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DOPA quote:
?The good news is that most technically savvy kids are going to show this soon-to-be law exactly the respect that it deserves. . . . The bad news, as Ars Technica points out, is that adults who would be capable of and inclined to help kids make safe online choices are now cut out of the loop, since kids are going to have to sneak around to use these sites. It?s abstinence education for computers, and likely to work exactly as well.?
Angela Gunn, in a posting about the Deleting Online Predators Act on USA Today?s Tech_Space blog, July 28.
COMING: Web Junction class co-sponsored by SLI & NEILSA, Thursday October 19, 9 - 12 overflow session 1 - 4 in West Union. This is an advanced notice we are NOT ready for registration yer, watch the New Friday Notes for registration information. Class size limited for this class.
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....
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. 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.
Razing The Tower Of e-Babel
Welcome to the Tower of e-Babel. The Tower is the bane of publishers, online retailers, librarians and book-lovers. In the past few decades, at least 20 clashing e-book formats have popped up...
Public access computing grows, but libraries need more funding
to serve as the first refuge and last resort for e-government
support, public computing, and Internet access
?GROW YOUR OWN @ YOUR LIBRARY? INSTITUTIONAL SCHOLORSHIP APPLICATION
AVAILABLE ONLINE
Apply by December 1
PLA is now accepting applications for its popular ?Grow Your
Own @ Your Library? institutional scholarship through the online
application form, available at www.pla.org.
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. Please
see the award application for more information on the nine service
population categories.
The scholarship terms require that $6,500 be used directly for
payment of tuition at the undergraduate level, or for coursework
at an ALA-accredited library school at the graduate level, for
as many staff as the recipient library chooses. The remaining
$1,500 is to be used to support attendance for one or more of
the selected scholarship recipients to attend PLA-sponsored
continuing education.
Google Book Search now offers PDF files of scanned books
that can be downloaded and printed for free, Google announced
on Wednesday. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6110950.html
Google: These books are free [CNET News.com]
Old-time
youth adventure books in vogue again
Those of a certain
age may remember with fondness the books of their youththose
sweet, innocent boys? and girls? adventure books from the 1930s,
1940s, and 1950s. Pure as the driven snow, they weretheir
characters didn?t use drugs, have sex, or cuss. Demand for these
relics appears to be on the increase, elevating them almost
to collectors? status. And that is forcing libraries to rethink
how they will protect books they didn?t realize had that much
value....
Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel,
Aug. 25
The
joy of reading
Barbara Rowley
offers tips on how to make learning to read a pleasure for babies,
toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartnersand what to
look for when choosing books for them....
Parenting magazine,
Sept.
Google
now offers public domain books in PDF format
Starting August
30, readers can find new, free, downloadable PDF versions of
some of the world?s greatest books on Google
Book Search. The search engine company has expanded access
to books that are out of copyright and have become public domain
material. To easily find books to download, readers can select
the ?Full view? button when searching on Google Book Search,
and then click on the ?Download? button shown on public domain
books....
Google, Aug. 30
Public
domain books, ready for your iPod
Kara Shallenberg
and her 10-year-old son, Henry, exhausted the audiobook collection
at their library in Oceanside, Calif., five years ago. With
Henry?s appetite for listening still strong, Ms. Shallenberg
began to record herself reading his favorite books. Eventually
she upgraded from a using a tape deck to burning CDs on her
laptop computer. Last fall, she took her hobby to a wider audience....
New York Times,
Aug. 25
Library
emerges as information hub in shattered Mississippi town
Library cards may
have been washed away by Hurricane Katrina, but it doesn?t really
matter. Patrons in Pass Christian, Mississippi, are making do
with a makeshift library that was set up in a 28-by-72-foot
trailer in November. Although small, the temporary library has
17,000 volumes, wireless internet access, computers and laptops,
group meeting space, and three full-time staff to help people
find whatever they need....
Oakland (Calif.) Tribune,
Aug. 26
Schools
rediscover libraries
School libraries
in Tulsa (Okla.) Public Schools are undergoing a renaissance,
thanks to a wave of voter-approved bond issues that began a
decade ago. So far, a total of $34.43 million from 1996, 1999,
2001, and 2005 bond issues has been dedicated to library resources
and the renovation and new construction of facilities....
Tulsa (Okla.) World,
Aug. 29
Life
in prison for library kidnapper
James Effler, 33,
was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, less
than an hour after 12 Polk County jurors found him guilty of
first-degree kidnapping for luring a 29-month-old toddler into
a restroom and locking the door at the downtown Des Moines library
last October 9....
Des Moines (Iowa) Register,
Aug. 26
September
is National Preparedness Month
The ALA Washington
Office urges librariesas community leadersto take
charge in making sure their communities are prepared in the
event of an emergency or disaster. The latest surveys show that
83% of Americans are unprepared to help themselves in a disaster,
while the National Heritage Health Index discovered that 70%
of libraries did not have a disaster plan....
ALA Washington Office,
Aug. 25
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
- September - Library Card sign up month
- September 13 Library 101 [Booked West Union & Waterloo]
- 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 - Allamakee County Library Association - 7:30 KD
- October 3 - Butler County Library Association at Parkersburg - 7:00 ER
- October 3 - Howard County Library Association atCresco - 7:00 DL
- 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 DL
- October 17 - Clayton County Meeting 7:00 Gutenberg KD
- October 17 - Buchanan County Meeting Independence 7:00 ER
- 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
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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