Friday, October 21, 2005

New Friday Notes: notes for next week ANNOUNCEMENTS: ALA NPRM comments at: http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/techinttele/erate/erate.htm ABOUT THE LSA: Friday Notes "staff" off running around Dubuque doing the ILA Annual meeting CE: On line CE – Learn about something new, Help new librarians, Earn a ce credit. Take part in the Rural Librarian Wiki, contact Ken for password/registration. NDescription: Tight city and county budgets have called into question who s paying for library service and how much are they paying? In this session you will increase your awareness of funding disparities, learn about tools for understanding library funding and discuss options for addressing funding disparities. This program from the 2005 Town Meetings is being repeated so library trustees and other city officials may attend. Handout: Please bring with you to the session Who Should Attend: Library trustees and directors, city officials Date and Place: November 10 on the ICN Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Contact Hours: 2 Speaker: Mary Wegner and Sandy Dixon, State Library Fee: No charge Registration: Online form and ICN choices Sponsor: State Library of Iowa Contact: Sandy Dixon, Sandy.Dixon@lib.state.ia.us Due Date: NEILSA closed dates: 11/11 & 24&25, 12/23 & 26, 1/2/6 7:30 Bremer County Meeting - October 22 - Waukon 11:00 Alamakee County Associan - KD October 24 9:00 Wellsburg Grundy County Meeting - ER October 27 -- Arlington  09:30 Fayette County Meeting - ER November 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Ossian Public Library - Winneshiek County Meeting - KD December 23 & 26 - Christmas January 31, The Application and Report Form for Accreditation FY 06 will be due. April 4 -- New Hartford 7:00 - Butler County Meeting - ER April 4, Howard County at Riceville at 7 pm - KD April 17, at Fairbank 7:00 Buchanan County Meeting - KD April 18 - Garnavillo 7:00 Clayton County Meeting - KD September 27 - Waterloo Town Meeting (Waterloo Art and Rec Center) 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 November 14, 2005 2:00 p.m., Oelwein Public Library 6:35:12 AM