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Notes 2. An
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resource for NEILSA Librarians
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to colors:
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Old stuff will be in
purple.
Stuff I'm harping on will be
in Red.
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& Bold are for my editorial comments/ jokes & "stuff".
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County Meetings Scheduled:
If your county meeting
date is not on the schedule please contact Ken
at NEILSA
Allamakee County
Meeting - Oct 30 9:30 Waukon KD CE
Black Hawk
County Meeting - When called - seldom
Bremer County Meeting - Oct 19, 7:30 Waverly
PL ER
Buchanan County Meeting - Oct 11, 2004 7:00
Lamont KD
Butler County
Meeting - Oct. 5, 2004 7:00 Clarksville ER
Chickasaw County Meeting - ??????
Clayton
County Meeting - Tuesday,
October 19 at 7 PM. at Edgewood Public Library KD
Delaware County
Meeting
- Nov. 9 at 7:00 Colesburg KD
Dubuque
County ??????
Fayette County Meeting
- October 28 at 9:30 in
Oelwein KD
Grundy
County
Meeting - Oct. 25 9:00 am at the Dike PL KD CE
Howard County
Meeting - Oct. 5 at 7 p.m.
Cresco KD, 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
Workshops are available upon prior request, from the NEILSA
staff
person
in attendance, just call.
NOTE: Tentative staff assignment: KD = Ken
(Consultant), ER = Eunice (Administrator)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Enrich Iowa funds include Direct State Aid, Open Access and Access
Plus. Your Direct State Aid payment for Fiscal Year 2005 (July 1, 2004-June 30, 2005) is in the one check which has been mailed.
EYE-OPENER: (unedited)
CHANGES: None reported
Q&A:
Here are responses to two questions received during town
meetings:
1) May a library make a photocopy of a person's driver's license to
use
as personal identification for getting a library card?
Response: According to attorneys at the Iowa Attorney General's
office,
there is nothing that prohibits a library from making a photocopy of
a
driver's license. However, from a practical point of view, the
library
should consider whether it wants to collect and store these
documents.
The library should evaluate whether asking to see the driver's
license
and comparing it to information provided on the registration form
would
accomplish the same thing.
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2. May a library require a social security number for obtaining a
library card?
Response: There is a federal restriction on collection and use of
social security numbers. Section 7 (a)(1) of the Privacy Act of
1974,
Pub.L. 93-579, uncodified...deems it unlawfrul for a "federal, state,
or
local government agency to deny to any individual any right, benefit,
or
privilege provided by law because of such individual's refusal to
disclose his social security number." The Act does not prohibit
voluntary requests for an individual's social security number. In
other
words, the library may ask for an individual's social security
number,
but is not allowed to require it.
Sandy Dixon
Consultant
Advocatvs Diaboli: This term
has come to mean anyone who argues a position that he does not believe
in, simply for the sake of
arguing and/or promoting discussion; or to present a counter argument
for a position he does believe in to another debater, for the purpose
of testing the
quality of the counter argument and identifying weaknesses in his own
argument.
New
LINKS of interest:
Library book '100 years overdue' [BBC News]
Internet privacy, the Patriot Act and Abu Ghraib [The Salt Lake Tribune]
CONSORTIA
If you have
specific
questions about your e-rate "account" call Glen,
9:00 - noon at NEILSA office.
Glen
tells me that ALL
486's are now in.
EVERYONE who is not
currently getting discounts from last years credits
should contact us via e-mail
at: assist@neilsa.org ; we will check
and see if you are part of the 486 problem or on the B.E.A.R. list and
get back to you.
B.E.A.R. Forms
Many service providers are offering the
option to receive a
discount on monthly services instead of requiring the submission of the
B.E.A.R. form. Consortia policy is to take discounts
only*. This was communicated to all
service
providers in the Consortia package sent to service providers last fall,
a copy
of which was sent to you.
As the proper forms have
been submitted, (see below) please
double check your bills from service providers to verify you are
receiving the
discount. Please let us know if you have
or have not received a discount. Thank you for your assistance.
Form
Form submission date
Purpose
470
05/06/2004
Open request for
bid from providers,
[RFP]
471
03/16/2004
Acceptance of specific
provider bid
[Purchase
order]
486
05/12/2004+
Confirmation of
services received.
[OK
for SLD to pay.]
- Prior to
2004 the choice of discount or B.E.A.R. was with Service Provider; with
2004 the choice is with applicant. Starting
FY2005 [July 2005 – June 2006] Consortia will no longer do B.E.A.R.
forms except at the specific written request of the library, and for
cause.
FCC
Registration Numbers -- CONFIRMED
We are going to need to get FCC Registration Numbers. In order to get this number we are going to
need
some information form you. This may be a
little difficult so you may wish to start gathering the following data
now.
- TIN
[Taxpayer Identification Number] usually an EIN [Employer
Identification Number]. NOTE: Your library may (probably) uses the city
EIN so you may need to get it from the clerk.
- Check and
see if the city already has a FCC Registration Number, if the city has
ANY interaction with the FCC it should have a number; that could mean
city telecommunications utility (maybe), city operated radio station –
police, file et. al.
- The Consortia will be applying for FCC Registration Number using the EIN you supply, PLEASE make certain that the city clerk
knows this if we are using the city EIN. If
the library has its own EIN then you should note this transaction in
the Board minutes of the next Board meeting. Consortia
will supply a boiler plate paragraph later.
- Failure to
obtain/have a FCC Registration Number will mean NO e-rate funding.
- The Consortia will apply for a FCC Registration Number for any NEILSA library that supplies us with a TIN
Funding Year 2005 (July
2005
- June 2006)
In the next few week
you will receive an e-mail about setting
up for next year.
e-rate
Training session in Washington DC NEWS:
Consortia members
Good news - very few major changes,
BAD news - lots of re-interpretations of old rules and picayune enforcement of existing rules.
NON Consortia members
Good news - can't really think of any, program is getting more &
more a program requiring a professional who does very little but work
on e-rate, read the Federal Register and so forth
BAD news - lots of re-interpretations of old rules and picayune enforcement of existing rules.
EVERYONE- Iowa had 3 state coordinators and 2 private consultants in
attendance, we have good in state resources to work on this program,
but it is getting to the point where e-rate is a full time job or major
hobby. After we have all had a weekend to let the implications of what
we learned sink in, maybe even talk to one another, and catch up on our
"real" jobs you will hear more.
The following
libraries are NOT filed as part of the
Consortia and are therefor not on the:
Technology Plan
Form
470 and all subsequent filings
FCC Registration Number
Cedar Falls, Evansdale,
Elkader, Guttenberg, Hawkeye, LaPorte
City, Waterloo, Waverly.
IF
you feel you should not be on this list let us know
(in writing please), if you wish to start doing your own e-rate let us
know in writing also.
Effective October 1,
November 1, 2004, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
will implement its new rules further implementing the Debt Collection
Improvement Act of 1996 (DCIA). The new rules will have an impact on
anyone doing business with the FCC - including applicants for numbering
resources, schools, libraries, and other universal service
beneficiaries - who is delinquent in debt owed to the agency.
All
participants in the Schools and Libraries Program that
currently hold an Entity Number or Billed Entity Number must obtain an
FCC Registration Number.
It
is planned that the
Consortia will get this number for it's members, it takes about 12 -
15 minutes to do the paperwork (I am told) if you have all the data in
hand.
What you must do IMMEDIATELY: Get the TIN/EIN for your library and e-mail it to: assist@neilsa.org
CE: {That
would be classes with credits toward recertification.}
Gates Foundation
Follow-up
Training: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/cecat.htm#Gates
Gates Training for Fall
2004 has been scheduled. The
classes will be 9:00-12 noon and 1:00-4:00. Day one is Teaching
Computers to the Public is
offered twice. Day two is Troubleshooting
Computers in the morning
and Computer Security in the
afternoon. Each of the classes will be limited to 25 people.
The State Library will take care of registrations. Online
registration is available.
CE Catalog is at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/cecat.htm#September
NEILSA Sessions are
Thursday, Oct. 21 and Friday, Oct. 22.
Fayette Community Library
ALA launches on-line Continuing Education Clearinghouse
CHICAGO
- The American Library Association (ALA) has launched a new online
Continuing Education (CE) Clearinghouse at www.ala.org/ce. It is
designed to meet the professional development needs and career
interests of library staff and boards.
http://www.ala.org/ala/pr2004/september2004/OnlineCEClearinghouse.htm
Target date for LIBRARY 101 in Fall 2004 is December 10th
SPECIAL
WORKSHOPS:
CLASSES in
NEILSA:
Early November -- Standard 75
(security) Workshop - watch for more news.
OTHER CE: You must register with the
listed provider.
"Learning Activity
Written Summary" may be found at:
http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/online-learningactivitywrittensummary.htm
GRANTS:
Support Staff
Grant. will make it possible for an eligible individual
(or
individuals) to attend ALA Annual in Chicago
in June 2005.
Eligibility
Requirements: Currently employed in
a
full time support staff position; Minimum of three years of experience
in an
area of technical services (acquisitions, cataloging, collection
development/management, preservation of library materials, serials); No
previous attendance at an ALA annual meeting Successful
candidates will be required to
submit a brief report describing their
experiences at the annual conference. This report will be
published
in the post-conference issue of the
ALCTS
Newsletter Online and will also
be shared with
the sponsor. The ALCTS Membership
Committee will provide mentoring support for each candidate.
To
apply: Send a
cover letter, resume and a brief essay (ca. 250 words) summarizing the
reasons
why attending the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Library
Association
would be beneficial. A letter of reference from the
applicant's
supervisor, indicating the employer's support for the
application is also
required.
Applications should be
sent by December
1, 2004
to: Dale Swensen
email: Dale_Swensen@byu.edu
Successful applicants
will be notified in January. All
necessary travel arrangements will be handled by ALCTS.
The American
Library
Association (ALA) and the National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are accepting applications for the
We The People Bookshelf on
"freedom" grants. Part of the NEH's We the
People initiative, the annual grant project will award sets of 15
classic books for young readers to 1,000 libraries across the country.
Libraries interested in receiving the collection are required to
develop and host a program to introduce the collection and its theme of
freedom to students and/or patrons.
Guidelines
and
applications for Round One are
available online at www.ala.org/wethepeople
until October 20, 2004.
Applications for Round Two will be
accepted from December 16, 2004 to February 16, 2005.
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: Long Announcements, Supporting
Documents, & other "stuff"
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On line Newsletters:
Regional Rag. http://www.sls.lib.ia.us/rag.htm OR
Go to http://www.sls.lib.ia.us - click
on
"Regional Rag" and then the issue you wish to read.
The fine print stuff
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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
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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 ...
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