Friday Notes for May 2, 2008

IT'S YOUR MONEY.

Current tier status and measures not met (if applicable).

The LSA can help you to meet many of these measures if YOU ASK.

In many cases measures are not being met that can easly be met with a little effort. Contact Eunice or Ken for an In Service Housecall


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02 May 2008 - 12:27

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Friday Notes for 04/25/2008

Your comments vital:

The following classes have been suggested.
If you would like to see them this summer or fall, you MUST tell me so in the comments section at the end of this Friday Notes.  Ken

1. Open Meetings Law - Outside Speaker  3 hours ce
    How to be in compliance, closed meetings, what meetings must be posted.

2. Hireing personell - Outside Speaker 3 hours ce
    Dos and Daonts of hiring, giving references
    Volenteers and Community Service Workers

3. Foundations and Friends groups, How to Organize.
    Foundations - Outside Speaker 3 hours ce afternoon session
    Friends Group - Outsie Speaker 3 hours ce morning session

4 Office 2007 - A series 3 hours each session, Librarian Speaker

5. Policy Establishment and Review for Boards & Directors 3 hours ce
    See below (at end of Friday Notes) for a policy checklist.  This class will review the policies that the workshop participants identify as       being needed in their library. 

6. In Service to Iowa - Tips and Tricks to comply with the Standards 3 hours ce Local Speakers

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25 April 2008 - 12:37

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Friday Notes for 04/18/2008

An IMPORTANT reminder:

An FAQ on the Iowa Workforce Development Web site says:
"Q. Can my employer make me attend a meeting, lecture, or training without paying me?

A. If any such gathering is required by an employer, or if an employerleads its employees to believe they will receive adverse treatment for
not attending, the employer must pay its employees for the time spent in attendance."

See http://www.iowaworkforce.org/labor/wagefaqs.pdf

If you want to double check with Iowa Workforce Development, their contact information is:

Iowa Workforce Development
1000 East Grand Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0209
Telephone: (515) 281-5387 or (800) JOB-IOWA

An important part of the directors job is to keep your trustees up to speed on these things.  This is especally true if your trustees have not had trustee education recently - things change. See Standards

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18 April 2008 - 13:11

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New Friday Notes for 04/11/2008

THIS WEEK: 

Take a look at your communities web presence does it link to the library? Does it look sharp? Does the library web site look up to date or stale?  Is there anything on your website that would make someone come back? Can you fill in some of the holes in the information that is not on the community website?  Is the library an e-asset to the community or just another building? WHY?

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11 April 2008 - 12:19

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Friday Notes

FROM: PLA Confrence

Something to think about - comments encourged.

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07 April 2008 - 10:09

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Friday Notes for 03/21/2008

ON CONSULTING:

We have not succeeded in answering all your problems.

The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions.

In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

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21 March 2008 - 11:44

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Friday Notes for 03/15/2008

What if they made a policy and no one used it?
Despite some heated public debates, officials of the Cook Memorial Public Library District in Libertyville, Illinois, say no parents have taken advantage of a new policy allowing them to restrict what videos or DVDs their kids can check out. The plan went into effect February 19 after it was approved by the library board. The board’s 5-1 vote followed months of discussions prompted by complaints from a few parents....
Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald,Mar. 1

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14 March 2008 - 12:09

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County Data for Planning Now Available Online

USA Counties now features more than 5,900 data items for the United States, the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia), and all of the nation’s 3,141 counties or county equivalents. Data are available on county residents’ ages, ancestries, education, employment, and income, as well as poverty, the labor force, available social programs, and more. The Census Bureau manages this source for data on U.S. counties. http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml

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06 10 08 AEA 267 begins summer delivery schedule -

06 18 08 Shared ILS Information Session - ICN. 10-11:30 a.m.

06 25 08 ALA Annual Conference - Anaheim, CA

06 27 08 Enrich Iowa Agreements due at the State Library -

07 04 08 Happy Independence Day! - NEILSA Office closed.

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10 07 08 Butler County Library Assn. - Clarksville. 7:00 p.m.

Howard County Library Assn. - Cresco.  7:00 p.m.

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