Friday, May 23, 2003

Friday Notes 2.  An on-line resource for NEILSA Librarians Other LSA blogs: SWILSA House blog at: http://www.swilsa.blogspot.com DEADLINES & DATES: I'll try to list all the upcoming dates of importance here, you will have to mine for the details.  Dear Iowa Library Community, I wanted to take this opportunity to ask you one more time to contact your legislators about library funding before the special session which is scheduled for May 29th. I spoke with our lobbyist, Amy Campbell, this morning and she said that legislators are caucusing this week and working out a deal on the Iowa Values Fund. The Governor will sign the bills that are still pending on May 30th. So, there is still time to have an impact. Now is a good time to be in touch with all our representatives. Our legislators need to know what the consequences of their actions (i.e. the Reinvention Bill) will be on library services around our state. Please contact your representatives and tell them what you know about you own budget cuts because of this bill. I would tell them not just dollars, but tell them about the decisions you are making and how that will affect services. If you know you will be cutting Sunday hours, not buying large print, or in danger of losing accreditation (and in turn, state funding), tell them. Amy also said, "There were a couple of things that happened on the last day of session, in the Standings bill to mitigate some of the cuts to cities and counties (not much). * SF 453 (Reinvention Bill) cut $70 million to counties & cities - $51 million from personal property tax replacements, $10.9 million from M&E tax replacements, and $8 million in bank franchise fees. * SF 458 (Standings/Salary Bill) adds back $1.2 million in M&E for FY04 (but it still is entirely gone in FY05) and $8.8 million of the bank franchise fee is allocated to cities (60 percent) and counties (40 percent) where it was generated. This means the overall impact to cities and counties is down to $60 million. They still expect to do something more in the special session, and deal with implementation of the Help America Vote Act. No add backs for AEAs, just more cuts! They are really going after AEAs over special education - only they can't underfund special ed so they are going after the other services." Talking points to your representatives: Please do what you can to lessen the impact of the Reinvention Bill. This bill has a direct impact on library services to your constituents. Here are what the cuts will mean to library service in your community (including cuts from the county). (Include specific stories of what it will mean to the citizens of your town.) Thank you so much for your support. I wish everyone the best as you try to cope with fewer resources and increasing demands for service. Dawn Hayslett Government Affairs Committee Iowa Library Association Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines LSTA Grants 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. The two ICN information sessions will be held for those interested in applying for an LSTA competitive grant. Two time periods have been scheduled for your convenience. Choose to attend June 17, from 9:00 - 11:00 am or June 18, 2:00 to 4:00 pm. These sessions will discuss the FY04 LSTA priorities, review the application process, discuss the evaluation requirements and provide answers to questions of potential applicants. The sessions will originate at the State Library in Des Moines. Currently there are few sites listed on the reservation, as sites will be determined by those interested and their geographical area. If you have an interest in attending one of the sessions, contact Jackie Kokke at the State Library and specify which site you would like to attend. In the interest of cost saving, an effort will be made to add sites with lower or no room use fees. Jackie will work with you to determine the best site. Refer to reservation #386674; Jackie Kokke, ICN scheduler 515-281-4316. Arts Council Grants The State Library of Iowa will host an Iowa Arts Council grant writing workshop on June 30. This will be a three-hour ICN session from 9:00 to 12:00. ** All IMLS grant and award program deadlines can be viewed at: http://www.imls.gov/grants/dedln/index.htm Applicants for Federal Grants Need DUNS In order to improve the statistical reporting of federal grants and cooperative agreements, the Office of Management and Budget has directed all federal agencies to require all applicants to federal grants to provide a Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number when applying for federal grants or cooperative agreements on or after October 1, 2003. For more information see: http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/050803.htm IMLS tutorial IMLS has launched an on-line tutorial to help libraries and museums develop project plans for National Leadership Grant applications. We hope that this tool will help make it easier to develop competitive applications for an IMLS grants.  Please visit the tutorial at http://e-services.imls.gov/project_planning We encourage you to try it out and to give us feedback at nlgtutorial@imls.gov     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 - October 21 at 7:30 Sumner •    Buchanan County Meeting - •    Butler County Meeting  - October 7, 2003, in Allison. CE •    Chickasaw County Meeting •    Clayton County Meeting -Oct. 14, 2003 7:30 (?)  in Strawberry Point •    Delaware County Meeting - Hopkinton Library on Nov. l8 at 7:00 •    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 CE: July 7 Oelwein  & 8 Waverly  "Spring" Confluence 7th Topic - Grants 8th Topic - Telling the Library Story         See Feedback for question re: program in development FEEDBACK:     Survey Question: Would you like a Tuesday (8th) Afternoon session on dealing with the anticipated cutbacks in funds? When you respond please send replies to Ken at davenport@neilsa.org or use the "comments" link at the bottom of the blog Special Workshops: One & two hour workshops at Fall & Spring county meetings, item specific workshops. June 27th for "Library 101" NEILSA: Hudson Public Library (node 735) AND West Union Public Library (node 764) Tell us if you wish a "special" site. Full site list is: Friday, June 27, 2003 09:00 To 12:00 Session: 1018392 9 MASON CITY-CC1 Committed Approved 16 SPIRIT LAKE-HS Committed Approved 65 ADEL-HS Committed Approved 83 CLARINDA-CC1 Committed Approved Originate: 291 SIOUX CITY-EAST-HS Committed Approved 338 NEVADA-HS Committed Approved 369 MANSON-NW WEBSTER-HS Committed Approved 564 NEWELL-FONDA-HS Committed Approved 685 CRESTON-GIBSON-PUB LIB Committed Approved 728 REMSEN-UNION-HS Committed Approved 736 HUDSON-PUB LIB Committed Approved 742 HIAWATHA-PUB LIB Committed Approved 757 BELLEVUE-PUB LIB Committed Approved 764 WEST UNION-PUB LIB Committed Approved 803 DES MOINES-STATE LIBRARY3 Committed Approved     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. There is no fee; we just ask that you register at http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/cecat.htm#June In addition to library trustees, directors and staff, city attorneys are welcome to attend. This program has received approval for 2 hours of continuing legal education (CLE). Sandy Dixon Consultant State Library of Iowa 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: IF you are going to read only one thing a month best skip the Friday Notes 2 (at your own risk of course) and read this: Crossroads is a free publication produced by OCLC and its partners, and is distributed monthly in an electronic format with quarterly print compilations. Subscribe online at http://WebJunction.org. Crossroads, is the monthly electronic newsletter of WebJunction.org, an online community where minds meet. This newsletter and Web site are designed for libraries and other community organizations to make the best possible use of emerging technology opportunities. This issue of Crossroads is intended to provide an overview of features on WebJunction.org as well as a list of resources related to public access computing. I encourage you to go to the Web site and learn more about the various resources, tools, online forums, and courses that support continued learning for you and your community. Now on the desk of a city or county administrator or politician who has their thumb on your funding:"Changing public library funding" in the May 2003 issue of American City & County magazine page 6. You can read a longer article on the same subject at: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan00/coffman.htm 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. The FY2004 FirstSearch contracts have been mailed. OCLC did not raise prices this year, so it will remain at $.85/per search for the per search databases. Public libraries will once again get 100 free searches per month. SAVING MONEY Public libraries and academic libraries can take advantage of the IEC Spring Paper Co-op. JP Gasway, Co., Cedar Rapids has been awarded the statewide prime vendor status for the spring/summer paper co-op. Details of this offer, order form and contacts are located at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/Discounts/IEC_SpringPaperOrder03.pdf EBSCOhost Just a reminder - fax in your renewal forms The renewal forms for EBSCOhost are coming in fast and furious. 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 The Denver Public Library will be closed for moving into its new building May 10, 2003 and will reopen June 2, 2003,  we will not be doing any interlibrary loan during this time. Thanks!     In the EYE-OPENER from NWILSA: Good Morning! This time in EYE-OPENER: 1) Trustee Workshop Via ICN June 3rd 2) Grant-Writing Workshop via ICN June 30th 3) New Season for LIBRI Foundation Grants 4) Meetings / Events This Week  -   EDITED out 5) Memorial Day--NWILS Office Closed 1) Trustee Workshop Via ICN June 3rd: The State Library is sponsoring a spring program especially for public library trustees. LEGAL ISSUES FOR LIBRARIES: A NATIONAL UPDATE takes place Tuesday June 3rd over the ICN; the time is from 6:00--8:00PM. Topics include the library as a public forum, unprotected speech, privacy and confidentiality issues, and minimizing liability. The State Library explains that the earlier start time should better enable trustees to attend the program on their way home from work. Also note that all of the ICN rooms scheduled for this program allow refreshments, so feel free to bring in sandwiches or snacks. Northwest ICN locations are the public libraries in Hawarden, Orange City, Sac City, Sioux City, and Spencer. For full details--and to register online--please go to: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/cecat.htm#June 2) Grant-Writing Workshop via ICN June 30th: Another ICN workshop of interest to trustees and staff is coming up on June 30th. That day from 9:00AM--12:00PM, the State Library is sponsoring a grant-writing workshop in partnership with the Iowa Arts Council. Arts Council staff conduct workshops for educators, non-profits, artists, and community organizations that are seeking funding support for arts-related programming. This session on June 30th is aimed specifically at public libraries. You'll hear directly from grant program managers from the Iowa Arts Council and the Department of Cultural Affairs on what review panels expect to see in grant requests. You'll learn how to develop powerful grant proposals. And you'll hear about the new "E-Grant Application System," new grant packages, as well as changes to program guidelines. Many of you will remember NWILS ill-fated grant writing workshop from last August--the one where we had an audience of 30 but no instructor:-( We always intended to re-schedule a similar class--now as luck would have it, this ICN program comes along! I encourage those of you who missed out on our cancelled workshop last summer to register for this class on June 30th--the ICN is the next best thing to being there:-) Specific ICN sites and registration information are still pending. Please continue to check the statewide c.e. catalog for those details (http://www.silo.lib.ia.us) NWILS will publicize news of ICN locations in future issues of EYE-OPENER. Public libraries with ICN rooms should note that this program is currently being scheduled and tagged with Reservation #396219. If you would like to attend at a specific site, call Jackie Kokke at the State Library (515-281-4316) to ask about adding an ICN site in your neighborhood. 3) New Season for LIBRI Foundation Grants: Still more news about grants--this time grants for children's books. The LIBRI Foundation begins a new grant cycle this summer, so the timing is right to give you a heads-up about this opportunity. The LIBRI Foundation is a nationwide, non-profit organization that donates new hardcover children's books to small, rural public libraries throughout the U.S. The LIBRI Foundation works with local library Friends Groups or other community organizations in the grant process and in distributing the books. The Foundation's "BOOKS FOR CHILDREN" goal is this: to encourage--and reward--local support of public libraries. Here's how this grant package works: your Friends Group or other local sponsors can contribute from $50.00 to $350.00, which the LIBRI Foundation then matches on a 2-to-1 ratio. A local library could receive up to $1,050.00 worth of brand new, high quality, hardcover children's books to enhance their collection. Many Northwest public libraries have participated in the LIBRI grant project over the years. And the program is still going strong. So if your Friends Group is looking a summer project--this would be ideal. Application deadline is July 15, 2003. For full grant details and an application form, visit the LIBRI Foundation website at: http://www.librifoundation.org 4) Struck by the edit block and delete buttons on Kens computer 5) Memorial Day--NWILS (NEILSA)  Office Closed: Next Monday May 26th marks Memorial Day and the official summer kick-off. NWILS office is closed next Monday, EYE-OPENER takes a holiday, and I'll be relaxing back home in Wisconsin:-) Look for the next issue of EYE-OPENER on June 2nd. Have a safe and fun holiday weekend! Bonnie McKewon Director, N.W. Iowa Library Services New LINKS of interest: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/12/03/prices/index.html Why do books cost so much? [Salon] http://www.llrx.com/features/draftsearch.htm Sample of Search Warrant Procedures for Libraries [Law Library Resource Xchange] OCLC - World Cat http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/08/OCLC About as Big as the Web [ongoing] Libraries and Museums Give Kids a Head Start--A child's first teacher is often his mother or father. In the early years, his learning experiences branch out from the home to the park, preschool, and the wider community, from parent to childcare provider, teacher, or neighbor.  IMLS provides a look at just a few of the many ways museums and libraries play a key role in the early learning life of a child. Read all about it at http://www.imls.gov/closer/hlt_c0503.htm http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/friedlander/05friedlander.html Keepers of the Crumbling Culture: What Digital Preservation Can Learn from Library History [D-Lib Magazine] http://www.ucffuture.com/news/433203.html?mkey=205341 IS Internet replacing libraries as top source for research [The Central Florida Future] Go to http://www.Iowaleague.org to see a pretty good run down on legislation as it may affect your community. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/12/technology/12TURN.html The Evelyn Wood of Digitized Book Scanners [The New York Times] http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_5/keller/index.html What is a library anymore, anyway? [First Monday] Abstract What is a library anymore, anyway? by Michael A. Keller, Victoria A. Reich, and Andrew C. Herkovic Libraries in the future will undertake local control, especially for long-term preservation and accessibility of digital as well as analog collections. Failure to embrace that role would cause libraries and librarians rapidly to lose relevance and value as Internet and other digital resources develop. Local control of collections is critical both to assure permanence and to provide a key degree of selectivity, which — contrary to the irrational exuberance of making everything available to everybody — is vital to providing service to communities of readers. Librarians need new tools, such as the LOCKSS system, to enable both persistence and selection of electronic information. YOU WROTE: snippets from e-mails: Revised news release libraries can use when their Gates computers arrive. We hope you will share this with your libraries when the computers start showing up in your region.  We heard that some people in communities are questioning why their library is 'buying' computers at a time when cities are struggling, so we've written this to emphasize that the computers are 'free.' If you have questions, please contact me. Thanks. Annette NOTE: Go to "END PLATE" CHANGES: Updates – Addresses & such - 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 Fredricksburg - effective immediately our email address has changed just a little bit to fburglib2@iowatelecom.net Thanks Joan END PLATE: Long Announcements, Supporting Documents, & other "stuff" News Release (Date)            For more information, contact:    (Name)                                 (Address)                                 (Telephone Number)                                 (e-mail address) (Your Library's Name) receives free computers through Gates Foundation The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is providing free computers and software to public libraries in Iowa.  The (Your Library's Name) has received (number of) Gateway computers and software valued at ($_________)  The library also received (list any other equipment, such as printers, servers, Spanish language computer, etc.) In Iowa, 380 public libraries will receive $3,735,000 in computers and software from the Gates Foundation, which has been instrumental in donating computer equipment to libraries in low-income areas in every state in the nation.  Since 1997, the Gates Foundation has made grants to more than 5,800 libraries in the United States and trained more than 7,000 librarians. The public will have access to the new computers in (give approximate date). A funny: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~murrizol/ts_history/tshist.htm GREAT MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL SERVICES [Wendy Lewis and Manuel Urrizola] 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:CorelwpdocsFridayNotes0523a.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 . 11:19:47 AM    comment []

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