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Notes
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New Friday Notes:
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The
life so short, the craft so long to learn
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check out the NEILSA main page
at: http://neilsa.org
ERR,
that is after we get it fixed, IF you have been having problems
getting to us it is because of a "server" problem. Our crack team
of specalists is/has been working on it and as soon as she gets
it fixed we will be back, without passwords et. al. At this writting
we are about 85% back.
THE LSA:
Christmas
in Westgate @ Westgate Opera House
December 2 & 3, 2006 No admission fee
Saturday 10:30-3:00 p.m. & Sunday 2:00- 5:00 ? Westgate Opera
House
Saturday 10:30-11:30 Crafts for the kids
Sunday 3:00 Variety Show
Christmas Trees and decorations on display.
Many craft and bake items for sale and raffle.
Live Christmas music to enjoy as you walk through Westgate's Winter
Wonderland
Soup and Sandwich lunch will be available for purchase on Saturday.
All proceeds from this weekend will go towards the new library building.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will match money raised.
In case of bad weather, Christmas in Westgate will be held Dec.
9 & 10
Make Sure Your ISP Doesn't Filter Your Friday Notes/Newsletters
as Spam
From Heinz Tschabitscher, Edited by Ken
Your Guide to Email.
You may not be aware of it, but your Internet Service
Provider (ISP) is probably filtering all your email for spam automatically.
As long as they only filter out the spam this is a good thing (though
not even this should happen without the user's consent), but important
mail or newsletters may fall victim to these spam filtering tactics,
too. The ISP is certainly not doing this on purpose, so you should
inform them about the situation to help avoid such false positives.
If you are suspecting that your ISP is filtering mail you do want
to receive ? if you have signed up for The New Friday Notes for
example, but never got an issue, or delivery suddenly stopped:
?Visit your ISP's support Web site and look for their
spam policy.
- Maybe you can opt out of the filtering,
- whitelist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist]
certain senders manually (to make sure you're receiving the New
Friday Notes and other LSA mailings, whitelist the "neilsa.org"
domain, for example) or
- report specific problems through a dedicated form.
? If you find neither of these options, contact
your ISP via email or by phone and describe the problem with as
much detail about the erroneously blocked email as possible. In
our example of Friday Notes not showing up in your Inbox, tell your
ISP something like:
Hi, I have need for e-mail from the NE Iowa Library
Service Area at neilsa.org. Unfortunately, I am not getting the
Friday Notes (other mail) from NEILSA. Can this have something to
do with server-side spam filters catching this wanted piece of mail?
Could you please investigate this and whitelist "neilsa.org"? thanks
a lot!
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
VAN Service:
AEA 267 last delivery date will be Thursday & Friday,
December 21 & 22, 2006. They will resume delivery on Thursday
& Friday, January 4 & 5, 2007.
AEA 1 last delivery date will be Monday & Tuesday, December
18 & 19, 2006. They will resume delivery on Thursday & Friday,
January 4 & 5, 2007
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
CE:
The next LIBRARY 101 is set for December 12th
at West Union - Registration required (using the statewide CE catalog)
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:
Conclusion http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp?bhcp=1
Many of the most important disconnects between library priorities
and millennial generation values are closely related to the way
libraries conceive, create, and provide public computing infrastructure.
The promise of seamlessness that stems from ubiquitous computing
access and instantly available networked information is, unfortunately,
stifled significantly within the libraries of today. Certainly,
accommodating changing user preferences is not the only priority
that drives library decisions. A basic philosophical issue for libraries
is the extent to which we should move in the direction of the users
and how much we should expect users to move in our direction.
In a recent article,4 Carr discussed two indicators for change
in academic libraries in recent years: competition and electronic
information. Competition has driven libraries toward their users'
needs at least in terms of library as place; thus the abundance
of libraries that are remaking their physical space in the likeness
of a typical third space (for example, a coffee shop). Unfortunately,
support for user needs in terms of their virtual information space
still rigidly adheres to old values that force online users to find
other paths to information, often not even realizing what their
own library has to offer. Finding the right way to achieve balance
between traditional library values and the expectations and habits
of coming generations will determine whether libraries remain relevant
in the social, educational, and personal contexts of the Information
Age.
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
- January 27th Fayette
CLA Legislative Day is Saturday, from 9:00-10:30
- April 3 at Shell Rock, Benny Gambiani
Library Butler County Library Association Meeting
- April 19th Fayette Spring
Meeting is at 9:30 at the Arlington Public Library
- September 19th Fayette
Fall Meeting is at the Clermont Public Library at 6:00 p.m
- Oct. 2 at Allison Public LibraryButler
County Library Association Meeting
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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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) |
