Friday, June 03, 2005

New Friday Notes: notes for next week ANNOUNCEMENTS: Waverly Public Library announced the new director: Sarah Meyer-Reyerson Last shot at low cost retro: East Central Library Services will do retroconversion for libraries automating using Bibliofile ITS for Windows software.  The cost is $.20 per record matched and $.35 per disk used.  Any shipping charges to return cards will be billed to the library.  The records will be in MARC format and can be used by Follett or Sagebrush.  We do exact and near matches.            If you are interested, please let us know by June 21st.  Our subscription will expire on June 30.  If we don’t have committed libraries by then, we will not renew our subscription. If you have any questions or would like to have ECLS do your retro, contact Linda Lumsden . llumsde@ecls.lib.ia.us East Central Library Services 319-365-0521 ABOUT THE LSA: Opening on the NEILSA Board (July 1) for a Library Commission appointment contact Sandy Dixon at the SLI with recommendations. Waverly Public Library director stepping down The director of the Waverly Public Library will step down after almost 30 years of service. Pat Coffie served the library since 1976. Her last day will be June 30. When she retires , Coffie plans to commit more time to visiting her family, storytelling and puppetry.  But she won't be a stranger to the library.. "I'll be here a lot to feed my habits." Coffie said. "I do like to read." Assistant director  Sarah Meyer-Reyerson of Shell Rock will step up to head the library.  The library board approved the hire Tuesday. MeyerReyerson served as the director of the Evandale Public Library from 1996-97  and has worked for the Waverly library since. She is a graduate of Luther College and is working toward a  master's degree at the University  of Iowa School of Library and Information Science. Details are pending on a farewell open house for Coffie. The next library board meeting is at 5:15 p.m. June 20. FROM: Thursday June 2, 2005 Waterloo Courier pA9 CE: Due Date: NEILSA closed dates: 7/4, 9/5, 11/11& 24&25,  12/23 & 26, 1/2/6 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 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 Meeting Date, Time and Location:  June 13, 2005 3:00 p.m., New Albin Public Library 12:03:50 PM