Friday Notes 2. An on-line resource for NEILSA Libraries
CE:
Confluence: At this writing, it looks like we may have
to cancel the program due to lack of interest. If it doesn't pay
for itself, we won't be holding it. We are going to have to rethink
our entire approach to ce. Call if you have any questions.
We will make the decision on cancellation Fri. (10/18) at noon.
Fall Confluence - at the Oelwein Community Center - Oct. 24-25. Registration
form available at http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html
Special Workshops:
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Support Staff Workshop - "Thanksgiving at the Library" - Fairbank Public
Library Nov. 8
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Topics in Library Administration - Oelwein Public Library, Nov. 22
OTHER CE: You must register with the listed provider.
Check:http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for_ia_libraries/continuing_ed/index.html
By sharing costs with the Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR),the
State Library is able to sponsor 8 teleconferences produced by the College
of DuPage. There is one each month November through June. ICN sites will
be announced. For the dates of the teleconferneces, go to http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/
and click on Continuing Education.
Library 101 - Dec. 11 - ICN
Self-Directed Learning Opportunities:
http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/Certification/alternate.htm
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
FROM: http://www.librarystuff.net
- "Those of us who learned our journalism before the mid-1990s, when
Internet use started to grow astronomically, understand that not all of
the worlds accumulated knowledge exists on Web servers, and probably never
will. Copyright, privacy, and the expense involved in digitizing
old documents effectively keep billions of information sources offline.
In the United States alone, more than three centuries worth of records
exist in non-digital form, and not every record generated today is computerized.
Yet most students who enrolled in the new course saw the Internet as not
only authoritative and reliable, but also comprehensive. They were genuinely
surprised that the wisdom of the ages has not been digitized and made accessible
through a Web browser. For them, the Internet looks like a free lunch."
"But search-engine journalism wont allow us to dig deeply. While teaching
the wonders of the Internet, we also must emphasize the importance of archives
and libraries and human beings. Tomorrow's journalists must learn that
the Internet hasn't made other research skills obsolete. It has made them
more valuable and necessary." (from The Columbia Journalism Review via
Journolist) (10/9/2002 4:38:00 AM)
County Meetings Scheduled:
If your county meeting is not on the schedule please contact NEILSA
LIBRARIAN'S ASSOCIATION OF ALLAMAKEE COUNTY ANNUAL MEETING
Saturday, October 19, 9:30 A.M. Robey Memorial Library Waukon, Iowa
Grundy County Library Association - October 28 9:00 am
at Beaman
Winneshiek County Library Association - November 7, 2002
7:00 at Calmar
In the EYE-OPENER from NWILSA:
1) Annual Report Deadline Looming:
Scary as it seems, Halloween is right around the corner. And that means
annual reports are due at the State Library by October 31st. Every public
library should have received an annual report form last April, to be completed
for FY 2001--2002. (officially known as PUBLIC LIBRARY GENERAL INFORMATION
SURVEY) You may complete the form on paper, or online by using WEB
COLLECT. Once completed, please send one copy to the State Library,
one copy to NEILSA office, and keep one for your own files. Call
with any questions, as the October 31st deadline is frighteningly close...
3) ILA Conference Sessions: Janie, Chris, and I [IN NE it was Eunice
& Ken] attended many good sessions at the ILA conference last week.
Here's some of the topics we listened to-:
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Being Successful in Small Libraries (pre-con on Wednesday)
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Marketing the Library
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Situational Leadership
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Getting the Best People for the Job: Recruiting & Hiring Employees
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50 More Web Sites in 50 Minutes
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The Electronic Environment and Traditional Reference Service
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The Roots of a Genealogical Collection
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Facts Don't Vote
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Programming for the Youngest
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Dogzilla, Slime, and Other Unfortunate Events After School
4) College of DuPage Teleconferences: Thanks to a partnership between the
State Library and BCR, the State Library will be able to sponsor 8 satellite
teleconferences produced by the College of DuPage in Illinois. One
teleconference is scheduled each month from November '02 through June
'03. Various ICN locations throughout the state will receive these broadcasts;
ICN locations will be announced.
Here's a preview of the teleconference topics:
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The 3-part Soaring to Excellence series (November, January, and March)
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Designing Web Pages (December)
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A 2-part series on Reference Services (February and April)
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A 2-part series on the Future of Electronic Databases and Information Services
(May and June)
These satellite teleconferences are 2 hours long, broadcast from 11:00AM--1:00PM
Central Standard Time. Many have attended DuPage programming in past years
and can vouch for consistently high quality content and speakers. These
are wonderful opportunities for libraries large and small. So please check
out specific calendar dates and full program descriptions at the College
of DuPage website http://www.cod.edu/teleconf/
Also check the State Library's website--and ours--for ICN locations
as they're announced.
New LINKS of interest:
- "The Debatabase [http://www.debatabase.org/]
is a searchable reference utility for debaters around the world. Enter
keywords in the search engine above to search our directory of debating
topics, each with arguments for and against, background information, user
contributions and much more." (via Black Stump)
The Library of Congress has added three new exhibits to their American
Memory online collection.
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 is available
at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/
.
There are about 15,000 pages here covering the travels of the first
Europeans into the trans-Appalachian West.
Materials include books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, ledgers,
maps, and physical artifacts.
Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 is available
at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/
. It includes 49 diaries of pioneers moving across American to Utah, Montana,
and the Pacific between 1847 and 1869. The collection also includes 43
maps and 82 photographs.
Finally, Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History,
1884-1934 is at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/fmuhtml/
. This site contains personal correspondence, essays, typescripts, photographs,
maps, and postcards from individuals and the government. Topics covered
include the establishment of the Everglades National Park and several other
topics relating to natural resources and the conservation movement.
YOU WROTE: snippets from your e-mails:
>Ken,
>Why do you reprint the Eye-Opener, why don't you reprint all of it,
and what happened to last weeks issue?
1. I reprint the Eye-Opener for several reasons I like the way Bonny
writes & she covers several important topics of statewide interest
that I would have to cover. Seems nice to share her views and release
you from reading my copy entirely. Bonny and the many other sources
I copy have good data and provide some variety.
2. Because some of it is just NWILSA material and intended for that
entire LSA, you get the full topics in the Index so if you want to compare
Bonny & Christine's county meeting schedule with Eunice & Ken's
you may do so.
3. Last week's Eye-Opener covered, in the editors opinion (ITEO), all
local LSA material of interest to NW libraries only.
Jan in Dunkerton reports that if you use "Popup Stopper" you will have
problems with WebCollect, you need to turn "Popup Stopper" off (disable
it).
FEEDBACK:
- "Librarians are taught that there are mainly two approaches to working
with information in whatever form. The first, and most popular, approach
is that of the enabler. That's not an enabler in the negative co-dependency
sense, but in the positive, help-people-find-what-they-need sense. The
ALA, for example, is all about open access to information. Another, much
less talked about roll that librarians play is in limiting access, called
gate keeping. The second approach is more custodial. Archivists, for instance,
often limit access to rare materials in order to keep them in good condition.
Another, more controversial example would be a library which limited access
based on content, i.e.; keeping a book which used "objectionable" language
or explicit photos behind the reference counter where a person would have
to ask for it before being able to see it. The most extreme gate keeping
is limiting access to information because, for your own reasons, you simply
don't want users to have it. It's yours, you care for it, they have to
prove they are worthy before they can get to what they need." (10/16/2002
8:30:00 AM)
CHANGES: Updates – Addresses & such - None reported
CONSORTIA NEWS & E-Rate: This last weekend (mostly) people
received two different faxes/USPS mail e-rate related communications.
1. In spreadsheet format was for last
year (aka Funding Year 2001) and was a listing of all the applicants who
the USAC/SLD had listed as having not received refunds. IF you did
not receive one of these fax sheets (aka "the Great B.E.A.R. search) contact
Ken immediately, if you have not returned yours - you have until noon 10/18
(today) to do so.
2. In paragraph format is the current
year Form 486 (the form used to start discounts) this is required in order
to get discounts flowing, if you have not returned yours - you have until
noon 10/18 (today) to do so.
WARNING:
In a few weeks you will be getting a survey about your plans for me
to use in filing next years e-rate application. It will be in this
part of the Blog. Please keep an eye out for it. Nothing
that is not ordered on the Form 471 that results from this survey has any
chance of being funded during the year July 2003 - June 2004.
END PLATE: Long Announcements, Supporting
Documents, & other "stuff"
- "One Stat, the number one provider of real-time website analysis
software, today reported that Googles global usage share continues to rise
and that Google's search site is the number one in the world. Googles global
usage share has reached an all time high and has risen from 53.2 percent
to 55.1 percent. Google's global usage share has increased 1.9 percent
the last 2 months . Yahoo's global usage share remains stable. The second
largest search engine on the web has a global usage share of 20.6 percent."
(from One Stat via NUA Surveys) (10/15/2002 8:03:00 PM)
- "It has been estimated that the amount of textual information accessible
via search engines is at least 40 times larger than the digitized content
of all the books in the Library of Congress, the world's largest library.
It is a challenge to provide access to such a large volume of information,
yet current search engines do remarkably well in sifting through the content
and identifying related links to queries."
"There is a multitude of information providers on the web. These include
the commonly known and publicly available sources such as Google, InfoSeek,
NorthernLight and AltaVista, to name a few. A second group of sources--sometimes
referred to as the "hidden web"--is much larger than the public web in
terms of the amount of information they provide. This latter group includes
sources such as Lexis-Nexis, Dialog, Ingenta and LoC. They remain hidden
for various reasons: they may not allow other information providers access
to their content; they may require subscription; or they may demand payment
for access. This article is concerned with the former group, the publicly
available web search services, collectively referred to here as search
engines." (from Scientific American via Search Engine Guide) (10/15/2002
7:55:00 PM)
- "FBI agents walked into libraries looking for suspicious readers more
than200 times in the months after the bombing of the World Trade Center
on Sept. 11, 2001."
"Here's something they forgot to read on the way in: "Congress shall
make no law .. abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government
for a redress of grievances." (from Law.com) (10/11/2002 7:29:00 PM)
- "This Wise Guide portal was designed to introduce you to the many
fascinating, educational and useful resources available from the nation's
library and one of the most popular Web sites of the federal government."
"The "Wise Guide" will be refreshed monthly, much like a magazine, offering
links to the best of the Library's online materials. Each of these "articles"
is based on items contained in a collection, database, reading room or
other area of the Library's online offerings. You will see that we are
"more than a library," and our holdings range from prints, photographs,
films, audio recordings, maps, manuscripts, music and digital materials
to (of course) books. We are also a place that sponsors concerts, lectures,
dance performances, film screenings, and poetry readings. We hope the Guide's
monthly "articles" will encourage you to explore the millions of items
we make available at www.loc.gov. (10/11/2002 7:27:00 PM)
- "When the Supreme Court rules Wednesday on Eldred vs. Ashcroft --
a case challenging the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Act, which
extended copyright by 20 years -- it could send a stack of literary classics,
including "The Great Gatsby" and "A Farewell to Arms," into the public
domain."
The fine print stuff
blogs - Friday Notes 2 AT -
http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/
SOME MISCELIANEA AT: http://fridaynotes2.pitas.com
NOTICE – DISCLAIMER - pick one,
any one will do.
MY disclaimer:
Basically my opinions are my own,
shared by no one else (sometimes), and are not the opinions of my agency,
my board, my co-workers, my parents, siblings, relatives, my dogs or most
any other know life form. Except, of course, those very bright concerned,
sensitive, perceptive &, in general, well educated, widely read and
cultured individuals who wish to share this peculiar road to ruin, as well
as a couple of down & out drugged out beatniks from the good old days.
OK? The "Prime Directive" applies.
Edited by:
Ken Davenport - NEILSA Consultant
davenport@neilsa.org
COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002:
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Please note: material found on
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NOTE: If credited [via ???] or
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August 2, 2002
BOILER PLATE FOOTNOTES:
1. WARNING: I will be able to give
you about a 5 working day warning on deadlines (bye-mail, less otherwise)
I have 10 days to reply, if I miss the deadline, well I won't miss, if
you miss ... I'll send it in late but ... |
