We Do That In Idaho
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The Forgotten War in Idaho
If you have never heard about the war between Idaho’s Kootenai Tribe against the United States, you’ll need to learn about it! In the 1970s Amy Trice let the Kootenai Tribe to fight for justice, education, and to fight against poverty, sickness and sadness.
Read some about it here, or attend our event on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 from 10 am - 11:30 am. More to come soon!
I love supporting exciting historical events!
The Art of Community in Idaho & Refugees and Art in Idaho
It will include hands on workshops, and all sorts of opportunities to partner.
“Boise, in Idaho’s Treasure Valley, is the new home to over 10,000 refugees and immigrants from all over the world. The Treasure Valley also has a large, vibrant and diverse art community and a strong network of social service agencies. Imagine the power of these groups working together. You are invited to a workshop that will explore merging the arts with social services to better serve these newcomer communities and to enliven our community at large.”
Pre-1910 Song of the Month in Idaho
Do you like music? How about music that was played long, long ago? Like before 1910? The stuff we don’t have recordings of? The stuff people sang around the campfire, or maybe in the Old Penitentiary? Gary Eller has been working on collecting as many songs as he can from this era, and now has his own Song of the Month web page where you can download and listen to one vocal song and one instrumental song. I help Gary do a lot of research here at the Idaho State Historical Society. I’m very impressed with his devotion to research, his thoroughness, and attention to detail!
For example, he loves bibliographies as much as I do - check out this annotated list!
Spanish Speaking in Idaho
So, I just graduated from iSchool at UW and have my MLIS and therefore I don’t ever need to learn anything ever again, right?
I know you could see the sarcasm bleeding right out of that sentence. The answer is: WRONG! So, I attended the Spanish Speakers outreach program hosted by the Idaho Commission for Libraries, and WebJunction and not only is this outreach plan basically the best thing I’ve ever used, but I’ve learned how to tackle some of the big subjects! It also made me exhausted because of how much I learned!
If you can’t attend a workshop, log on to WebJunction and go to Spanish Speaking Outreach. You can use the action plan for any user group. So awesome. Let’s go!
I also found via WebJunction some great resources for researching Hispanic American genealogy. For example, the finding aid for microfilm of border crossings from Mexico to the US 1903-1948.
Why we do that in Idaho
I’m not from Idaho, but I live and work here now as a librarian. I’m often times confronted with this strange attitude about new things. You’re totally familiar with it. Who isn’t? It’s called resistance, and fear… I’ve been told, among other scary things, “We don’t do that in Idaho” in regards to all sorts of normal librarian things. What normal is I will get into later. This blog is about pushing for services and technologies and ideas in a world full of an old way of doing things.
At first I thought I would be writing about why I do what I do here in Idaho, but it’s about collaboration, and not encouraging resistance. I think it’s important that we all work together.
The other experience that led to the creation of this blog was Internet Librarian 2007. I did not want to leave, but I left fully prepared to take on the great challenges that are ahead of me. Wish me luck and encouragement. I’m a new librarian in a strange old world.
