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June 2, 2006

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Kim Boynton Kietzman - Administrator
Southeastern Library Services
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Davenport, IA  52804
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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:

• 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

• Grants.gov: Find, Apply, Succeed
• Do’s and Don’ts of Administering Federal Grants
• Funding for Home and Community
• Enriching Your Public Programs
• Proposal Writing Basics
• Grant Seeking Basics
• Iowa Community Foundations ­ Capturing the Transfer of Wealth, Providing Community Support
• How to Begin!  A Proactive Approach to Seeking Grants
• Creating a Successful Budget
• Using Hard Data to Build Strong Proposals
• Corporate, Private and Community Foundation Panel Discussion

$65 registration fee which includes a deluxe continental breakfast, lunch and afternoon break

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....

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/

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 - 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

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