Friday, March 25, 2005

New Friday Notes: notes for next week ANNOUNCEMENTS: ABOUT THE LSA:  Reminder With the price of postage  soon to exceed  the (original) price of a burger & fries at a well know chain, please remember that NEILSA has ways of communication that are  at no charge to your library: Van Service Phone – Voice              233-1200 or (long distance) 800/772-2023*             --Fax               233-1964 or (long distance) 877/396-8359*                                                 * No charge to the library                                     e-mail  Eunice               riesberg@neilsa.org             Ken                  davenport@neilsa.org             Denise              luppen@neilsa.org             Susan               assist@neilsa.org If we need something mailed we will tell you, usually a fax with the original copy in the van service bag will save you the cost of postage.  We want you to call us for any reason/problem that you want assistance with or just to talk it over.  That is why we have 800 numbers.  You might find that we have some very unusual resources that you can use to solve a little problem.  For example one of the librarians happened to mention she was working on a bookmark  but couldn't find anything that was copyright free - NEILSA has a book of copyright free clip art bookmarks. CE: GATES Program Training Grant session - this coming week Internet Searching & Problem Solving  3/31 09:00 at West Union Gates Lab Sign-up at: http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html Due Date: NEILSA closed dates: 5/30, 7/4, 9/5, 11/11& 24&25,  12/23 & 26, 1/2/6 April 5, 2005 7:00 Dumont  - Butler County Meeting  - ER April 5, 2005 7:00 in Elma - Howard County Meeting   -  KD ce April 18 at 7 PM at Winthrop -  Buchanan County Meeting -  KD April 19, 2005 7:00 Elkader -  Clayton County Meeting - KD April 21 9:30 - Fayette County Meeting - KD April 25 9:00 - Grundy County Meeting Reinbeck - ER May 10, 2005 7:00 Delhi - Delaware County Meeting - June 23 - 24 ALA Annual Chicago June 30 Direct State Aid Funds expended July 1 Renew EBSCOhost July 31 Direct State Aid, Open Access, and Access Plus final reports due August 31 Enrich Iowa Letter of Agreement due September  21 - Town Meeting October 15 - Annual Survey Due October 19-21 ILA Annual, Dubuque November 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Ossian Public Library  - Winneshiek County Meeting December 23 & 26 - Christmas Links: LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm NEILSA continuing education  http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html NEILSA e-rate Consortia  Blog http://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ 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 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 NEILSA Board Meeting Next Meeting Date, Time and Location: April 11, 2005 2:00 p.m., Volga Public Library 1:41:58 PM

New Friday Notes: notes for next week ANNOUNCEMENTS: ABOUT THE LSA:  Reminder With the price of postage  soon to exceed  the (original) price of a burger & fries at a well know chain, please remember that NEILSA has ways of communication that are  at no charge to your library: Van Service Phone – Voice              233-1200 or (long distance) 800/772-2023*             --Fax               233-1964 or (long distance) 877/396-8359*                                                 * No charge to the library                                     e-mail  Eunice               riesberg@neilsa.org             Ken                  davenport@neilsa.org             Denise              luppen@neilsa.org             Susan               assist@neilsa.org If we need something mailed we will tell you, usually a fax with the original copy in the van service bag will save you the cost of postage.  We want you to call us for any reason/problem that you want assistance with or just to talk it over.  That is why we have 800 numbers.  You might find that we have some very unusual resources that you can use to solve a little problem.  For example one of the librarians happened to mention she was working on a bookmark  but couldn't find anything that was copyright free - NEILSA has a book of copyright free clip art bookmarks. CE: GATES Program Training Grant session - this coming week Internet Searching & Problem Solving  3/31 09:00 at West Union Gates Lab Sign-up at: http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html Due Date: NEILSA closed dates: 5/30, 7/4, 9/5, 11/11& 24&25,  12/23 & 26, 1/2/6 April 5, 2005 7:00 Dumont  - Butler County Meeting  - ER April 5, 2005 7:00 in Elma - Howard County Meeting   -  KD ce April 18 at 7 PM at Winthrop -  Buchanan County Meeting -  KD April 19, 2005 7:00 Elkader -  Clayton County Meeting - KD April 21 9:30 - Fayette County Meeting - KD April 25 9:00 - Grundy County Meeting Reinbeck - ER May 10, 2005 7:00 Delhi - Delaware County Meeting - June 23 - 24 ALA Annual Chicago June 30 Direct State Aid Funds expended July 1 Renew EBSCOhost July 31 Direct State Aid, Open Access, and Access Plus final reports due August 31 Enrich Iowa Letter of Agreement due September  21 - Town Meeting October 15 - Annual Survey Due October 19-21 ILA Annual, Dubuque November 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Ossian Public Library  - Winneshiek County Meeting December 23 & 26 - Christmas Links: LSA web site: http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/siteindex.htm NEILSA continuing education  http://www.neilsa.org/classes/current.html NEILSA e-rate Consortia  Blog http://www.neilsa.org/cblog/index.cfm NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org NEILSA Friday Notes archives at: http://www.neilsa.org/fridays/friday.html State Calendar - http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/news/calendars/2005calendar.pdf State Library CE web site at: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/index.html USAC (e-rate): http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ 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 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 NEILSA Board Meeting Next Meeting Date, Time and Location: April 11, 2005 2:00 p.m., Volga Public Library 11:44:53 AM