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Commission Seeks Network Services Director | ||
The Library Commission is accepting applications for a Network Services Director. Responsibilities include: manage NEBASE, Nebraska's regional network for OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) services; provide leadership in the development, promotion, and delivery of online information services to Nebraska libraries; negotiate, license, and manage online database services; supervise network services staff team; and communicate re: technology supported library services. Qualifications: MLS |
from an ALA accredited program; five years library-related work experience preferred, including administrative and supervisory experience; knowledge and understanding of automated information network issues (including but not limited to OCLC systems, products, and services) and Internet and Web-based information services; excellent communication skills; ability to work effectively in a team oriented work environment; and ability to plan, prepare, and present instruction to diverse audiences. Valid drivers license required. |
Minimum salary: $40,000. For more information see Library Jobs at nlc.nebraska.gov or contact Doreen Kuhlmann, 402-471-4007, 800-307-2665, e-mail: Doreen Kuhlmann
. Open until filled, with priority consideration given to applications received by September 15. Must complete State of Nebraska job application. Apply www.wrk4neb.org or 301 Centennial Mall South, First Floor, P. O. Box 94905, Lincoln, NE 68509-4905. |
Centennial Web Page Unveiled | ||
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Nebraska Library Commission will celebrate our 100th anniversary in 2001. In honor of the Library Commission Centennial, we are launching a Centennial Web Site, Libraries for the Centuries, beginning with Pre-1900 and 1900,1909. Each month a new decade will be unveiled. Information includes historical photos, documents, and a timeline of key Nebraska library-related events. Maggie Harding has worked with the Nebraska Library Commission for more than a year to organize the Commission archives, record oral histories from current and former Commission staff, and write the Web text. |
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Jane Pope Geske Honored
The room was renamed the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors at the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association Annual Meeting this summer. Norman Geske presented a portrait of his wife to hang in the room on the third floor of the library. The room has more than 10,000 volumes and information on more than 3,000 Nebraska authors. | ||
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See the Library Commission home page at nlc.nebraska.gov and click on the Centennial button for a history of the first two decades. Other activities in the planning stage include a speaker series, a historical display, and a project to involve local libraries celebrating their own local history. For more information contact Mary Jo Ryan, 402-471-3434, 800-307-2665, e-mail: Mary Jo Ryan.
The Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors at Lincoln's Bennett Martin Public Library has been renamed to honor Jane Pope Geske, Library Commission Director from 1969,1971 and 1973,1976. Geske was an early president of the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association, as well as a founding member of the Nebraska Center for the Book and of Friends of the University of Nebraska Libraries. She served as president of the Nebraska Library Association and Nebraska Arts Council.