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June 30, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
NEILSA closed:  7/4

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The New Friday Notes for June 23, 2006 [next week] may not happen since I will be at ALA, I am going to attempt to Blog on the Annual Meeting but who knows.  One thing that is most likely not to happen is an e-mail telling you it has been posted so about 1:00 on Friday you need to check to see if I got it posted. Ken (:-{}}}
Was not able to get in so you had a break....
The Final Report for Direct State Aid, due July 31, 2006 is online at: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/Direct-state-aid/fy2006  The link is under Available Downloads.

 THE LSA:

Gates Rural Library Sustainability - Libraries on the Prairie: Growing Rural Libraries

  • When it comes to technology, rural libraries face unique challenges.  To help address these challenges, the State Library of Iowa was awarded $129,450 from the Gates Foundation to "promote the sustainability of public access computing in rural libraries."  
  • Through the grant, the State Library will host workshops that will provide tools, information and resources to help rural library directors sustain public access computing.
  • They will also provide an opportunity for library directors to connect with one another, sharing best practices, tips, and success strategies.

If your library provides computers for public use, you will want to attend one of the Rural Library Sustainability workshops, "Libraries on the Prairie:  Growing Rural Libraries."  All expenses are paid for the library director, including meals, lodging and mileage.  (Reimbursement for lodging and mileage will be paid directly to the library.  Please view the Cover Letter to Public Library Directors for more details on this reimbursement.)  All Iowa public library directors, regardless of community size are eligible and encouraged to attend.  Our target is to have 411 libraries (80% of the 514) rural public libraries represented at the workshops. 

Dates / Locations: 

  • July 10-11: Buena Vista University, Storm Lake 
  • July 13-14: Holiday Inn, Council Bluffs
  • July 17-18: Wartburg College, Waverly
  • July 24-25: St. Ambrose College, Davenport
  • July 27-28: Central College, Pella

Topics include: 

  • The Public Librarian and Information Literacy, Wireless Network @ Your Library, What Can U Plug Into a USB?, Using Tech Atlas.
  • Assessing your library's public access computing related to library connections, technology connections, upgrade and maintenance, staff and patron training, funding, outreach, and advocacy. 
  • Advocacy, including remarks from a community leader about what resonates when we tell the library?s story. 

For more information or to register, visit the CE Catalog.

The Rural Library Sustainability Project was conceived, in part, as a result of a successful workshop that was hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in conjunction with Public Library Association (PLA) 2004, called ?Sustaining Public Access in Rural Libraries.?  The workshops, attracting 135 libraries from across the country, were filled with lively discussions, inspirational stories and honest assessments of the tremendous challenges facing small libraries.  Inspired by what went on at PLA, the Gates Foundation, working with WebJunction, created this grant project to give each state a chance to replicate what went on at the workshops in 2004.

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by Sandy Dixon

last modified June 13, 2006 02:59 PM

CE:

QUESTION: Would you be interested in a book repair (one or two hour) County Assiocation CE?  If so send me an e-mail.  One hour would be demonistration & two hour would be the same plus hands on.
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

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

 

Stuff:
You are invited to provide links you found too.

Carleton College library trading cards
Librarians at the Laurence McKinley Gould Library at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, have created sets of trading cards since 2002/2003 to publicize their services. You can visit their poster session, ?Penguins, Frisbees, and Trading Cards: Catching the Student Eye,? Monday, June 26, 11:00 a.m.?12:30 p.m., in the Exhibit Hall at Table V-15, at Annual Conference in New Orleans....
Carleton College


Broadcast flag makes it through committee
If the broad rewrite of U.S. telecommunications laws (the Communications, Consumer?s Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006) makes it to the Senate floor, it will include the broadcast flag. The Commerce Committee will continue running down the bill, amendment by amendment, with network neutrality next on the list....
Ars Technica, June 28

John Does allowed to speak, receive belated Robert Downs Award (PDF file)
Nearly one year after receiving a National Security Letter from the FBI demanding computer records for one of their member libraries, four librarians on the executive board of the Library Connection?a nonprofit consortium of one academic and 26 public libraries in central Connecticut?are able to discuss freely some aspects of the only known time the USA Patriot Act has been invoked in a library setting. The Justice Department officially abandoned efforts to obtain the records June 22, after concluding independently that the implied threat the FBI was investigating had no merit, the June 27 New York Times reported....

New Jersey director blasted for requiring subpoenas
Michele Reutty, director of Hasbrouck Heights Public Library and president-elect of the New Jersey Library Association, will face a closed hearing in July with the library?s board of trustees over her requiring police to obtain subpoenas before giving them patron records during a May investigation....

Love it or lose it
Public libraries in the U.K. are on the verge of extinction, warn campaigners. How can they be protected for the future?...
BBC News, June 22

Guide to Best Reading goes digital
The ALA Guide to Best Reading in 2006, a coproduction of ALSC, Booklist, RUSA, and YALSA, is available for the first time as a digital download from the ALA Store. The guide is filled with annotated recommended and notable booklists such as ?Notable Children?s Books,? ?Notable Books,? ?Editor?s Choice,? and ?Best Books for Young Adults.?...

Cokie Roberts to keynote closing session
Journalist and author Cokie Roberts will keynote the closing session at the ALA Annual Conference, June 27, 8?9 a.m. Roberts currently is the chief congressional analyst for ABC News and is a news analyst for National Public Radio. She is also the author of We Are Our Mothers? Daughters, which tells stories of the fascinating women of the American Revolution....

Newberry Library finds a treasure in maps
One by one, Newberry Library curator Robert Karrow pulled old maps from oversized file folders, each recovered from a treasure trove that had been packed away and forgotten for nearly a quarter-century. The maps show the range of 388 items the Newberry bought for $120,000, getting the cream of an archive of 1,371 maps and atlases that the Chicago History Museum had packed up for disposal in 1982, then left in a storage room....
Chicago Tribune, June 19

Newspaper archive offers free library access
Heritage Microfilm is offering public libraries and K?12 schools free access to its online newspaper database archive. Access NewspaperARCHIVE allows students and patrons to search tens of millions of historical newspaper pages from anywhere in their school or library....
NewspaperARCHIVE, June 19

Do I still use reference books?
Rick Roche began wondering how often he still used reference books. ?There seem to be days that I use none and days that I use many. Not knowing exactly what portion of my reference work involves books I decided to keep a log of resources used.?...
Ricklibrarian, June 12

Cultural tourism: A growing segment of the travel market
An increasing number of tourists are special-interest travelers who rank the arts, heritage, or other cultural activities as one of the top five reasons for traveling....
National Endowment for the Arts

"Increasingly, citizens are being forced to demonstrate a basic knowledge of mathematics to have any chance of communicating electronically with their congressional offices."

The original column at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100691.html

"Unlike some in the cyber-advocacy world, I agree with Congress's idea that people e- mailing their elected officials should demonstrate they are constituents ["Finding Fault With Logic of Congress's E- Mail Plan," K Street Confidential, June 12]. This is, after all, a representative democracy. Constituents are the first responsibility of any member of Congress, and the only way to tell if someone is a constituent is to know his or her full street address."

View the letter at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001595.html
 

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

  • 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
Summer delivery 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
Fall delivery will begin on August 17 & 18

The State Library's 2006 calendar  http://www.silo.lib.ia.us

The fine print stuff
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Edited by:
Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant davenport@neilsa.org

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