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Friday
Notes
Archive
September 22, 2006
New Friday Notes:
notes for next week The
life so short, the craft so long to learn.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
THE LSA:
CE:
TOWN MEETING
Returning for 2006 is "Library Talk," the smash
hit talk show featuring hot library issues. We will discuss how the public
sees libraries and the implications for the future. Some of the public's perceptions
about libraries will delight you; others will make you squirm. For a preview,
see http://www.lff.org/long_overdue061306.html
and http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm
In the afternoon, there are three concurrent
sessions, offered twice:
"EBSCOhost
- Latest upgrades and products" The session will cover searching in the newest
interfaces Kids Search and Student Resource Center. Recent upgrades from EBSCO
have included the Visual Search button, Clustering of results and Subject
Grouping. Expect to learn about these newest features and how to implement
for your users. (Judy Jones)
"Keep,
Toss, Organize:
How we're cleaning up the SILO Locator" Just
like a house the Locator database has become cluttered, disorganized and dirty.
At this session you'll learn what the State Library and libraries can do to
declutter, toss and clean up the SILO Locator. Uploading files, working on
exceptions lists and matching & merging of MARC records will be discussed.
(Marie Harms)
"Library
Board Orientation"
To be effective, every library board needs a basic understanding of their
responsibilities and power. This session will provide library directors with
ideas and resources so you can provide a basic orientation for your library
board. The primary topics will be library governance and funding. Please
bring a copy of your library ordinance to the session. (Sandy
Dixon and Mary Wegner)
REGISTER
Web Junction
class [Home of TechAtlas]
co-sponsored by SLI & NEILSA,
Thursday October 19, 9 - 12
Overflow session 1 - 4
In West Union.
WebJunction Iowa is an on-line community where library staff meet to share
ideas, solve problems, take on-line courses, and meet colleagues from around
the state and country. This hands-on class will give you the opportunity
to learn more about WebJunction Iowa. We will explore some of the information
that can be found on the site, register and sign up for an on-line class,
and learn to post to the web boards.
Cost $15.00
CE 3 to 5 ce's
Instructor Michele Leininger
Class size limited for this class.
Preference given to Consortia members
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 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
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.
Stuff:
 Homeless
patrons win in Worcester
The
Worcester (Mass.) Public Library board of directors decided September 12 to
permit homeless patrons who receive mail at a shelter or elsewhere to check
out as many books as any other patrons. The decision followed a class action
lawsuit filed in July by the Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts
and the American Civil Liberties Union, charging that the library?s borrowing
policies were unfairly restricting access for residents who live in homeless
shelters....
 We
the People Bookshelf theme is the ?Pursuit of Happiness?
Part
of the National Endowment for the Humanities We the People initiative,
the Bookshelf
is a grant program created to encourage young people to read and understand
great literature while exploring themes in American history. This year?s theme
is the ?Pursuit of Happiness.? In spring 2007, NEH and ALA will select 2,000
libraries to receive the Bookshelf....
Small-town
WWII letters collection goes to LC
As the town?s unofficial historian, Virginia Hoare always knew the contributions
Seneca, Missouri, gave to the World War II war effort. Now, because of her,
a rich compilation of Seneca soldiers? and sailors? letters and pictures,
as well as a treasure of other 1940s tidbits with a local flair, have recently
landed a place in scrapbook form at the Library of Congress....
Neosho (Mo.) Daily News, Sept.
18 Rural
Kansas public libraries survive, but just barely
Because of declining population and a tiny property tax base, one-third of
the 54 libraries that are part of the Central Kansas Library System can?t
raise enough tax revenue to pay a librarian to work just 10 hours a week.
The key to survival for small libraries, said James Swan, administrator of
the Great Bend-based system, is ?the will of the people.?...
Salina (Kans.) Journal, Sept.
3
In
March, 73 senators voted for the Arlen Specter/Tom Harkin amendment
that provided an additional $7 billion for education and related programs
in the FY2007 budget resolution. However, the Senate Appropriations Committee
reported out a bill that is $2 billion short of the FY2005 level, ignoring
the amendment. Visit ALA?s Legislative
Action Center for more details.
Teen Read Week is only one month away. Be sure to register
in order to get a free poster. Review ideas for displays, contests, reading
lists, and programs from the TRW website.
Q. Help!
With Banned
Books Week approaching, a 6th-grade teacher in my school assigned her
class a project of investigating why particular books have been banned. What
resources are there to help me?
A. As
you might guess, this is a ?Frequently Answered Question? at this time of
the year . . . see the website
for our answer.
Due Date:
NEILSA closed dates: 11/10, 11/23 & 24, 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007
- 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 at Cresco - 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 16 2007 9:30 Fayette County Meeting West Union KD
- November 13 - 19 - Children's Book Week
- November 23 & 24 NEILSA Closed for Thanksgiving
- December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas
The State Library's 2006 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
COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002:
THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE.
It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down
in the Design Science License published by Michael A at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
COPYRIGHT
Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under copyright
and is presented here for purposes of education and research only.
NOTE: If credited [via ???] or [from so & so] it is their material and not
covered by my "Copyleft" notice. Ken
LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting
The public is encourged and welcome to attend.
NEXT NEILSA Board meeting:
Nov.
13, 2006
2:00
p.m.,
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