Friday, May 05, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ANNOUNCEMENTS: AEA-267 will end delivery to libraries on June 8 & 9 Summer delivery will begin on Tuesday, June 13 and Thursday, June 15 and will continue through August 15 & 17 Libraries will receive their deliveries either on Tuesday or Thursday as in the past, the schedule remains the same. Fall delivery will begin on August 21 with regular delivery. AEA-1 will end delivery to libraries on June 5 & 6 Fall delivery will begin on August 17 & 18 Libraries in AEA-267 wanting to send items to libraries in AEA-1 need to have them to NEILSA by May 30.  Items that we receive after this date will be returned to your library. Throughout June of this summer the Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center is offering an important day-long training for nonprofits all around the State of Iowa. The Governor's Nonprofit Task Force created the Iowa Principles and Practices for Charitable Nonprofit Excellence. They provide great guidelines on how to operate a nonprofit in an efficient and positive way. The brochure (link below) gives the dates and places of the Principles and Practices training as well as the method to enroll. http://inrc.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iowatraining.asp Computer Class -Power Tools - Limited enrollment May 31 at Waterloo PL 9:00 - 11:30 I..  Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP SUGGESTION: explain in a paragraph what a Toolkit is.     A.  What is it?     B.  Why should I use it?     C.  How do I use it?     D.  How can I get it?   II.  PowerToys for Windows XP  SUGGESTION: explain in a paragraph what you mean by "PowerToys".     A.  What are they?     B.  Differences between - advantages/disadvantages     C.  Which ones should I use?     D.  How do I use them?     E.  How can I get them?  THE LSA: Late Breaking News NOTE: When I hear about the Legislative Results I'll come back and "edit" it in. CE: There is still time to register for the PLM 1 class, set to begin on Thursday, June 1.  Please see the CE Catalog http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/ for class details and to sign up.  Registration will close at the end of the day this Friday, May 5. Tech Support on the Fly is going to be held Friday, May 12 from 9 a.m.- noon at Charles City PL.  People who are interested in attending can sign up via the CE catalog. The State Library will host two people from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to discuss researching patent and trademark information.  Anyone interested in learning how to get a patent or trademark should attend.  It is free and open to the public. Nifty charts from Iowa Library Statistics http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/archive/2006/04/patent Here is information for a grant writing workshop - Show Me the Money - June 5, 2006.  The sponsor is the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque.  The cost is low and I highly recommend the speaker, Ron Mirr. It will be very informative.  For the registration brochure, go to: http://www.dbqfoundation.org/grants_training.cfm Judy Jones, State Library of Iowa Consultant Stuff: You are invited to provide links you found too. Nifty charts from Iowa Library Statistics  http://www.iowalibraryassociation.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=13 Harry Potter faces the challenge from Georgia The latest in a succession of challenges to the wildly popular Harry Potter series is taking place in the Gwinnett County (Ga.) Public Schools, where school board members held a hearing April 20 about whether the novels should be removed from the shelves of the suburban Atlanta system’s media centers.... Podcasting legal guide: Rules for the revolution The main legal issues that are unique to podcasters are related to copyright, publicity rights, and trademark issues. Written by Colette Vogele and Mia Garlick for Creative Commons, this guide summarizes the legal concerns of creating and distributing a podcast.... Creative Commons, Apr. 27 The First Lady’s recommended reading Laura Bush offers a sampling of excellent books for adults, families, intermediate and independent readers, and young children. Among the selections are Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools, Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Pat Mora’s Tomás and the Library Lady.... The White House New high in internet usage The latest Pew Internet and American Life survey (PDF file), fielded from February 15 to April 6, shows that fully 73% of respondents (about 147 million adults) are internet users, up from 66% (about 133 million adults) in January 2005. The share of online Americans who say the internet has greatly improved their ability to do their job has grown to 35%, up from 24% in March 2001.... The Death of Print, Xanadu and Other Nightmares, or, Brother, Can You Paradigm? [Walt Crawford] Electronic publishing surely dooms books, magazines and daily newspapers. Better yet, we should all be preparing everything in multimedia, making mini-movies rather than writing memos. In any case, an old-fashioned book is nothing but a bunch of paragraphs strung together. Let people get at the paragraphs they really need, independently, through a worldwide universal hypertext system. That will surely improve our lives, at least until we conquer space, time and urban depression through the wonders of virtual reality. There are no dangers in new technology, and old technology doesn�t stand a chance: that�s the miracle of paradigm shifts http://waltcrawford.name/aztalk.htm Links: Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/online-learningactivitywrittensummary.htm 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 Date: NEILSA closed dates: 5/29, 7/4, 9/4, 11/10, 11/23 & 24, 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 May 3 - Beginning EBSCOhost, 9-11 May 9-12 - Tech Support on the Fly, 9:00-12:00, in Orange City, Clarinda, Knoxville and Anamosa May 9, Edgewood Delaware County Meeting - KD May 18 - Advanced EBSCOhost, 9-11 June 23 Library 101 June 24 - 27 - ALA Annual meeting in New Orleans - ER & KD July 1 - renew EBSCOhost  July 17-18, Rural Sustainability Institute Wartburg College, Waverly July 20 Lansing 9:30 Allamakee County Association - KD July 24, 06 - 9 am - Reinbeck - Grundy Co. meeting - ER July 31 - Reports due: Direct State Aid & Open Access August 1 - Deadline for letter of Intent to the State Library for Staying Connected August - Applications for PLM I & II due August 31 - Enrich Iowa Letter due at SLI September - Library Card sign up month September 13 Library 101 September 21 5:30 Fayette County Meeting Waucoma September 23 - 30 - Banned Book Week September 27 - State Library/LSA Town Meeting (Waterloo Art and Rec Center) September 30 - Cataloging Supplement report due at SLI October 11 - 13  - ILA Annual Conference in Council Bluffs October 15 - 21 Teen Read Week October 17 -  Readlyn, Bremer Co. meeting - 7:30 October 17 - Clayton County Meeting 7:00 Gutenberg October 17 Buchanan County Meeting Independence 7:00 October 27 -- Arlington 09:30 Fayette County Meeting October 30 - Annual Survey due at SLI Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the Spillville Public Library - Winneshiek County Meeting - KD Nov. 3 - ILA Planning Meeting November 13 - 19 - Children's Book Week The State Library's 2006 calendar  http://www.silo.lib.ia.us Mark your calendar: There will be two full weeks of children's workshops and three consecutive days of teen workshops.  All workshops will be face-to face. Feb. 12 - 16: Children's workshops Feb 26 - March 2: Children's workshops March 13 - 15: Teen workshops  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 Next Board Meeting: May 8, 2006 2:00 p.m., Elkader PL  NORTHEAST IOWA LIBRARY SERVICE AREA Board Meeting Elkader Public Library May 8, 2006 – 2:00 p.m. Agenda 1. Approval of the Agenda 2. Approval of January Board Minutes 3. Approval of April Bills 4. Open Forum 5. General Business     a. Audit     b. Budget     c. Contracts     d. Other 6. AEA Report 7. Community College Report 8. Administrator's Report     a. Activities     b. Other 9. Consultant's Report     a. Update 10. Meeting Dates, Time and Location     a. July 10, 2006 2:00 p.m., Manchester Public Library 11. Adjourn 1:26:54 PM