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August 19, 2005

New Friday Notes: notes for next week
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

FROM: The Eye Opener of the NWILSA

1)  Important Staffing News from Northwest:  Congratulations go out to Sue Kroesche, NWILS Special Projects Consultant.  Sue has accepted a full time teaching position in Orange City for the coming school year.  While Sue will still be with us in this special consulting capacity, her time will be more limited and mostly focused on our website, working on web updates and design. Once summer rolls around again, she’ll have more time to give to other projects and to be on-site at local libraries with webpage assistance.  But during the school year, she won’t be available to manage our E-Rate services like last year.  (Remember the line: “for one brief shining moment, it was Camelot?!!)

So are you wondering: now what?  Not to worryJ  Northwest and Northeast LSAs are teaming up to continue providing E-Rate services to Northwest member libraries.  Northeast office in Waterloo is willing and more than able to take Northwest libraries into its E-Rate Consortium.  (Many of you know Ken Davenport, a leading Iowa expert in all things E-Rate!)  Our two agencies have been working out the logistics and the timing.  Details are too lengthy to print here, so look for a separate bulletin by email yet this week with more information about this transition and how your library can be part of it. 

 Please note: NWILS is holding an information session over the ICN on Friday September 16^th.  Staff from the Northeast Waterloo office will join in and we’ll explain what’s expected if you want to join their consortium.  Please protect September 16^th (time pending 10:00AM—12:00noon) and make plans to attend this ICN session; specific ICN locations to be announced.

Ken put this announcement in for a couple of reasons:
1. Sue Kroesche was the director of the McGregor PL in Clayton County and many librarians know her
2. General background on how the LSA's cooperate  (in case you are ever asked)
3. Notice that if you want to lurk in on the ICN session you need to let Ken or Susan know, it will provide a general background on the Consortia BUT it is a NWILSA session so you may not get to ask questions.

Reminder e-rate participants you need to check the e-rate blog http://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm for instructions.

ABOUT THE LSA:
The Old Poodle
   
   A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her faithful aged poodle named Cuddles, along for the company.

   One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles discovers that she's lost. Wandering about, she notices a leopard heading rapidly in her direction with the intention of having lunch.

   The old poodle thinks, "Uh, oh!  I'm in deep doo doo now!"  Noticing some bones on the ground close by, she immediately settles down to chew on the bones with her back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the old poodle exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more around here?"

   Hearing this, the young leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees.  "Whew!",  says the leopard, "That was close! That old poodle nearly had me!"

    Mean while, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So off he goes, but the old poodle sees him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.

   The young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine!"

   Now, the old poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?", but instead of running,  the dog sits down with her back to her attackers, pretending she hasn't seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old poodle says: "Where's that monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!"
   
   Moral of this story . . .
   
   Don't mess with the elderly...age, experience and wisdom (sneakiness) will always overcome youthful skill! 
PS and watch out for OLD leopards -- Ken

CE:
LIBRARY FRIENDS:  ILA has a new "Friends" subdivision.
Friends pre conference at ILA in Dubuque on October 19, 2005

ON Filtering tip o the hat to Mike Dargan -- http://slate.msn.com/id/2459/

Due Date: NOTE: changes
NEILSA closed dates: 9/5, 11/11& 24&25,  12/23 & 26, 1/2/6

• Aug 23 - 25 Consultant out to e-rate NPRM meeting - Chicago
• August 25 PLM II
• August 31 Enrich Iowa Letter of Agreement due
• September  21 - Town Meeting
• October 4 - 7:00 Greene - Butler County Meeting
• October 4, 2005, Howard County at Lime Springs at 7 P.M.
• October 17, at Aurora 7:00  Buchanan County Meeting -  KD
• October 18 - Farmersburg 7:00 Clayton County Meeting - KD
• October 18 - Janesville  7:30 Bremer County Meeting
• October 19-21 ILA Annual, Dubuque
• October 24 9:00 Wellsburg Grundy County Meeting
• October 31 - Annual Survey Due
• November 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Ossian Public Library  - Winneshiek County Meeting
• December 23 & 26 - Christmas

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/

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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