Friday, October 10, 2003

Friday Notes 2.  An on-line resource for NEILSA Librarians DEADLINES & DATES: I'll try to list all the upcoming dates of importance here, you will have to mine for the details. ILA Conference / Office Staffing Next Week: Eunice & Ken will be out 15th - 19th.  We hope to see you at the ILA Annual meeting. CONGRATULATIONS TO: The controversial Hennen's "American Public Library Ratings, 2003" are out and guess what?: In the range 1000 - 10,000, 5 of the 30 libraries were in or on the border of NEILSA.  These libraries were the only Iowa libraries to make the survey [which may be found on-line at: http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Products_and_Publications/Periodicals/American_Libraries/Selected_articles/hennen2003.pdf] Cresco #6 in 5,000 - 9,999 population range Kennedy (Dyersville) #6 in the 2,500 - 4,999 Conrad #4 in the 1,000 - 2,499 Riceville # 7 in the 1,000 - 2,499 Dike # 10 in the 1,000 - 2,499 This is an achievement of which to be proud.     FORMS DUE/UPCOMING: : ANNUAL SURVEY  The survey is due 10/31/03. To access the online survey go to http://www.silo.lib.ia.us, click on For and About Iowa Libraries, click on Annual Survey. The survey is due October 31, 2003. Public Libraries with Internet are required to submit the survey online. The link to Web Collect is also on the Annual Survey web page. Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines We The People Bookshelf grants The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are accepting applications from public and school (K-12) libraries for the We The People Bookshelf grants. Part of NEH's We The People initiative, the Bookshelf project will award the 15 Bookshelf books for young readers to up to 500 libraries across the country. Selected libraries are required to present programs that highlight the theme of "courage" and encourage young readers to explore these works. Libraries interested in receiving the We The People Bookshelf grant can view the application and guidelines at http://www.ala.org/wethepeople or http://www.wethepeople.gov. Applications are being accepted online until October 22, 2003 for Round One and February 15, 2004 for Round Two. 1. The State Historical Society of Iowa has had the HRDP funding restored and is inviting applications for preservation projects in documentary collections, museums, and historic preservation. Deadline is January 15, 2004. For details see (categories of acceptable projects are under the eligibility bullet): http://www.iowahistory.org/grants/shsi_grants/hrdp/hrdp.html 2. Upcoming IMLS Deadlines Conservation Project Support grant applications for FY 2004 funding must be postmarked no later than October 15, 2003. For more information about this grant program, including applications and guidelines, please see: http://www.imls.gov/grants/museum/mus_cps.asp All deadlines for FY 2004 IMLS grant and award program applications can be viewed at: http://www.imls.gov/grants/dedln/index.htm Categories include: National Leadership Grants for Museums, Museums in the Community category; National Leadership Grants for Libraries, Continuing Education, Curriculum Development, and Training category; and Native American Library Services, Basic and Professional Assistance categories. 3. a couple sites with information on funding opportunities are: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/funding-info/ http://www.collectioncare.org/funding/funding.html 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 - Oct 25, 2003, Robey Memorial Library [Waukon] 9:30 am.      Black Hawk County Meeting - When called - seldom      Bremer County Meeting - October 21 at 7:30 Sumner      Buchanan County Meeting - Oct. 28 at 7 PM in Independence      Butler County Meeting  -      Chickasaw County Meeting      Clayton County Meeting - 9:00 AM Tuesday, Oct. 14 at Strawberry Pt. CIPA WS2      Delaware County Meeting - Hopkinton Library on Nov. l8 at 7:00      Dubuque County - DALINC -      Fayette County Meeting - Oct. 23, 2003 @ 1:00 Haweye PL            Plans a CIPA County meeting at another date TBD at County meeting.      Grundy County Meeting - 9:00 am 10/27 @ Reinbeck CIPA WS1      Howard County Meeting   - Riceville 7:00 April 6th 2004 (I think)     Winneshiek County Meeting - November 6, 2003 @ 7:00 Decorah CIPA WS1                  Meeting this week CE:     SPECIAL WORKSHOPS: One [WS1] & two hour [WS2] workshops at Fall county meetings, IF REQUESTED, CIPA Classes. County Meeting Format:    WS1 - CIPA/NCIPA Requirements - 1 Hr. CE         and        WS2 - Plus review of required policies - 1 Hr. CE For the WS2 session you will need to have your Internet policy & AU or other computer policy(s) with you.   Bring note taking materials there will be no handouts since there are no fees for the county association CIPA workshops.                            CLASSES in NEILSA: Library 101 for December. We have dates now that we hope will work for everyone.     December 18th 9:00--12:00 IF you wish to attend contact  NEILSA to register.  If you would like a site added contact Ken at NEILSA immediately.  The online sign-up  for Library 101 is at:  http://www.neilsa.org/classes/library101.cfm. NOTE: While Library 101 is intended primarily for new directors it is not a bad idea for experienced directors to attend from time to time as a refresher, to send any up and coming staff that you are attempting to groom for advancement, or maybe even a highschool kid who might like to learn more about the profession.     OTHER CE: You must register with the listed provider. On November 4-5, 2003 three sessions of Hard Times / Smart Choices are being offered by the State Library in response to the impact of the Reinvention bill on Iowa's public libraries' budgets. Workshop topics include: 1) Rethinking what you can realistically do well with the resources you have; 2) Making hard choices so life does not make them for you; 3) Improving productivity by getting everyone on the same page in terms of what needs to be done; 4) Improving individual and institutional stress management techniques so people are not making themselves sick and bitter over things they cannot control and can make better choices about things they can control. For details and to register, see http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/cecat.htm#Hard "Learning Activity Written Summery" may be found at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/online-learningactivitywrittensummary.htm We have a go on all of the Summer Library Project workshop dates and locations for 2004! They will be as follows:  Feb 4 - Methodist Church - Mount Pleasant, Feb 5 - Coralville Public Library,  Feb 6 - Fayette Public Library,  Feb 9 - Everly Community Center, Feb 10 - Arthur Public Librarym Feb 11 - Elliott Public Library, Feb 12 - Urbandale Public Library, Feb 13 - Fisher Community Center - Marshalltown, Feb 19 - Music Man Square - Mason City, Feb 20 - Fort Dodge Public Library Preservation 101: Keeping collections safe ICN sessions will be October 21 (Storage) ,  2-5 pm, the hands-on session will be November 14. ICN sites will be Bettendorf, Boone, Cedar Rapids, Charles City, Clinton, Decorah, Dubuque, Ft. Dodge, Grinnell, Hudson, Iowa City, LeMars, Marshalltown, Mt. Pleasant, Pella, Spencer, Vinton, Urbandale. The hands-on session will be at the Murray Conference Center, Living History Farms. Complete details about re-certification 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: Monday Morning Eye-opener 1) Library Director Position Open at Aurelia 2) Reinvention Bill and Impact Survey 3) College of DuPage Teleconferences 4) NWILS E-rate Assistance On Hold 5) ILA Conference / Office Staffing Next Week 1) Library Director Position Open at Aurelia: The Aurelia Library Board is accepting applications for the position of library director. Here's an excerpt from the job description: "...the library director will have full administrative responsibilities for the operations of the library; must plan, direct, and coordinate the work of other staff members; a sense of community to understand and anticipate patrons' needs and good communication skills are necessary. High school graduate; must meet State Library of Iowa certification within 18 months; computer and clerical skills necessary; ability to work with the library board and public a must; interest in promoting reading and library use essential..." For a fully detailed job description, application form, and salary range, contact Aurelia City Offices, 236 Main St., Aurelia IA. 51005 or phone 712-434-2025. Applications accepted through October 9th. 2) Reinvention Bill and Impact Survey: As previously reported in EYE OPENER, the LSAs and the State Library are working to collect data about the impact of this spring's Reinvention Bill on Iowa library budgets. To help us gather stories from across the state, we need your help in filling out a brief, online survey. The survey asks for the city and county appropriations to your library, both before and after the budget cuts. It goes on to ask if your library will be reducing hours, staffing, collections, or programming, along with some questions about fines and fees. Please take some time to read through the survey questions before actually answering online. Unlike using WEB COLLECT to file your annual report (where you can go in and out several times before completing it) this survey should be completed in one session. And only one survey should be returned for each library. It will work best to print the questions to paper before answering online; to do that, please go to: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/reinventsurveyquestions.htm When you're ready to fill out the survey online, go to: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/reinventintro.htm The LSAs and the State Library are working to gather this data so that we'll be better able to communicate to lawmakers the impact of the Reinvention cuts on library service. Understanding that the annual report is also looming with an October 31st deadline, we appreciate your help in tackling one more report. If you haven't yet completed this survey, please take time to do so this week. We're hoping for 100% response statewide. As of late last week, we were only at 50% returned. Please answer on behalf of your library so the whole story can be told. Thanks! 3) Clip - you missed this one; NEXT The DuPage teleconference series continues on November 14th with a session entitled A BASIC TOOLKIT: GOOD MANAGER AND GOOD EMPLOYEE SKILLS. Visit the College of DuPage website for all details of upcoming topics and dates: http://www.cod.edu/teleconf/ 4) NWILS E-rate Assistance On Hold: Chris is preparing two E-rate memos, which should reach you by email today and tomorrow. Because by Thursday, she's leaving on a jet plane--to Japan no less! One of the memos she's sending will be a homework assignment to keep you busy while she's gone:-) Because Chris will be out of the office from October 8--22, NWILS needs to put E-rate assistance on hold until she's back. Janie and I don't pretend to have Chris' breadth of understanding about E-rate. Plus, Janie and I will ourselves be attending the ILA fall conference in Cedar Rapids next week. So please hold your E-rate questions until Chris is back "stateside." But do finish your homework in the meantime; she'll be checking in with you when she gets back. Thanks for understanding. Also, if you have any back-up reference questions, please place those questions onto the VIRTUAL BACK-UP REFERENCE (VBR) System. Staffed by a group of experienced reference librarians across the state, VBR is a good place to go to for answers to challenging reference questions. Here's the VBR link: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/swilsa/ 5) ILA Conference / Office Staffing Next Week: Speaking of ILA, Janie and I will be attending the fall conference in Cedar Rapids next week. We'll be leaving on Tuesday October 14th and gone for the rest of the week. Janie will be back in the office on Monday October 20th; I'll be back on the 21st, following a little weekend "R&R" in Wisconsin. Clip local hours & information. Bonnie McKewon Director, N.W. Iowa Library Services ILA – PLANTING THE SEEDS: GROWING LEADERS FOR TOMORROW 2003 Annual Conference, October 15-17, Crowne Plaza & U. S. Cellular Center, Cedar Rapids http://www.iowalibraryassociation.org/     Re-invention Survey: NOTE: PLEASE we need everyones participation, whether you lost, gained or stayed the same. The best reason for getting your reply in right away - Ken will start calling those without surveys in next week. The Library Service Areas and the State Library of Iowa are collecting information about the impact of the Reinvention bill on Iowa's libraries' budgets, and we ask your assistance by filling out an online survey. We appreciate that you have many reports to fill out at this time of year, but it is important that we collect data from all public libraries in Iowa and we ask your patience in filling out one more report. The survey should be completed at one session, and only one per library. When you are ready to complete the survey online, please go to: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/reinventintro.htm If you have questions, please call Eunice at the Library Service Area.     New LINKS of interest: Got a wet book, diaper it! http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60614,00.html CHANGES: New e-mail address is janesvillelibrary@mchsi.com Beth Ann Scott Janesville Library New e-mail address for Hudson. hudsonlib@mchsi.com Mary Bucy Hudson PL NOTE: Cedarnet is working out the problem and has no plan to fold up shop. CONSORTIA: The Funding Year 2004 Window will open at noon on Wednesday, November 5, 2003, and close at 11:59 PM EST on Wednesday, February 4, 2004. Request for information (current status & planed changes) PLEASE fill in and return ASAP. THIS YEARS APPLICATION NEWS: The FY 2003 Consortia 471 (application) has not yet been approved by PIA Sooooo you should not yet be getting discounts, as soon as the FCDL (SLD for Funding Commitment Decision Letter) comes in I will file the Form 486 and then it takes 1 to 2 months depending upon your telecommunications vendor (SLD for phone company).xx CIPA below.  Ken (:-{}}} And now we know why – I will be sending out requests for information this afternoon, if you get one please return ASAP.  Ken (:-{}}} CIPA Workshop: You may attend one of the free county meeting CE [1 or 2 ce's] sessions or a class in West Union on December 15, 2003 [4 ce's] from 1:00 to 5:00 in the new computer lab and conference room.  There will be a fee of $25.00 for this session.  Any library not represented at either the free county meeting session or the West Union class will not be eligible for participation in a Consortia filing for services covered by CIPA/NCIPA. There will be scholarships available for "exceptional" circumstances, but you must contact Ken well ahead of the scheduled county meeting time to qualify for a scholarship. CIPA/NCIPA - As has been said before, the only part of CIPA/NCIPA that had been waved for libraries was the TPM (filtering) requirement, spot audits of libraries has shown that many have not complied with the NCIPA policy requirements.   PROBLEM: If the Consortia is audited I have 479 forms for everyone, if YOU are asked to send in a copy of your AUP to PIA, contact Ken immediately if not before. FROM THE CONSORTIA PACKET FOR FY 2004 NOTE: The requirements herein [Consortia packet for 2004] are for Consortia participation.  IF you do not wish to meet these requirements and IF all you are requesting is telecommunications, not Internet, you may wish to consider doing your own e-rate.  The LSA will be happy to show you how, it is not too difficult. At this point the cost of being in the Consortia is the time and work involved in answering the questions even though they may not apply to your situation.  Consortia participation is required to use the Consortia Technology Plan, but note that Tech Plans are not needed for telephone service only. We do strongly recommend that you meet the policy requirements of the CIPA/NCIPA law, if for no other reason other than the policy requirements, unlike the law, are reasonable, and intelligently thought out Internet Safety statements to protect and remind kids of the "down side" of the Internet.  Prior to making any decision it might be to your benefit to sit through the CIPA session, not only to get the credit(s) but to learn what it is all about so you can inform your board & patrons, or speak with some confidence if asked by a reporter. END PLATE: Long Announcements, Supporting Documents, & other "stuff" EDITORS NOTES: Material in fine print has been published at least once before.  With a few exceptions new material will be in this size print.  Color is something I really think you should have a look at, except URL blue for links. EYE-OPENER: I strongly suggest that you read the EYE OPENER Bonnie & Chris have a differing philosophy, and are much more disciplined than I am as to what they include, by the time I edit out their local material the EYE OPENER has really good material you should know about. Other LSA blogs:     SWILSA House blog at: http://www.swilsa.blogspot.com     Blogs for Libraries [WebJunction]     http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=1432 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:CorelwpdocsFridayNotes0613.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 .... 1:08:38 PM    comment []

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