You are invited to join the Canton Public Library and Canton Township as we celebrate the receipt of the LibraryAware Community Award, cosponsored by Library Journal and  LibraryAware, part of EBSCO Publishing's NoveList Division.


Light refreshments will be served. All members of our community are encouraged to attend and children are welcome.

According to the World Health Organization, 284 million people worldwide suffer from poor vision simply because they do not have access to or cannot afford care. In some countries, a pair of eyewear costs more than a month's salary.

The Canton History project is intended to foster connections per our 2009 Strategic Plan. It launched in October 2010 with an initial batch of over 900 items.

Strategic Plan

Objective (#3): The Canton Public Library will service the community by being a conduit for connections between residents and local groups, through the awareness of needs and opportunities.

Create a digital archive to connect the community

• Pursue partnerships within the community to establish the library as the digital repository for local historical and community information
• Develop plan for grant initiative to fund digital archive
• Review existing infrastructure
• Develop implementation plan
• Implement and evaluate plan

The Plan

We are presently digitizing Canton Public Library's history, using the experience of doing so to improve our workflow and interface. Soon we will pursue more community partnerships and digitize materials from outside the library.

If you have artifacts of possible historical significance to Canton communities, please contact Brad Czerniak, our Digital Resources Developer.

If you would like to assist with the Canton History project, learn more about volunteering at CPL, then contact Kathie Gladden, Volunteer Coordinator.

Standards

Images and Documents should be scanned at 600dpi whenever practical

• Images larger than 5"7" but smaller than the scanner's full tray may be scanned at 300dpi for speed and storage purposes
• Slides and other small-format images should be scanned at a minimum resolution of 2400dpi
• Images larger than the scanner tray may be scanned in multiple passes if the risk of damage to the original is negligible, but should also be photographed for contextual purposes
• Documents should generally be done at 600dpi to allow for Optical Character Recognition. Documents with type no smaller than 24-point may be scanned at 300dpi for speed and storage purposes
• Audio should be recorded at the highest practical bit rate given recording circumstances
• Video should be recorded at the highest practical resolution and bit rate given recording circumstances
• Objects should be photographed or otherwise recorded individually without added context in well-considered lighting at high resolution, per the camera's capabilities

All fixed visual artifacts (images, documents) should be saved as uncorrected full-quality TIFF files, unless such output is unavailable on the scanner or camera.
Audio should be saved in the native lossless format of the recording device
Video should be saved in the native lossless format of the recording device

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the Canton Historical Society and Plymouth-Canton Community Schools for support in this continuing relationship.

Additionally, this project would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of the 2010 CPL Summer Interns, Jared and Hilary.

In order to help develop programs and services, the CPL would like to know more about your interests and hobbies.

• Take the survey (or anonymously)

As CPL strives to keep up with the latest and greatest of everything, it's important to know where you stand on using technology.

• Take the survey (or anonymously)

Tell us about yourself in terms of your education and career. We'd like to understand how much of your life is devoted to work.

• Take Survey (or anonymously)

Now that we know a little more about YOU, we'd like to understand more about your home-life, your family, your lifestyle.

• Take the survey (or anonymously)

This week in the comments, let's talk about lifestyle. How would you describe yourself in terms of personal lifestyle or culture?

Each week we will have a blog post in which members of the CPL community can respond to get know one another. Your feedback will also be included in the Help Us Help You research and help focus our efforts. Please sign in and take our survey. If you wish to remain anonymous, you may also take the survey without signing in.

This week we would like to know (in the comments) — What inspires you?

If you'd like to see the process behind our strategic plan as presented to the Library Board of Trustees, just view this Presentation:

The Canton Public Library connects your community.

That's the mission statement that arose from the focus groups, comment cards and conversations that we had with our community and staff over the last six months. Whether you are a community of storytime parents, a community of anime fans, a community of gamers or a community of readers, the Canton Public Library is a connection place for you. The library connects you to the resources, people and places that you defined as your community.

To support our mission, we pledge to adhere to four core values:

• Relevance: We will adapt and grow as our community's needs change, providing flexible, customizable and evolving collections and services
• Access: We support the pursuit of individul and community goals by ensuring the open exchange of diverse materials and ideas
• Integrity: We are respectful of all people at all times and serve our community with excellence
• Leadership: We will lead with enthusiasm and respond to challenges with creativity and professionalism

Details of our 2009-2011 Strategic Plan can be found from a link on the About Us page. We will post news of our actions and progress. This is a living document, and we look forward to receiving your feedback.

The Canton Public Library is seeing stars after being identified as one of America’s star libraries by Library Journal’s Index of Public Library Service. One of only two libraries in the state to receive this rating, the Canton Public Library was awarded a three star rating. Read the full press release by clicking on the attachment.

CANTON, MI—The Canton Public Library has embarked on a process to create a strategic plan and is looking for community input.

“With declining revenue and the current economic climate, it’s very important to know what our community wants and needs from our library,” says library director Eva Davis. “A plan to guide us for the next three years will help us focus our efforts and resources to best serve the community.”