NEILSA - Friday Notes Archive

If DOPA passes the Senate it will be attached to e-rate. You will be affected. It may have other ramifications for libraries and schools that will greatly modify how you serve your ?under age? patrons.

So, what?s the best way to protect kids from online predators?

Why, simple: You just go to the public schools and libraries and block access to any kind of technology that could put them at risk. At least, that?s the answer if you?re Congress. From the C|Net article:

HOUSE PASSES DOPA
"...this bill (DOPA) is reactionary, statist, ignorant of technology, and almost certain to do more harm to students than good. Reactionary because it is trying to solve a problem by attacking the medium rather than the cause. Statist because it assumes that the government, not parents and schools (libraries), are the best agents for educating kids on how to use technology safely. Ignorant because it opens the door for a wide range of educationally useful web tools like del.icio.us or wikis (or maybe even a few simple blogs) to be placed beyond the reach of the kids who could use them. As one commenter in this post wrote: ?We should definitely ban pencils, pens, paper, etc. because students can write offensive things and share them with others. We may want to look at banning markers too.?
FROM: http://www.castingoutnines.net/2006/05/11/so-whats-the-best-way-to-protect-kids-from-online-predators/

... From ALA's Washington Office: House of Representatives Passes Deleting Online Predators Act Yesterday, the US House of Representatives passed the amended H.R. 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), by a vote of 410-15. We believe the legislation will now go to the Senate, which may or may not have time to vote on this before their ...
Confessions of a Mad Librarian

FYI http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learning.now/2006/07/dopa_passes_the_house.html

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Paperwork Deadlines: Final reports for the Open Access, Access Plus, and Direct State Aid programs are due at the State Library by July 31^st.

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:

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PLA announces new start dates for e-learning courses
?E-Learning @ PLA,? the online education program of the Public Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of its popular courses. ?New Planning for Results? and ?Creating Policies for Results? will each be offered five times between September 2006 and April 2007....

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

NEW: Streaming Audio Preview

NEW: Streaming Video Introduction

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:

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 www.iagems.gov
FROM:
Judy Jones, State Library of Iowa Consultant

Reference books in Spanish for children and adolescents
Isabel Schon, director of the Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents, California State University at San Marcos, reviews atlases and dictionaries, including Atlas enciclopédico infantil (Everest, 2005) and Diccionario de términos del mundo antiguo (Alianza, 2005)....

100-year-old librarian ?keeps dust off the floor? in Vinland, Kansas
For the last eight decades, Martha Cutter Kelley Smith has tended to the books at the Coal Creek Library. But not because she?s an avid reader. Just as she has for the past 80 years, the 100-year-old Smith toils away at Kansas? oldest library, keeping herself busy and keeping a monument to the small community of Vinland up and running....
Lawrence (Kans.) Journal-World, July 24

Dictionary marks 200th anniversary
A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language turned 200 years old this year, but most Americans probably have never heard of the work that introduced 5,000 new words to readers and is widely considered the first American dictionary. The 408-page book, created by lexicographer and writer Noah Webster, does not look like a modern dictionary....
Springfield (Mass.) Republican, July 24

Readers vs. resellers at library book sales
When the Pequot Library in Southport, Connecticut, begins its five-day book sale on Friday, there will be 147,000 books available, including a first printing of the novel Ben-Hur and a 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. But those books, and many of the other 300 rare books there, are expected to be gone soon after the gate opens at 9 a.m....
New York Times, July 22

Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?
On March 1, Wikipedia, the online interactive encyclopedia, hit the million-articles mark, with an entry on Jordanhill, a railway station in suburban Glasgow. The Encyclopædia Britannica, which for more than two centuries has been considered the gold standard for reference works, has only 120,000 entries in its most comprehensive edition. Apparently, no traditional encyclopedia has ever suspected that someone might wonder about Sudoku or about prostitution in China....
New Yorker, July 31

Free template for writing disaster plans
The Northeast Document Conservation Center and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners have created dPlan, a free online program to help institutions write comprehensive disaster plans. dPlan provides an easy-to-use template that allows museums, libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions of all sizes to develop a customized plan that includes disaster response procedures, salvage priorities, preventive maintenance schedules, and more....
Northeast Document Conservation Center

Collaborative reference work in the blogosphere (PDF file)
UNC-Chapel Hill SILS Assistant Professor Jeffrey Pomerantz and Ph.D. candidate Frederic Stutzman argue that blogs can be used to good effect in reference services and discuss Lyceum, an open source blogosphere application, as an environment for blog-based reference service....
Reference Services Review 34, no. 2 (2006)

Book trailers are building hype, movie-style
Judith Keenan says the rationale behind book trailers is to take the onus off retailers to promote books and market to consumers directly. The convenience and immediacy of the internet make it a no-brainer. HarperCollins has produced close to a dozen trailers since early February. The motivation is ?to drive early word of mouth,? says Steve Osgoode, director of online marketing and new media for HarperCollins Canada....
CBC, July 3

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.

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