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May 26, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

REMINDERS: NEILSA closed: 5/29

AEA-267 will end delivery to libraries on June 8 & 9
AEA-1 will end delivery to libraries on June 5 & 6

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.

Check out this new use of the net, congratulations to SW for bring it one step further.
Subject: SWILSA weekly News and Views

Beginning today [5/25/2006], we [SWILSA] are going to be offering our weekly news as a podcast (or, as an audio file...)  Marcia, Sue and I will be recording a podcast each week, with news, programming ideas, resources that we offer, etc.

You can go to the blog at:  http://www.swilsanews.blogspot.com to find the weekly posts, with the link to the mp3 file--just click and listen!  Or, you can subscribe to the podcasts -there's a link on the sidebar of the blog to "Desktop Delivery" which will give instructions for other options.

We will continue to e-mail the eNewsLine, but the podcasts are another way to get the information (and it might be a better way, if you are an aural learner) and .... it may even give you some ideas for how you might use podcasts in your own library.  (For more on learning how to do that, listen to the podcast!)

It's easy, it's fun--have a listen!

Karen

THE LSA:

The Governor will take action on education bills on Thursday, June 1.  At the 9:00 a.m. event at East High, he'll sign HF 2527 (Ed Approps); SF 2272 (Ed policy bill); HF 2095 (allowable growth); and HF 2792 (Ed Standards, etc). There will be press events at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in Mason City and Evansdale regarding the education bills.

CE:
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:
http://web.grinnell.edu/individuals/stuhrr/icpc/preservation101-102.html Or request a registration form by contacting Nancy E Kraft at 319-335-5286 or nancy-e-kraft@uiowa.edu or Lucy David at 319-338-0514 or lucy-david@uiowa.edu

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 3 ce credits
Go to the ce Catalog http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/cecatalog  or TRY: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/registrations/events/event_list.cgi?s_sponsor_id=6&searchtype=sponsor&Browse=Browse

  1. Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP
    1. What is it?
    2. Why should I use it?
    3. How do I use it?
    4. How can I get it?
  2. PowerToys for Windows XP 
    1. What are they?
    2. Differences between - advantages/disadvantages
    3. Which ones should I use?
    4. How do I use them?
    5. How can I get them?

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.

New advocacy tools for rural, native, and tribal libraries to be unveiled at Annual Conference
The Committee on Rural, Native, and Tribal Libraries of All Kinds will be introducing new tools and resources to help small libraries (primarily with populations under 10,000) conduct advocacy and outreach efforts in their communities. The “Rural Advocacy @ your library Progress Update” will take place on Saturday, June 24, from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m., immediately following the committee’s Town Hall Meeting....

Web inventor warns of “dark” net
Recent attempts in the U.S. to try to charge for different levels of online web access were not “part of the internet model,” Sir Tim Berners-Lee said at the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. He warned that if the U.S. decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter “a dark period.”...
BBC News, May 23

Parent loses fight to ban book
An 11-member advisory committee of parents, teachers and librarians voted unanimously May 18 to keep Abduction! despite Shiuvan Harris’s testimony that it was too violent. Harris had filed papers to have the book pulled from the shelves of two middle- and eight elementary school libraries....
St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, May 19

Internet filters: A public policy report
“Although some may say that the debate is over and that filters are now a fact of life, it is never too late to rethink bad policy choices,” according to a new edition of a blocking-software study (PDF file) from the Free Expression Policy Project of New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, completely revised from the first edition issued in fall 2001....
Brennan Center for Justice, May 17

Patriot Act brochure available for library patrons
The Colorado Association of Libraries’ Intellectual Freedom Committee has updated its award-winning brochure (PDF file) on the Patriot Act to reflect the changes made in 2006, and encourages librarians to share the information with their patrons by reproducing the flyer for distribution in your library....
Colorado Association of Libraries, May 15

The central problem of Library 2.0: Privacy
Transforming library services by making them more personalized, more interactive, and more web-based along Web 2.0 lines has a logic to it that is ineluctable and exciting, according to Rory Litwin. The difficulty we have to grapple with is that libraries and Web 2.0 services are based on serving two very different essential activities, and those activities have an opposite relationship to privacy....
Library Juice, May 22

The book is dead, long live the book
Books are outmoded means of communicating information, writes Jeff Jarvis. They limit how knowledge can be found because they have to sit on a shelf under one address....
Buzz Machine, May 19

“Action heroes are always saying stuff like 'Follow that car!' but I believe The Da Vinci Code is the first movie where the hero says, instead, 'I have to get to a library. Fast!'”

­Chris Hewitt, St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, May 18.

Online Programming for All Libraries offers a variety of interactive online programs for library staff and library users. Johnson County (Kans.) Library has announced a monthly series of professional development opportunities for librarians that will be offered through the OPAL collaborative on the third Friday of each month at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time.

Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science offers an ongoing series of online workshops. Current workshops include: “Working with Students with Special Needs in School Libraries,” “Manga, MP3s, and MMORPGs: New Mediums and Young Adults,” “Search Engines: Newest, Best, and Latest Tips,” and “Training Paraprofessionals for Expanding Instructional Programs.” Contact: Jody Walker, 617-521-2803.

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 31 at Waterloo PL 9:00 Computer Class -Power Tools
  • 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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LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting

Next Board Meeting:  July 10, 2006 2:00 p.m., Manchester Public Library