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The life so short,
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome to the new Administrator in Southeast LSA:
Kim Boynton
Kietzman - Administrator
Southeastern Library
Services
4209 1/2 West Locust
Street
Davenport,
IA 52804
563.386.7848
563.386.6843
(fax)
REMINDERS:
AEA-267
will end delivery to libraries on June 8 & 9 restart Tuesday, June 13 and Thursday, June 15 and will continue through August
15 & 17
AEA-1
will end delivery to libraries on June 5 & 6
Items
that NEILSA receives after May 30 will be returned to your library.
Featured review:
Reference
Dalzell,
Tom, and Terry Victor (editors). The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and
Unconventional English. Routledge, Jan. 2006. (0-415-21258-8).
The king is dead. Long live the king! Since 1937 the standard dictionary of
English slang has been Eric Partridge’s The Dictionary of Slang and
Unconventional English. In edition after edition, Partridge enumerated slang
words, provided quotations both to illustrate use and to date origins, cited
other authorities, and applied usage labels. English has changed; society has
changed; the time has come for a new Partridge....
Atlas and dictionary update, 2006
The
atlases and dictionaries listed here are ones we’ve seen since our last Atlas
and Dictionary Update in the May 15, 2005, issue of RBB. Some of the annotations are
excerpts of reviews previously published in RBB; others are brief notes
on new editions....
Online Exhibits:
Boston
Public Library. “Sports Temples of Boston: Images of Historic Ballparks,
Arenas, and Stadiums in Boston.”
Columbia
University, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, New York City.
“Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War.”
East
Central Georgia Regional Library, Augusta. “Picturing Augusta: Historic
Postcards from the Collection of the East Central Georgia Regional
Library.”
Harvard
Business School, Baker Library, Cambridge, Mass. “The Wall Street
Journal Cartoon Collection.”
Huntington
Library, San Marino, California. “Land of Golden Dreams: California in
the Gold Rush Decade 1848–1858.”
Library
of Congress. “Maps in Our Lives.”
University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “A Portion of the People: Three Hundred
Years of Southern Jewish Life.”
University
of Southern California, Los Angeles. “Life as He Knew It: Photographs of
Black Los Angeles from the Walter Gordon Collection.”
University
of Texas, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin. “Fathoms from
Anywhere: A Samuel Beckett Centenary Exhibition.”
THE
LSA:
CE:
| Iowa Grants Symposium: “Iowans’ Partnering for Progress” |
Many public library staff and local city government staff attended
this symposium last year and rated it highly. This year the symposium
is being extended to include non-profits, academics and others. It
promises to be bigger and better that last year so make sure you plan
to attend. REGISTER EARLY. Attendance will be capped. To make
sure your are included, register today online to hold your spot. The
hote is offering state rates for this symposium, so be sure you give
the symposium name when you register. Details and registration:
Iowa’s Office of Grants Enterprise Management presents the 2nd
Annual Iowa Grant Symposium, “Iowans’ Partnering for Progress” Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel
Be sure to join your grant seeking peers from throughout the state
at this premier training event on August 16 at the Sheraton West Des
Moines Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa. The agenda is filled with information relative to all grant seekers.
Some highlights of the agenda include:
Opening session on “Nonprofit Oversight and the Iowa Principles
and Practices for Charitable Nonprofit Excellence” presented by Sandy
Boyd and Richard Koontz, Iowa NonProfit Resource Center, University of
Iowa
Workshops on proposal writing and grant seeking presented by The Foundation Center
Grants.government workshop presented by the US Department of Education
Concurrent workshops will cover the following: Ø Grants.gov: Find, Apply, Succeed
Ø Do’s and Don’ts of Administering Federal Grants Ø Funding for Home and Community
Ø Enriching Your Public Programs Ø Proposal Writing Basics
Ø Grant Seeking Basics Ø Iowa Community Foundations Capturing the Transfer of Wealth, Providing Community Support
Ø How to Begin! A Proactive Approach to Seeking Grants Ø Creating a Successful Budget
Ø Using Hard Data to Build Strong Proposals Ø Corporate, Private and Community Foundation Panel
Discussion
$65 registration fee which includes a deluxe continental breakfast, lunch and afternoon break
Register at www.iagems.gov
Questions? Contact Kathy Mabie at www.kathy.mabie@iowa.gov or 515-281-8834
Kathy Mabie
Iowa Grants Management Director
Iowa Department of Management
515-281-8834
FAX 515-242-5897
FROM:
Judy Jones, State Library of Iowa
Consultant
The ICPC SOS website address has changed. Please note the new website address
is:
The hands-on SOS (Save Our Stuff) all day preservation workshops
that will begin in less than a month. The workshops will be
repeated in the 4 locations. June 1 in Indianola, June 2 in Storm
Lake, June 8 in Mt. Pleasant, and June 9 in Waverly.
Participants will have an opportunity to perform a full book
repair, mount and mat a photograph, learn basics of digitizing
photographs, repair a wooden object and discover the basics of cataloging
and accessioning of museum and archival collections.
REGISTRATION FORMS AND MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT:
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
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.cfmJudy Jones, State Library of Iowa Consultant
Stuff:
You
are invited to provide links you found too. Four
librarians break silence in records case
Four
Connecticut librarians who had been barred from revealing that they had received
a request for patrons’ records from the federal government spoke out May 30,
expressing frustration about the sweeping powers given to law enforcement
authorities by the USA Patriot Act....
New York Times,
May 31
Amnesty
International targets net repression
Amnesty
International is celebrating 45 years of activism by highlighting governments’
use of the internet to suppress dissent. The campaign
will push for the release of those jailed for speaking out online and name
high-tech firms aiding governments that limit online protests....
BBC News, May 28
 Chicago’s
summer reading program
The Chicago Public
Library is teaming up with the Field Museum to get kids “Wrapped Up in Reading”
this summer. Children will celebrate Ancient Egypt (and the King Tut exhibit at
the Field) with an eight-week Summer Reading Program, June 12–August 5.
Chicago-area readers of all ages are encouraged to participate by reading a book
and reporting on it at any of the 79 CPL locations....
Chicago
Public Library
 Summer
reading vodcast
Charlotte, North Carolina,
area teens at ImaginOn created this video to promote their summer reading
program. The video, which shows how teens can get inspired about a 30-hour
reading program, is available for viewing at YouTube, where it will start
playing when you visit the site....
Alternative Teen Services,
May 19
 Chicago
Public Library: A new strategic plan
CPL has come up
with a new strategic plan (PDF
file) for the city’s libraries. Developed as a collaborative effort with the
Chicago Public Library Foundation and with generous pro bono consultation from
the Boston Consulting Group, CPL 2010 identifies 20 goals in four key
Areas of Strength upon which the institution will build, and 10 goals in three
Areas of New Strategic Opportunity....
Chicago Public Library
Foundation
Thinking
about libraries and access
Walt Crawford’s “Perspective”
offers some thoughts on how trends in access affect libraries’ ability to
maintain strong collections, provide long-term access, and provide access to
resources in all disciplines (not all disciplines at equal collection
levels in all libraries, of course). Think of this essay as an extended answer
to the question, “Why do I write about library access at all—and why don’t I
stick to open access?”...
Cites & Insights,
June
LC
captures the Web
The Library of Congress has launched a
website
devoted to information about its program to capture and preserve historically
important websites so that they can be accessed by future generations of
users....
Library of Congress, May 25
Public
broadcasters, museums, and libraries will hold second
videoconference
The Corporation
for Public Broadcasting and the Institute for Museum and Library Services
announced that the Partnership for a Nation of Learners will sponsor a second
national/local Community Collaboration Videoconference on June 19, from 1:00 to
3:00 p.m., Eastern Time. It will be produced at WETA in Washington, D.C., and
will once again feature Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for The Newshour
with Jim Lehrer, as the national host....
Institute for
Museum and Library Services, May 25
 OCLC
publishes survey on college students’ perceptions of the
library
College
Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources examines the information-seeking habits and preferences of international
college students. With all-new graphs and additional analysis of how college
student data compare to that of total respondents, this report is a subset of
OCLC’s original 2005 Perceptions
report and provides findings from the online survey in an effort to learn more
about library use, library electronic resources, and internet search
engines....
OCLC, May
What
education schools aren’t teaching about reading (PDF
file)
From a representative sample of 72 education
schools, NCTQ reviewed 222 required reading courses, including evaluations of
syllabi as well as 226 required reading texts. Schools were scored on how well
their courses presented the core components of the science of reading. The
findings are alarming. Only 15% of the education schools provide future teachers
with minimal exposure to the science. Moreover, course syllabi reveal a tendency
to dismiss the scientific research in reading, continuing to espouse approaches
to reading that will not serve up to 40% of all children....
National Council on Teacher Quality, May
How
OPACs suck, part 3: The big picture
Karen Schneider
continues her critique of library catalogs: “The fundamental problem with
today’s library catalog is that it suffers from severe literalism. Even with a
few bells and whistles, today’s OPAC is a doggedly faithful replica of the card
catalog of yore.”...
ALA TechSource blog, May
20
Justices
set limits on public employees’ speech rights
The
Supreme Court declared May 30, in a ruling affecting millions of government
employees, that the Constitution does not always protect their free-speech
rights for what they say on the job. In a 5–4 decision, the court held that
public employees’ free-speech rights are protected when they speak out as
citizens on matters of public concern, but not when they speak out in the course
of their official duties....
New York Times, May
30
The
library: Next best thing to an MBA
Across the country,
public libraries are giving would-be entrepreneurs a helping hand with resources
and expert guidance. The sheer volume of library resources available is
staggering. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that many could rival an MBA program
in terms of the tools they offer for instruction and information—available for
little or no cost...
Business Week, May
25
The Pandora’s box of social networking
MySpace claimed almost 5 million registered users in 2005, and that
number has grown to exceed 70 million today. Though currently the most popular,
MySpace is only one of a number of social networking sites online, and their
attractiveness to teens and pre-teens has spawned worry over a growing internet
menace....
TechNewsWorld, May 31
Scholarly
squeeze
Allowing undergraduates into the British
Library’s reading rooms has led to exclusion, not inclusion. The library last
year decided to let the undergraduate masses into the reading rooms. On the face
of it, a good idea. But the studied calm of the reading room has given way to a
hum of mobile phone ringtones, chit-chat, and pubescent histrionics....
The Guardian, May 29
Hunger,
Homelessness, and Poverty TF adds new sections to its
website
The SRRT Hunger,
Homelessness, and Poverty Task Force has made two important additions to its website—a
new resources section and a new organizations section....
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: 7/4,
9/4, 11/10, 11/23 & 24,
12/25 &
26, 1/1/2007
- 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
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.
The State Library's 2006 calendar http://www.silo.lib.ia.us
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
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