Friday, May 09, 2003

Friday Notes 2.  An on-line resource for NEILSA Librarians Other LSA blogs: SWILSA House blog at: http://www.swilsa.blogspot.com IMPORTANT: Library letter re: SF 453 - This is intended for you to use to inform the public of what is happening.  This is also a good time to partner with your city administration in supporting getting the message out to everyone. The "Reinvention Bill" (SF 453) recently passed by the Iowa General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Vilsack will affect our community in many ways, including services provided by the (your libraries name) Public Library. Your public library has always striven to provide high quality service to our customers. These cuts will hinder those efforts but like other areas in city government also facing budget reductions, we will continue to serve you to the best of our ability. The library board and staff are looking carefully at services and priorities as we make decisions about how we can best serve you within these new budget constraints. We want you to know what is happening but we would also like to have you tell us what you think. Please stop in to the library or tell a library Board member about your concerns for your library. We were notified by (the mayor, city council) that the library's budget will be cut. How will this affect your library? Here are some services and programs that may have to be cut: (Do a bulleted list of personnel, services, programs, hours, etc., that will be cut.) Your city & Library will continue to do our very best to serve you as before but we wanted you to know that some changes will be coming. We will do our best to continue to serve you @ your library. Remember what Anne Herbert said: Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will ever get you through times of no libraries. DEADLINES & DATES: I'll try to list all the upcoming dates of importance here, you will have to mine for the details.  Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines The State Library is offering FY04 LSTA Competitive Grants to Iowa  libraries.  The deadline for grant applications is August 1, 2003. There will be two ICN  information sessions on June 17 and June 18 for those interested in the  application. The grant handbook, application and guidelines are located at  http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/LSTA/FY04/index.htm. All IMLS grant and award program deadlines can be viewed at: http://www.imls.gov/grants/dedln/index.htm     County Meetings Scheduled: If your county meeting is not on the schedule please contact NEILSA •    Allamakee County Meeting •    Black Hawk County Meeting - When called - seldom •    Bremer County Meeting - •    Buchanan County Meeting - •    Butler County Meeting  - •    Chickasaw County Meeting •    Clayton County Meeting -Oct. 14, 2003 7:30 (?)  in Strawberry Poit •    Delaware County Meeting - May 13, 2003 @ 7:00  Edgewood P L •    Dubuque County •    Fayette County Meeting - Oct. 23, 2003 @ 1:00 Haweye PL •    Grundy County Meeting - All meetings start at 9:00 am - 2003 schedule         6/28 @ Grundy Center, 10/27 @ Reinbeck •    Howard County Meeting   - •    Winneshiek County Meeting - November 6, 2003 @ 7:00 Decorah Meeting NEXT week CE: July 7 Oelwein  & 8 Waverly  "Spring" Confluence 7th Topic - Grants 8th Topic - Telling the Library Story         Using volunteers in the library  More - program in development Special Workshops: One & two hour workshops at Fall & Spring county meetings, item specific workshops. June 27th for "Library 101" Tell us if you wish a "special" site.     OTHER CE: You must register with the listed provider.  "Learning Activity Written Summery" may be found at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/online-learningactivitywrittensummary.htm   Legal Issues for Libraries: A National Update is the State Library's spring program for trustees offered over the Iowa Communications Network (ICN). It will take place on Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (We're trying an earlier time so people can attend the program on their way home from work.) All of the ICN rooms being used allow refreshments, so feel free to pick up a sandwich or snack and join us for an update on current legal issues facing libraries. Topics inlclude the library as a public forum, unprotected speech, minimizing liability and privacy and confidentiality. For details and to register, go to http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/cecat.htm#June Complete details about recertfication are available at http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/recertification.html             Self-Directed Learning Opportunities: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/Certification/alternate.htm ANNOUNCEMENTS: The people from the Iowa Games (Iowa's version of the Olympics) are wanting to know what libraries would like a copy/copies of this year's Iowa Games Booklet or Entry Information. Any library wanting this information or with questions please contact the Iowa Games at 1-888-777-8881 or e-mail Lori@iowagames.org. EBSCOhost Just a reminder - fax in your renewal forms The renewal forms for EBSCOhost are coming in fast and furious. You are keeping the State Library fax machine hot. There is still plenty of time, but we are concentrating on the libraries that want to be invoiced before July 1. If this is your wish, please get in your form soon to expedite the process. Invoicing should be completed in May. NEW SIGN UPS: If you did not sign up for EBSCOhost last year, you are encouraged to do so now for FY04. Send in your participation form now and receive access to an additional month or two before the July 1 FY04 start date. For a small fee of $25 and $ .02 per population served, you provide access to over 4,000 full-text journal titles from the library, work or home. The positive feed back from libraries on this product has been enormous. One library stated with all the funding problems in the state and now locally, the EBSCO contract is really important. Join over 400 Iowa public libraries and sign up now. Don't miss out on this excellent opportunity to serve your customers. The form for both renewals and new sign-ups is located: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/databases/ebsco/index.html First Search Contracts - REMINDER ISLA (edited) On behalf of the Iowa Small Library Association, I would like to invite you to attend the ISLA Spring Meeting on Friday, May 16, 2003 at the James Kennedy Public Library in Dyersville. Registration begins at 9:00 am with meeting itself scheduled to start at 9:30 am. The morning will include updates from the State Library, the Iowa Library Association, and the Library Service Areas; a brief business meeting, and informal networking. The afternoon will be a program called "From Policy to Procedure: Documenting What Really Goes on at Your Library" presented by Dawn Hayslett. Lunch will be a "tea" at the Dyer-Botsford Doll Museum, just across the street from the library.  If you would like more details or have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Shirley Vonderhaar, Library Director James Kennedy Public Library 320 1st Ave. E. Dyersville, Iowa 52040 Phone: 563-875-8912 FAX: 563-875-6162 email: svonderhaar@iowatelecom.net or dyersvillelib@iowatelecom.net     In the EYE-OPENER from NWILSA: Good Morning! This time in EYE-OPENER: 2) EBSCOHost Renews in May: As mentioned in last week's EYE-OPENER, the EBSCOHost database project for public libraries will continue throughout FY'04 and the renewal process begins this month. Renewal forms are now posted on the State Library's website. In fact, please note that there are really 2 forms: one to use if you're renewing your EBSCO subscription for the coming year; one to use if you're signing up for the first time. Download the appropriate forms from http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/databases/ebsco/index.html (If you have trouble printing the forms, NWILS has copies and will send them upon request) Luckily, EBSCO base pricing and cost formulas remain the same for FY'04. For public libraries, the base price to renew EBSCOHost is $25.00, plus an additional .02cents per capita--certainly affordable for even the smallest of libraries. You have the option of being invoiced yet this fiscal year or you can choose to be billed after July 1st. Billing will be handled by the State Library. Once all Northwest libraries have renewed EBSCO--or signed up for the first time--(we're hoping for 100% this year!) please remember that NWILS now has a 3-hour training module on using the EBSCO databases. While we offered 2 days of classes in March, if you need a refresher and want to schedule something like this for your entire county, just let us know. And feel free to call with any questions. 3) Iowa Small Library Assoc. Spring Meeting: The spring meeting of the Iowa Small Library Association (ILSA) is scheduled for Friday May 16th at Dyersville Public Library (about 30 minutes west of Dubuque) Registration is at 9:00AM, with the meeting beginning at 9:30. The morning agenda includes updates from the State Library, the LSAs, and ILA, along with a business meeting. The afternoon features a program entitled "From Policy to Procedure: Documenting What Really Goes On at Your Library," presented by Dawn Hayslett from Ames P.L. You may remember that ISLA affiliated as a subdivision with ILA last year. Now to belong to ISLA, you first need to be an ILA member; ISLA subdivision dues are additional. However, it is not necessary that you have any memberships to attend this workshop. The cost for the afternoon workshop is $5.00, plus $10.00 for a luncheon at the Dyer-Botsford Doll Museum. NWILS has a registration form; otherwise you're welcome to email your registration to Shirley Vonderhaar at the Dyersville Public Library (svonderhaar@iowatelecom.net or dyersvillelib@iowatelecom.net) Dyersville Library is locate at 320 1st Ave. East, phone 563-875-8912.             New LINKS of interest: U.S. Says Canada Cares Too Much About Liberties from the when-Canada-sneers-at-you-you-know-you're-in-trouble dept. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/2311201 From: slashdot@slashdot.org "The Digital Decade" Microsoft describes how emerging hardware and software technology will make the personal computer significant and indispensable to everyday life. http://update.internetweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eLuS0BdhOP0V30ByLi0Ab  Abstract:   Although the personal computer has enhanced and enriched our lives in countless ways over the last quarter-century - and the microprocessor has played an increasingly critical "behind the scenes" role in our society - computing has yet to become genuinely significant and indispensable to everyday life. However, a combination of hardware and software innovation with broader social and demographic trends is dramatically changing the way computing fits into our society, and sparking fundamental changes in the way we live and work. The Digital Decade is Microsoft's vision for this transformation in the first ten years of the 21st century - and a core principle that drives the company's products, services and research efforts. YOU WROTE: snippets from your e-mails: I need a summer reading program idea for teen age boys. Ken replies - This one may draw in some older men, you hope, to supervise.  Might even be a good way to get male board members involved et. al. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/h2oRocketIndex.htm Partnership idea - involve the firefighters. More partners: Hardware store, lumber yard, grocery store, think about it. CHANGES: Updates – Addresses & such - AEA DELIVERY: AEA 7 - Regular delivery ends June 2 & 3. Summer delivery begins June 10 & 11 lasting through August 5 & 6. AEA 1 - No items will be accepted for delivery to AEA 1 after May 27. AEA 1 does not have delivery during the summer when school is not in session Items will be accepted for delivery to AEA 1 beginning August 11 & 12 The Denver Public Library will be closed for moving into its new building May 10, 2003 and will reopen June 2, 2003. This is to notify you that we will not be doing any interlibrary loan during this time. Thanks! Mary Mumby Denver Public Library Denver, IA marym@mycvnet.com     END PLATE: Long Announcements, Supporting Documents, & other "stuff" From: Dawn Hayslett <dhayslet@amespubliclibrary.org>; Subject: [iowalib] End of the session update Dear Iowa Library Community, Here's a quick update from Amy Campbell, our lobbyist, on the how we stand at the end of the regular legislative session. Amy wrote: "Special session will likely be sometime right before or after Memorial Day. Rumor has it that both Sen. Kramer and Sen. Iverson are out of town from May 12-20, and trying to get agreement on things by the 10th is pretty ambitious. I do not expect they can come up with an agreement on the Iowa Values Fund, business regulatory reform, TIF, city/county relief from the horrible PSG "reinvention" bill (something to counteract the $70 million loss to local communities), Help America Vote Act implementation/funding, and income tax reform (streamlining and loss of federal deductibility and a constitutional amendment to require a super majority for tax increases). * As expected, libraries were level funded [for STATE programs] this year and no additional cuts were made. The $600,000 in infrastructure funds was appropriated as recommended by the Governor; Enrich Iowa (including Open Access & Access Plus) funding stayed at $1,741,982; the State Library was level funded at $1,233,948 (a slight $11,000 increase was added back in to take care of furloughs from last year), and LSA funding was untouched ($1,411,854). * Rep. Cindy Winckler kept the fires stoked on the school media specialist requirement, attempting several times (even on the last day of session) to amend language requiring school media specialists in every attendance center, unless a waiver is sought. * UCITA language was permanently eliminated from the Iowa Code - so it will no longer be an issue that pops up each year. Iowa has thus permanently stated that its law will take precedence over federal law in such cases." So, we will keep you posted on the special session when the dates are set. Thanks for your support. Dawn Hayslett GAC Chair Iowa Library Association TODAY'S INTERNET INSIGHT: All those shiny new PCs bought to get ready for Y2K are now, obsolete themselves. In today's Leading Off, analyst Peter Kastner writes that the pre-Y2K PCs represent a security and reliability risk for enterprises still running them. Microsoft is phasing out support for Windows 98 and Windows NT. Moreover, there are breeds of viruses designed especially to prey on older systems. IT managers need to start convincing business managers to replace those dusty systems, despite the objections of financial managers looking to save money by continuing to use PCs that are, after all, still running fine. IT managers need to start sending the message: Yeah, they're running fine -- for now. Fortunately, new technologies from Microsoft and Intel make now a great time to buy. The headline on the Kastner column might well have been, "Things That Make You Say, 'Oh, Wow!'" As I read the column for the first time, I said to myself, "It's been that long since Y2K? Oh, wow.... " Remember Y2K? Our computers were all going to wear out. That wasn't going to turn out to be such a big deal, relatively speaking, because, also, electrical plants were going to go offline, civilization was going to collapse, hordes of cannibal armies were going to roam the countryside seeking human flesh to feast on, and fissures were going to open up in the Earth emitting noxious, foul-smelling fumes and demons. The dead rising from the grave! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! Riots in the streets! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria! Perhaps you bought into all the apocalyptic doom and gloom, and are still hunkered down in your Y2K survivalist shelter, eating cold beans from a can. In which case, here's some news: Civilization didn't collapse. You can come out now. Or, on second thought, comparing the state of the world in 2003 vs. 1999: Got any room in your shelter? Can I join you? I can bring my own beans. -- Mitch Wagner (mwagner@internetweek.com) ******************************************************** ----------------------LEADING OFF----------------------- ******************************************************** Why You Need To Replace Those Windows 98 And NT systems The Windows 98 and Windows NT PCs still in use are security liabilities, and Microsoft is phasing out support of the operating systems. -- Peter S. Kastner, Aberdeen Group http://update.internetweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eLuS0BdhOP0V30ByLZ0AM From: InternetWeek NewsBreak <InternetWeek@update.internetweek.com>; The fine print stuff blogs - Friday Notes 2 AT -  http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/ 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:CorelwpdocsFridayNotes0511.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 ... NORTHEAST IOWA LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD MEETING NEILSA Office May 12, 2003 – 2-3:00 p.m. Agenda 1.    Approval of the Agenda 2.    Approval of March Board Minutes 3.    Review and Approval of April Bills 4.    General Business       a.    Trustee Council Meeting – report       b.    Legislative Day – wrap up           i.    Education budget           ii.    Re-invention bill       c.    Personnel Committee – report       d.    NEILSA budget FY 2004       e.    Other 5.    AEA Report 6.    Community College Report 7.    Administrator's Report        a.    Plan of Service – NE draft        b.    Budget to date        c.    Gates Library computer       d.    ILRC server       e.    Other 8.    Consultant's Report       a.    Updates 9.    Next Meeting Date, Time and Location – June 9, 2003 2:00 p.m., NEILSA Office? 10.    Adjourn 12:04:32 PM    comment []

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