Friday
Notes 2. An on-line resource for NEILSA Librarians
County Meetings Scheduled:
If your county meeting date is not on the schedule please
contact Ken at NEILSA
Allamakee County Meeting - KD
Black Hawk
County Meeting - When called - seldom
Bremer County Meeting - Oct 19,
7:30 Waverly PL
Buchanan County Meeting - Oct 11,
2004 7:00 Lamonte
Butler
County Meeting - Oct. 5, 2004 7:00 Clarksville
Chickasaw County Meeting -
Clayton County Meeting -
Delaware County Meeting - May 11,
2004 at 7:00 in Manchester KD
Dubuque
County - DALINC - May 13 8:30 regular meeting
Fayette County
Meeting - Oct. 21 Oelwein 10:00
Grundy
County Meeting -
Howard
County Meeting - Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. Cresco, April 5, 2005
7:00
Winneshiek County Meeting - November 4,
2004 @ 7:00 in Fort A KD
NEXT weeks meetings
Your Sponsor reminds County Associations THAT: One &
Two hour CE Workshop is available upon prior request from the NEILSA
staff person in attendance, just call.
NOTE: Tentative staff assignment KD =
Ken (Consultant), ER = Eunice (Administrator)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
PLEASE Remember: enter your events into the Iowa Center for the Book's literary
calendar at http://www.iowacenterforthebook.org/calendar/index.html.
They want everything - not just all Iowa reads.
NEEDED: Nominations for the Trustee
position on the NEILSA Board.
Male,
any party (or none)
EYE-OPENER: (edited)
Good Morning! This time in EYE-OPENER:
1) Iowa Small Library Association (ISLA) Meets May 14th
2) $100.00 Grant Available from ISLA
3) Fall Public Library Management Dates Released
4) Meetings / Events This Week
1) Iowa Small Library Association (ISLA) Meets May 14th: The Iowa Small
Library Association holds its spring meeting on Friday May 14th at Knoxville
Public Library. (Knoxville is in Central LSA, due east of Indianola...)
The meeting is scheduled from 9:00--3:30. The morning is taken up with
the business agenda. The afternoon features a program entitled "STILL
TALKING: BOOK CLUBS & DISCUSSIONS FOR ALL AGES." This promises
to be a "nuts and bolts program on how to organize book clubs and discussions
for different ages and interests." 5 presenters will each speak for
20-30 minutes. Topics are expected to include Humanities Iowa Reading
Discussions, book clubs for youth, book clubs for parents and children together,
as well as summer reading programs for adults. C.E. credit has been
applied for.
ILA members may attend for free; non-ILA members pay $10.00. Lunch
will be served at noon for an additional $5.00. Register with ISLA
chairperson Shirley Vonderhaar (phone 563-875-8912) (fax 563-875-6162) or
email svonderhaar@iowatelecom.net
A word about ILA/ISLA membership: an annual membership into ISLA is
only $5.00 per year. However, you must first be a member of the Iowa
Library Association. For library staff, ILA membership is based on
your salary. To determine that amount--and to join ILA and ISLA in
one swoop--visit the ILA website and click on "JOIN ILA:" http://www.iowalibraryassociation.org/
2) $100.00 Grant Available from ISLA: You must be a member ISLA to
qualify for a $100.00 grant, designed to support your Summer Reading Program.
Each year, ISLA awards a $100.00 grant to one member library to support summer
reading activities. Applicants must write a brief essay describing
how the grant would enhance their summer programs. Note this grant
must be use for programming (speakers, incentives, prizes, etc) not for collection
development. Applicants need to include your name, the library name,
and all relevant contact information--and remember you must be a member of
ISLA to qualify and win.
If mailed, applications should be sent to: James Kennedy Public Library,
320 1st Avenue East, Dyersville IA 52040 (attention Shirley Vonderhaar)
You may also email your entry to Shirley at svonderhaar@iowatelecom.net or
bring it in person to the ISLA spring meeting in Knoxville on May 14th.
The winner will be drawn during the AM business portion of the meeting.
(Note that mailed or emailed applications must be received by 5:00PM on May
13th to be included in the drawing...)
Even if distance prevents you from attending the Knoxville meeting, please
consider entering this drawing to win $100.00 cash for your summer reading
program!
3) Fall Public Library Management Dates Released: New library
directors needing to complete the Public Library Management courses can catch
the action in the fall. These dates have been decided for PLM1: beginning
Tuesday August 31st and continuing through October 26th. The dates
for PLM2 are: beginning Thursday September 2 and continuing through October
28th. For both PLM1 and PLM2, the first day of class is always held
in-person in the Des Moines metro area; thereafter, the remaining 7 classes
are held over the ICN. Attendance at the first day of class is mandatory.
Online registration will be available in early May on the State Library's
website; until then, please note the dates on your calendars. And one
more reminder: a new requirement in the certification program now requires
students to take these classes in order, beginning with PLM1. You're
welcome to contact NWILS office--or Sandy Dixon at the State Library--with
any questions:-)
4) Meetings / Events This Week: Edited out local data.
Bonnie McKewon
Director, N.W. Iowa Library Services
CHANGES:
The Waterville Library now has a fax
machine which is in working order. It had to be assigned a new phone
number which is: 563.535.7030
The desk phone is the same, which is: 563.535.7295
Please update your roladex (or whatever) as to this change.
Thanks for your patience. I will look forward to receiving your faxes.
This may be a repeat message for some of you.
Sincerely,
Theresa Mikulas
Director
New LINKS of interest:
British libraries could shut by 2020 [The Guardian]
"Britain's once-proud
public libraries, founded 154 years ago as "the university of the street",
are starting to die on their feet, according to a report yesterday."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1204908,00.html
Best Images Yet Of Saturn's Moon Titan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/26/2147252
"The New York Times' Steve Lohr reports on the effects
of the Internet on public libraries, namely that the installation
of Internet-connected computers have been largely responsible for a rebirth
in public libraries and increasing attendance, particularly by 'teenagers,
people age 50 and older and members of ethnic minorities' as well as low-income
patrons without computers at home. According to a University of Washington
study, 'A year after computers are put in libraries that do not have them,
visits rise 30 percent on the average and attendance typically remains higher'.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - which funds PC-based Internet library
projects - features prominently in the article, including the criticism that
it is 'a Microsoft marketing exercise masquerading as philanthropy.'"
You wrote:
Dear Teachers and Librarians:
Wouldn’t it be great if your classroom or library were fully stocked with
the books on your secret wish list? It’s a safe bet that our Scholastic Remote
Warehouse Sale, can help to make this happen. Grow a library and get
kids excited about reading at the same time!
The Waverly Public Library and West Cedar Elementary School are hosting this
event and would like to invite you to pop into the Remote Warehouse Sale
during our first days and select the books you’d like donated. It’s
easy. We’ll give you the Book Wish Donation Cards and you just fill
them out then place them in your designated envelope on the Wish List Program
display.
Warehouse Sale visitors simply select a Book Wish card from the display and
buy the book for your classroom or library. Special bookplates will showcase
donors' names. Enhancing classrooms and libraries has never been simpler!
Please explain the value of this program to your students and patrons and
encourage them to visit the Warehouse Sale!
Can’t wait to see you there!
Location: Waverly Public Library
Date & Time: May 16-22, 2004
1500 W. Bremer Ave.
Sunday, 2:00
pm – 5:00 pm
Waverly, IA 50677
Mon-Thurs, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm Fri – Sat, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sincerely,
Kathy Rodriguez and Patricia Coffie
Book Fair Chairpersons
P.S. The Remote Warehouse Sale accepts cash, checks and credit cards! Discover,
Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and secured debit cards (with MasterCard
or Visa logos on them) are all welcome.
P.S. Again. Everyone is welcome to buy. Parents, grandparents,
children—everyone. Volunteers earn $10 per hour worked toward list
price of books. Books at 50% off otherwise. Such a deal or two
or three. We need your help. Call or stop by to sign up to volunteer.
Hi Ken,
Do you have an updated version of the "Handbook for Small Public Libraries"
I found a copy in the back room with info dated 1979. Maybe I should ask
is there an updated copy? If you have and extra please bring it to Maynard.
I would like to look through it.
Amy - Director - Tripoli & Westgate
IF we are talking about the same thing [Yellow 3 ring Notebook with "READ
ME" on the spine]?
Then you have come across a bit of library history that is old technology.
It has been replaced by
ever so many things. e.g.
The Whole Library Handbook (ALA) ISBN 0-8389-0781-4 circa $40.00 http://www.alastore.ala.org/
"editions - enter title in search
The Trustee Handbook, Librarians Handbook, In Service to Iowa et. al. from
the State Library of Iowa http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/index.html
The LSA's web pages especially: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/
and
individual LSA web sites (ours) http://www.neilsa.org/
AND your individual bookmarks of value - some of mine are:
Assoc. of Rural and Small Libraries http://arsl.clarion.edu/
WebJunction http://www.webjunction.org/do/Home
Sunshine Advisories http://www.state.ia.us/government/ag/Sunshine_adv/sunshine.html
Any number of librarian blogs (not all are dull like "some" we know) try
The Laughing Librarian http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/
Follow some of the links
And of course my most favorite (or at least most visited) http://www.sl.universalservice.org/
FOFL (;-{}}} Ken
CONSORTIA (1):
Please send your (faxed) survey back to the LSA ASAP:
Delhi
Dyersville
Edgewood
Elkader
Fort Atkinson
Fredericksburg
McGregor
New Albin
Wadena
Waukon
Winthrop
If you can't find it call Ken, Glen or Milissa.
This is the last request that will provide discounts, the Form 486 will go
in next week.
At the end of July we will send out a request for bills from all libraries
that have not received their credits, these will be used to file for reinbursement.
The fileing for the B.E.A.R. (Form 472) will go in at the end of July
and we will close the Funding Year 2003 at that point.
CE:
Target dates for LIBRARY 101 in 2004 they are:
June 29th
September 30th
December 10th
SPECIAL WORKSHOPS:
Trustee Workshop x Get Organized below
CLASSES in NEILSA:
Get Organized
This was so popular at ILA Annual meeting last year that the room was FULL
and people were turned away.
Description: Get Organized examines areas of your work
life to identify ways you can be more efficient, ordered, and organized.
You'll learn how to:
* Organize your work space.
* Eliminate the clutter in drawers, closets, and on shelves
and bookcases.
* Throw away stuff you aren't using.
* Buy office products that will help you stay organized.
* Buy software that will help you organize your calendar,
to-do lists, and address book.
* Reduce the amount of paper that you accumulate.
* Stay ahead of filing.
Getting organized and staying organized is a great way to reduce the stress
in your life and feel more confident about yourself and the work you are doing.
Workshop Outline:
* Welcome and Introductions
* Why Should You Get Organized?
* Clean Up Your Work Space
* File That Paper or Throw It Out
* Manage Your "Incoming"
o Mail
o Phone Calls
o Tasks
* Set Your Schedule
* Get Your Work Done
o Interruptions
o Priorities
o Projects You Hate
* In Conclusion
o More questions
and answers Evaluation
Workshop Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to meet the following
objectives.
* Understand how getting organized can reduce stress
and allow you to function more effectively.
* Identify areas of your work space that could be better
organized.
* Identify useful office products that will help you
stay organized.
* Create a filing system and identify those items worth
saving vs. those that should be discarded.
* Create a work schedule to increase productivity.
* Manage mail (including faxes and e-mail), phone calls
and assignments.
* Identify techniques for dealing with interruptions.
* Recognize how to set priorities and reduce procrastination.
NOTES:
This is planned in two sessions one on August 20 (Friday) & 21 (Saturday).
The Friday session will be aimed directly to the needs of the public librarian.
The Saturday session will be directed to the needs of Trustrees.
DETAILS
Fees: There is no fee for library trustees. Library Directors:
$50.00
PRE-registration Required
Lunch: Included
Hours:
Registration 9:30,
Start 10:00,
Home bound 4:30
CE's: 6
Location: Fayette Public Library
OTHER CE: You must register
with the listed provider.
If you have library staff who need to take PLM classes, the fall dates are
available. Registration will be available in May. See http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/cecat.htm
Sandy Dixon
Consultant
State Library of Iowa
ICPC Preservation 101 workshops coming soon!
Thursday, May 20, 2004, 2-5PM over the ICN
Preservation Planning: Learn how to identify needs, set priorities
and identify potential funding resources.
ICN sites: Amana, Boone, Burlington, Calmar, Cedar Rapids, Charles
City, Davenport, Dubuque, Fort Dodge, Grinnell, Iowa City, LeMars, Marshalltown,
Mount Pleasant, Spencer, Vinton, Urbandale.
SOS! Friday, June 18, 2004, 8:30 am. – 4:00 pm. Fisher Community Center,
Marshalltown.
Featuring , Henry Wilhelm, internationally renowned expert on image
permanence in color photography and digital print media http://www.wilhelm-research.com/
followed by hands-on sessions including book and paper repair, disaster
response, preservation photocopying, flattening paper and photographs
and more!
Fee schedule:
All three sessions, package price: ICPC member $55.00; Non member
$75.00
Each ICN session: ICPC member $15.00; Non member $20.00 Or Both
ICN sessions
ICPC member $20.00; Non member $25.00
June 18 SOS
ICPC member $40.00; Non member $50.00
Mail registration to: Nancy E Kraft, ICPC, University Libraries, 100
Main Library, Iowa City, IA 52242-1420
Include ICN site you plan to attend (if relevant), your name, address,
telephone, email address and check or money order made out to ICPC.
Small City Workshops 2004: Keeping the Books
in Order
The tough financial times affect all cites in Iowa. However, small
cities have fewer options for increasing revenues or cutting service costs.
The first half of our workshop will focus on budget options that are
available to small cities. The session will include ideas, strategies
and materials to assist small cities in expanding their financial base
and service options.
The community center for the many small cities is the public library.
State budget cuts have severely affected library budgets. Following
dinner, Sandy Dixon, consultant at the State
Library, will provide an overview of library operations, the options
available to small cities and identify opportunities for nurturing and
strengthening your city's commitment to this important learning resource
for the whole community. Since all cities are required to provide financial
support to libraries, even cities without libraries will want to attend
in order to maximize their financial commitment.
Workshops are held from 5 to 8 p.m., include dinner and are scheduled
throughout the summer.
Lime
Springs
Thursday, May 6
Lime Springs Community Center
201 Center Street
Author Diane Kovacs (Genealogical Research on the Web and Building
Electronic Library Collections: The Essential Guide to Selection
Criteria and Core Subject Collections) is offering several web based
workshops at no charge so you can see how they work.
If interested, go to http://www.kovacs.com/freeworkshops.html ;
Other workshops (for a fee) are listed at http://www.kovacs.com/training.html
Information and application are available on the ILA web site:
http://www.iowalibraryassociation.org
"Learning Activity Written Summary" may be found at:
http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/online-learningactivitywrittensummary.htm
GRANTS:
$100.00 Grant Available from ISLA: You must
be a member ISLA to qualify for a $100.00 grant, designed to support your
Summer Reading Program. Each year, ISLA awards a $100.00 grant to one
member library to support summer reading activities. Applicants must
write a brief essay describing how the grant would enhance their summer programs.
Note this grant must be use for programming (speakers, incentives, prizes,
etc) not for collection development. Applicants need to include your
name, the library name, and all relevant contact information--and remember
you must be a member of ISLA to qualify and win.
If mailed, applications should be sent to: James Kennedy Public Library,
320 1st Avenue East, Dyersville IA 52040 (attention Shirley Vonderhaar)
You may also email your entry to Shirley at svonderhaar@iowatelecom.net or
bring it in person to the ISLA spring meeting in Knoxville on May 14th.
The winner will be drawn during the AM business portion of the meeting.
(Note that mailed or emailed applications must be received by 5:00PM on May
13th to be included in the drawing...)
Even if distance prevents you from attending the Knoxville meeting, please
consider entering this drawing to win $100.00 cash for your summer reading
program!
Building Consulting Grants
The State Library
allocates Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds to provide
Iowa libraries with building consultation. These grants allow
librarians to get professional advice from impartial consultants who provide
guidance and recommendations to library staff, city officials and the
community on the extent and complexity of a building project. The
building consulting grants have been funded by the State Library since
fiscal year 1994. Grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded as funds
are available. A library that has received
the entire $2,500 grant is not eligible for another one.
http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/LSTA/building-consulting-grants.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
The fine print stuff
blog - Friday Notes 2 AT - http://radio.weblogs.com/0108327/
EDITORS NOTES:
"x" & "xx" are catalogers shorthand for: x = See
& xx = See also
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:Data File MiscFriday Notes 20213a.wpd
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 ....
DO NOT READ THIS:
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED - You will be punished...
1. Two vultures boarded a plane, each carrying two dead raccoons.
The stewardess stops them and says " ....sorry sir,
only one carrion per passenger."
2. NASA recently sent a number of Holsteins into orbit for experimental purposes.
They called it the herd shot round the world.
3. Two boll weevils grew up in S Carolina. One took off to Hollywood and
became a rich star. The other stayed in Carolina and never amounted to much--and
naturally became known as the lesser of two weevils.
4. 2 Eskimos (actually 2 explorers from "down south") in a kayak were chilly,
so they started a fire, which sank the craft, proving the old adage you can't
have your kayak and heat it too.
5. A 3-legged dog walks into an old west saloon, slides up to the bar and
announces "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw."
6. Did you hear about the Buddhist who went to the dentist, and refused to
take Novocain? He wanted to transcend dental medication.
7. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel, and met in the lobby
where they were discussing their recent victories in chess tournaments. The
hotel manager came out of the office after an hour, and asked them to disperse.
He couldn't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.
8. A women has twins, gives them up for adoption. One goes to an Egyptian
family and is named "Ahmal" The other is sent to a Spanish family and is
named "Juan". Years later, Juan sends his birth mother a picture of himself.
Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband she wishes she also had
a picture of Ahmal. He replies, "They're twins for Pete sake!! If you've
seen Juan, you've see Ahmal!!"
9. A group of friars opened a florist shop to help with their belfry payments.
Everyone liked to buy flowers from the Men of God, so their business flourished.
A rival florist became upset that his business was suffering because people
felt compelled to buy from the Friars, so he asked the Friars to cut back
hours or close down. The Friars refused. The florist went to them and begged
that they shut down. Again they refused. So the florist then hired Hugh McTaggert,
the biggest meanest thug in town. He went to the Friars' shop, beat them
up, destroyed their flowers, trashed their shop, and said that if they didn't
close, he'd be back. Well, totally terrified, the Friars closed up shop and
hid in their rooms. This proved that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist
friars.
10. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot his whole life, which created
an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which
made him frail, and with his odd diet, he suffered from very bad breath.
This made him ....what? (This is so bad it's good...)--a super-callused fragile
mystic hexed by halitosis.
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