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life so short, the craft so long to learn ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Independence
Public Library is in the midst of fundraising for their
new library building. Recently they were awarded with a $550,000
grant from the CAT (Community Attraction and Tourism) Board, which
is part of Vision Iowa. The fundraising total has just passed
$2.5 million of the $3 million goal. The library will start
to go through the formal process that leads to bidding and plans
on breaking ground in the spring. The planned completion for
the new Independence Public Library, which will give them six
times the space they have now, is spring of '08!!
Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org
THE LSA: We
need to know now that your're getting individual e-mail
addresses more often with PLOW, which one or ones you want
subscribed to mail lists.
Mary our new e-rate clerk quit Thursday.
Today
in EYE-OPENER: {Thanks to Bonnue in NW LSA}
1) Sad
Loss for Spencer Library
2) A Plea
to PLOW Participants
3) The "Mature Web"
Reaches 100 Million Sites
1) Sad
Loss for Spencer Library: Dewey the Library
Cat, the beloved pet at Spencer P.L., died last week at age 19.
Dewey was famous the world over, the subject of countless local,
national, and international news stories and magazine articles through
the years. He had pen pals in Japan England, Canada, South Africa,
Belgium, and France. He was prominently featured on Spencer
Library?s website and the staff found that if you Google his name,
you?ll come up with about 200 hits. Most
everyone knows the story of how Spencer P.L. staff found a near-frozen
kitten in the book drop one fateful January morning in 1988.
His full name, Dewey Readmore Books, was chosen as the result of
a community wide cat-naming contest; that contest generated 387
entries. Dewey quickly settled into his new life as a library
mascot. His celebrity status helped raise thousands of dollars
for the library?s Friends Group. And his obituary made the
front page of Friday?s Sioux City Journal, along with national
newswires. Dewey proved an amazing PR force for Spencer Library?and
he?s sorely missed. 2)
A Plea to PLOW Participants: With the
first round of required PLOW
(Putting Libraries on the Web) classes
finished, participants have been busy setting up email accounts
for all staff members. A
plea from me to you: please let us know here at NWILS office about
your new email addresses. [Same goes for
NEILSA] We definitely need all you directors? new email handles.
And since one advantage of the PLOW
Project is more targeted communications
to individuals on staff, we?d also like to learn the new email addresses
for your children?s services people and your interlibrary loan people.
Messages are beginning to bounce here, so thanks for letting NWILS
office know your new email as your accounts take hold!
3) The
?Mature Web? Reaches 100 Million Sites:
Yes indeed, the PLOW Project
allows multiple email accounts for each library. But the greatest
benefit will be new and improved library websites hosted by SILO.
In light of Iowa?s PLOW
Project, with 300+ libraries participating
statewide?and 60+ of those being Northwest public libraries?here?s
a neat article that round-aboutly points to PLOW?s
significance. From the November
13th issue of OCLC Abstracts, according
to Netcraft?s latest web survey, there are now 101,435,253 websites
worldwide. The article explains
??not all of these sites are live: some are ?parked? domains while
others are abandoned weblogs that haven?t been updated in ages.
Nevertheless, there are still over 100 million websites that people
pay to keep running. Surpassing the 100M mark is a big milestone
and represents immense growth since the Web?s founding 15 years
ago. A chart shows the World Wide Web has experienced growth
in 3 stages: 1991?1997:
Explosive
growth at a rate of 850% each year 1998?2001:
Rapid
growth at a rate of 150% each year 2002?2006:
Maturing
growth
at a rate of 25% each year All
good stuff to use locally in touting your library?s participation
in PLOW,
along with this final quote:??the
web is no longer a marvel of innovation, it?s an everyday tool,
and you [website developers] differentiate yourself by providing
better content and better solutions to users? problems??
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: Kids
not so tech-savvy after all A new survey dispels the
myth that the next generation of kids are tech- savvy to be competent
in navigating the academic world, reports Campus Technology.
Microsoft
is releasing Live Search Books, its competitor to Google Book Search,
in beta on Wednesday. The book search engine performs keyword
searches for books that have been scanned as part of Microsoft's
book scanning project, in the same way that Windows
Live Search searches the Internet, said Danielle Tiedt, the
general manager of Live Search Selection for Microsoft. REPEAT:
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 deliver 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 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.statelibraryofiowa.org/events
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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SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting
The public is encouraged and welcome to attend.
Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN sites -- Keystone AEA
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