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Friday
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Archive
July 21, 2006
New
Friday Notes: notes for next week
The
life so short, the craft so long to learn.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Paperwork
Deadlines: Final
reports for the Open
Access, Access
Plus, and Direct
State Aid programs are due at the State
Library
by July
31st.
Renew
FirstSearch: Please
make sure your library renews access to FirstSearch
by returning the FS Letter of Agreement to Central
LSA
office in Ankeny.
If you?ve not yet renewed access to FirstSearch
for another year, please mail?not fax?the FS
Letter of Agreement to:
Central
Iowa
Library Service Area
1210
NW Prairie Ridge Drive
Ankeny,
IA.
50023-1564
Apply
for American Masterpieces
American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius
is a major initiative to acquaint Americans with the best of their
cultural and artistic legacy. Through American Masterpieces,
the National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor performances, exhibitions,
tours, and educational programs across all art forms that will reach
large and small communities in all 50 states. The deadline for applications
is September 21....
National Endowment for the Arts
THE
LSA:
Traffic Counter available on loan
from the NEILSA
Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a people
counter is the way you can make sound strategic decisions.
With help from a Sensource counter, your library can easily evaluate
staffing needs, hours and more. With hard data you can be confident
that your decisions are based on facts not guesswork.
If you are interested in using the counter, contact Ken at
NEILSA to reserve a time slot. If you would like to learn
more about how you can use the readings from the counter to better
manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your staffing/use
decisions we can arrange that at the same time.
CE:
The
State Library is now taking registrations for Public
Library Management 1 and 2 classes in the CE Catalog
(http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/).
PLM 1 will begin on Tuesday, September 12 and PLM 2 will
begin on Wednesday, September 6. The registration deadline
for both classes is Monday, August 14.
OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And
All Library Users
OPAL is an international collaborative effort by libraries
of all types to provide web-based programs and training for
library users and library staff members. These live events are
held in online rooms where participants can interact via voice-over-IP,
text chatting, and synchronized browsing. Everyone is welcome
to participate in OPAL programs. Usually there is no need to
register. Nearly all OPAL programs are offered free of charge
to participants. Examples of OPAL public online programs include
book discussion programs, interviews, special events, library
training, memoir writing workshops, and virtual tours of special
digital library collections.
FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/
We are planning a DEMCO Book Repair Workshop for sometime
this fall, Ken will still do a workshop at county association
meetings if requested and scheduled anead of time.
| 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: www.iagems.gov
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:
Grants.gov: Find, Apply, Succeed
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Do?s and Don?ts of Administering Federal Grants
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Funding for Home and Community
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Enriching Your Public Programs
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Iowa Community Foundations Capturing the Transfer
of Wealth, Providing Community Support
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How to Begin! A Proactive Approach to Seeking
Grants
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Creating a Successful Budget
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Using Hard Data to Build Strong Proposals
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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 www.iagems.gov
FROM:
Judy Jones, State Library of Iowa Consultant
Stuff:
You are invited to provide links you found too.
Thinking About Linking Read the full article at: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349053.html&
Those
good old internet days of 1993
Punctuation marks that look like smiley faces express happiness
on a new communication tool known as ?Internet.? ?In this world
there?s a table with a big sign on it saying football,? explains
a computer expert in this six-minute CBC Television clip from Toronto,
dated October 8, 1993. Also viewable as a YouTube
video....
CBC Archives
How
cool is a job with comics?
Cindy Jackson, assistant archivist for the special collections department
of James Branch Cabell Library, is the first to agree with her friends
when they call her one of the luckiest employees at Virginia Commonwealth
University. VCU is one of a handful of universities nationwide to
have a full-time employee devoted to its collection of comic arts....
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, July 16
16
elements you must include in your website design
Website designer Herman Drost writes: ?When I first started out
doing web design work I only focused on the design. I did not think
ahead how to prepare the site for promotion until I had finished
the actual design. I think a lot of web designers still think and
act this way...they build the site first, then think about the marketing
aspect later. This is a big mistake!?...
Web Host Directory, July 4
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: 9/4, 11/10, 11/23 & 24, 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007
- July 31 - Reports due: Direct State Aid & Open Access
- August 1 - Deadline for letter of Intent to the State Library for Staying Connected
- August 1 Postville 9:30 Allamakee County Association - KD
- 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 KD
- September 23 - 30 - Banned Book Week
- September 27 - State Library/LSA Town Meeting (Waterloo Art and Rec Center) ER & KD
- September 30 - Cataloging Supplement report due at SLI
- October 3 - Butler County Library Association at Parkersburg - 7:00 KD
- October 11 - 13 - ILA Annual Conference in Council Bluffs ER & KD
- October 15 - 21 Teen Read Week
- October 17 - Readlyn, Bremer Co. meeting - 7:30
- October 17 - Clayton County Meeting 7:00 Gutenberg KD
- October 17 - Buchanan County Meeting Independence 7:00
- October 27 -- Arlington 09:30 Fayette County Meeting KD
- 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 KD
- November 13 - 19 - Children's Book Week
- November 23 & 24 NEILSA Closed for Thanksgiving
- December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas
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
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
COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002:
THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE.
It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions
set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A at
http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
COPYRIGHT
Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under
copyright and is presented here for purposes of education and research
only.
NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their material
and not covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken
LIBRARY
SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting
The public is encourged and welcome to attend.
NEXT NEILSA Board
meeting: Sept. 11, 2006 2:00 p.m., Oelwein Public Library |
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