Friday, November 15, 2002

Friday Notes 2.  An on-line resource for NEILSA Librarians CE: Topics in Library Administration - Oelwein Public Library, Nov.22 Special Workshops: One & two hour workshops at Fall & Spring county meetings, SLI workshops,  and 2 roundtables/year. By attending the full range of special workshops a librarian could get 16 ce's in a year, it would be a very one sided education but.... EBSCO training Summer Reading Workshops OTHER CE: You must register with the listed provider.  Check: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for_ia_libraries/continuing_ed/index.html Library 101 on December 11th. At   ELGIN-PUB LIB & HUDSON-PUB LIB Cost of EBSCO training is free Trainer is from EBSCO, Ted Newsham. Sponsor: Keystone AEA #1 Contact hours: 3 ce Description: EBSCOhost is a collection of magazine databases available to all AEA #1 schools and many public libraries. This training is designed to familiarize participants with the content of the collections and strategies for searching the collections. The Administrative model will also be introduced. The trainer, from EBSCO, will be available for a short time after the training for individual assistance. Two things to remember: 1. Participants must register ahead. If we don't have at least ten registrants by Nov. 25, we will cancel the training. 2. If weather is doubtful, registrants should call Keystone AEA the morning of the training to see whether training has been canceled or delayed. December 12. Contact ECLSA office to register. East Central Library Services is sponsoring the following workshop on LIBRARY BUILDING BASICS Whether you are considering remodeling, adding on to or replacing your existing library facility, this seminar is for you. Bruce and Bradd's presentation will provide you with a step by step approach to a library building project from identifying and quantifying your needs for building improvements to occupying your new library space. Along the way, they will discuss such topics as "should we add on to our existing library or build a new one?; "how much does a new library cost?" and "how do we determine how big of a site we need?" Additional topics will include working with a building consultant, site selection, code compliance, restoration of historic library structures, developing a project budget, fundraising and new trends in library facility design. Bradd and Bruce will share with you over 30 years of combined experience in designing libraries. They both believe that designing libraries are among the most satisfying projects that they work on as architects. Participants in this seminar will leave with a booklet full of useful library design information as well as a better understanding of the steps that will lead to a successful building project. DATE AND TIME: Thursday, December 12, 2002, 9:00-Noon LOCATION: Coralville Public Library, 1401 5th St. CONTACT HOURS AND FEE: Three Contact Hours Fee $5 DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: December 6, 2002 (24 hour cancellation is required or you will be charged) WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Directors, trustees and staff involved in the building or remodeling process. PRESENTERS: Bradd Brown, AIA and Bruce Hamous, AIA OPN Architects, Inc. ­ Library Design Specialists     Self-Directed Learning Opportunities: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/Certification/alternate.htm ANNOUNCEMENTS:     County Meetings Scheduled: If your county meeting is not on the schedule please contact NEILSA Allamakee County Meeting Black Hawk County Meeting Bremer County Meeting - April 8, 2002 @ 7:30 in Readlyn Buchanan County Meeting Butler County Meeting Chickasaw County Meeting Clayton County Meeting Delaware County Meeting - May 13, 2002 @ 7:00 in Edgewood P L Fayette County Meeting Grundy County Meeting Howard County Meeting Howard County Meeting Winneshiek County Meeting NOTICE: We have 5 e-books on loan from the SWILSA.  You may borrow them from us on ILL to test them out both with your staff and with patrons.  You will be asked to fill in a survey telling us what you & patron think.  There are currently 3 left to circulate and they circ for 1 month.     In the EYE-OPENER from NWILSA: (Lightly edited) 1) National Children's Book Week: Next week, libraries, classrooms, and bookstores across the country will celebrate National Children's Book Week, November 18-24. Sponsored by the Children's Book Council (the CBC) Children's Book Week has been a national celebration since 1919, traditionally held the week before Thanksgiving. The CBC also sponsors Young People's Poetry Week, celebrated in April each year. The CBC produces countless posters and bookmarks to note the occasions, along with t-shirts, tote bags, and more. Many of their posters and bookmarks are not date-specific and so can be displayed year after year. Visit the CBC website at http://www.cbcbooks.org or call toll free for a full catalog of posters and products (888-807-9355) Wishing you successful National Children's Book Week celebrations! 2) "Laugh It Up @ Your Library:" North Central LSA office co-ordinates the summer library programs each year, in partnership with the State Library and a consortium of midwest states. The summer theme for 2003 is "Laugh It Up @ Your Library." This note from North Central LSA is worth repeating: "...by now, each public library in Iowa should have received a packet of Summer Library Program materials. The packet included the 2003 SLP manual (blue cover) the 2003 Young Adult SLP manual (purple cover) an Incentives Order Form, a MULTIMEDIA STORYTIME ACTIVITY BOOK, and a schedule of the SLP workshops around the state. If you have not received this mailing, please contact Karen Day at North Central LSA (kday@nclsa.lib.ia.us)..." If you're already looking ahead to the new year and have acquired 2003 calendars--then please take note of the dates for the Summer Reading Program workshops. SEE under "Special Workshops above.  (Registration at 8:30AM; program 9:00AM--1:00PM) At the request of last year's participants, the workshops have been moved ahead into February to allow more planning time. If winter weather interferes, sessions will be re-scheduled over the ICN. 3) Some Fun Holiday Websites: In the latest newsletter from Le Mars Public Library, their staff included some fun holiday websites filled with craft ideas, recipes, and activities: http://www.holidayzone.com (The Holiday Zone, with recipes and links to other holiday sites) http://www.family.go.com/crafts (fun crafts for the family) http://www.imagitek.com (Christmas crafts from wreaths to angels to baskets and more...) http://www.childfun.com (holiday themes and activities...) http://www.verybestkids.com (crafts, activities, and holiday celebrations; great site for kids...) In addition to promoting good websites through their newsletter, Le Mars Public Library provides another good, proactive service for their users by keeping notebooks at each of their 5 Internet stations. These notebooks are titled "Library Staff Recommended Websites" and help promote good, safe websites for kids, while at the same time educating parents about safe Internet use. The staff is packaging the best of the web in areas of science, computers, health, sports, arts and entertainment, and more, in addition to promoting their own print collection of computer and Internet books. Thanks to Beth and staff at Le Mars Public Library for these ideas--and for sharing their favorite holiday websites!     New LINKS of interest: PLA E-Newsletter, Volume 5 No. 17 http://www.pla.org/members/enews/vol5no17.html In this issue: Register for PLA's Spring Symposium PLA Call for Award Nominations Why Are You a Public Librarian? PLA 2004 National Conference Call for Proposals PLA Selects Consultant Team to Write Collection Management Manual Volunteer at a Library in Africa or Central America (ALA) Public Programs Office Accepting Grant Applications for Elizabeth I Major Copyright Bill Affecting Distance Education Becomes Law FEEDBACK: CHANGES: Updates – Addresses & such - Ad to Keystone Van  Fredericksburg Route 5 (M & Th) Fredericksburg Elementary CONSORTIA NEWS & E-Rate1: FORM 471: Because the SLD has had problems with the online form I have not and will not be filing until Monday 11/18 so you still have time to get materials in to me.   CIPA: The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide whether a federal law that requires libraries receiving federal Internet subsidies to use  anti-pornography filtering soft-ware violates the Constitution. In May, a  panel of three federal judges sitting in Philadelphia ruled unanimously that  the law should be struck down. By essentially forcing them to install such inexact filtering software, the court ruled, CIPA induced public libraries to silence constitutionally protected speech. The appeal to the Supreme  Court will be argued early next year with an expected decision in July. GATES FOUNDATION: RUMOR has it that acceptance letters will go out "the week before Thanksgiving", with workshops in mid to late Feburary. END PLATE: Long Announcements, Supporting Documents, & other "stuff" This could just as easily been Iowa. - "Students are shortchanged when school libraries don't get the support they need." "A school library should be more than a room with books in it." "Unless every school has a library -- commonly called a media center -- filled with interesting, up-to-date, useful material, the students aren't getting the comprehensive and practical education that they need to succeed." "Yet a two-day special report in the Sentinel showed that many public school libraries in Central Florida have been shamefully neglected. That shortcoming of is reflected in poor test scores." from The Orlando Sentinel, Editorial 11/12/2002 NOTE: The study on which this was based has also been done in Iowa, Alaska & Colorado.  You might want to keep this in mind when you talk to your legislators  this year.  Poor school library customers are poor customers for us too. SPANISH  Here is a resource that should be a great resource for libraries. I wanted to let you all know about a webpage I've compiled of U.S. Public Library websites with information in Spanish. It's available through REFORMA's resources page, at http://www.reforma.org/spanishwebsites.htm. This page expands on the nice compilation done previously by Hal Bright at New Haven Free PL (http://www.nhfpl.lib.ct.us/spanish/bibredesp.htm). Libraries are listed alphabetically by state, and the Spanish-language sites I found are divided into 3 categories: General Information, Spanish-language Weblinks, and Other Resources. The Weblinks category also includes some English-language Hispanic/Latino-related sites, since many libraries intermingle the two. The Other Resources category includes things such as Spanish-language web catalogs, card applications, etc., from libraries which don't have pages in the first two categories, or who don't link to these other resources from their Spanish-language General Information page. My hope is that this compilation could be a useful resource for other libraries wanting to create their own Spanish-language pages or to revise/update/expand/improve their pages. Sites include range from a short paragraph in Spanish to comprehensive sites such as Multnomah County and Phoenix Public. I generally did not include sites which merely provided a link to an automated translator such as Altavista's Babelfish, since all library websites could be translated using that method, and since the quality of such translations is fairly low. Here are 3 examples of automated translations I ran across which I think are rather humorous: a Spanish version said "Entre una ciudad o nosotros cerramos"--the original read "Enter a city or US Zip" (for a weather forecast). Another said "libros el hablar para persiana" (talking books for the blind!). A third site's kids' page said "para cabritos"! I welcome any feedback on the format of the page. If your library website includes Spanish-language information, but is not listed in my compilation, please let me know, and I'll add it to the page--any omissions are certainly not intentional. It may mean that your library's URL is not accurate in the Libweb and Libdex library directories, or that the Spanish-language info is hidden deep within your page. While I am not an expert on providing Spanish-language information online, here are a few observations I made after browsing so many library webpages. * If you're providing Spanish-language information on your library website, don't expect your Spanish-speaking patron to dig deeply into your site to find it; a link directly from your homepage is ideal. * If you provide a variety of Spanish-language resources on your website (catalog, library card application, recommended weblinks, etc.) please provide one page where all these resources are linked together. To me, sites that offered a variety of such resources scattered throughout their site, but did not provide "one-stop" access to those resources, were very frustrating. * Try not to use the terms "Spanish" and "Hispanic/Latino" interchangeably in categorizing your recommended weblinks. And if you are providing Spanish-language weblinks for your Spanish-speaking patrons, with annotations, provide either bilingual or Spanish annotations if at all possible. (The same would be true for other kinds of Spanish-language resources you provide; I ran across various Spanish-language flyers, booklists, etc., which had headings, titles, and/or descriptions only in English.) I found libraries in 40 of the 50 states with Spanish-language online information. Not surprisingly, states with a high percentage of persons of Hispanic origin such as California, Texas, and New York also have numerous libraries providing online information in Spanish. Somewhat more surprising to me was the fact that some libraries in places such as Alabama, Indiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, in counties with relatively small Hispanic populations, provided Spanish-language information online, yet I didn't find Spanish-language information online from many libraries along the Texas-Mexico border or in Florida or in cities such as San Diego, Sacramento, Albuquerque, and Denver with relatively large Hispanic populations. (This is just an observation; I don't mean to pick on any particular libraries, because I'm well aware that we all struggle with limited time and resources.) I hope this will be a helpful resource for you and your libraries Wanda Reinford Reference Librarian San Antonio Public Library--Central Library 600 Soledad, San Antonio TX 78205 (210) 207-2500 wreinford@sanantonio.gov http://www.sanantonio.gov/library Texas Latino Literature Bibliography http://www.sanantonio.gov/library/latino/texbibliography.asp Enlaces en Español http://www.sanantonio.gov/library/web/enlaces.asp URL for REFORMANET info page: http://lmri.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/reformanet URL for REFORMA web page: http://www.reforma.org/ JOKE In a Trial a Small Iowa Town Prosecuting Attorney Called His First Witness to The Stand: a Grandmother, Elderly Woman retired teacher and local librarian for many years. He Approached Her and Asked, "Mrs. Jones,  Do You Know Me?" She Responded, "Why, Yes I Do Know You, Mr. Williams.  I've Known You since You Were a Young Boy. And Frankly,  You've Been a Big Disappointment to Me. You Lie, You Cheat on Your  Wife, You Manipulate People and Talk about Them Behind Their Backs. You  Think You're a Big Shot When You Haven't the Brains  to Realize You Never Will Amount to Anything More than a Two-bit Paper  Pusher. Yes, I Know You"  The Lawyer Was Stunned. Not Knowing What Else to Do, He Pointed Across  the Room and Asked, "Mrs. Jones, Do You Know  the Defense Attorney?. She Again Replied, "Why Yes, I Do. I've Known Mr. Bradley  since He Was a Youngster, Too. He's Lazy, Bigoted, He Has a Drinking  Problem. He Can't Build a Normal Relationship with Anyone and His Law  Practice Is One of the Worst in the Entire State. Not to Mention He  Cheated on His Wife With Three Different Women. Yes, I Know Him"  The Defense Attorney Almost Died! At this Point, the Judge Brought the Courtroom to Silence, Called Both  Counselors to the Bench, and in a Very Quiet Voice Said, "If Either of  You Gentlemen Asks Her If She Knows Me, You'll Be Jailed for Contempt" 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: 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 Stutz 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 SOURCE: {Consultant} D:CorelwpdocsFridayNotes1115.wpd  August 2, 2002 BOILER PLATE FOOTNOTES: 1. WARNING: I will be able to give you about a 5 working day warning on deadlines (by e-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 ... 1:57:10 PM    comment []

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