Friday, July 29, 2005

New Friday Notes: notes for next week ANNOUNCEMENTS: Something to think about:  Heidelberg predicts that by 2010 printed media will only take up a 48 percent market share with the other 52 percent held by e-media. ARTICLE: J. K. Rowling deserves the glory and wealth, for she dragged children back to reading from e-games and TV with her books. Movie copyrights and books have earned her 500 million pounds, put her among the only two writers on this year’s Fortune list, the other being Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. However, such a victory alone cannot cover up the downturn of the publishing industry as a whole. http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/1562/1/110/   COPYRIGHT "This week, at the urging of prominent legal scholars, academic-library organizations, technology companies such as Google and Microsoft, and many other interested parties, the U.S. Copyright Office is holding a series of hearings to determine whether copyright law should change to allow for more liberal use of orphan works." FROM: http://63.240.213.214/free/v51/i47/47a03301.htm Association of Rural and Small Libraries Conference  Sept 7 - 9 2005 The American Library Association (ALA), in collaboration with the Association of Rural and Small Libraries and the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services, will be launching a new advocacy campaign in 2006. The initiative is the result of the survey discussed at the last joint conference in 2004. It will focus on the value of small and rural libraries to their communities and will include new key messages and a toolkit for your use. The project is part of @ your library®, The Campaign for America’s Libraries, ALA’s national, multi-year public awareness and advocacy campaign promoting the value of libraries and librarians in the 21st century. As part of the planning process, ALA staff will conduct a program during the 2005 joint conference on Wednesday, September 7 at 10:30 a.m., as well as three one-hour focus groups. Those focus groups will be held during the lunch hour on September 7, 8 and 9. Lunch will be provided. The purpose of the focus groups is to collect feedback on themes, issues and messaging for the new campaign. Twelve participants are being sought for each focus group. On September 7 and 9, ALA would like to meet with rural library staff, including main library, branch and bookmobile managers, supervisors and staff.  The lunch meeting on Thursday, September 8 will be for library directors. Your input is invaluable to the planning efforts, so please consider joining.  If you are interested in participating in a focus group, please send an email to: olos@ala.org. Subject line should say: “Focus Group RSVP.” Responses will be taken on a first come-first served basis. Please include your name, title, library/bookmobile, phone number and email address. Closer to the conference, you will receive an email from ALA confirming your participation and the date, time and location of your focus group. ABOUT THE LSA: Q&A: Question: May an Open Access library charge for returning books to another Open Access library? Answer: In my opinion; According to Section 4D of the Open Access Terms of Agreement, the participant shall: "Accept returned items from Open Access customers borrowed from another participating library; return items borrowed through Open Access to the owning library and indicate the return date. If an item is overdue, the library that owns the item processes it according to local policy. Any fines are collected by the library that owns the overdue item." Computer Consulting Contract for Services  MEETING: Aug 9 @ Tripoli @ 19:00 Meeting of interested parties. If you need some books for the people on the Potter wait list or for people who have finished Harry and want more check this list from ALA: Harry-a-like Books Books that may have similar story elements to Harry Potter but more importantly replicate the accessibility, tone and flavor. Author, Title. (Series Name) Publisher Year Alexander, Lloyd. The Book of Three. (Chronicles of Prydain) Holt 1964 Baum, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz. Michael Neugebauer Book 1996 Billingsly, Franny. The Folk Keeper Turtleback Books 2001 Black, Holly. The Field Guide. (The Spiderwick Chronicles) Simon & Schuster 2003 Bode, N.E. The Anybodies. HarperCollins 2004 Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. Hyperion Books 2001 Cooper, Susan. The Dark is Rising. (Dark is Rising Sequence) Margaret K. McElderry 1973 Coville, Bruce. Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher. (Magic Shop Books) Harcourt 1991 Duane, Diane. So You Want To Be A Wizard.(Young Wizard Series) Delacorte 1983 Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart. Scholastic 2003 Griffin, Adele. The Witch Twins. Hyperion Books 2001 Haptie, Charlotte. Otto and the Flying Twins: the First Book of the Karmidee. Holiday House 2003 Ibbotson, Eva. The Secret of Platform 13. Dutton 1998 Jones, Diana Wynne. Witch Week. (Chrestomanci Books) Greenwillow 1982 Nimmo, Jenny. Charlie Bone. Orchard 2003 Nix, Garth. Mister Monday. (Keys to the Kingdom) Scholastic 2005 Sage, Angie. Septimius Heap, Book One: Magyk. Katherine Tegen Books 2005 Skye, Obert. Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo. Shadow Mountain 2005 Snicket, Lemony. The Bad Beginning. (A Series of Unfortunate Events) HarperCollins 1999 Stroud, Jonathan. The Amulet of Samarkand. (The Bartimaeus Trilogy) Miramax 2003 Wrede, Patricia. Dealing with Dragons. (Enchanted Forest Chronicles) Harcourt 1990 Yolen, Jane. Wizard's Hall. Harcourt 1991 If You Like Harry Books Books that may be similar in theme to Harry Potter but are more complex or are great fantasy fiction. Author, Title. (Series Name) Publisher Year Avi. Midnight Magic. Scholastic 1999 Barron, T.A. The Lost Years of Merlin. (Lost Years of Merlin) Philomel 1996 Bass, L.G. Sign Of The Qin. (Outlaws Of Moonshadow Marsh) Hyperion 2004 Bell, Hilari. The Wizard Test. Eos 2005 Collins, Suzanne. Gregor the Overlander. (Underland Chronicles) Scholastic 2003 Constable, Kate. Singer of All Songs. Arthur A. Levine Books 2004 Doyle, Debra and James D. Macdonald. School of Wizardry. (Circle of Magic) Troll Communications 2000 Eager, Edgar. Half Magic. Harcourts Brace 2004 Ende, Michael. The Neverending Story. Dutton 1997 Farmer, Nancy. Sea of Trolls. Atheneum 2004 Fisher,Catherine. The Oracle Betrayed. (Oracle Prophecies) Greenwillow 2004 Flanagan, John. Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan. Philomel 2005 Furlong, Monica. Wise Child. Knopf 1987 Jones, Diana Wynne. Year of the Griffin. Greenwillow 2000 LeGuin, Ursula. A Wizard of Earthsea. Atheneum 1991 L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. Cornerstone 1987 Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted. HarperCollins 1997 Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia. HarperCollins 1998 Mahy, Margaret. The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance. Puffin 1994 McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsinger. (Harper Hall Trilogy) Atheneum 1977 McKinley, Robin. The Hero and the Crown. Greenwillow 1984 Nesbit, E. Five Children and It. Puffin 1996 Nix, Garth. Sabriel. (Abhorsen Trilogy) HarperCollins 1995 Nodelman, Perry. The Same Place but Different. Simon & Schuster 1995 Oppel, Kenneth. Airborn. Eos 2004 Oppel, Kenneth. Silverwing. Simon & Schuster 1997 Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. Knopf 2003 Pierce, Tamora. Sandry's Book. (Circle of Magic) Scholastic 1997 Pratchett. Terry. Wee Free Men. HarperCollins 2003 Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass. (His Dark Materials) Eos 1996 Tolkein, J.R.R. The Hobbit. Houghton Mifflin 2001 Zambreno, Mary Frances. A Plague of Sorcerers. Harcourt 1991    AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CE: The NEILSA staff is putting together the CE for next year.  Please use the comment feature, or e-mail, your ideas for ce you would like to have offered. Due Date: NEILSA closed dates: 9/5, 11/11& 24&25,  12/23 & 26, 1/2/6 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 Written 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 NWILSA Blog: http://nwilsblog.blogspot.com 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 August 8, 2005 3:00 p.m., Greene Public Library 12:41:00 PM