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August 4, 2006

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

OCLC Founder Frederick G. Kilgour Dies at 92
Frederick G. Kilgour, founder of the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, died July 31 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at age 92. The Ohio College Association hired Kilgour in 1967 to establish a computerized library network on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus that became known as the Ohio College Library Center. Today OCLC?s WorldCat database contains over 70 million entries with more than 9,000 institutions as members....

Senators need to hear the views of library and information professionals on the Deleting Online Predators Act (H.R. 5319), which the House has passed and referred to the Senate. You can share with them personal stories about how you or your library patrons use social-networking sites in educational ways, or let them know how DOPA or similar legislation will affect libraries and library users if it passes.

 THE LSA:

CHANGE Cascade Public Library e-mail. It is cpl@netins.net

SW Library Services Blog is online:http://southeasternlsa.blogspot.com/

CE:

LIBRARY 101, coming up September 13^th The time is 9:00AM?12:00PM If you are interested let NEILSA know so we can schedule a site near you.

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....

The State Library is now taking registrations for Public Library Management 1 and 2 classes in the CE Catalog

(http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/).  PLM 1 will begin on Tuesday, September 12 and PLM 2 will begin on Wednesday, September 6.  The registration deadline for both classes is Monday, August 14.

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)

OPAL is an international collaborative effort by libraries of all types to provide web-based programs and training for library users and library staff members. These live events are held in online rooms where participants can interact via voice-over-IP, text chatting, and synchronized browsing. Everyone is welcome to participate in OPAL programs. Usually there is no need to register. Nearly all OPAL programs are offered free of charge to participants.
Examples of OPAL public online programs include book discussion programs, interviews, special events, library training, memoir writing workshops, and virtual tours of special digital library collections.
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.

ALA testimony against Library of Congress cataloging changes
ALA submitted testimony July 27 to the Committee on House Administration regarding the Library of Congress? decision to cease the creation of series authority records and treat all series only via transcription in bibliographic records....

Flickr + libraries = scary, scary, scary to some folks
Michael Stephens has some insight on Flickr, filtering, and fear: ?I want to tell everyone about a bit of drama that?s playing out right now, right after DOPA passed the House, and what may be boiling up (and over) in an important moment in time for social software, users, and libraries. The theme here for me is FEAR.?...
ALA Tech Source, July 28

Calling Melvil Dewey
Efforts to simplify catalog systems at the Library of Congress may soon make scholarly research a lot more complicated. Many librarians argue that moves by the nation?s oldest federal cultural institution could hinder the ability of professors and students nationwide to gather information....
Inside Higher Education, July 28

Comments requested on NCLIS/IMLS merger
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is requesting comments on a draft plan for the consolidation into IMLS of the National Commission on Library and Information Science and the public and state library statistics surveys of the National Center for Education Statistics. The plan, which would go into effect in fiscal year 2008, results from President Bush?s fiscal year 2007 budget request....
Institute of Museum and Library Services, Aug. 2

New Yorker debuts ?Ask the Librarians?
New Yorker librarians Jon Michaud and Erin Overbey have begun a monthly column called ?Ask the Librarians.? Its debut includes answers to the questions, ?When did Calvin Trillin start writing food pieces?? and ?What?s the first movie the New Yorker ever reviewed??...
Emdash, July 25

Amazon.com to offer MARC records
Amazon.com announced July 31 that it has launched Library Processing, a service that enables its library customers to receive Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) records and have books and other media they order from Amazon.com fitted with Mylar jackets, barcodes, and other essential preparation services....
Business Wire, July 31

Wikipedia celebrates 750 years of American independence (satire)
Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday. Founder Jimmy Wales said, ?According to our database, that?s 212 years older than the Eiffel Tower, 347 years older than the earliest known woolly-mammoth fossil, and a full 493 years older than the microwave oven.?...
The Onion, July 26

Best titles ever! (not satire)
After several emails on govdoc-l, the Free Government Information site compiled this list of government document titles that are interesting, strange, and intriguing?such as Distinguishing Bolts from Screws, Fertilizers in a National Emergency, and State-of-the-Art Dummy Selection....
Free Government Information, July 13

Some government document titles that are interesting/strange/intriguing.

Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/online-learningactivitywrittensummary.htm
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/

NEILSA closed dates: 9/4, 11/10, 11/23 & 24, 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007

• August - Applications for PLM I & II due
• August 31 - Enrich Iowa Letter due at SLI
• September - Library Card sign up month
• September 13 Library 101
• September 21 5:30 Fayette County Meeting Waucoma  KD
• September 23 - 30 - Banned Book Week
• September 27 - State Library/LSA Town Meeting (Waterloo Art and Rec Center)  ER & KD
• September 30 - Cataloging Supplement report due at SLI
• October 3 - Butler County Library Association at Parkersburg - 7:00
• October 11 - 13  - ILA Annual Conference in Council Bluffs  ER & KD
• October 15 - 21 Teen Read Week
• October 17 -  Readlyn, Bremer Co. meeting - 7:30
• October 17 - Clayton County Meeting 7:00 Gutenberg KD
• October 17 - Buchanan County Meeting Independence 7:00
• October 23 - Grundy Co. meeting, 9 a.m. in Grundy Center 
• October 27 -- Arlington 09:30 Fayette County Meeting KD
• October 30 - Annual Survey due at SLI
• Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the Spillville Public Library - Winneshiek County Meeting - KD
• Nov. 3 - ILA Planning Meeting KD
• November 13 - 19 - Children's Book Week
• November 23 & 24 NEILSA Closed for Thanksgiving
• December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas

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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