it has never been easier to fill out the Census without leaving your house. Stay home and respond to the Census online at my2020census.gov, or over the phone at 1-844-330-2020.
As of this writing the Census Bureau has paused field operations. So we need everyone with a phone or internet connection to count themselves!
Special note: We’re giving the Friday Bulletin a different look during the current emergency and trying to pare down to what we think are essential announcements. If there is something you think is important to share across library, archive and museum boundaries, feel free to send it to Daniel.cornwall@alaska.gov
As of this writing (morning of 3/21/200), Libraries, Archives and Museums remain closed to public until Tuesday, March 31, 2020 per Health Mandate 2. Per Health Mandate 8, Public and private schools are closed to students through May 1, 2020. Students will receive instruction through distance delivery methods. All after school activities will be suspended during this time.
For a list of all the current Health Mandates in force, visit the State’s COVID-19 Health Mandates page.
The SLED front page has been changed this week. We added in COVID-19 resources along with new journal and ebook databases donated by EBSCO publishing. We encourage you to pop over to SLED for this new content. The donated ejournals and ebooks will be available for the next three months.
We’ve also reworked the help text for people who need to get the SLED username and password. If you have the SLED username and password, feel free to share them with anyone you personally know to be an Alaska resident.
If you have links to SLED databases on your web pages, we encourage you to post the following text on pages that feature those databases:
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Can't Get into a Database?
If you get a page with "SLED Databases" at the top and an ask for username and password, read on!
If you're an Alaska resident with an Alaskan area code, call 1-800-440-2919 for a password. Otherwise, Alaska residents can fill this form to receive a password.
Fill out the form completely so the Alaska Library Network can verify your Alaska residency. They must do this for our vendors.
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If your library or patrons have an Alaska-based Internet Service Provider, you should not be asked for a SLED databases username and password.
During this time when libraries are closed and users may be especially interested in remote school and entertainment options, many libraries are wanting to market electronic resources. We’d also like to avoid reinventing the wheel. Here are some publicity resources. If you have something new that you’ve pulled together or older that worked well, please share it with us!
Not exactly essential but may give you or your patrons something to pass the time if you’re self-isolating. We’re happy to announce that shortly before current events, 360 North posted a whole bunch of lectures recorded here in Juneau as part of the At the APK series that is a partnership between the Division and 360 North.
The newest recordings can be found on the At the APK playlist on 360 North’s YouTube Channel. Scroll down to the bottom for the latest recordings. Eventually the newer recordings will show up on the At the APK show page at 360 North. Currently this page features season one episodes.
A few of the available lectures are:
Does your institution have online videos that you are proud of? Send us a link and a description of the video/series. Let’s spend this time enjoying each other’s production labors!
Public Library Coordinator Julie Niederhauser recently shared some professional development opportunities library staff can do from home:
Dear Alaska Librarians,
If you have staff working from home, you may want to encourage them to take advantage of the free self-paced professional development courses available online. The Alaska State Library has created the Professional Development Resources for Librarians resource guide that has links to free training programs, online self-paced modules, archived webinars and podcasts. To see the entire list of library guides visit the For Librarians webpage.
If your staff prefer to learn online with others, you may want to suggest they apply for the one of the Infopeople course seats available from the Alaska State Library. Visit Infopeople Course Seat Opportunity for more information.
Finally, the CE Calendar highlights free continuing education opportunities available to librarians in Alaska.
From our friends at the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration:
CILC places great value on its Content Providers, nearly 200 of the very best cultural organizations and talent from around the world. They make it all possible by connecting students to unique subject matter, talent, and experiences. Representing museums, science centers, art galleries, zoos, aquariums, musicians, authors, and more, many of the providers play important roles in collecting and preserving histories and cultures and in helping to advance critical scientific research and innovation.
In an effort to provide home-bound students educational content that is fun, interactive and professionally delivered, CILC will begin offering programs from champion Content Providers beginning Monday, March 23rd. Targeted to students in grades K-6, programs will cover topics in STEM, Social Studies, Literacy, and Art/Music from 8:30-2:30 CST. All programs are free-of-charge and will be in webinar format. Most of the programs will be recorded so that students can access them at any time after the live program.
Visit the Community of Learning for more details and to get your students registered. Please share this great resource with friends, colleagues and families.
At this point in time, we don’t know if CILC will continue to offer such broad opportunities after the week of 3/26, but if they do we will post to AkLA-L
If you or your patrons have home internet, they can put downtime to the service of all by working on a citizen science project through Zooniverse. From astronomy to biology to literature to history there might be something to catch your interest. The projects are usually relatively simple for humans but oh so difficult for computers.
Projects include:
If you have a favorite crowdsourcing project people can do from home, please drop us a line.
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