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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org
THE LSA:
Reminder: as libraries move to new email
addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of
the change.
New Directors (That
NEILSA has been notified about)
Tara Holub, Director
Colesburg Public Library
PO Box 159
Colesburg, IA 52035
colepl@iowatelecom.net
Plainfield - Kim Bigelow
COMMENT: If someone, like the Board, other libraries
in the county or the odd comment, does not tell us about a new director
NEILSA does not have any way of knowing about a change. If we do
not know about a change we can not do anything to help the new person
"fit in" or be in compliance with such things as ILL, e-rate, and
the like. NEILSA has received a number of complaints from new directors
who have just discovered that there is help "out their". It is a
Board responability but just as much it is to the advantage of the
other libraries in the county to let us know.
Congrats go
to:
JAMES
KENNEDY PUBLIC LIBRARY Dyersville IA 52040
RICEVILLE
PUBLIC LIBRARY Riceville IA 50466
DIKE
PUBLIC LIBRARY Dike IA 50624
CONRAD
PUBLIC LIBRARY Conrad IA
CE:
The next LIBRARY 101 is set for December 12th
at West Union - Registration required or site is canceled, other
sites by request.
Kid Safety on the Internet - November 20 9:00
- 12 noon Waterloo Public Library A & B - If you want copies
of the CD's you may fill in a MOU at the session - you may walk
in.
Fee: NO Charge, Registration now open on the state 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?
UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their
Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information
and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed
Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or
608-263-4452
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:
FROM: THIS is TRUE: 5 November 2006
Copyright http://www.thisistrue.com
BURNING MAD: When Alton Verm of Conroe, Texas, saw the book his
15-year- old daughter brought home from Caney Creek High
School, he was outraged. "It's just all kinds of filth,"
Verm said. It includes such inflammatory words as "damn"
and "hell", and Verm has filed a "Request for Reconsideration
of Instructional Materials" with the Conroe Independent School
District. He happened to file it during the American Library
Association's Banned Book Week. "I want to get the book taken
out of the class," he said. The book: Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit
451", a 1953 novel about a dystopian society where books
are banned and burned, freedom of speech is restricted, and
critical thought is suppressed. But Verm wouldn't know: he
admits he hasn't read the book. (Conroe Courier) ...So let
me guess: Verm is a fireman
BURNING IRONY II: Harrisonburg (Va.) High School had a display
of banned or "challenged" books to provoke thought about
the American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week.
"Had" is the key word here: Harrisonburg Schools Superintendent
Donald Ford ordered the display removed, since it might encourage
students to read them. Books in the display included Twain's
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn", Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", "The Diary of Ann Frank"
-- and the Bible. (Harrisonburg Daily News-Record) ...And
no wonder about the Bible: it includes such words as "damn" and
"hell".
Con: Should teachers use Turnitin.com? [Silver
Chips Online]
Turnitin.com is designed to prevent theft not only
from web resources such as scholarly journals and current events
articles, but also from the work of other students. As a result,
the subscription site compiles a database of all student work
ever submitted in order to prevent students from using materials
written by their peers, past and present. In effect, Turnitin.com
makes a profit - about 80 cents per student, according to a
Bloomberg article - by checking students' work for possible
plagiarism and then using that work, without the author's express
consent, to augment their database. Their database essentially is
filled with student-written work that the web site has no right
to use.
Oklahoma
bill ties library funds to gay-free kids? collections
On March 15 the
Oklahoma House passed by a 60?33 vote a bill that prohibits
local funding authorities and library boards from funding their
public libraries unless the libraries have ?place[d] all
children and young adult materials that contain homosexual or
sexually explicit subject matter in a special area [and limited]
distribution . . . to adults only.? The bill also specifies
that the state library must withhold funds from noncompliant
public libraries....
ALA
one year later: What it did right, where it needs improvement
Meredith Farkas writes: ?It?s been almost a year since I
wrote some posts about gripes I had with ALA and suggestions of
how the ALA could do better. At the time, I was seriously
considering letting my ALA membership lapse in the fall of 2006.
Yet last week, I put $200 on my credit card to renew my
membership in ALA, LITA, and NMRT, and to become a new member of
ACRL (which I was a member of as a student a while back). What
happened? Well . . . a lot.?...
Information Wants to
be Free blog, Nov. 11
 Evaluating
children?s music CDs
Ever aware of my 12th-grade English teacher, who impressed upon
me the need to organize and outline, I set out to define what I
focus on when I evaluate a new album. When this proved taxing, I
did what any self-respecting librarian would do. I turned to the
Web, which, surprisingly, yielded almost nothing. Everything I
found was pretty dry and not really relevant to the question. In
desperation, I decided to make my former teacher happy and create
a topic sentence. Here it is....
Bill
Harley helps launch ALSC Kids! campaign
When Grammy-nominated children?s singer/storyteller Bill Harley
took to the stage November 12 at Boston Public Library to
perform, it was no ordinary concert. His message was: ?There?s
so much to see, so much to do @ your library.? Harley helped
kick off the ALSC Kids! @
your library campaign, a new
national effort to raise awareness of all the free resources
available for children and families....
More
graphic novels in libraries = more challenges
When Amy Crump took over as director of the Marshall Public
Library in central Missouri two years ago, she decided to build
up the library?s offerings for young adults by buying the
literary world?s hot new thing?graphic novels. But libraries
are increasingly facing complaints from some parents who are
concerned that books with adult content could be read by children
attracted to the comic book-like drawings....
Associated Press,
Nov. 14
 New
Sony PRS-500 e-book reader
This year Sony tested the patience of e-book fans by twice
delaying the release of its new PRS-500
reading device, originally
promised for the spring. The company finally started taking
orders over the Web in September, and the gadget can now be
purchased at electronics stores and select Borders bookstores.
The device holds hundreds of digital books and displays them on a
unique ?electronic paper? screen invented by MIT Media Lab
researchers....
Technology
Review, Nov. 8
Web
resources for church librarians
Find help with selecting and purchasing materials, organizing and
managing a church library, promotion and fundraising, book care
and archiving, sources for supplies and furnishings, computers
and library automation, and sources for librarian support and
education....
National Church
Library Association
 Many
college students fall short on ICT literacy skills
Despite the assumption that today?s college students are tech
savvy and ICT literate, preliminary research (PDF file) released
by the Educational Testing Service November 14 shows that many
students lack the critical-thinking skills to perform the kinds
of information management and research tasks necessary for
academic success. ETS reached these conclusions after evaluating
the responses of 6,300 students who took the company?s ICT
(information and communication technology) Literacy Assessment
this year....
Educational Testing
Service, Nov. 14
 November
is American Indian/ Alaska Native Heritage Month
The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New
York. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush signed a joint
congressional resolution designating November 1990 as ?National
American Indian Heritage Month.? Similar
proclamations have been issued every year since 1994. Find out
more facts from the Census Bureau....
U.S. Census Bureau,
Sept. 20
In order recognize the changing role of school library media
programs now and in the future, AASL is developing new
learning standards for school
library media programs. The division is accepting
comments on its first
draft through December 8.
REPEAT:
Send us an e-photo of your library
[flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to
promote every one of our libraries.
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
Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.html
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:
County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of
your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you
will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round
Robin, Legislative Days et. al.
NEILSA closed dates: 11/23 & 24, 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007
- 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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THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE.
It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions
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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 encouraged and welcome to attend.
Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites tba) |
