Satellite Meeting in St. Thomas: August 10-12, 2011!

The Genealogy and Local History Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, and the St. Thomas-St. John Library Association, look forward to welcoming you to the island of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands for a Satellite Conference to be held 10-12 August 2011.

Speaker/Panel sessions, study tours and receptions will focus on aspects of the theme "The Information Diaspora:  Innovating research and records custodianship for family history users" and include a great line-up of presenters and topics in one of the Caribbean's most beautiful destinations.

Speakers include:

• Drs. Nolda Romer-Kenepa, National Archivist of the Curacao National Archives and CITRA Vice President for the International Council on Archives (ICA)
• International Project Archivist Melanie Clifton Harvey who will speak on her recent experiences working on the British Library's Endangered Archives Project in the Turks and Caicos
• Danish National Archives Archival Consultant and Historian Poul Olsen
• George F. Tyson, President of the Virgin Islands Social History Associates and Project Manager for the St. Croix African Roots Project
• Dominique Taffin, Archvist of the Archives Departementales de la Martinique and President of the Caribbean Regional Association of the ICA (CARBICA) (or her CARBICA designee) who will introduce the CARBICA Memory of the Islands: Gateway to Archival Networking (MIGAN) Project
• Gayle Williams, Latin American and Caribbean Services Librarian and Co-Director of the Digital Library of the Caribbean (DLOC) at Florida International University
• Ross Harvey, Visiting Professor at GSLIS Simmons College, and expert on digital curation
• Asbjorn Hellum, National Archivist, Rigsarkivet (Danish National Archives)
• Jeannette A. Bastian, Ph.D., Acting Dean, Professor and Director of the Archives Program at GSLIS, Simmons College
• Vernon Paul Rood, Ph.D., Project Archivist, NARA

Register by June 30th for a 15% discount in satellite registration fees!  Full information on meeting venues, locations and optional tour packages may be found here http://db.tt/TWXsz8X .

Feel free to contact Satellite Meeting Coordinator Susal Lugo at  susanlauralugo@gmail.com if you have any questions.  We look forward to seeing you soon!

Summer Social to be held on Friday, June 3, 2011

The St. Thomas St. John Library Association's Summer Social will be held on Friday, June 3, 2011 at Tickles Restaurant at 5pm. All members are invited to come down to Crown Bay Marina, watch the setting sun, and have some fun.

6th Annual Read on the Green Community Event

The St. Thomas-St. John Library Association (STSJLA) will be hosting the "Read on the Green Community Day” as the kick-off to National Library Week. This event will be held on Saturday, April 9, from 12 noon to 5:00 pm on the UVI golf course grounds. For more information about the event, contact Christine Garrett-Davis, Public Relations Chair at cagd.2010@gmail.com or Annice Canton, Programs Chair at annice66@gmail.com .

NLW 2010 is kicked-off with a blast!

Today is the first 'official' day of National Library Week (NLW) 2010, but celebration in St. Thomas, U.S Virgin Islands gets off to an early and exciting start! The 5th annual Read on the Green Community Day was held on UVI's golf course yesterday (April 10th), in conjunction with the first Human Library in the territory--hosted by yours truly.

Weather was good and the turnout was even better as the community came out to "get caught reading". Curiosity brought a number of people to the Club House on the golf course to read some 'human books', as well. Verbal feedback was very positive and STSJLA already received requests to host another Human Library! If you missed it, here's a recap by the St. Thomas Source.

Thanks to the entire community for supporting the efforts of local librarians, and to the volunteers who made it happen yesterday. This was a great example of how Communities Thrive @Your Library . Enjoy the rest of National Library Week!!

SAVE THE DATE - April 10, 2010

National Library Week is right around the corner, and this year's celebration is going to be BIG!!! To kick things off, Read on the Green [ROTG] will happen on Saturday, 4/10, from 12 noon to 5 pm. There will be reading circles, poetry, guest authors, word games, and more. Also, as part of ROTG, we will be hosting the first Human Library in the USVI!

The theme for National Library Week 2010 is "Communities Thrive @ Your Library", and the Human Library is designed to highlight the diversity that exists within our community. For more information on the event, see the Human Library section of our website.

Additionally at ROTG, there will be an activity for the Big Read initiative: discussion of the book A Lesson Before Dying.

Stay tuned for details on all of the above!

Teen Tech Week 2010

Mark your calendars--Teen Tech Week 2010 is March 7-13!

Teen Tech Week is a national initiative aimed at teens, librarians, educators, parents, and other concerned adults meant to encourage teens to take advantage of libraries' non-print resources. The 2010 theme — Learn Create Share @ your library — fosters teen creativity and positions the library as a physical and virtual place for safe exploration of the many types of technology available at libraries, including DVDs, music, gaming, video production, online homework help, social networking, tech workshops, audiobooks and more. Visit http://www.ala.org/yalsa for more information.

The WEBSITE has arrived!!!

The Public Relations Committee of STSJLA has heard your cries... and this is our answer: Our official website is finally here!!

http://sites.google.com/site/stsjla/

Content is still being uploaded but this is going to be our home on the web. So please, stop by and make yourselves comfortable. Oh yes, and be sure to leave your mark in our Guestbook!

See you on the website!

Prayers for Haiti

STSJLA stands with the rest of the world in shock and prayer at the aftermath of the earthquake that shook Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. We encourage you to do whatever you can to to help the survivors. We can all make a greater impact than the earthquake by donating to rebuild Haiti.

Kudos all around!

We have much to celebrate, as STSJLA and our student volunteer--Jerome Vanterpool--were awarded the 2009 Community Grant from FirstBank!! Both he and our organization were given $500. CONGRATULATIONS!!!