New
Friday
Notes: notes for next week
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The State Library will be closed Monday, May 30, in observance of Memorial Day.
NEILSA closed: 5/30
State
Library Gates
Follow-up Classes held in West Union;
We have a few copies of the BCR handout booklet that was used in the
classes, if you would like a copy FAX Susan a note and we will van/mail it
to you, first come first served by fax date.
Available:
The Librarians
Internet Tool Kit for kids
Internet Access: Policy
Issues for Librarians
Tech Support on the Fly
Using the Internet as a
Reference Tool
| Subject: [irls] Renewal of EBSCOhost access |
The renewal process for EBSCOhost has changed
this year. Instead of everyone sending in a renewal form, the State
Library will invoice all current subscribers. Invoices will be dated
June 1, 2005 and mailed after Memorial Day weekend. This should
facilitate agencies that need to pay before July 1 and also accommodate
those that want to pay after July 1. The invoice will be mailed to the
person and address listed in the online directory at
The invoice will cover the databases in the statewide contract. Libraries that subscribe to additional databases such as Auto
Reference Center, NoveList and others will receive a renewal notice directly
from EBSCO.
For public libraries, the cost is $25 and
$.025 per population, an increase from $.02 per population. The
population figures are taken from the 2000 census (and any adjusted
census figures) and listed on the State Library's online directory.
Invoices will be mailed to current EBSCOhost subscribers only.
A sign-up form will be available for new subscribers at a later date.
Contact Judy Jones with any questions.
Judy Jones, State Library of Iowa
Consultant
1112 East Grand
Des Moines, Iowa 50319
Phone: 515-281-4499 Fax: 515-281-6191
ABOUT THE
LSA:
Van Delivery Dates:
Please do not send any items through the van system that needs to go to a
library in AEA 1 {Keystone} area after today (5/27/04). Their final delivery dates are
June 2 & 3 and items will end up sitting somewhere over the summer and it
will not be your library.
Also for the AEA 267 delivery area, the last delivery for the school year
will be June 8 & 9. They will however resume summer delivery on June 14
& 15.
Anything that needs to go to a library in the AEA 1 area needs to be
mailed, please do not send anything to them using the van delivery system until
we notify you that delivery has started up again in the fall.
CE:
WebJunction Turns 2:
This very month,
WebJunction celebrates its second anniversary.
Since its beginnings two years ago, the website “where minds meet” has
grown to include 6 community partners, 13,000 members, 1,900 pieces of content,
50 online courses, and 6,000 messages posted to the online discussion forums.
The
State
Library of Iowa is one of those community
partners. “WebJunction
Iowa” is our
own state-specific site, made possible through a partnership between the
State
Library, OCLC, and the Gates
Foundation. As the website explains, “…this is an online
community where library staff in Iowa meet to share ideas, solve problems, take
online courses—and have fun. We're part
of a network of WebJunction
communities. Register now (it's
free) and join us. If you're looking
for help and support related to computers and technology, then “WebJunction
Iowa” is your place for
online courses, technical support, software and hardware reviews, policy and
planning advice…” This is the place to
be: http://ia.webjunction.org (also linked
from the State
Library’s webpage:
http://www.silo.lib.ia.us)
Many of
you attended NWILS series of FRONTPAGE and POWERPOINT classes this month. Those classes were geared at an introductory
level, aiming to acquaint people with the basic features of those programs. Here’s an idea: continue to learn more and
sharpen your skills by taking an online course in FRONTPAGE or POWERPOINT
through WebJunction Iowa. The address above will point the way to these
and other online classes. Give it a
whirl—again, these classes are free through WebJunction
Iowa!
From Monday Morning Eyeopener
Due Date:
NEILSA closed dates: 5/30, 7/4, 9/5, 11/11&
24&25, 12/23 & 26, 1/2/6
May 31 FirstSearch
Contracts http://www.cilsa.lib.ia.us/
June 2 & 3 Keystone
delivery ends for summer
June 9 & 10 AEA 267 Delivery break
June 14 & 15 Summer delivery AEA 267 starts
June 16 at 9:30 - Clermont - Fayette
County Meeting - KD
June 23 - 24 ALA Annual Chicago - KD
June 30 Direct State Aid Funds expended
July 1 Renew EBSCOhost
July 18, 2005 9:00 AM Beaman Grundy County
Meeting (NOTE Temporary rotation change)
July 31 Direct State Aid, Open Access,
and Access Plus final reports due
August 4 PLM I
August 9 & 10 AEA 267 Summer delivery ends
August 15 Van service starts AEA 267 & Keystone
August 25 PLM II
August 31 Enrich Iowa Letter of Agreement due
September 21 - Town Meeting
October 4 - 7:00 Greene - Butler County Meeting
October 15 - Annual Survey Due
October 17, at Aurora 7:00 Buchanan
County
Meeting - KD
October 18 - Farmersburg 7:00 Clayton
County Meeting - KD
October 18 - Tripoli 7:30 Bremer County Meeting
October 19-21 ILA Annual, Dubuque
October 24 9:00 Wellsburg Grundy County Meeting
November 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Ossian Public
Library - Winneshiek
County Meeting
December 23 & 26 -
Christmas
Links:
Learning Activity Writen Summery: http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/online-learningactivitywrittensummary.htm
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 monthly calendar -
http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendarmonth.cfm
NEILSA web site: http://neilsa.org
NEILSA yearly calendar -
http://www.neilsa.org/ncalendar/ncalendar_results.cfm
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
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THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE.
It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set
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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
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