Friday Notes

September 1, 2006

 

Discussion group books available for the 2006 All Iowa Reads book Gilead.
From Denise: All Iowa Reads - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Request for Reporting Your Challenges
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom has seen a steady increase in reported book challenges in our libraries. That is, until this year. This year, for some unexplained reason, there have been fewer challenges reported to the office. Our sense, based upon news reports, is that challenges continue to occur at a high level, yet they are not being reported. Due to budget cutbacks, the OIF no longer subscribes to a clipping service that can provide this valuable information. It is extremely important to our defense of Intellectual Freedom that the Association is able to track these challenges. It is especially important as we approach Banned Books Week (September 23-30). The data we gain through reported challenges help us prepare this program and understand the issues facing our members.

Please spread the word in your state and region that the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom would like to receive reports of all materials challenged in our libraries. Reports--all kept confidential--can be made to ebyrne@ala.org or dstone@ala.org, or online at http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/challengesupport/reporting/challengedatabaseform.html Further information concerning challenges may be viewed on the OIF Web site at http://www.ala.org/oif/challengesupport

Thank you for your help! Kent Oliver Chair, Intellectual Freedom Committee.

THE LSA:

NEILSA Van to ILA: Space for 3 people, contack Ken - Cost split by riders.

ILA Conference Commercial: (Mostly stolen from the Eye Opener) In Council Bluffs! The 2006 Iowa Library Association Conference is October 11-13 at the Mid-America Conference Center in Council Bluffs. The theme is ?Libraries, Literacy, and Learning in the 21st Century? Here?s a look at just some of the conference sessions:

A Quality School Library Bringing It All Back Home (lobbying and advocacy) Library 2.0 Leadership Literacy Weblogs in the Library Best of Iowa Libraries? Public Relations Managing a Volunteer Program Transforming Reluctant Readers in to Ravenous Readers All Libraries Serve Learners A Great City Deserves a Great Library

All this and much more: 4 pre-conferences Wednesday daytime, ?The Ghosts of Council Bluffs? tour on Wednesday night, Thursday night?s banquet with Des Moines actor Tom Milligan, and Friday?s luncheon with Marilynne Robison, author of the 2006 All Iowa Reads book Gilead.

You?ll find conference details in the May/June and July/August issues of The CATALYST, as well as on ILA?s website: www.iowalibraryassociation.org Conference registration is due by September 29th.

Discussion group books available for the 2006 All Iowa Reads book Gilead. Friday?s luncheon at ILA is with Marilynne Robison, author of the 2006 All Iowa Reads book Gilead.

Job Opening LIBRARY ASSISTANT - Northeast Iowa Library Service Area, Full-Time salaried position, 40 hrs/wk. Salary: $17,000 to $21,000, depending on experience. Benefits include health & dental insurance. For job description/application visit: http://www.neilsa.org/searchcomm/index.html

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.

CE:

LIBRARY 101, coming up September 13th The time is 9:00AM?12:00 noon If you are interested let NEILSA know so we can schedule a site near you. Current sites scheduled West Union and Waterloo.

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.

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: OutReaching Teens Pain in the Brain: New Technologies and New Literacies for Teens 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.

Stuff: What if you've accidentally deleted important files... 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... Drafted: I Want You to Deliver E-Government

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

Due Date:

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
  

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.

LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting

The public is encourged and welcome to attend.

NEXT NEILSA Board meeting: Sept. 11, 2006 2:00 p.m., Oelwein Public Library

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