Friday
Notes 2. An
on-line
resource for NEILSA Librarians
NOTE: Eunice & Ken will be at the ILA Annual Meeting in Sioux City for most of the week.
Key
to colors:
New stuff
will be in
plain old black, as will section headings usually bold or Italic.
Old stuff will be in
purple.
Stuff I'm harping on will be
in Red.
Other colors will
be for making some kind of a point.
Maroon
& Bold are for my editorial comments/ jokes & "stuff".
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Click on the little page icon next to the date in the upper left corner
Wait for the page to reload, and click on your browser print button
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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 - April 5, 2005 7:00 Dumont
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 - April 5, 2005
7:00 in Elma KD CE
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:
EYE-OPENER: (unedited)
Good
Morning! Today in EYE-OPENER:
1) Annual
Reports Dues October 15th
2) Direct
Mailing to Boards = "Trustee Time & Talent"
3) State
Library Sponsors Children's Services Workshop
1) Annual
Reports Dues October 15th: The General Information Survey 2004 (better
known as the Annual Report) is due at the State Library on October 15th. The
date has been moved forward, so time is fleeting. At this writing, only 30 N.W.
libraries have submitted the report, leaving a whopping 75 still to go!
A viewable /
printable copy, along with instructions, are found on the State Library's
website here:
If you've misplaced your WEB COLLECT login and password, NWILS
has a master list, as does the State Library, so just give us a call. NWILS has
several new directors, for whom completing the annual report is a new experience
this year. If you'd like to see a tutorial first, that's available too from
this page: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/statistics/webcollect/index.html
Every public
library received an "annual report packet" some months ago, which included
an Introduction, a Cover Letter, and a Library Trustee Survey. The Trustee Survey reflects your current board roster and
is only available on paper. So please remember to fill that out and mail a paper
copy to NWILS and to the State Library.
Just to recap: Send
to the State Library, using the WEB COLLECT software, the online
version of the annual report and a paper copy of the trustees' listing. Send to
NWILS a paper copy of BOTH the annual report and the trustees'
listing. You're welcome to call with any questions...Just remember the deadline
is now 2 weeks away--October 15th.
2) Direct
Mailing to Boards = "Trustee Time & Talent:" Last week, we sent a
direct mailing to all the board presidents in N.W. LSA, along with a flyer
describing a board development workshop. Entitled "TRUSTEE TIME & TALENT,"
this workshop is coming up Saturday November 13th at
Milford Public Library. It presents three key aspects of using
trustees' time and talent to greatest advantage: (1) recruiting prospective
trustees to fill vacancies; (2) ideas for keeping trustees actively engaged in
meaningful, role-appropriate tasks; and (3) retraining trustees through ongoing
educational opportunities. Ideas will encourage boards to focus on "Big
Picture" issues and on their role as advocates.
This program was
presented in Carroll in August, so this repeat performance in Milford is a
second opportunity for the northern-most libraries. The cost is $15.00, which
includes workshop handouts, AM coffee & donuts, and a catered lunch. This
program is funded in part by a grant from the Iowa Library Trustees'
Association. Please discuss this at your October board meetings and make plans
to send at least 1 representative from your boards. Thanks in
advance!
3)
State Library Sponsors Children's Services Workshop:
Again this year, the
State Library will sponsor 2 workshops with Jane Kitson, a.k.a. Mother Goose.
"Let's Make Language Learning Fun" will be presented in Des
Moines on October 25th at the Best Western North on Merle Hay Road and again
October 26th in Mason City at North Iowa Area Community
College.
Jane Kitson is a national early
childhood education consultant and
published author from Atlanta, Georgia. She
has trained over 60,000 librarians, teachers, and speech and language pathologists. Her
interactive hands-on sessions are filled with ready-to-implement activities that
work right now.
Registration is $10.00 which includes the workshop materials, morning coffee
break, and lunch. Registration begins at
9:30AM, with the workshop running from
10:00AM--3:00PM. For more information
and to register online, go here: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/news/News-2004/kitson04.pdf
That's it for this week. Thanks for
reading!
Bonnie
McKewon
Director,
Northwest Iowa Library Services
CHANGES:
Bonjour from the Wellsburg Public Library where I have been
engaged as director since mid-September. My favorite book of all time is A Girl
of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter. I recently took the author's name as
my own for fun. Let's see: here we are preparing to automate, sprucing up,
checking demand for formats, developing marketing ideas for collections and
displays. I chose chickens for my first story time theme and we played "hot
egg(in lieu of hot potato)" with a (hard to convince some children of this) hard
boiled egg. My number one reason for being here are our patrons. Television is
NEVER as interesting as they are. Send me a tip on being a small town
librarian! Julie Stratton Est-ce vous parlez Francais?
Q&A:
What is the librarians job?
".... to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible and useful. "
http://print.google.com/googleprint/about.html
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.
Potential Public Library Roles & Goals (1980) (Today)
Community Activities
Center replaced by Parks & Rec. Department
Community Information
Center replaced by city homage
Formal Education Support Center
Independent Learning Center being replaced by Internet
Popular Materials Library
Preschoolers' Door to Learning
Reference Library replaced by Google
Research Library replaced by Google
NEWS ITEM FROM: Rep. Roger Thomas Statehouse News (Highlight mine KD)
IOWA LEARNING TECHNOLOGY STUDY
COMMITTEE
The first meeting of the Legislature’s Iowa Learning
Technology Study Committee was held on September 30. The interim committee was
established to develop a learning technology plan, including proposed policies
and budgets. The plan is to determine if Iowa should follow the states of Maine
and Michigan in getting middle-school students laptop computers.
A big concern from lawmakers is the cost. However, they agree
it’s time to begin to think about technology and how it meets goals for student
achievement. The committee is also charged to address professional development,
implementation strategies and other phase-in issues, strategies for coordinating
with existing technology initiatives and resources, and procedures for data
tracking and assessment.
Recommendations will be made at this final meeting on what
direction the Legislature should take next session.
County Supervisors "begging for support" meeting speaking tips.
1. If you do have to read or glance at notes, move your eyes down, not your
entire head.
2. The bigger the audience the bigger your gestures and expressions and
movement need to be.
3. If you don't wish to answer questions until the end of your speech,
politely and without apology inform the audience.
4. You aren't going to be loved by 100% of the audience. If one person is
ignoring you or sleeping, don't obsess over it.
& some more ==
TV/Media Tips
5. When getting ready for an in-studio radio or TV interview, a producer
will often ask you to count to ten for a microphone volume check. Instead say
"hi, I'm (your name) and I listen/watch (name of program) every chance I get."
First, the whole staff will appreciate your enthusiasm. Second, they might use
what you just said as a promo for years to come, giving you a publicity
windfall.
6. If a caller on a radio or TV talk show starts trashing you repeatedly
and the host doesn't intervene, just start talking in a calm voice. You will
drown out the negative message of the caller and yet still appear to be
calm.
7. If you are promoting a particular book, company or cause, don't be
afraid to mention it by name.
8. When giving out a web site address or phone number, do it twice
slowly.
Crisis Communications
9. Have your three message points and sound bites written out in front of
you during the interview-but don't read them.
10. Nothing is ever 100 percent off the record. Once notes are made,
editors, publishers and lawyers might review them.
New
LINKS of interest:
IF you are not on WebJunction here are two examples of why you should be:
1.
Have a Good Chat
No visit to the spa would be complete without catching up on all the
latest...technology plans. Our Tech Planning forum will keep you in the
loop.
***********************************************
QUOTE
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard
work.
-Peter Drucker
***********************************************
2.
Get Educated While the Gettin's Good
WebJunction's initial startup grant from the Gates Foundation is coming to
an end soon; we've been planning for this day and have a number of good programs
under way to put WebJunction on a secure and stable financial footing for
decades to come. As part of this shift to long-term sustainability, starting in
November nominal fees will be charged for some of the courses in WJ's Learning
Center. All courses on the site will continue to be available for no charge
through the end of October. This is an ideal time to register as a WebJunction
member and get some great free training while it's still available.
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.
FCC
Registration Numbers
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
In
order to get the FCC Registration Number we are going to
need
some information form you.
- 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.
- 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:
.... Neilsa e-rate Consortia has applied for a FCC Registration Number
for the library. This number is needed for the e-rate discount program
in Funding Year 2005 and beyond. The library director has a copy of
the FCC Registration Number confirmation which was sent from the LSA.
- 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, you will receive a copy of the confirmation with appropriate instructions.
You will need to know your FSCS number. Thanks & tip-o-the-hat to Bob Bocher of e-rate Task Force for these instructions.
To find it (FSCS#) go to
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.
You wouldn't believe what those crazies are up to check it out at:
Most schools and libraries won't find
out how much eRate funding they are getting for the 2004 funding year--which
began July 1--until the end of November at the earliest, eRate officials told
eSchool News immediately following a Senate hearing on the eRate Oct. 5.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=5313
And on and on:
"Roughly 4,200 commitment letters, worth about $300
million, are currently ready to mail to schools and libraries as soon
as USAC receives the go-ahead, George McDonald, vice president of
USAC's Schools and Libraries Division, testified at a Senate hearing
Oct. 5."
xx: E-Rate Encounters Flak in Senate From Reuters Tuesday, October 5, 2004; 3:12 PM
E-Rate Encounters Flak in Senate [The Washington Post]
Internet Grants to Schools Halted as the F.C.C. Tightens the Rules
New York Times By STEPHEN LABATON October 4, 2004
NOTE: The $2 million* lost by USAC in
the 3 days, Sept 27 – 30, because of the forced liquidation would have funded
telecommunications and Internet discounts to ALL 538 Iowa public libraries until
the end of the decade *now reported to be $5 million
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.
EDITORIAL:
If you ran your public Library the way the FCC runs the e-rate program
a customer (applicant for library services [ALS]) would have to:
1. Fill in an eight page
application every year for a library card, during a short period of
time that you wouldn't actually tell them until it was time
2. Have to get a number from
the city which would cut off their library service if they failed to
keep the lawn mowed/snow shoveled, and another number (the 5plus4
number) to give their location from an entirely different provider, who
takes messages and never returns calls
3. They would have to tell you 18 months ahead of the publication of a book if they wanted to read it
4. Get a report from their
last library about their "participation" you would not allow them to
participate at your library beyond what they did at the last library
without a "reading plan" and explanation of why they want you to let
them take out materials as well as books; and by the way do you have
this new stuff in your "materials use plan"? and approved by a
certified materials use plan certifier [CMUPC]
5. Prove that they had enough money "in the bank" to cover ANY library charges for next year
6. Put up with unexplained holds on materials
7. Know, in detail, all of your polices & procedures
8. Check your website to see
if you had changed any of the policies or procedures, which you would
do late Saturday nights and in a form of English strongly resembling
the English used in the Torah, changes would be retroactive, and would
have previously been published, in fine and obscure print, in the back
pages of "American Libraries"
9. Check there State Library and LSA websites to see if they had made any changes that would affect your policies and procedures
10. Know in detail the
special codes [OCLC, SILO, ILL et. al.] you use and be able to tell
from the context which version of the code you were using at that
moment [when is a LC an institution, building, or classification
scheme].
11. And every year you and your line staff would have to go up against
a selected knowledgeable group of the ALS and their representatives and
explain it all when your board had not told you what was going on , was
in the process of changing the rules after you asked for and received
permission to have certain policies, when all you wanted to do was get
the materials out to the customers.....
NEXT TIME we will get into special reading audits for customers, to
make certain they actually read the material checked out, and the
reserved knowledge call groups who "know the special tricks" plus which
groups 1. do not push their chairs back in, 2. lie about what they
actually read and 3. use books to hold up the short people at holiday
meals. Would that #3 be "age appropriate materials"?
Ken (;-{}}} Please see my disclaimer in "The Fine Print Stuff" below.
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"
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 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
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 ...
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