Friday, April 28, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ANNOUNCEMENTS: We need your help one last time this session! Please call or e-mail both your State Senator and your State Representative right away. Thank them for their hard work and ask them to: Support the Governor's proposed $315,000 increase for Enrich Iowa. Support the Governor's proposed $200,000 increase for the State Library Find an extra $50,000 for the Library Service Areas budget. Restore the requirement that each school district in Iowa have a teacher librarian on staff. This is our last opportunity to try to ensure that ILA priorities make it into the final package. Please help us get it done! PLEASE do this today. THE LSA: Late Breaking News Tech Support on the Fly is going to be held Friday, May 12 from 9 a.m.- noon at Charles City PL. People who are interested in attending can sign up via the CE catalog beginning next week. They're moving it from Anamosa. CE: The State Library will host two people from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to discuss researching patent and trademark information. Anyone interested in learning how to get a patent or trademark should attend. It is free and open to the public. http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/archive/2006/04/patent Stuff: You are invited to provide links you found too. Used Books Better World Books has created an innovative, responsible solution for handling a Library's discards & donations. We sell your books on the online market, where you get "more bang for your book." All of this is done at NO cost to the Library and with minimal labor for you. There are NO costs associated with using the hassle-free service. They pay to have your books shipped to the warehouse. In addition, they provide the book cartons/boxes (17.25" x 11.25" x 10"), tape, labels and every other related cost associated with the processing and selling of your books. http://www.betterworldbooks.com/Programs/Library.aspx Falcons at the Evanston Public Library For the third year in a row, peregrine falcons have chosen to nest at the Evanston (Ill.) Public Library. The nest isn’t visible from either inside or outside the library, so the staff set up a FalconCam to monitor the hatching process. The video updates every few minutes.... Evanston Public Library Library-related cartoon caption contest provokes merriment There were three winning entries (and eight honorable mentions) to create a caption for a cartoon featuring a rough-looking motorcyclist staffing the reference desk... Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette, Apr. 23 Altered Books available for check-out Last year, the Portland (Maine) Public Library joined forces with the Maine College of Art for a project in which artists were invited to take any of the library’s discarded volumes and do with them as they pleased. In February, 186 altered books were put into circulation, and within two weeks about 100 had been checked out. Some library patrons used them as centerpieces at dinner parties, others held mini-exhibitions in their homes.... New York Times, Apr. 23 List of Web 2.0 products and services Confused about what Web 2.0 is all about? There are now many Web 2.0 services that could replace current desktop applications. Here is a major apps list, arranged by popular vote.... Listible The world’s greatest library Established 206 years ago, on April 24, 1800, the Library of Congress was initially intended merely to provide reference assistance for a small number of government workers. But thanks in large part to the efforts of one visionary Civil War–era assistant librarian, it was ultimately built up into one of the most impressive repositories of human knowledge on the planet.... American Heritage, Apr. 24 The great library card collection 13-year-old Cory Peterson of Suisun City, California, has spent his past five summer vacations touring U.S. public libraries in quest of library cards to add to his collection. Your library could be on his 2006 trip list. Check out his website to see part of the collection.... Cory Peterson Jet-age design for Mexican library More than 200 Boeing 727 and 737 fuselages are stacked in a north-south slant in relation to sun exposure for energy efficiency in this design for a new Jalisco Library in Guadalajara, Mexico, by the New York architecture firm LOT-EK. The building utilizes the space inside the fuselages to contain and organize functions that require enclosed spaces­such as book collections, meeting rooms, and administration offices.... Noticias Arquitectura, Apr. 17 Links: Learning Activity Written Summary: 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/ Due Date: NEILSA closed dates: 5/29, 7/4, 9/4, 11/10, 11/23 & 24, 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 May 3 - Beginning EBSCOhost, 9-11 May 9-12 - Tech Support on the Fly, 9:00-12:00, in Orange City, Clarinda, Knoxville and Anamosa May 9, Edgewood Delaware County Meeting - KD May 18 - Advanced EBSCOhost, 9-11 June 23 Library 101 June 24 - 27 - ALA Annual meeting in New Orleans - ER & KD July 1 - renew EBSCOhost July 17-18, Rural Sustainability Institute Wartburg College, Waverly July 20 Lansing 9:30 Allamakee County Association - KD July 24, 06 - 9 am - Reinbeck - Grundy Co. meeting - ER July 31 - Reports due: Direct State Aid & Open Access August 1 - Deadline for letter of Intent to the State Library for Staying Connected August - Applications for PLM I & II due August 31 - Enrich Iowa Letter due at SLI September - Library Card sign up month September 13 Library 101 September 21 5:30 Fayette County Meeting Waucoma September 23 - 30 - Banned Book Week September 27 - State Library/LSA Town Meeting (Waterloo Art and Rec Center) September 30 - Cataloging Supplement report due at SLI October 11 - 13 - ILA Annual Conference in Council Bluffs October 15 - 21 Teen Read Week October 17 - Readlyn, Bremer Co. meeting - 7:30 October 17 - Clayton County Meeting 7:00 Gutenberg October 17 Buchanan County Meeting Independence 7:00 October 17 Bremer Co. meeting - 7:30, at Readlyn October 27 -- Arlington 09:30 Fayette County Meeting October 30 - Annual Survey due at SLI Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the Spillville Public Library - Winneshiek County Meeting - KD Nov. 3 - ILA Planning Meeting November 13 - 19 - Children's Book Week The State Library's 2006 calendar http://www.silo.lib.ia.us 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. 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July 10, 2006 2:00 p.m., Manchester Public Library 11. Adjourn 1:18:52 PM