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October 26, 2006

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The life so short, the craft so long to learn

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

31 NEILSA library Annual Reports Due 10/31 are still outstanding as of the 25th.

THE LSA:

Got InfoCenter/Spectrum and wondering what to do ? Here are some sorces of data:

Vendors: http://www.capterra.com/library-automation-software

Also check this doc: www.ala.org/ala/pla/plapubs/technotes/OpenSource.doc

Whats New blog - this is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements, changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org

CE:

From the Eye Opener: (NWILSA) 2) State Library Offers Trustee Program: Here?s another board topic from the State Library, presented over the ICN on November 2nd: Library Governance & Funding. The agenda will cover how libraries are governed, the roles of the mayor-council-board-director, changing the library ordinance, reporting income and expenditures, amending the budget, and more.

Note this instruction from the State Library: "Each person who plans to attend needs to register in the CE catalog. http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/ It is very important to register because any ICN sites with no one registered by two weekdays prior to the event will be canceled. Most library trustees have not created a user account in the CE catalog and may need help. Library directors are asked to decide how best to handle getting trustees registered with a c.e. catalog account"

Library support staff scholarships to attend American Library Association conference in Washington, DC in June 2007. Apply now!!!
Sage Library Support Staff Travel Grants: The Travel Grants (six to be awarded) make it possible for library support staff to attend the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference to be held in the summer of 2007 in Washington, DC. Sage Publications donates six grants of up to $1,000

On Thursday, November 2, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., the State Library will offer an ICN session for trustees on library governance and funding. Topics include: how libraries are governed; roles of the mayor and city council, library board, library director; changing the library ordinance; power of the library board over the library budget; reporting income and expenditures to the city; amending the budget; budget roles of the director, the board and the city. (It will cover the same material as the Library Board Orientation session at Town Meetings.)

Each person who plans to attend needs to register in the CE catalog. http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/ It is very important to register because any ICN sites with no one registered by two weekdays prior to the event will be canceled. http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/ICN/sched-cancel

Most library trustees have not created a user account in the CE catalog and some of them will need help. For this reason, I am making this announcement first on the public library director list so you can decide how you want to handle getting your trustees registered.
Sandy Dixon Program Director - Library Development State Library of Iowa

NOTE ALSO: Trustree educations sessions customized for your board needs are available from the LSA. See http://neilsa.org/classes/trustorient.html for the "full course" none of the modules take more than 15 minutes in most cases we can get 2 full and 3 skim over topics in a 50 minute session.

Kid Safety on the Internet - November 20 9:00 - 12 noon Waterloo Public Library A & B - Free:  Registration open see statewide CE Catalog at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html

You wouldn't let kids ride their bike/drive a car on the roads & highways without training, why let them do so on the Internet super highway?

Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview

March 19 & 26, 2007 -- Locations & Fee TBD
Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading, learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary Cameron will take participants through an overview of a parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto participate in the project at a later date.

Grow Your Own @ your library grants
PLA is now accepting applications for its popular ?Grow Your Own @ your library? institutional scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine public libraries with grants of $8,000 each to be distributed to staff members who are working to obtain a master?s degree in library and information science. One library from each of the nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories will be selected....

Great CE delivered right to your desktop! Registration for YALSA's fall session of e-courses opened Aug. 21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30. The courses are meant to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is $135 for YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To register go to www.ala.org/yalsa. Three courses will be offered, full discriptions in New Friday Notes 08/25/2006:
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.... OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) 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.

STUFF: Not much time for surfing this week.

Its name says it all: Crave will cover the hottest and coolest digital gadgetry that you must have.

Excerpt: 'Working With You Is Killing Me'
Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster's Guide to Saving Your Sanity at Work

Children's librarians recommend books for the holidays
ALSC has created a list of new books recommended for holiday gift-giving, as well as reading about the holidays themselves. The guide features titles suitable for readers from preschool age through 8th grade and includes picture books, novels, fiction, and nonfiction. Children's librarians and educators on the ALSC Quicklists Consulting Committee compiled the lists....

Looking for a search engine with attitude? Meet Ms. Dewey
Let's face it: Google is the world's go-to search engine. But if you're looking for something with a little more attitude, Ms. Dewey can give you your daily dose of abuse. She's essentially an avatar that governs the search engine of the same name, commenting on every search you make....
Gizmodo, Oct. 17

Prairie Home Companion parody not so funny
Sarah Houghton-Jan writes about her ruffled feathers after hearing an October 14 skit titled "Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian\" (4:08) on NPR's Prairie Home Companion: "In the skit, a very snooty and regressive librarian was portrayed as she told a young male patron to stop listening to an audio book on his iPod and read a 'real book.' She then went toe-to-toe with a board member who came in saying that they were getting an automated catalog, e-books, and a media center. . . . I couldn't find anything funny about it. Implicit to the story is that fighting for the freedom to read is somehow at odds with introducing technology to the library."...
Sarah Houghton-Jan, Librarian in Black blog, Oct. 15

"Library Smut" catches admiring eyes
Jaime Morrison writes: "Yesterday I came across a truly gorgeous book of photographs by Candida Höfer titled Libraries, a title which pretty much says it all, because that is just exactly what it is, one rich, sumptuous photo of a library interior after another. . . . See below for 14 examples which I particularly liked, but keep in mind these 500px-wide versions can?t really compete with the big, glossy, real thing."...
Jaime Morrison, The Nonist blog, Aug. 23

LINKS:

Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity
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 DATES:

NEILSA closed dates: 11/10, 11/23 & 24, 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007

• 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 16 2007 9:30 Fayette County Meeting West Union KD
• November 13 - 19 - Children's Book Week
• Nov. 20 - Kid Safety on the Internet
• November 23 & 24 NEILSA Closed for Thanksgiving
• December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas

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

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.

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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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

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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 encouraged and welcome to attend.

NEXT NEILSA Board meeting: Nov. 13, 2006 2:00 p.m., Clermont Public Library