The TLA Honorary Membership Award recognizes an individual who has made significant, sustained contributions to librarianship in the state of Tennessee.

Tennessee State Librarian and Archivist Jeanne Sugg will never have to pay dues to the Tennessee Library Association again!

Read the text of the presentation of this Award made by Chuck Sherrill, Director of The Brentwood Library and President-Elect of Tenn-Share, at the General Session of the TLA Conference on Thursday, April 9, in Nashville.

Tenn-Share's popular Learn & Discover program is back for another year. Didn't quite finish last year? Do you have friends and co-workers who missed out? Invite them to join!

We're repeating last year's program first, starting April 14th. Then we'll be exploring new territory with Learn & Discover 2.0, starting in July.

 It is once again time for us all to speak up for Tennessee libraries!

Tenn-Share has asked the new Secretary of State, Tre Hargett, to take his first big step in support of our public libraries by directing the State Library to write a grant for funding available through the ARRA – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – for increased bandwidth for Tennessee public libraries, especially those in rural areas of the state.

Remember our letter-writing campaign for TEL funding? OK, let’s do it again for broadband funding.

Join us at the TLA Conference in Nashville, April 8-10:

• Share Your Stuff, a Poster Session on Tenn-Share's new statewide ILL and rapid materials delivery initiative at CULS Preconference, April 8, 10-4:30.

• Cooperation on a Grand Scale: OCLC WorldCat in Tennessee is April 9, 12-1:25. Register today!

• Free as in Kittens: Using Open-Sourced Software to Run Your Library Website is April 10 2:35-3:35.

Get the entire TLA Conference schedule in your calendar application!

 Kevin Reynolds, TLA’s ALA Representative, is working hard to share via the TLA listserv all of the news surrounding the Stimulus money as he receives it from ALA.

Additionally, ALA is doing an excellent job of consolidating, in one place on the web, all of the Stimulus money projects as they relate to libraries.  Check it out daily as new information, suggestions for how to become eligible for the money, and deadlines for applying for grants is added constantly.
 
Bookmark and refer to it often. http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/wo/woissues/washfunding/fedfund/arra101.cfm