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Notes: notes for next week
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Iowa League of cities has prepared an open meetings booklet that is
written in plain language and should be quite helpful to Iowa public
library staff and trustees.
The League receives many questions concerning the
application of the Iowa Open Meetings Law. While cities want to make
sure they meet the legal requirements, there is also the need to keep
citizens informed about what is happening in their city. In an effort
to provide assistance, the League has prepared Open Meetings, Open
Government, the companion to the Open Records,
Open Government Booklet.
The purpose of this publication is to provide general
guidance on the Iowa Open Meetings Law; Code of Iowa Chapter 21. This
law requires meetings of governmental bodies to be open to the public.
The information contained here is designed to be general in nature and
does not constitute legal advice. If there are specific legal questions
about open meetings requirements, the city should contact the city
attorney. The Iowa Open Meetings Law favors openness, so situations
where the applicability of the law is unclear should be resolved on the
side of openness.
Printed: 2005
Publisher: Iowa League of Cities
Hard copy booklet: $1
Electronic copy: Free Download
Open meetings booklet
Open records booklet
FROM:
Roy Kenagy, Administrator
Central Iowa Library Service Area
Gleaned from
other LSA messages:
Roy Kenagy
wrote:
Three
technology trend-watching articles from the new issue
of EDUCAUSE Review:
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0560.asp
(wireless, portals, outsourcing, gaming, student collaboration tools)
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0561.asp
(podcasting)
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0562.asp
(instant
messaging) --Roy
Roy Kenagy,
Administrator
Central
Iowa Library Service Area
Karen Burns
added:
Here are a
couple that I've been looking at for our board's
planning process in December:
LITA has Top
Technology Trends by topic, with links to lists
for each:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6271543.html
DaVinci
Institute "article":
http://www.davinciinstitute.com/page.php?ID=120
In
EBSCOhost an article by Stephen Abrams:
"My top ten
trends we absolutely must
track." Feliciter, Issue #2, 2003
Karen Burns,
Administrator
Southwest
Iowa Library Service Area
Also from Karen
Library Journal has a free webcast on ebooks scheduled for
November 15. The focus appears to be on academic libraries but it
might be interesting for publics to also sit in on, see what they have
to say about ebooks and their management, in general.
Karen
ABOUT THE
LSA:
CF Library
Levy -- 16 of 16
precincts
reporting (100%)
Simple Majority To Pass
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YES
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2,875
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57%
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(X)
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NO
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2,174
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43%
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Denver Library Levy -- 2 of 2
precincts reporting (100%)
Simple Majority To Pass
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YES
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202
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56%
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(X)
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NO
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160
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44%
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Nashua Library Levy -- 2 of 2
precincts reporting (100%)
Simple Majority To Pass
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YES
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288
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66%
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(X)
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NO
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146
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34%
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New Hampton Library Levy -- 13 of 13
precincts reporting (100%)
Simple Majority To Pass
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YES
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317
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62%
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(X)
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NO
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195
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38%
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According to
KWWL News at: http://www.kwwl.com/Global/Link.asp?L=171567
Dumont Library Levy -- 2 of 2
precincts reporting (100%)
Simple Majority To Pass
Elgin Library Levy -- 2 of 2
precincts reporting (100%)
Simple Majority To Pass
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NO
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129
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60%
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(X)
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YES
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86
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40%
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According to
KWWL News at: http://www.kwwl.com/Global/Link.asp?L=171567
The Iowa State Association of Counties has an article
entitled " Library Funding:
By the Numbers" on its website. http://www.iowacounties.org/
It is under New and Noteworthy.
In the article it says, "...county funding is far from
uniform across the state and counties generally lag far behind cities
when it comes to library funding..."
Sandy Dixon
Program Director Library Development
State Library of Iowa
e-rate
2 page summary of the ALA's comments to the FCC's E-rate NPRM
at:
FROM: Kate Martin
President, Iowa Library Association
I am pleased to
announce the
results of the recent elections for the office of
Vice-President/President-Elect of ILA as well as two positions as
directors on
the Executive Board.
Sheryl Bissen of Grinnell College has been elected to the office of
Vice-President/President-Elect.
Her term begins in 2006.
Lorraine Borowski of the Decorah Public Library and Jennie Garner of the North Liberty
Community
Library have been elected to three-year terms as directors on the
Executive
Board beginning January 2006.
Congratulations to Sheryl, Lorraine, and Jennie.
Video Tape available: 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. Contact SLI
MARC Records $400.00 Systems Demo
On Tuesday,
November 15, from 9:30-11:30,
Marie Harms will be facilitating demonstrations of the
cataloging systems
eligible for purchase under the Cataloging Supplement.
This session
will be repeated the following day, on Wednesday, November
16 from 1:30-3:30.
http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/continuing-ed/cecat.htm#November
or
http://tinyurl.com/abb7q
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.
Due Date:
NEILSA
closed dates: 11/11
&
24&25, 12/23 & 26, 1/2/6
November 15 at
7:00 pm in Dyersville, Delaware County Library Association
meeting - KD
December 23 & 26 - Christmas
Jan. 23, 2006
9 am - Conrad, Grundy County
Meeting - ER
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 at Plainfield
7:30 Bremer County Meeting - ER
April 18 - Garnavillo 7:00 Clayton
County Meeting - KD
July 20 Lansing 9:30 Alamakee County Association - KD
September 27 - Waterloo Town
Meeting (Waterloo Art and Rec
Center)
October 27 -- Arlington 09:30 Fayette
County Meeting
Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the
Spillville Public
Library - Winneshiek
County Meeting - KD
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
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