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Friday, January 02, 2004

Friday Notes 2. An on-line resource for NEILSA Librarians

DEADLINES & DATES:

VAN SERVICE:
AEA 1 (Keystone & AEA 267), will resume regular delivery on Monday,.

    County Meetings Scheduled:
If your county meeting date is not on the schedule please contact Ken at NEILSA
     Allamakee County Meeting -
     Black Hawk County Meeting - When called - seldom
     Bremer County Meeting - April 20, 2004 at 7:30 in Tripoli (?)
     Buchanan County Meeting -
     Butler County Meeting - April 6, 2004 at 7:00 in Aplington
     Chickasaw County Meeting -
     Clayton County Meeting -
     Delaware County Meeting - May 11, 2004 at 7:00 in Manchester
     Dubuque County - DALINC - 1/15 Business meeting at the Kennedy Public Library in Dyersville.
     Fayette County Meeting - Maynard PL 4/15/4 & Oelwein PL Oct 15, 2004
     Grundy County Meeting - 1/26/2004 at 09:00 in Wellsburg
     Howard County Meeting   - Riceville 7:00 April 6th 2004 (I think)
    Winneshiek County Meeting - November 4, 2004 @ 7:00 in Fort A
NEXT weeks meetings - none

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Beth Henning of the State Library's State Data Center has developed two new web pages -
'Iowa Quick Facts' and 'Guide to Iowa Caucus Web Sites.'
Both are located near the top of the State Library's home page,
http://www.silo.lib.ia.us

Iowa Quick Facts provides lots of useful statistics and information about the state, including:
Population
Land Area and Urbanization
Business and Industry
Employment
Vital Statistics
Households and Families
General Demographic Characteristics
Social Characteristics
Economic Characteristics
Housing Characteristics
Governmental Units: Counties, Cities and Townships
Statistical Units: Census Geography
and more.

The Iowa Caucus Web Sites has links to some high quality information.
We think you and your customers will find these sites useful!

Annette Wetteland
Communications Coordinator
State Library of Iowa

MONDAY MORNING EYE OPENER [from NWILS]
1) Multiple Copies of NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN
2) NIAGARA FALLS Over the ICN
3) Books Added to NWILS Library Management Collection
4) NWILS Office Closed January 1st

1) Multiple Copies of NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN: As you know, the book chosen for the 2004 ALL IOWA READS project is NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN by Elizabeth McCracken. Thanks to the Iowa Center for the Book, NWILS office (along with the other 6 LSAs) now has multiple copies of NIAGARA FALLS that we're happy to lend to any Northwest library sponsoring a book discussion in the coming year. Here's how this should work: NWILS received 21 paperbacks, plus 1 large type and 1 audiotape. We've parceled out the paperbacks into 3 sets of 7 books. On a first-come-first-served basis, we'll ship a set of 7 paperbacks to the requesting library. Once your discussion group has finished, please hold onto the books while we wait to see who's next in line. We're asking each library holding the books to ship them on to the next destination. So rather than have you mail the boxes back to Sioux City for us to turn around and mail them out again, we're asking you to route them amongst each other.Janie will be tracking the list of libraries on the waiting list and she can tell you which library is next in line. (If you need the large type version--or the audiotape version--let Janie know and she'll send those separately) We think this will greatly streamline the process and use everyone's time--and postage--most effectively. Many thanks to the Center for the Book for giving us such a generous supply! And we hope you'll remember NWILS as a source from which to borrow multiple copies.

2) NIAGARA FALLS Over the ICN: As reported in last week's EYE-OPENER, the State Library and the Iowa Center for the Book are sponsoring an ICN information session on January 21, 2004 to help launch NIAGARA FALLS. Scheduled from 7:00--8:30PM, this session is intended to get readers more familiar with the book and to help libraries begin planning their 2004 book discussions. Experts will be on hand to offer book discussion tips, plus you'll be able to see an interview with the author Elizabeth McCracken. (delete local site) For details of ICN room locations, try this handy map: http://www3.iptv.org/iowa_database/aeamap.cfm
3) & 4) - edited out local data
Bonnie McKewon
Director, N.W. Iowa Library Services

    New LINKS of interest:

The State Library's FY03 Annual Report is now located on the State Library web site at http://www.silo.lib.ia.us
Look under news items.

From Karen in SWILS:
And, here's a new computer scam--don't think it has hit the US much yet:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;cid=581&e=1&u=/nm/20031229/tc_nm/tech_crime_dc

    CHANGES:
Waterville PL - "waterpl" <waterpl@acegroup.cc>;
Spillville (fax) 563-562-4373

GATES Computers: A word to the wise
Passing along an experience from one of libraries: do not do Disk Cleanup on the Gates computers. This seems bizarre to me, as disk cleanup is a standard op, but the Gates tech told this library to never do disk cleanup on the machines--they don't ever need it because you don't download anything (well, except when you have the Centurion unlocked, but never mind...) and these machines are different and you just shouldn't ever do it, according to the tech. The library is having to restore everything on the hard drives of both machines.
So...while disk cleanup is not at all an essential maintenance piece, you are apparently better off not doing--on Gates computers, anyway
Karen Burns, Administrator
Southwest Iowa Library Service Area

CONSORTIA (1): Form 471 for Telecommunications & Internet have been filed.

CE:
    SPECIAL WORKSHOPS:
    CLASSES in NEILSA:
    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

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

END PLATE: Previously run & Long Announcements, Supporting Documents, & other "stuff"

Other blogs:
    SWILSA House blog at: http://www.swilsa.blogspot.com

    Blogs for Libraries [WebJunction]     http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=1432
On line Newsletters:
    Regional Rag. http://www.sls.lib.ia.us/rag.htm

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