Army libraries from kansas to korea and all points in between 20131017

Army libraries from Kansas to Korea and all points in between

Library 2.013 Conference 18 October 2013

www.libraries.army.mil

Army Libraries: All Types

http://viewshare.org/views/FRD/directory/

Army Libraries: Around the World

Army librariesare organized

to supportthe Army’s structure

Libraries as Support Function

Trudie RootLibrarian of the Army

Headquarters, Dept. of Army, G-1

Vision: to serve as a strategic library asset in support of the Army’s vision at home and abroad to prevent, shape and win.

Mission: Provide library services that support decision making, education, training, research, development, test and evaluation, medical/legal practice, outreach, well-being, and lifelong learning for Army Soldiers, civilians and Families.

Governance - Army Library Program

Trudie RootLibrarian of the Army

Headquarters, Dept. of Army, G-1

Responsibilities under G-1:

Provide policy and guidance for Army libraries

Facilitate Army-wide training for librarians including hosting biennial conference working with Career Program office

Chair Army Library Steering Committee group made up of command librarians, library directors and at-large members

Governance - Army Library Program

Army Award WinnersFederal Library & Information Center Committee

(FLICC/FEDLINK)Library of Congress Awards:

Woodworth Consolidated Library, Fort Gordon, for Best Large Federal Library/Information Center 2011Leanna Bush, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) for Federal Library Technician 2011Medical Library, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) Best Small Federal Library/Information Center 2010 Timothy Edwards, Command Librarian, Army Materiel Command, Annual Award: Business Case Analysis Award from the Defense Standardization Program 2011

Army Library Training

Army Library Virtual Training, FEDLINK, 2013•Training provided via webinar software to 200+ librarians and library technicians over 5 days

Army Library Training Institute, Southbridge, MA 2011•Professional development –Simmons Graduate School of Library & Information Science•Five day training event attended by 100+ Army librarians world wide

Army Libraries over time

Army MWR libraries are general libraries located on Army installations world wide. An integrated library system supports

the collections maintained at over 70 Army MWR libraries.

Army Moral Welfare and Recreation Libraries

http://bit.ly/1cq3VvH

Librarian Book Reviews

Army Library services on installations

Gen. George W. Casey Jr., Army Chief of Staff, reads the Dr. Seuss book, "Oh the Places You Will Go," to a group of small children after he helped cut the ribbon on the new, "Magical World of Discovery," children's reading room at the Casey Memorial Library on Fort Hood, Texas. The library is name and dedicated to his father.

Three Soldiers at U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach library enjoy the opportunity to listen to a Playaway.

Playaway audio books for troops

Storytime for military families

Ludden Memorial Librarian Peggy Malleyright, holds a display about the U.S. Army Airborne unit that the library adopted last week and is taking donations of cash for postage and care package (picture from Terry Karkos, Sun Journal)

Adopt a troop

“Camp Victory in Iraq is nearly 2,000 miles from the nearest Army Library in Europe. But soldiers deployed at the sprawling base near Baghdad International Airport will soon have access to a broad spectrum of such resources via an e-Branch kiosk.”

Info Kiosks for Iraq

Army technical libraries support research and engineering activities in organizations such as the Army Research Laboratory.

Army Technical Libraries

RedesignGoals

•Reduce footprint

•Expand electronic access

•Retain quiet space

•Add collaboration space, training area, small group huddle space for embedded librarians

Army Research Lab Libraries

Tracking global research in NanoTechnologies

Army Research Lab Libraries

Army engineering libraries support the Army Corps of Engineers. In addition to the Headquarters Library, there are over 20 District Corps of

Engineers Libraries in which scientists and engineers accessdigital resources via OCLC CONTENTdm and WorldShare.

Army Corps of Engineers Libraries

Army Medical libraries are found in Army installation hospitals, research centers, and institutes throughout the Army. All Army medical libraries are

supported by the extensive AMEDD Virtual Library.

Army Medical Libraries

http://medlinet.amedd.army.mil/

Evans US Army Hospital Lane Library http://evans.amedd.army.mil/newcomer/evans_images.htm

We only named a few Army Libraries

Military LibrariesSLA Government Information Division: http://govinfo.sla.org/

SLA Military Librarians Division: http://military.sla.org/mlw2013/

ALA Federal & Armed Forces Libraries RoundTable http://ala.org/faflrt

For Job SeekersUSAJobs: https://www.usajobs.gov/ Series: Librarian (1410), IT (2210), Library Technician (1411), Technical Info Specialist (1412), Analysts 1032 or 0343, etc.

Careers in Federal Libraries (CIFL) #CareersFedLibGoogle group http://bit.ly/7OTErh LinkedIn http://linkd.in/1amLFjg

SLA/Military Libraries DivisionMLD is hosting a conference in Huntsville, AL Dec 2013

http://military.sla.org/mlw2013/

Army libraries from Kansas to Korea and all points in betweenLibrary 2.013 Conference 18 October 2013

Trudie.A.Root.civ@mail.mil

Nancy.G.Faget.civ@mail.mil