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life so short, the craft so long to learn
FYI
Items being sent
from any AEA-267 library going to any AEA-1 library will not be
going until after the delivery starts back up in January. Please
mail these items. The last exchange for the year has already occured.
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
Have
you completed your survey?
ALA and Florida State University?s College of Information are surveying
(PDF
file)
a national sample of public libraries regarding internet connectivity
and computing access. Your library may have been chosen to participate
(and incidentally be eligible to win a 2 GB iPod
nano).
The deadline for responding is February 1. More information on the
project is available from the FSU Information
Use Management and Policy Institute....
THE LSA:
NEILSA closed
dates: 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007
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.
Materials costs are up:
Periodicals increased by 7.8%
Monographic materials - Hard cover increased
by 6.2%
CPI for the same period 3.4%
FROM: Bowker Annual 2006
FROM this weeks EYE-OPENER
from NWILSA
3)
Dewey Cooks Makes Nice Christmas Gift:
Last minute shoppers take note of this tasty gift idea. Dewey
Cooks is a cookbook of 374 recipes from 23 states and 4 countries,
all contributed by people from public, academic, school, and special
libraries, as well as businesses that support libraries. This cookbook
is the brainchild of Dubuque Public Library director Susan Henricks.
Recipes are presented in Dewey Decimal order, complete with Library
of Congress subject headings J
But wait, there?s more: hundreds of quotes sprinkled throughout
the book share what writers have had to say about food and cooking
throughout history. And you can even take a virtual tour of the
book here: www.dubuque.lib.ia.us
Profits from
Dewey Cooks will be donated to the Iowa Library Association
Foundation. For one book, the cost is $15.00 + $3.75 shipping (add
$5.00 shipping for 2 books, $6.00 shipping for 3; to obtain a quote
for shipping more than 3, contact the editor at deweycooks@mchsi.com)
Make check payable to Susan Henricks and mail
your order to:
Susan
Henricks
2108
North Main Street
Dubuque,
IA. 52001
CE
IF you went to
Library 101 and need a certificate contact Ken right away please.
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:
A good article in Nov/Dec 2006 Public Libraries p 40 Fund-raising
Perks of Library Cafes includes a "rural" library coffee station.
PLA's
proposed new service responses: A draft
June Garcia and Sandra Nelson have reviewed all of the comments
from the three open meetings during the 2006 Annual Conference and
on the PLA Service Response blog, and they have identified 17 new
or revised service responses. As the process continues, the service
response descriptions will be expanded to include suggested target
audiences, common library services and programs, required resources,
and suggested measures for each. PLA will be accepting comments
on this draft until January 1 and will present a revised draft at
the upcoming Midwinter Meeting....
PLA
Blog, Dec. 6
Net
Neutrality proponents prepare for next battle
A bill that would have allowed telecommunications and cable companies
to prioritize internet content by allowing higher-speed information
delivery for higher-paying customers has died. The 109th Congress
closed early December 9 without action on the Communications Opportunity,
Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006. But the Save the
Internet coalition is gearing up to continue lobbying for network
neutrality when the 110th Congress convenes....
Information
Week, Dec. 11
 Microsoft's
Live Search Books
Tom Peters writes: "After playing around for an hour or so
with the recently released public beta version of Microsoft's Live
Search Books, I have to admit against some vague sense that
my better judgment is failing me that I like it. On December 6,
when the beta version was released to the public, I conducted a
couple of sample searches on phrenology and spontaneous
combustion." Discover what he found out....
ALA
TechSource blog, Dec. 12
Spanish
for library staff
WebJunction is offering a variety of resources to help library staff
learn and use Spanish in their work with Spanish-speaking patrons.
Included is the workbook and mp3 audio tracks from Infopeople?s
Survival
Spanish for Library Staff
course (54:51) that offers the Spanish pronunciation of commonly
used library terms and selected patron questions with answers in
Spanish....
WebJunction
Internet
search engine safety
A recent survey conducted by antivirus software company McAfee compared
the safety of leading search engines, using McAfee SiteAdvisor?s
automated website ratings. It found that most search engines are
similar in the safety of the sites they link to, though AOL has
replaced MSN as the safest engine and Yahoo! replaced Ask as the
engine with the most risky results....
McAfee,
Dec. 11
REPEATS:
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
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.htm
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!!
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.
- 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
- June 21- 27 ALA 2007 Annual Conference in Washington D.C.
- 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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LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting
The public is encouraged and welcome to attend.
Next meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (AEA1 - Elkader &
Hudson Public Library) |
