Friday
Notes
Archive
November 24, 2006
New Friday Notes:
notes for next week The
life so short, the craft so long to learn ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org
THE LSA: 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. Reminder:
as libraries move to new email addresses with the PLOW project,
they need to let NEILSA know of the change Good
Morning and Happy Thanksgiving! Today in EYE-OPENER:
1)
December 1st Deadline to Order Tax
Forms
2)
Deadlines to Order Summer Library Program Incentives
3)
Da Vinci Code Read-A-Likes:
4)
Meetings / Events This Week ? DROPPED Ken 1)
December 1st Deadline to Order Tax
Forms: If your library
provides the service of distributing tax forms, then you need to
be mindful of the December 1st ordering deadline. To
expedite your order, the Iowa Dept. of Revenue asks that you use
their website: www.idr.iowa.gov/taxforms/index.asp
This site allow you to access your current account?or allows
you to create an account if your library does not already have one.
You may also update mailing information such as contact name, street
address, email address, etc. Actually,
libraries could begin placing orders in early October. But
time flies and if you?ve not yet done so, orders must be entered
online by December 1st to ensure timely delivery. The
Dept. of Revenue will begin shipping in late December. Use
the same UserID/Password from years past to place your 2006 order.
If you?ve forgotten your UserID/Password or can?t access the application,
call 515-281-5370 for help. All questions can be answered
by calling this number or checking the website above.
2)
Deadlines to Order Summer Library Program Incentives: Another
deadline to note, this one concerning orders for Summer Library
Program incentives and prizes. Believe it or not, the first
deadline for ordering incentives from UPSTART is?yep?December 1st
?- that is if you want to receive shipment by March
1, 2007. But not to
worry: if you can?t think about summertime fun while you?re up to
your elbows in turkey and cranberry sauce, there are more ordering
opportunities ahead. Orders sent on January 1st
will be shipped April 1st; orders sent on April 1st
will be shipped May 15th. Remember the theme for
Summer Library Programs 2007 is GET
A CLUE @ YOUR LIBRARY. Call UPSTART toll-free at
1-800-448-4887 or go to www.highsmith.com
3)
Da Vinci Code Read-A-Likes: The
Da Vinci Code?as in the
Ron Howard/Tom Hanks movie?is newly released on DVD, just in time
for holiday gift giving (actually, it?s not on my Christmas list
because I liked the book MUCH better J
) For your readers who, like me, loved the book and would like to
find something similar, here?s a nice piece of readers? advisory?Da
Vinci Code style?courtesy of Sioux City Public Library:
- Riptide
by Douglas Preston (involves treasure hunting and codes)
- The Camel Club by David Baldacci (the
mystique of secret societies and conspiracies)
- The Eighth Day by John Case (art world
and the Vatican)
- Seven Deadly Wonders by Matthew Reilly
and Treasure by Clive Cussler (features treasure hunters
galore)
- The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
and Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (illuminates Christian church
history)
- The Prophetess by Barbara Wood (the
role of women in the early church)
- A Clue for the Puzzle Lady by Parnell
Hall and The Crossword Murder by Nero Blanc (both authors
use crossword puzzles to advance the plot)
STOLEN Lock Stock & Barrel from the
NWILSA EYE-OPENER THANKS
Bonnie Dear Friends
of North-eastern Iowa Libraries, Greetings
from the Friends of the Decorah Public Library. We have for some
time thought that we all should be sharing more ideas of what good
things we are doing and examples we might take from each other that
could strengthen our various endeavours. While there are many activities
that we have done over the past several years one production we
would be willing to share that we are excited about and has proven
helpful to our work is a power point program that we have developed
to present both the work of our Library and our Friends group to
the community at various groups and clubs. If you would be interested
to see our presentation as a possible model which you might develop
for your Library and community feel free to contact Lois Roberts,
506 Mound Street Decorah, IA 52101 or Lorraine Borowski, Decorah
Public Library 202 Winnebago Street, Decorah IA 52101. Jim
Dale Decorah Friends of the Library Chair A
FORWARD from ILA office: Dear
friends, I'm a retired
prof. from UNI. I've got a collection of over 20 years
of National Geographics that I don't know what to do with--about
half of the issues in the "official" protective and dated binders
issued by the society. I know, believe me, that they
are hard to get rid of---but I'm wondering if there is a small public
library somewhere (preferably near to BlackhawkCounty) that would
like to have this collection. I would deliver. Thank
you, Dr. Thomas Tritle PLEASE contact Dr.
Tritle directly at: Thomas.Tritle at uni.edu CE:
The next LIBRARY 101 is set for December 12th
at West Union - Registration required or site is canceled, other
sites by request. 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
of 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/
STUFF: .ACLU
sues rural libraries over Internet filtering policies SPOKANE,
Wash. -- A rural library district was sued Thursday by the American
Civil Liberties Union over its Internet filtering policy. 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:
12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007
- December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas
The State Library's 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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