Friday, December 29, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn May you have a successful New Year From "the staff" at NEILSA Eunice, Ken & Denise NOTE: This will be short today because I spent my surfing time on e-rate this week and so no "STUFF" & I have an emergency book delivery to make so you lucked out - but I'll make up for it next year.   ANNOUNCEMENTS: VAN Service: AEA 267 will resume delivery on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007. AEA 1 will resume deliver on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007 THE LSA: NEILSA closed dates: 1/1/2007 Consortia members are listed on the Consortia Blog at: http://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm The Friends of the Elgin Public Library Invite you to their 10th Annual Book Sale At the Elgin Public Library, 214 Main St., Elgin, IA Friday, Jan. 12th, 8:00 – 6:00 and Saturday, Jan. 13th, 8:00 – noon Hardback and paperback adult fiction, mysteries, religious, Christian fiction, craft and cook books, business, sports, Westerns, classics, reference, humor, science, history, romance, biography, travel, Iowa topics, poetry gardening, parenting music, relationships, and rare books. Also youth and children’s books, puzzles, magazines, videos, DVDs, CDs, and audios. Door prizes!! Funds go toward the purchase of new materials of all kinds for the library. For more information, call 563-426-5313 Dates for LIBRARY 101 for 2007: March 22 [Thursday] June 8 [Friday] September 11 [Tuesday] December 6 [Thursday] AIR books are all in and ready for your groups to schedulecall or email Denise at the LSA. *******************************************REPEAT*********************************************************** LIBRARY ASSISTANT: Northeast Iowa Library Service Area. Full-Time salaried position, 40 hrs/wk. Salary: $17,000 to $21,000, depending on experience, with benefits including health/dental insurance. For job description/application visit: http://www.neilsa.org/searchcomm/index.html MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Legal resident of Iowa with valid Iowa drivers license, Ability to lift and move 50 pound packages; This position requires significant computer use; Detail work is major responsibility, bookkeeping experience/training a strong asset, this is the single most important job skill or personality trait for the position; Propensity for placing things in alphabetical and numerical order, you have to love filing One year paid full-time public contact work experience, public library/teaching experience a plus. DUTIES: In conjunction with other agency personnel, answer phones; assist Library Consultant in day-to-day operations. 6 hours a week are on the road making deliveries. About 30 hours a week are involved with significant detail work including, filing, organizing, tracking and assisting people on the phone or via e-mail/IM. Application package on line at http://www.neilsa.org/searchcomm/index.html Skill & knowledge tests may be required. Deadline: Until filled. Application forms received before Jan 12, 2007 will be given highest priority. An Equal Opportunity Employer. Application package on line. Your application must contain the following elements: NEILSA Application – 4 pages Resume – 1 or 2 pages Cover letter outlining strong points as related to duties in the posted job description – one sheet   NOTE: Incomplete applications will not be considered. Mail Application to: NEILSA – System Support I 415 Commercial St Waterloo, IA50701-1317 ****************************************************************************************** CE   Dates for the PLOW class, Getting Your Web Site Started. Date Location January 9 Des Moines January 10 Des Moines January 17 Waterloo January 18 Fayette January 19 Fayette January 22 Waterloo January 23 Council Bluffs January 24 Kalona January 25 Marshalltown January 26 Ottumwa January 29 Cedar Rapids January 30 Storm Lake January 31 Storm Lake February 1 DeWitt February 2 Burlington February 5 Cedar Rapids February 6 Sioux City February 12 Carroll February 13 Clear Lake February 14 Clear Lake February 19 Creston February 20 Fort Dodge February 22 Emmettsburg February 23 Emmettsburg February 27 Dubuque February 28 Spencer March 1 Sheldon March 2 Sheldon UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or 608-263-4452 Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview 9:00 to Noon Registration 8:30 -- March 19 at Oelwein & 26 at Waverly, 2007 Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading, learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary Cameron will take participants through an overview of a  parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto participate in the project at a later date. Grow Your Own @ your library grants PLA is now accepting applications for its popular Grow Your Own @ your library institutional scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine public libraries with grants of $8,000 each to be distributed to staff members who are working to obtain a master's degree in library and information science. One library from each of the nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories will be selected.... Great CE delivered right to your desktop! Registration for YALSA's fall session of e-courses opened Aug. 21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30. The courses are meant to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is $135 for YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To register go to www.ala.org/yalsa. Three courses will be offered, full discriptions in New Friday Notes of 08/25/2006: PLA announces new start dates for e-learning courses E-Learning @ PLA, the online education program of the Public Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of its popular courses. New Planning for Results and Creating Policies for Results will each be offered five times between September 2006 and April 2007.... OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/ STUFF: NONE this week. REPEATS: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. Reminder: as libraries move to new email addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of the change Dear Friends of North-eastern Iowa Libraries, Greetings from the Friends of the Decorah Public Library. We have for some time thought that we all should be sharing more ideas of what good things we are doing and examples we might take from each other that could strengthen our various endeavours. While there are many activities that we have done over the past several years one production we would be willing to share that we are excited about and has proven helpful to our work is a power point program that we have developed to present both the work of our Library and our Friends group to the community at various groups and clubs. If you would be interested to see our presentation as a possible model which you might develop for your Library and community feel free to contact Lois Roberts, 506 Mound Street Decorah, IA 52101 or Lorraine Borowski, Decorah Public Library 202 Winnebago Street, Decorah IA 52101. Jim Dale Decorah Friends of the Library Chair Send us an e-photo of your library [flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to promote every one of our libraries. Whats New blog - this is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements, changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.htm The Independence Public Library is in the midst of fundraising for their new library building.  Recently they were awarded with a $550,000 grant from the CAT (Community Attraction and Tourism) Board, which is part of Vision Iowa.  The fundraising total has just passed $2.5 million of the $3 million goal.  The library will start to go through the formal process that leads to bidding and plans on breaking ground in the spring.  The planned completion for the new Independence Public Library, which will give them six times the space they have now, is spring of '08!!   LINKS: Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm NEILSA continuing education  http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html NEILSA e-rate Consortia  Blog http://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm NEILSA monthly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendarmonth.cfm NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org NEILSA yearly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendar_results.cfm NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html NWILSA Blog: http://nwilsblog.blogspot.com State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ DUE DATES: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al.   Janurary 1 NEILSA Closed for New Yerars Day January 27th Fayette CLA Legislative Day is Saturday, from 9:00-10:30 April 3 at Shell Rock, Benny Gambiani Library Butler County Library Association Meeting April 17 7:30 Sumner, Bremer County Meeting April 19th Fayette Spring Meeting is at 9:30 at the Arlington Public Library June 21- 27 ALA 2007 Annual Conference in Washington D.C. September 19th Fayette Fall Meeting is at the Clermont Public Library at 6:00 p.m Oct. 2 at Allison Public Library Butler County Library Association Meeting The State Library's calendar  http://www.silo.lib.ia.us Traffic Counter available on loan from the NEILSA Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a people counter is the way you can make sound strategic decisions. With help from a Sensource counter, your library can easily evaluate staffing needs, hours and more. With hard data you can be confident that your decisions are based on facts not guesswork. If you are interested in using the counter, contact Ken at NEILSA to reserve a time slot.  If you would like to learn more about how you can use the readings from the counter to better manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your staffing/use decisions we can arrange that at the same time. The fine print stuff blog - Friday Notes 2 AT - http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/ EDITORS NOTES: "x" & "xx" are catalogers shorthand for: x = See & xx = See also Edited by: Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant davenport@neilsa.org COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002: THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt COPYRIGHT Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under copyright and is presented here for purposes of education and research only. NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their material and not covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting The public is encouraged and welcome to attend. Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites Hudson & Elkader Keystone) 10:31:17 AM

Friday, December 22, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Boxing Day & Kwanzaa From "the staff" Eunice, Ken & Denise Reminder December 22 is the first day of winter. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Critical Connectors During emergencies, citizens and even some disaster workers depend on libraries for Internet connections to the world. They don’t pilot boats down hurricane-flooded streets or pull people from second-story windows. Nor do they wear uniforms, carry firearms or direct emergency vehicles. But library employees have been first responders nevertheless. People in coastal states who lost their homes to the wind and water of hurricanes Katrina and Rita flocked to public computers housed in libraries. They filed insurance claims, connected with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, contacted family members and found out via the Internet what was happening in the communities they’d had to flee. ”For most people in the community, a public library represents a safe place,” says Sharman Smith, executive director of the Mississippi Library Commission. And that’s literally true. Libraries usually are housed in solid, well-constructed buildings, less likely than some other structures to be affected by Mother Nature. And virtually everyone in the community knows where they are. Moreover, a whopping 70 percent of library computer users depend on libraries as their primary access to the electronic world. So it’s not surprising that libraries are a natural place citizens turn to during a local emergency. But while library personnel have, in effect, become de facto first responders, they don’t get any additional help to do the job. Recognition of this additional community role that libraries play — beyond books and reading rooms — seems to be missing. Nearly half of U.S. public libraries either lost funding or received no additional funding in 2006, according to “Public Libraries and the Internet 2006,” a recently released report funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Despite that discouraging fiscal trend, “public libraries,” says John Carlo Bertot, a professor at Florida State University and co-author of the 2006 report, “are taking on additional roles at their own expense.” One of those roles is as advisers. Last year, for instance, many seniors flummoxed by the complexity of Medicare Part D flocked to libraries to sit at a computer, pull up Medicare Part D information and ask library employees for help. Even those who had computers at home were turning up at libraries for assistance in filling out online forms, picking plans and answering questions. “Where else are people going to go for help?” Bertot asks. “It’s not like other government agencies open up their building and say, ’On the first floor, we have a lab and someone there to answer questions.’ The rubber is hitting the road somewhere and it’s the public library.” Nor do libraries get much recognition for providing technological aid and assistance to disaster workers. During a local emergency in Florida, a bookmobile with wireless access was commandeered by local emergency workers: They didn’t have their own wireless vehicle and needed to make contact with resources. In Pasco County, Florida, library staff are literally emergency responders. They organize and run the resident information center that gets activated during storms. They share a room in the emergency management office, which has phone banks and computers, taking calls from residents if the volume of those calls overwhelms emergency services personnel. Library staff give callers timely information and referrals, such as where they can get water and ice, which hotels are pet friendly, whether there will be an evacuation, where the sandbags are available. It was the library staff that developed a database for this purpose, and it is updated from storm to storm. “We have at our fingertips as much information as possible to give to people on a timely basis when they’re in a stressful situation, says Stephen Kershner, assistant libraries director for public services with the Pasco County Library System. It’s a natural fit for library workers who are used to answering questions and giving information and customer service. The only unnatural part: The staff has no emergency training. If governments are relying on library staffs to be purveyors of e-government and to engage in disaster-relief efforts, they should include library personnel in emergency planning conversations and exercises — to say nothing of offering courses in how to prepare for their roles in a disaster. “We’re trained to be information professionals,” Bertot says. “We’re not trained as first responders.” © 2006, Congressional Quarterly, Inc. Reproduction in any form without the written permission of the publisher is prohibited. Governing, City & State and Governing.com are registered trademarks of Congressional Quarterly, Inc. FROM: http://www.governing.com/articles/12talk.htm Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org   THE LSA: NEILSA closed dates: 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 Consortia members had best check the Consortia Blog at: http://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm Next year will be to late   AIR books are all in and ready for your groups to schedulecall or email Denise at the LSA.   "Cars" at the James Kennedy Public Library FROM: NEILSA Announcements Looking for something to do over the Christmas break?  Why not bring your family to the James Kennedy Public Library in Dyersville on Saturday, December 30, 2006 to see "Cars".  This wonderful animated film will be shown at 2:00 pm in the Hoffman Community Room using the large screen, projector and surround sound.  Popcorn and punch will be provided.  This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. IN case you missed it. LIBRARY ASSISTANT: Northeast Iowa Library Service Area. Full-Time salaried position, 40 hrs/wk. Salary: $17,000 to $21,000, depending on experience, with benefits including health/dental insurance. For job description/application visit: http://www.neilsa.org/searchcomm/index.html MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Legal resident of Iowa with valid Iowa drivers license, Ability to lift and move 50 pound packages; This position requires significant computer use; Detail work is major responsibility, bookkeeping experience/training a strong asset, this is the single most important job skill or personality trait for the position; Propensity for placing things in alphabetical and numerical order, you have to love filing One year paid full-time public contact work experience, public library/teaching experience a plus. DUTIES: In conjunction with other agency personnel, answer phones; assist Library Consultant in day-to-day operations. 6 hours a week are on the road making deliveries. About 30 hours a week are involved with significant detail work including, filing, organizing, tracking and assisting people on the phone or via e-mail/IM. Application package on line at http://www.neilsa.org/searchcomm/index.html Skill & knowledge tests may be required. Deadline: Until filled. Application forms received before Jan 12, 2007 will be given highest priority. An Equal Opportunity Employer. Application package on line. Your application must contain the following elements: NEILSA Application – 4 pages Resume – 1 or 2 pages Cover letter outlining strong points as related to duties in the posted job description – one sheet   NOTE: Incomplete applications will not be considered. Mail Application to: NEILSA – System Support I 415 Commercial St Waterloo, IA50701-1317   CE   Dates for the PLOW class, Getting Your Web Site Started. Date Location January 9 Des Moines January 10 Des Moines January 17 Waterloo January 18 Fayette January 19 Fayette January 22 Waterloo January 23 Council Bluffs January 24 Kalona January 25 Marshalltown January 26 Ottumwa January 29 Cedar Rapids January 30 Storm Lake January 31 Storm Lake February 1 DeWitt February 2 Burlington February 5 Cedar Rapids February 6 Sioux City February 12 Carroll February 13 Clear Lake February 14 Clear Lake February 19 Creston February 20 Fort Dodge February 22 Emmettsburg February 23 Emmettsburg February 27 Dubuque February 28 Spencer March 1 Sheldon March 2 Sheldon UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or 608-263-4452 Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview March 19 & 26, 2007 -- Locations & Fee TBD Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading, learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary Cameron will take participants through an overview of a  parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto participate in the project at a later date. Grow Your Own @ your library grants PLA is now accepting applications for its popular Grow Your Own @ your library institutional scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine public libraries with grants of $8,000 each to be distributed to staff members who are working to obtain a master's degree in library and information science. One library from each of the nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories will be selected.... Great CE delivered right to your desktop! Registration for YALSA's fall session of e-courses opened Aug. 21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30. The courses are meant to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is $135 for YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To register go to www.ala.org/yalsa. Three courses will be offered, full discriptions in New Friday Notes of 08/25/2006: PLA announces new start dates for e-learning courses E-Learning @ PLA, the online education program of the Public Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of its popular courses. New Planning for Results and Creating Policies for Results will each be offered five times between September 2006 and April 2007.... OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/ STUFF:   Innovative reading idea grabs attention Dangling around students’ necks at the West Hernando Middle School cafeteria in Brooksville, Florida, are book titles. Katelyn McDow, 11, was advertising Can You Feel the Thunder? while her friend Cynthia McDowell sported The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Reading teacher Kathy Eppley asked students and adults to wear cards around their necks with the titles of the books they’re reading. National reading experts are vowing to steal the idea.... St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, Dec. 1 Felines fail to qualify for top cat position A Dallas-area CPA’s offer to give the Spencer (Iowa) Public Library a new cat has been turned down by Librarian Vicki Myron, who says she has also turned down more than 100 other offers from all over the country. Since longtime library kitty Dewey Readmore Books died in November, Myron says she has had more than 500 e-mailed messages of condolence.... Sioux City (Iowa) Journal, Dec. 17 Financially strapped library sets fines, cuts staff With the failure of two library millage proposals in 2006, Lapeer (Mich.) District Library customers will find five fewer branches, books, hours, and employees in 2007, Director Kate Pohjola said. And for the first time in the library district’s history, there will be fines for overdue books and materials. The cuts also involve laying off 33 part-time employees, reducing hours for 15 full-time employees, and closing five branches (including the Goodland branch, above) January 1.... Flint (Mich.) Journal, Dec. 19 Glitch releases library user data As Chris VanOosterhout updated his account with the Hackley Public Library in Muskegon, Michigan, this week, he stumbled upon the personal information of more than 15,000 western Michigan library users. Officials with the Lakeland Library Cooperative—a service used by about 80 libraries in eight counties—say they have secured the data that included names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, street addresses, and library card numbers of library patrons registered on its website.... Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press, Dec. 20 Free Library of Philadelphia partners to help the homeless A group that helps homeless people get back on their feet is posting once-homeless “attendants” in the restrooms of a downtown library in an effort to help manage the masses who flock there looking for shelter or a bathroom. Project HOME and the Free Library of Philadelphia hope the project, which started in mid-December, will prevent loitering and unsanitary conditions. But they also see the six-month pilot as a unique way to reach out to the homeless.... Associated Press, Dec. 15 Vermont librarian a youthful 85 Marybelle Mason Singer has been director of the Alburgh (Vt.) Public Library for the past 15 years, and at 85 she has no intention of quitting. But there has been nothing more unusual than the way this granddaughter of the first white child born in Abilene, Kansas, has, without seeming to expend any energy, made the library of this town (renamed Alburgh from Alburg last April) into a thriving community center.... Worcester (Mass.) Telegram and Gazette, Dec. 17 Cow stars in ad filmed at Aurora University library A commercial for Oberweis Dairy was shot at Aurora (Ill.) University December 18 because the remodeled library offered more room for 1,700-pound Bridget the Cow and a film crew than corporate headquarters. Outside the reference room, librarians and a handful of students ruminated over their work as usual.... Naperville (Ill.) Sun, Dec. 20 Australian library offers speed-dating A 150-year old Australian public library has a new true-romance section after introducing speed-dating nights for lovers of classic texts. The State Library of Victoria in Melbourne introduced dating with a literary twist after the idea was raised at a staff party. Those who attend must bring a book they either love or loathe as a conversation starter, ensuring there are no uneasy silences during the series of five-minute encounters.... Reuters, Dec. 20 Trawling for patrons in Gloucestershire pubs Gloucestershire County Council’s library service hopes to convert UK binge drinkers into bookworms by handing out 20,000 beer mats in pubs across the county. The coasters give the Oxford English Dictionary definition of lager lout, “noun, a rowdy or aggressive male,” and read, “Fill your head with something you’ll remember tomorrow.” On the reverse of the mat is a picture of a man flipping the top of his head open and pouring in a bottle of lager.... London Times, Dec. 14 Google Library Project triggers debate Already facing a legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, Google’s crusade to build a digital library has triggered a philosophical debate with an alternative project promising better online access to the world’s books, art, and historical documents. The latest tensions revolve around Google’s insistence on chaining the digital content to its internet-leading search engine and the nine major libraries that have aligned themselves with the Mountain View-based company.... Associated Press, Dec. 20 One-stop book printer After several years in development, the Espresso—a $50,000 vending machine with a conceivably infinite library—is nearly consumer-ready and will debut in 10–25 libraries and bookstores in 2007. The New York Public Library is scheduled to receive its machine in February. The machine, built by On Demand Books, can print, align, mill, glue, and bind two books simultaneously in less than seven minutes, including full-color laminated covers. Prices for the finished product will vary depending on locations, but the production cost is about a penny per page. Watch a video of the machine in action.... Fortune Small Business magazine, Dec. 14 A guide to anonymous blogging Ethan Zuckerman offers some advice on security measures for hiding your blog-contribution identity online: “I decided to write a quick technical guide to anonymous blogging, trying to approach the problem from the perspective of a government whistle-blower in a country with a less-than-transparent government.”... TechSoup blog, Dec. 15 LC launches RSS feeds The Library of Congress launched December 18 a series of news feeds using RSS technology. The feeds offer updates on LC news, upcoming events, new on the web, new webcasts, news from the John W. Kluge Center, and what’s new in science reference.... Library of Congress, Dec. 18 Report on RFID meeting in Washington OITP Technology Policy Analyst Mark Bard attended a December 14 roundtable hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee that focused on RFID chips for use in passports and driver’s licenses and offers a brief summary of the discussion. Audio is available on the committee’s website.... District Dispatch blog, Dec. 14 Libraries as sanctuaries for criminals? (PDF file) “In October, several Illinois libraries received FOIA requests for incident reports and records concerning patron and staff complaints about crimes and disturbing behavior taking place in the library,” writes Illinois Library Association Executive Director Robert Doyle. “ILA recommended that libraries seek legal advice in complying.” This article is in response to those developments.... ILA Reporter 24, no. 6 (Dec.), pp. 12–17 YouTube opens an untamed copyright frontier Larry Richard is one of the millions to have discovered the world of YouTube, the free website that allows people to post, watch, and share video clips. But is it legal, given that at least some of what he’s watching is copyrighted material being disseminated by individuals who clearly do not hold the copyright? The law on this matter is murky and likely to get murkier before it gets clearer, say experts in intellectual property law.... Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 18 DoE wants LSL proposal reviewers The U.S. Department of Education is in the planning stages for a possible 2007 funding competition for the Improving Literacy through School Libraries (LSL) program, and there is a need for proposal reviewers to assist with the peer review process. As many as 700 applications are expected this year. The program will be using the U.S. Department of Education’s e-Reader system. Reviewers will be sent hard copies of proposals to discuss with fellow peer reviewers during conference calls.... ALA Washington Office, Dec. 20 Happy birthday, Bill of Rights! The Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on December 15, 1791. “The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.”—Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson.... Don Wood’s Library 2.0 blog, Dec. 15 Mozart catalog available online Mozart maniacs, enthusiasts, students, and scholars can now access the immortal composer’s entire catalog through a free online database, launched December 11, which contains more than 8,000 pages of critical commentary published since 1954. Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, said site users can search for a specific work using key words and a scroll-down menu. They also have the option of printing out individual movements.... Associated Press, Dec. 13 Polar Express pulls into San Francisco The electric train layout featuring the Polar Express and Thomas the Tank Engine trains has been a hit this winter with visitors to San Francisco’s Main Library. Kids and adults delight in pushing the buttons that activate the trains, a ski gondola, animated sledders, and the village lights. A Lionel O scale replica of the Polar Express, which starred in Chris Van Allsburg’s 1985 holiday classic and in a subsequent 2004 movie adaptation of the same name, is the highlight of the display.... San Francisco Public Library, Dec. 12 Google Patent Search Google’s new search engine for patents, launched December 13, covers the entire collection of patents made available by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, from the 1790s to the present. The company has converted the entire patent image database into a format, like Google Book Search, that on its advanced page is easy to search by details, classification, inventor, assignee, or date.... Google Search for a library Marshall Breeding’s worldwide directory of libraries and their websites and catalogs, lib-web-cats, now has an advanced search engine designed to help identify libraries according to the library automation system used, collection size, and affiliations.... Marshall Breeding IFLA approves new code of ethics The governing board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions approved a Code of Ethics in December that outlines a set of fundamental principles in order to help the board define what is right, fair, just, and good for the organization in meeting its mission and purpose.... International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Dec. 18   REPEATS: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. Reminder: as libraries move to new email addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of the change VAN Service: AEA 267 last delivery date will be Thursday & Friday, December 21 & 22, 2006.  They will resume delivery on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007. AEA 1 last delivery date will be Monday & Tuesday, December 18 & 19, 2006.  They will resume deliver on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007 Dear Friends of North-eastern Iowa Libraries, Greetings from the Friends of the Decorah Public Library. We have for some time thought that we all should be sharing more ideas of what good things we are doing and examples we might take from each other that could strengthen our various endeavours. While there are many activities that we have done over the past several years one production we would be willing to share that we are excited about and has proven helpful to our work is a power point program that we have developed to present both the work of our Library and our Friends group to the community at various groups and clubs. If you would be interested to see our presentation as a possible model which you might develop for your Library and community feel free to contact Lois Roberts, 506 Mound Street Decorah, IA 52101 or Lorraine Borowski, Decorah Public Library 202 Winnebago Street, Decorah IA 52101. Jim Dale Decorah Friends of the Library Chair Send us an e-photo of your library [flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to promote every one of our libraries. Whats New blog - this is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements, changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.htm The Independence Public Library is in the midst of fundraising for their new library building.  Recently they were awarded with a $550,000 grant from the CAT (Community Attraction and Tourism) Board, which is part of Vision Iowa.  The fundraising total has just passed $2.5 million of the $3 million goal.  The library will start to go through the formal process that leads to bidding and plans on breaking ground in the spring.  The planned completion for the new Independence Public Library, which will give them six times the space they have now, is spring of '08!!   LINKS: Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm NEILSA continuing education  http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html NEILSA e-rate Consortia  Blog http://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm NEILSA monthly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendarmonth.cfm NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org NEILSA yearly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendar_results.cfm NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html NWILSA Blog: http://nwilsblog.blogspot.com State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ DUE DATES: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al.   December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas January 27th Fayette CLA Legislative Day is Saturday, from 9:00-10:30 April 3 at Shell Rock, Benny Gambiani Library Butler County Library Association Meeting April 17 7:30 Sumner Bremer County Meeting April 19th Fayette Spring Meeting is at 9:30 at the Arlington Public Library June 21- 27 ALA 2007 Annual Conference in Washington D.C. September 19th Fayette Fall Meeting is at the Clermont Public Library at 6:00 p.m Oct. 2 at Allison Public LibraryButler County Library Association Meeting The State Library's calendar  http://www.silo.lib.ia.us Traffic Counter available on loan from the NEILSA Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a people counter is the way you can make sound strategic decisions. With help from a Sensource counter, your library can easily evaluate staffing needs, hours and more. With hard data you can be confident that your decisions are based on facts not guesswork. If you are interested in using the counter, contact Ken at NEILSA to reserve a time slot.  If you would like to learn more about how you can use the readings from the counter to better manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your staffing/use decisions we can arrange that at the same time. The fine print stuff blog - Friday Notes 2 AT - http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/ EDITORS NOTES: "x" & "xx" are catalogers shorthand for: x = See & xx = See also Edited by: Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant davenport@neilsa.org COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002: THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt COPYRIGHT Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under copyright and is presented here for purposes of education and research only. NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their material and not covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting The public is encouraged and welcome to attend. Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites tba) 12:06:33 PM

Thursday, December 14, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn FYI Items being sent from any AEA-267 library going to any AEA-1 library will not be going until after the delivery starts back up in January. Please mail these items. The last exchange for the year has already occured. ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Independence Public Library is in the midst of fundraising for their new library building. Recently they were awarded with a $550,000 grant from the CAT (Community Attraction and Tourism) Board, which is part of Vision Iowa. The fundraising total has just passed $2.5 million of the $3 million goal. The library will start to go through the formal process that leads to bidding and plans on breaking ground in the spring. The planned completion for the new Independence Public Library, which will give them six times the space they have now, is spring of '08!! Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org Have you completed your survey? ALA and Florida State University’s College of Information are surveying (PDF file) a national sample of public libraries regarding internet connectivity and computing access. Your library may have been chosen to participate (and incidentally be eligible to win a 2 GB iPod nano). The deadline for responding is February 1. More information on the project is available from the FSU Information Use Management and Policy Institute.... THE LSA: NEILSA closed dates: 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 We need to know now that your're getting individual e-mail addresses more often with PLOW, which one or ones you want subscribed to mail lists. Materials costs are up: Periodicals increased by 7.8% Monographic materials - Hard cover increased by 6.2% CPI for the same period 3.4% FROM: Bowker Annual 2006 FROM this weeks EYE-OPENER from NWILSA 3) Dewey Cooks Makes Nice Christmas Gift: Last minute shoppers take note of this tasty gift idea. Dewey Cooks is a cookbook of 374 recipes from 23 states and 4 countries, all contributed by people from public, academic, school, and special libraries, as well as businesses that support libraries. This cookbook is the brainchild of Dubuque Public Library director Susan Henricks. Recipes are presented in Dewey Decimal order, complete with Library of Congress subject headings J But wait, there’s more: hundreds of quotes sprinkled throughout the book share what writers have had to say about food and cooking throughout history. And you can even take a virtual tour of the book here: www.dubuque.lib.ia.us Profits from Dewey Cooks will be donated to the Iowa Library Association Foundation. For one book, the cost is $15.00 + $3.75 shipping (add $5.00 shipping for 2 books, $6.00 shipping for 3; to obtain a quote for shipping more than 3, contact the editor at deweycooks@mchsi.com) Make check payable to Susan Henricks and mail your order to: Susan Henricks 2108 North Main Street Dubuque, IA. 52001 CE IF you went to Library 101 and need a certificate contact Ken right away please. UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or 608-263-4452 Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview March 19 & 26, 2007 -- Locations & Fee TBD Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading, learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary Cameron will take participants through an overview of a parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto participate in the project at a later date. Grow Your Own @ your library grants PLA is now accepting applications for its popular Grow Your Own @ your library institutional scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine public libraries with grants of $8,000 each to be distributed to staff members who are working to obtain a master's degree in library and information science. One library from each of the nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories will be selected.... Great CE delivered right to your desktop! Registration for YALSA's fall session of e-courses opened Aug. 21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30. The courses are meant to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is $135 for YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To register go to www.ala.org/yalsa. Three courses will be offered, full discriptions in New Friday Notes of 08/25/2006: PLA announces new start dates for e-learning courses E-Learning @ PLA, the online education program of the Public Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of its popular courses. New Planning for Results and Creating Policies for Results will each be offered five times between September 2006 and April 2007.... OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/ STUFF: A good article in Nov/Dec 2006 Public Libraries p 40 Fund-raising Perks of Library Cafes includes a "rural" library coffee station. PLA’s proposed new service responses: A draft June Garcia and Sandra Nelson have reviewed all of the comments from the three open meetings during the 2006 Annual Conference and on the PLA Service Response blog, and they have identified 17 new or revised service responses. As the process continues, the service response descriptions will be expanded to include suggested target audiences, common library services and programs, required resources, and suggested measures for each. PLA will be accepting comments on this draft until January 1 and will present a revised draft at the upcoming Midwinter Meeting.... PLA Blog, Dec. 6 Net Neutrality proponents prepare for next battle A bill that would have allowed telecommunications and cable companies to prioritize internet content by allowing higher-speed information delivery for higher-paying customers has died. The 109th Congress closed early December 9 without action on the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006. But the Save the Internet coalition is gearing up to continue lobbying for network neutrality when the 110th Congress convenes.... Information Week, Dec. 11 Microsoft’s Live Search Books Tom Peters writes: “After playing around for an hour or so with the recently released public beta version of Microsoft’s Live Search Books, I have to admit—against some vague sense that my better judgment is failing me—that I like it. On December 6, when the beta version was released to the public, I conducted a couple of sample searches on phrenology and spontaneous combustion.” Discover what he found out.... ALA TechSource blog, Dec. 12 Spanish for library staff WebJunction is offering a variety of resources to help library staff learn and use Spanish in their work with Spanish-speaking patrons. Included is the workbook and mp3 audio tracks from Infopeople’s Survival Spanish for Library Staff course (54:51) that offers the Spanish pronunciation of commonly used library terms and selected patron questions with answers in Spanish.... WebJunction Internet search engine safety A recent survey conducted by antivirus software company McAfee compared the safety of leading search engines, using McAfee SiteAdvisor’s automated website ratings. It found that most search engines are similar in the safety of the sites they link to, though AOL has replaced MSN as the safest engine and Yahoo! replaced Ask as the engine with the most risky results.... McAfee, Dec. 11 REPEATS: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. Reminder: as libraries move to new email addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of the change VAN Service: AEA 267 last delivery date will be Thursday & Friday, December 21 & 22, 2006. They will resume delivery on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007. AEA 1 last delivery date will be Monday & Tuesday, December 18 & 19, 2006. They will resume deliver on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007 Dear Friends of North-eastern Iowa Libraries, Greetings from the Friends of the Decorah Public Library. We have for some time thought that we all should be sharing more ideas of what good things we are doing and examples we might take from each other that could strengthen our various endeavours. While there are many activities that we have done over the past several years one production we would be willing to share that we are excited about and has proven helpful to our work is a power point program that we have developed to present both the work of our Library and our Friends group to the community at various groups and clubs. If you would be interested to see our presentation as a possible model which you might develop for your Library and community feel free to contact Lois Roberts, 506 Mound Street Decorah, IA 52101 or Lorraine Borowski, Decorah Public Library 202 Winnebago Street, Decorah IA 52101. Jim Dale Decorah Friends of the Library Chair Send us an e-photo of your library [flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to promote every one of our libraries. Whats New blog - this is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements, changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.htm The Independence Public Library is in the midst of fundraising for their new library building. Recently they were awarded with a $550,000 grant from the CAT (Community Attraction and Tourism) Board, which is part of Vision Iowa. The fundraising total has just passed $2.5 million of the $3 million goal. The library will start to go through the formal process that leads to bidding and plans on breaking ground in the spring. The planned completion for the new Independence Public Library, which will give them six times the space they have now, is spring of '08!! LINKS: Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm NEILSA continuing education http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html NEILSA e-rate Consortia Blog ttp://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm NEILSA monthly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendarmonth.cfm NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org NEILSA yearly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendar_results.cfm NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html NWILSA Blog: http://nwilsblog.blogspot.com State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ DUE DATES: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas January 27th Fayette CLA Legislative Day is Saturday, from 9:00-10:30 April 3 at Shell Rock, Benny Gambiani Library Butler County Library Association Meeting April 19th Fayette Spring Meeting is at 9:30 at the Arlington Public Library June 21- 27 ALA 2007 Annual Conference in Washington D.C. September 19th Fayette Fall Meeting is at the Clermont Public Library at 6:00 p.m Oct. 2 at Allison Public LibraryButler County Library Association Meeting The State Library's calendar http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/events Traffic Counter available on loan from the NEILSA Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a people counter is the way you can make sound strategic decisions. With help from a Sensource counter, your library can easily evaluate staffing needs, hours and more. With hard data you can be confident that your decisions are based on facts not guesswork. If you are interested in using the counter, contact Ken at NEILSA to reserve a time slot. If you would like to learn more about how you can use the readings from the counter to better manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your staffing/use decisions we can arrange that at the same time. The fine print stuff blog - Friday Notes 2 AT - http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/ EDITORS NOTES: "x" & "xx" are catalogers shorthand for: x = See & xx = See also Edited by: Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant davenport@neilsa.org COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002: THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt COPYRIGHT Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under copyright and is presented here for purposes of education and research only. NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their material and not covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting The public is encouraged and welcome to attend. Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites tba) 4:42:57 PM

Thursday, December 07, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Independence Public Library is in the midst of fundraising for their new library building.  Recently they were awarded with a $550,000 grant from the CAT (Community Attraction and Tourism) Board, which is part of Vision Iowa.  The fundraising total has just passed $2.5 million of the $3 million goal.  The library will start to go through the formal process that leads to bidding and plans on breaking ground in the spring.  The planned completion for the new Independence Public Library, which will give them six times the space they have now, is spring of '08!! Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org THE LSA: We need to know now that your're getting individual e-mail addresses more often with PLOW, which one or ones you want subscribed to mail lists. Mary our new e-rate clerk quit Thursday at 9:38. Today in EYE-OPENER: {Thanks to Bonnue in NW LSA} 1)  Sad Loss for Spencer Library 2)  A Plea to PLOW Participants 3)  The “Mature Web” Reaches 100 Million Sites 1)  Sad Loss for Spencer Library: Dewey the Library Cat, the beloved pet at Spencer P.L., died last week at age 19.  Dewey was famous the world over, the subject of countless local, national, and international news stories and magazine articles through the years. He had pen pals in Japan England, Canada, South Africa, Belgium, and France.  He was prominently featured on Spencer Library’s website and the staff found that if you Google his name, you’ll come up with about 200 hits.  Most everyone knows the story of how Spencer P.L. staff found a near-frozen kitten in the book drop one fateful January morning in 1988.  His full name, Dewey Readmore Books, was chosen as the result of a community wide cat-naming contest; that contest generated 387 entries.  Dewey quickly settled into his new life as a library mascot.  His celebrity status helped raise thousands of dollars for the library’s Friends Group.  And his obituary made the front page of Friday’s Sioux City Journal, along with national newswires.  Dewey proved an amazing PR force for Spencer Library—and he’s sorely missed.     2)  A Plea to PLOW Participants: With the first round of required PLOW (Putting Libraries on the Web) classes finished, participants have been busy setting up email accounts for all staff members.  A plea from me to you: please let us know here at NWILS office about your new email addresses. [Same goes for NEILSA] We definitely need all you directors’ new email handles.  And since one advantage of the PLOW Project is more targeted communications to individuals on staff, we’d also like to learn the new email addresses for your children’s services people and your interlibrary loan people.  Messages are beginning to bounce here, so thanks for letting NWILS office know your new email as your accounts take hold!    3)  The “Mature Web” Reaches 100 Million Sites:  Yes indeed, the PLOW Project allows multiple email accounts for each library.  But the greatest benefit will be new and improved library websites hosted by SILO.  In light of Iowa’s PLOW Project, with 300+ libraries participating statewide—and 60+ of those being Northwest public libraries—here’s a neat article that round-aboutly points to PLOW’s significance.  From the November 13th issue of OCLC Abstracts, according to Netcraft’s latest web survey, there are now 101,435,253 websites worldwide.  The article explains “…not all of these sites are live: some are ‘parked’ domains while others are abandoned weblogs that haven’t been updated in ages. Nevertheless, there are still over 100 million websites that people pay to keep running.  Surpassing the 100M mark is a big milestone and represents immense growth since the Web’s founding 15 years ago.  A chart shows the World Wide Web has experienced growth in 3 stages: 1991—1997: Explosive growth at a rate of 850% each year 1998—2001: Rapid growth at a rate of 150% each year 2002—2006: Maturing growth at a rate of 25% each year All good stuff to use locally in touting your library’s participation in PLOW, along with this final quote:“…the web is no longer a marvel of innovation, it’s an everyday tool, and you [website developers] differentiate yourself by providing better content and better solutions to users’ problems…” CE: The next LIBRARY 101 is set for December 12th at West Union - Registration required or site is canceled, other sites by request. UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or 608-263-4452 Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview March 19 & 26, 2007 -- Locations & Fee TBD Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading, learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary Cameron will take participants through an overview of a  parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto participate in the project at a later date. Grow Your Own @ your library grants PLA is now accepting applications for its popular Grow Your Own @ your library institutional scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine public libraries with grants of $8,000 each to be distributed to staff members who are working to obtain a master's degree in library and information science. One library from each of the nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories will be selected.... Great CE delivered right to your desktop! Registration for YALSA's fall session of e-courses opened Aug. 21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30. The courses are meant to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is $135 for YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To register go to www.ala.org/yalsa. Three courses will be offered, full discriptions in New Friday Notes of 08/25/2006: PLA announces new start dates for e-learning courses E-Learning @ PLA, the online education program of the Public Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of its popular courses. New Planning for Results and Creating Policies for Results will each be offered five times between September 2006 and April 2007.... OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/ STUFF: Kids not so tech-savvy after all A new survey dispels the myth that the next generation of kids are tech- savvy to be competent in navigating the academic world, reports Campus Technology. Microsoft is releasing Live Search Books, its competitor to Google Book Search, in beta on Wednesday. The book search engine performs keyword searches for books that have been scanned as part of Microsoft's book scanning project, in the same way that Windows Live Search searches the Internet, said Danielle Tiedt, the general manager of Live Search Selection for Microsoft. REPEAT: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. Reminder: as libraries move to new email addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of the change VAN Service: AEA 267 last delivery date will be Thursday & Friday, December 21 & 22, 2006.  They will resume delivery on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007. AEA 1 last delivery date will be Monday & Tuesday, December 18 & 19, 2006.  They will resume deliver on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007   Dear Friends of North-eastern Iowa Libraries, Greetings from the Friends of the Decorah Public Library. We have for some time thought that we all should be sharing more ideas of what good things we are doing and examples we might take from each other that could strengthen our various endeavours. While there are many activities that we have done over the past several years one production we would be willing to share that we are excited about and has proven helpful to our work is a power point program that we have developed to present both the work of our Library and our Friends group to the community at various groups and clubs. If you would be interested to see our presentation as a possible model which you might develop for your Library and community feel free to contact Lois Roberts, 506 Mound Street Decorah, IA 52101 or Lorraine Borowski, Decorah Public Library 202 Winnebago Street, Decorah IA 52101. Jim Dale Decorah Friends of the Library Chair Send us an e-photo of your library [flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to promote every one of our libraries. Whats New blog - this is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements, changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.html LINKS: Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm NEILSA continuing education  http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html NEILSA e-rate Consortia  Blog ttp://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm NEILSA monthly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendarmonth.cfm NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org NEILSA yearly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendar_results.cfm NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html NWILSA Blog: http://nwilsblog.blogspot.com State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ DUE DATES: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. NEILSA closed dates: 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas January 27th Fayette CLA Legislative Day is Saturday, from 9:00-10:30 April 3 at Shell Rock, Benny Gambiani Library Butler County Library Association Meeting April 19th Fayette Spring Meeting is at 9:30 at the Arlington Public Library September 19th Fayette Fall Meeting is at the Clermont Public Library at 6:00 p.m Oct. 2 at Allison Public LibraryButler County Library Association Meeting The State Library's calendar  http://www.silo.lib.ia.us Traffic Counter available on loan from the NEILSA Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a people counter is the way you can make sound strategic decisions. With help from a Sensource counter, your library can easily evaluate staffing needs, hours and more. With hard data you can be confident that your decisions are based on facts not guesswork. If you are interested in using the counter, contact Ken at NEILSA to reserve a time slot.  If you would like to learn more about how you can use the readings from the counter to better manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your staffing/use decisions we can arrange that at the same time. The fine print stuff blog - Friday Notes 2 AT - http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/ EDITORS NOTES: "x" & "xx" are catalogers shorthand for: x = See & xx = See also Edited by: Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant davenport@neilsa.org COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002: THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt COPYRIGHT Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under copyright and is presented here for purposes of education and research only. NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their material and not covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting The public is encouraged and welcome to attend. Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites tba) 4:50:42 PM

Friday, December 01, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org ERR, that is after we get it fixed, IF you have been having problems getting to us it is because of a "server" problem. Our crack team of specalists is/has been working on it and as soon as she gets it fixed we will be back, without passwords et. al. At this writting we are about 85% back. THE LSA: Christmas in Westgate @ Westgate Opera House December 2 & 3, 2006  No admission fee Saturday 10:30-3:00 p.m. & Sunday 2:00- 5:00 ? Westgate Opera House Saturday 10:30-11:30 Crafts for the kids Sunday 3:00 Variety Show Christmas Trees and decorations on display. Many craft and bake items for sale and raffle. Live Christmas music to enjoy as you walk through Westgate's Winter Wonderland Soup and Sandwich lunch will be available for purchase on Saturday. All proceeds from this weekend will go towards the new library building.  Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will match money raised. In case of bad weather, Christmas in Westgate will be held Dec. 9 & 10 Make Sure Your ISP Doesn't Filter Your Friday Notes/Newsletters as Spam From Heinz Tschabitscher, Edited by Ken Your Guide to Email. You may not be aware of it, but your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is probably filtering all your email for spam automatically. As long as they only filter out the spam this is a good thing (though not even this should happen without the user's consent), but important mail or newsletters may fall victim to these spam filtering tactics, too. The ISP is certainly not doing this on purpose, so you should inform them about the situation to help avoid such false positives. If you are suspecting that your ISP is filtering mail you do want to receive — if you have signed up for The New Friday Notes for example, but never got an issue, or delivery suddenly stopped: •Visit your ISP's support Web site and look for their spam policy. o Maybe you can opt out of the filtering, o whitelist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist] certain senders manually (to make sure you're receiving the New Friday Notes and other LSA mailings, whitelist the "neilsa.org" domain, for example) or o report specific problems through a dedicated form. • If you find neither of these options, contact your ISP via email or by phone and describe the problem with as much detail about the erroneously blocked email as possible. In our example of Friday Notes not showing up in your Inbox, tell your ISP something like: Hi, I have need for e-mail from the NE Iowa Library Service Area at neilsa.org Unfortunately, I am not getting the Friday Notes (other mail) from NEILSA. Can this have something to do with server-side spam filters catching this wanted piece of mail? Could you please investigate this and whitelist "neilsa.org"? thanks a lot! County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. Reminder: as libraries move to new email addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of the change VAN Service: AEA 267 last delivery date will be Thursday & Friday, December 21 & 22, 2006. They will resume delivery on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007. AEA 1 last delivery date will be Monday & Tuesday, December 18 & 19, 2006. They will resume deliver on Thursday & Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007 Dear Friends of North-eastern Iowa Libraries, Greetings from the Friends of the Decorah Public Library. We have for some time thought that we all should be sharing more ideas of what good things we are doing and examples we might take from each other that could strengthen our various endeavours. While there are many activities that we have done over the past several years one production we would be willing to share that we are excited about and has proven helpful to our work is a power point program that we have developed to present both the work of our Library and our Friends group to the community at various groups and clubs. If you would be interested to see our presentation as a possible model which you might develop for your Library and community feel free to contact Lois Roberts, 506 Mound Street Decorah, IA 52101 or Lorraine Borowski, Decorah Public Library 202 Winnebago Street, Decorah IA 52101. Jim Dale Decorah Friends of the Library Chair CE: The next LIBRARY 101 is set for December 12th at West Union - Registration required or site is canceled, other sites by request. UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or 608-263-4452 Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview March 19 & 26, 2007 -- Locations & Fee TBD Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading, learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary Cameron will take participants through an overview of a parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto participate in the project at a later date. Grow Your Own @ your library grants PLA is now accepting applications for its popular Grow Your Own @ your library institutional scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine public libraries with grants of $8,000 each to be distributed to staff members who are working to obtain a master's degree in library and information science. One library from each of the nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories will be selected.... Great CE delivered right to your desktop! Registration for YALSA's fall session of e-courses opened Aug. 21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30. The courses are meant to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is $135 for YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To register go to www.ala.org/yalsa. Three courses will be offered, full discriptions in New Friday Notes of 08/25/2006: PLA announces new start dates for e-learning courses E-Learning @ PLA, the online education program of the Public Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of its popular courses. New Planning for Results and Creating Policies for Results will each be offered five times between September 2006 and April 2007.... OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/ STUFF: Conclusion http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp?bhcp=1 Many of the most important disconnects between library priorities and millennial generation values are closely related to the way libraries conceive, create, and provide public computing infrastructure. The promise of seamlessness that stems from ubiquitous computing access and instantly available networked information is, unfortunately, stifled significantly within the libraries of today. Certainly, accommodating changing user preferences is not the only priority that drives library decisions. A basic philosophical issue for libraries is the extent to which we should move in the direction of the users and how much we should expect users to move in our direction. In a recent article,4 Carr discussed two indicators for change in academic libraries in recent years: competition and electronic information. Competition has driven libraries toward their users' needs at least in terms of library as place; thus the abundance of libraries that are remaking their physical space in the likeness of a typical third space (for example, a coffee shop). Unfortunately, support for user needs in terms of their virtual information space still rigidly adheres to old values that force online users to find other paths to information, often not even realizing what their own library has to offer. Finding the right way to achieve balance between traditional library values and the expectations and habits of coming generations will determine whether libraries remain relevant in the social, educational, and personal contexts of the Information Age. REPEAT: Send us an e-photo of your library [flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to promote every one of our libraries. Whats New blog - this is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements, changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.html LINKS: Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm NEILSA continuing education http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html NEILSA e-rate Consortia Blog ttp://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm NEILSA monthly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendarmonth.cfm NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org NEILSA yearly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendar_results.cfm NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html NWILSA Blog: http://nwilsblog.blogspot.com State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ DUE DATES: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. NEILSA closed dates: 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas January 27th Fayette CLA Legislative Day is Saturday, from 9:00-10:30 April 3 at Shell Rock, Benny Gambiani Library Butler County Library Association Meeting April 19th Fayette Spring Meeting is at 9:30 at the Arlington Public Library September 19th Fayette Fall Meeting is at the Clermont Public Library at 6:00 p.m Oct. 2 at Allison Public LibraryButler County Library Association Meeting The State Library's calendar http://www.silo.lib.ia.us Traffic Counter available on loan from the NEILSA Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a people counter is the way you can make sound strategic decisions. With help from a Sensource counter, your library can easily evaluate staffing needs, hours and more. With hard data you can be confident that your decisions are based on facts not guesswork. If you are interested in using the counter, contact Ken at NEILSA to reserve a time slot. If you would like to learn more about how you can use the readings from the counter to better manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your staffing/use decisions we can arrange that at the same time. The fine print stuff blog - Friday Notes 2 AT - http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/ EDITORS NOTES: "x" & "xx" are catalogers shorthand for: x = See & xx = See also Edited by: Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant davenport@neilsa.org COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002: THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt COPYRIGHT Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under copyright and is presented here for purposes of education and research only. NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their material and not covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting The public is encouraged and welcome to attend. Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites tba) 12:48:49 PM

Friday, November 24, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org THE LSA: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. Reminder: as libraries move to new email addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of the change Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving!  Today in EYE-OPENER: 1)  December 1st Deadline to Order Tax Forms 2)  Deadlines to Order Summer Library Program Incentives 3)  Da Vinci Code Read-A-Likes:  4)  Meetings / Events This Week – DROPPED Ken   1)  December 1st Deadline to Order Tax Forms:  If your library provides the service of distributing tax forms, then you need to be mindful of the December 1st ordering deadline. To expedite your order, the Iowa Dept. of Revenue asks that you use their website: www.idr.iowa.gov/taxforms/index.asp  This site allow you to access your current account—or allows you to create an account if your library does not already have one.  You may also update mailing information such as contact name, street address, email address, etc. Actually, libraries could begin placing orders in early October.  But time flies and if you’ve not yet done so, orders must be entered online by December 1st to ensure timely delivery.  The Dept. of Revenue will begin shipping in late December.  Use the same UserID/Password from years past to place your 2006 order.  If you’ve forgotten your UserID/Password or can’t access the application, call 515-281-5370 for help.  All questions can be answered by calling this number or checking the website above.    2)  Deadlines to Order Summer Library Program Incentives:  Another deadline to note, this one concerning orders for Summer Library Program incentives and prizes.  Believe it or not, the first deadline for ordering incentives from UPSTART is—yep—December 1st –- that is if you want to receive shipment by March 1, 2007.  But not to worry: if you can’t think about summertime fun while you’re up to your elbows in turkey and cranberry sauce, there are more ordering opportunities ahead.  Orders sent on January 1st will be shipped April 1st; orders sent on April 1st will be shipped May 15th.  Remember the theme for Summer Library Programs 2007 is GET A CLUE @ YOUR LIBRARY.  Call UPSTART toll-free at 1-800-448-4887 or go to www.highsmith.com    3)  Da Vinci Code Read-A-Likes:  The Da Vinci Code—as in the Ron Howard/Tom Hanks movie—is newly released on DVD, just in time for holiday gift giving (actually, it’s not on my Christmas list because I liked the book MUCH better J ) For your readers who, like me, loved the book and would like to find something similar, here’s a nice piece of readers’ advisory—Da Vinci Code style—courtesy of Sioux City Public Library: Riptide by Douglas Preston (involves treasure hunting and codes) The Camel Club by David Baldacci (the mystique of secret societies and conspiracies) The Eighth Day by John Case (art world and the Vatican) Seven Deadly Wonders by Matthew Reilly and Treasure by Clive Cussler (features treasure hunters galore) The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury and Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (illuminates Christian church history) The Prophetess by Barbara Wood (the role of women in the early church) A Clue for the Puzzle Lady by Parnell Hall and The Crossword Murder by Nero Blanc (both authors use crossword puzzles to advance the plot) STOLEN Lock Stock & Barrel from the NWILSA EYE-OPENER THANKS Bonnie   Dear Friends of North-eastern Iowa Libraries, Greetings from the Friends of the Decorah Public Library. We have for some time thought that we all should be sharing more ideas of what good things we are doing and examples we might take from each other that could strengthen our various endeavours. While there are many activities that we have done over the past several years one production we would be willing to share that we are excited about and has proven helpful to our work is a power point program that we have developed to present both the work of our Library and our Friends group to the community at various groups and clubs. If you would be interested to see our presentation as a possible model which you might develop for your Library and community feel free to contact Lois Roberts, 506 Mound Street Decorah, IA 52101 or Lorraine Borowski, Decorah Public Library 202 Winnebago Street, Decorah IA 52101. Jim Dale Decorah Friends of the Library Chair A FORWARD from ILA office: Dear friends,     I'm a retired prof. from UNI.  I've got a collection of over 20 years of National Geographics that I don't know what to do with--about half of the issues in the "official" protective and dated binders issued by the society.   I know, believe me, that they are hard to get rid of---but I'm wondering if there is a small public library somewhere (preferably near to BlackhawkCounty) that would like to have this collection.  I would deliver. Thank you, Dr. Thomas Tritle PLEASE contact Dr. Tritle directly at: Thomas.Tritle at uni.edu CE: The next LIBRARY 101 is set for December 12th at West Union - Registration required or site is canceled, other sites by request. UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or 608-263-4452 Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview March 19 & 26, 2007 -- Locations & Fee TBD Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading, learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary Cameron will take participants through an overview of a  parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto participate in the project at a later date. Grow Your Own @ your library grants PLA is now accepting applications for its popular Grow Your Own @ your library institutional scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine public libraries with grants of $8,000 each to be distributed to staff members who are working to obtain a master's degree in library and information science. One library from each of the nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories will be selected.... Great CE delivered right to your desktop! Registration for YALSA's fall session of e-courses opened Aug. 21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30. The courses are meant to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is $135 for YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To register go to www.ala.org/yalsa. Three courses will be offered, full discriptions in New Friday Notes of 08/25/2006: PLA announces new start dates for e-learning courses E-Learning @ PLA, the online education program of the Public Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of its popular courses. New Planning for Results and Creating Policies for Results will each be offered five times between September 2006 and April 2007.... OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/ STUFF: .ACLU sues rural libraries over Internet filtering policies SPOKANE, Wash. -- A rural library district was sued Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union over its Internet filtering policy. REPEAT: Send us an e-photo of your library [flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to promote every one of our libraries. Whats New blog - this is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements, changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.html LINKS: Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm NEILSA continuing education  http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html NEILSA e-rate Consortia  Blog ttp://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm NEILSA monthly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendarmonth.cfm NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org NEILSA yearly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendar_results.cfm NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html NWILSA Blog: http://nwilsblog.blogspot.com State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ DUE DATES: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. NEILSA closed dates: 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas The State Library's calendar  http://www.silo.lib.ia.us Traffic Counter available on loan from the NEILSA Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a people counter is the way you can make sound strategic decisions. With help from a Sensource counter, your library can easily evaluate staffing needs, hours and more. With hard data you can be confident that your decisions are based on facts not guesswork. If you are interested in using the counter, contact Ken at NEILSA to reserve a time slot.  If you would like to learn more about how you can use the readings from the counter to better manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your staffing/use decisions we can arrange that at the same time. The fine print stuff blog - Friday Notes 2 AT - http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/ EDITORS NOTES: "x" & "xx" are catalogers shorthand for: x = See & xx = See also Edited by: Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant davenport@neilsa.org COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002: THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt COPYRIGHT Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under copyright and is presented here for purposes of education and research only. NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their material and not covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting The public is encouraged and welcome to attend. Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites tba) 12:23:56 PM

Friday, November 17, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org THE LSA: Reminder: as libraries move to new email addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of the change. New Directors (That NEILSA has been notified about) Tara Holub, Director Colesburg Public Library PO Box 159 Colesburg, IA 52035 colepl@iowatelecom.net Plainfield - Kim Bigelow COMMENT: If someone, like the Board, other libraries in the county or the odd comment, does not tell us about a new director NEILSA does not have any way of knowing about a change. If we do not know about a change we can not do anything to help the new person "fit in" or be in compliance with such things as ILL, e-rate, and the like. NEILSA has received a number of complaints from new directors who have just discovered that there is help "out their". It is a Board responability but just as much it is to the advantage of the other libraries in the county to let us know.     OPPS Hennen’s American Public Library Ratings 2006 (PDF file) See the top 10 libraries in each population category from 1999 to 2006 on Thomas J. Hennen’s HAPLR website.... American Libraries 37 (Nov. 2006): 40–42 Congrats go to: JAMES KENNEDY PUBLIC LIBRARY  Dyersville IA   52040 RICEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY  Riceville IA   50466 DIKE PUBLIC LIBRARY Dike IA   50624 CONRAD PUBLIC LIBRARY Conrad IA CE: The next LIBRARY 101 is set for December 12th at West Union - Registration required or site is canceled, other sites by request. Kid Safety on the Internet - November 20 9:00 - 12 noon Waterloo Public Library A & B - If you want copies of the CD's you may fill in a MOU at the session - you may walk in. Fee: NO Charge, Registration now open on the state CE catalog. You wouldn't let kids ride their bike/drive a car on the roads & highways without training, why let them do so on the Internet super highway? UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or 608-263-4452   Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview March 19 & 26, 2007 -- Locations & Fee TBD Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading, learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary Cameron will take participants through an overview of a  parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto participate in the project at a later date. Grow Your Own @ your library grants PLA is now accepting applications for its popular ?Grow Your Own @ your library? institutional scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine public libraries with grants of $8,000 each to be distributed to staff members who are working to obtain a master?s degree in library and information science. One library from each of the nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories will be selected.... Great CE delivered right to your desktop! Registration for YALSA's fall session of e-courses opened Aug. 21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30. The courses are meant to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is $135 for YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To register go to www.ala.org/yalsa. Three courses will be offered, full discriptions in New Friday Notes 08/25/2006: PLA announces new start dates for e-learning courses E-Learning @ PLA,? the online education program of the Public Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of its popular courses. New Planning for Results and Creating Policies for Results will each be offered five times between September 2006 and April 2007.... OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/ We are planning a DEMCO Book Repair Workshop for sometime this fall, Ken will still do a workshop at county association meetings if requested and scheduled anead of time.   STUFF: FROM: THIS is TRUE: 5 November 2006         Copyright http://www.thisistrue.com BURNING MAD: When Alton Verm of Conroe, Texas, saw the book his 15-year-   old daughter brought home from Caney Creek High School, he was   outraged. "It's just all kinds of filth," Verm said. It includes such   inflammatory words as "damn" and "hell", and Verm has filed a "Request   for Reconsideration of Instructional Materials" with the Conroe   Independent School District. He happened to file it during the American   Library Association's Banned Book Week. "I want to get the book taken   out of the class," he said. The book: Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451",   a 1953 novel about a dystopian society where books are banned and   burned, freedom of speech is restricted, and critical thought is   suppressed. But Verm wouldn't know: he admits he hasn't read the book.   (Conroe Courier) ...So let me guess: Verm is a fireman. BURNING IRONY II: Harrisonburg (Va.) High School had a display of banned   or "challenged" books to provoke thought about the American Library   Association's annual Banned Books Week. "Had" is the key word here:   Harrisonburg Schools Superintendent Donald Ford ordered the display   removed, since it might encourage students to read them. Books in the   display included Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The   Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", "The   Diary of Ann Frank" -- and the Bible. (Harrisonburg Daily News-Record)   ...And no wonder about the Bible: it includes such words as "damn" and   "hell". Con: Should teachers use Turnitin.com? [Silver Chips Online] Turnitin.com is designed to prevent theft not only from web resources such as scholarly journals and current events articles, but also from the work of other students. As a result, the subscription site compiles a database of all student work ever submitted in order to prevent students from using materials written by their peers, past and present. In effect, Turnitin.com makes a profit - about 80 cents per student, according to a Bloomberg article - by checking students' work for possible plagiarism and then using that work, without the author's express consent, to augment their database. Their database essentially is filled with student-written work that the web site has no right to use. Oklahoma bill ties library funds to gay-free kids’ collections On March 15 the Oklahoma House passed by a 60–33 vote a bill that prohibits local funding authorities and library boards from funding their public libraries unless the libraries have “place[d] all children and young adult materials that contain homosexual or sexually explicit subject matter in a special area [and limited] distribution . . . to adults only.” The bill also specifies that the state library must withhold funds from noncompliant public libraries.... ALA one year later: What it did right, where it needs improvement Meredith Farkas writes: “It’s been almost a year since I wrote some posts about gripes I had with ALA and suggestions of how the ALA could do better. At the time, I was seriously considering letting my ALA membership lapse in the fall of 2006. Yet last week, I put $200 on my credit card to renew my membership in ALA, LITA, and NMRT, and to become a new member of ACRL (which I was a member of as a student a while back). What happened? Well . . . a lot.”... Information Wants to be Free blog, Nov. 11 Evaluating children’s music CDs Ever aware of my 12th-grade English teacher, who impressed upon me the need to organize and outline, I set out to define what I focus on when I evaluate a new album. When this proved taxing, I did what any self-respecting librarian would do. I turned to the Web, which, surprisingly, yielded almost nothing. Everything I found was pretty dry and not really relevant to the question. In desperation, I decided to make my former teacher happy and create a topic sentence. Here it is.... Bill Harley helps launch ALSC Kids! campaign When Grammy-nominated children’s singer/storyteller Bill Harley took to the stage November 12 at Boston Public Library to perform, it was no ordinary concert. His message was: “There’s so much to see, so much to do @ your library.” Harley helped kick off the ALSC Kids! @ your library campaign, a new national effort to raise awareness of all the free resources available for children and families.... More graphic novels in libraries = more challenges When Amy Crump took over as director of the Marshall Public Library in central Missouri two years ago, she decided to build up the library’s offerings for young adults by buying the literary world’s hot new thing—graphic novels. But libraries are increasingly facing complaints from some parents who are concerned that books with adult content could be read by children attracted to the comic book-like drawings.... Associated Press, Nov. 14 New Sony PRS-500 e-book reader This year Sony tested the patience of e-book fans by twice delaying the release of its new PRS-500 reading device, originally promised for the spring. The company finally started taking orders over the Web in September, and the gadget can now be purchased at electronics stores and select Borders bookstores. The device holds hundreds of digital books and displays them on a unique “electronic paper” screen invented by MIT Media Lab researchers.... Technology Review, Nov. 8 Web resources for church librarians Find help with selecting and purchasing materials, organizing and managing a church library, promotion and fundraising, book care and archiving, sources for supplies and furnishings, computers and library automation, and sources for librarian support and education.... National Church Library Association Many college students fall short on ICT literacy skills Despite the assumption that today’s college students are tech savvy and ICT literate, preliminary research (PDF file) released by the Educational Testing Service November 14 shows that many students lack the critical-thinking skills to perform the kinds of information management and research tasks necessary for academic success. ETS reached these conclusions after evaluating the responses of 6,300 students who took the company’s ICT (information and communication technology) Literacy Assessment this year.... Educational Testing Service, Nov. 14 November is American Indian/ Alaska Native Heritage Month The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New York. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush signed a joint congressional resolution designating November 1990 as “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations have been issued every year since 1994. Find out more facts from the Census Bureau.... U.S. Census Bureau, Sept. 20 In order recognize the changing role of school library media programs now and in the future, AASL is developing new learning standards for school library media programs. The division is accepting comments on its first draft through December 8.   REPEAT: Send us an e-photo of your library [flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to promote every one of our libraries. Whats New blog - this is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements, changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.html LINKS: Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm NEILSA continuing education  http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html NEILSA e-rate Consortia  Blog ttp://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm NEILSA monthly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendarmonth.cfm NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org NEILSA yearly calendar - http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendar_results.cfm NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html NWILSA Blog: http://nwilsblog.blogspot.com State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ DUE DATES: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. NEILSA closed dates: 11/23 & 24, 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 November 20 - Kid Safety on the Internet November 23 & 24 NEILSA Closed for Thanksgiving December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas The State Library's 2006 calendar  http://www.silo.lib.ia.us Traffic Counter available on loan from the NEILSA Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a people counter is the way you can make sound strategic decisions. With help from a Sensource counter, your library can easily evaluate staffing needs, hours and more. With hard data you can be confident that your decisions are based on facts not guesswork. If you are interested in using the counter, contact Ken at NEILSA to reserve a time slot.  If you would like to learn more about how you can use the readings from the counter to better manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your staffing/use decisions we can arrange that at the same time. The fine print stuff blog - Friday Notes 2 AT - http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/ EDITORS NOTES: "x" & "xx" are catalogers shorthand for: x = See & xx = See also Edited by: Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant davenport@neilsa.org COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002: THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt COPYRIGHT Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under copyright and is presented here for purposes of education and research only. NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their material and not covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting The public is encouraged and welcome to attend. Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites tba) 12:42:09 PM