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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org
THE LSA:
Send us an digital photo of your library
to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to promote every one
of our libraries. It's one way to use flickr.
County Library Association Presidents/Chairs
PLEASE send
Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any special activities
in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors
Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al.
Whats New blog 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
Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.html
CE:
Kid Safety on the Internet - November 20 9:00
- 12 noon Waterloo Public Library A & B - Fee: Free Registration
now open on the statewide CE catalog.
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:
Technology
Made Simple,
an improvement guide for small and medium-sized libraries by Kimberly
Boland and Robert Cullen, offers clear answers to overcoming technical
challenges. Published by ALA Editions (Sept. 2006).
Check
out the new reference librarian on the web - Ms
Dewey
Opening
arguments presented in COPA challenge
The American Civil Liberties Union presented opening arguments October
23 in its legal challenge to the Child Online Protection Act. The
law, which was passed in 1998 but never enforced due to injunctions
and lower court decisions, requires commercial websites to obtain
proof of age before providing material considered harmful to minors.
The ACLU counters that filtering programs are a more effective means
of protecting children....
Blogging
the COPA trial
Rufus Griscom, founder and CEO of the popular erotica website Nerve,
is spending two weeks blogging the ACLU vs. Gonzales trial, aka
the Child Online Protection Act case. Nerve, Salon.com, and other
plaintiffs backed by the American Civil Liberties Union are suing
over the 1998 act that could restrict constiutionally protected
material from being published online?exposing website owners to
fines or even jail time. The Justice Department argues that it is
easier to stop online pornography at the source than to keep children
from viewing it. Warning: This blog contains ?Gratuitous COPA-violating
free nudity.?...
Rufus
Griscom, Nerve blog, Oct. 24
 A
site worth 70 million words
A major portion of the photographic collections of the Los Angeles
Public Library are now accessible online
and sometimes downloadable for free. The website?s popularity has
transformed Curator of Photographs Carolyn Kozo Cole and her staff
into tastemakers, responsible for anticipating what kinds of images
the public wants and for offering their own selections for what
makes Los Angeles L.A. They carefully choose images to add to the
database, which today includes about 70,000 photographs and is growing
by 250?300 images a week....
Los
Angeles Times, Oct. 22
Volunteer
finds mystery box at Worthington Library
The Worthington (Ohio) Library is trying to unravel a mystery involving
a box found in a pile of donated books. Volunteer Irene Candy was
sorting donated books when she discovered a box containing 19th-century
papers and an artifact that might be even older....
WCMH-TV,
Columbus, Ohio, Oct.
Technically
Speaking: Giving homegrown software its due
Andrew Pace writes: ?Something rather exciting happened this fall
in the world of the integrated library system. On September 5, 252
public libraries in Georgia?s Public Information Network for Electronic
Services (PINES) went live with Evergreen, a homegrown and open-source
ILS. Impressive.?...
American
Libraries, Nov., pp. 50?51
 The
internet at risk
The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Last year, the FCC effectively
eliminated net neutrality rules, which ensured that every content
creator on the internet?from big-time media concerns to backroom
bloggers?had equal opportunity to make their voice heard. Now, large
and powerful corporations are lobbying Washington to turn the Web
into what critics call a ?toll road.? Watch this excellent PBS program,
hosted by Bill Moyers, online...
Moyers
on America, Oct. 18
Computing,
2016: What won't be possible?
Steve Lohr considers the future of computing and reviews the discussions
at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board symposium held
in Washington in October....
New
York Times, Oct. 31 Increasingly,
libraries are the place to learn English
The Milford (Mass.) Town Library is one of many libraries around
Boston?s western suburbs and the country that have taken on a new
mission?teaching immigrants English. The growth in ESL offerings
at libraries in response to a growing demand over the past 15 to
20 years?and a concurrent decline in traditional adult literacy
programs?is a nationwide trend....
Boston
Globe, Oct. 19
British
Library allows free access to English Short Title Catalogue
The English Short Title Catalogue, the product of a partnership
between the University of California at Riverside, the British Library,
and the American Antiquarian Society, was made available for searching
online
beginning October 30. The ESTC provides bibliographic records for
all surviving letter press material in the British Isles and North
America before 1801, held by the British Library and more than 2,000
other institutions....
University
of California at Riverside, Oct. 30
 "The
Librarian" now a comic book series
Atlantis Studios has released the first in a series of comics featuring
adventurer-librarian Flynn Carson. Originally appearing in the popular
made-for-cable film The Librarian: Quest for the Spear,
Carson is back and this time his mission is to prevent the powerful
Key of Solomon from falling into the hands of a ruthless warlord.
He needs to locate the legendary mines of King Solomon before disaster
strikes. An eight-page preview is available....
Atlantis
Studios
 Interval
library
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee music student Kim Huston produced
this video (2:33) featuring classical music and compact shelving.
?It was sort of a ?What happens after hours? type of thing ... kinda.?...
YouTube
Registration
is now available for Teen Tech Week, March 4?10,
a YALSA celebration aimed at getting teens to use libraries for
the different technologies offered there.
 Internet
threatens traditional publishing model
Publishers could be the internet piracy boom's next victims after
the music industry, but the Web might also be their salvation, the
head of the International Publishers Association says. Ana Maria
Cabanellas, speaking at the world?s biggest book fair in Frankfurt,
Germany, said the industry felt it was under attack from the internet
search engine Google and its drive to post the world's books online....
Sydney
(Australia) Morning Herald, Oct. 19
 WebJunction
receives Gates Foundation grant
WebJunction, an online community for library staff to share ideas,
solve problems, and do online coursework, has been awarded a Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to enhance website usability
and help it keep pace with a growing audience and range of content.
The $2-million grant will fund critical development for one year,
which will include a redesign to improve organization and navigation,
and the development of improved search functions....
OCLC,
Oct. 20
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
- November 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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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
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