Friday, May 12, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Good Morning!  Stolen from the EYE-OPENER [NWILSA weekly e-letter] edited lightly: 1)  Great Outcome to ’06 Legislative Session 2)  EBSCOHost Renews in June 1)  Great Outcome to ’06 Legislative Session:  On behalf of Northwest LSA board and staff, (the rest of the LSA people too) thanks to all of you for your advocacy efforts this year.  Your emails, phone calls, and personal appearances at legislative functions kept a much needed focus on library issues.  And it all paid off.  The requirement for teacher-librarians was reinstated into law and increases were approved for Enrich Iowa, the State Library, and the LSAs!  In his latest Advocacy Hotline, ILA Governmental Affairs chair Duncan Stewart describes “a banner year for libraries:” HF 2782 - Infrastructure Budget (Sent to Governor) Appropriates money from the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund (RIIF).   Funds Enrich Iowa Libraries at the Governor's level (a $300,000 increase - total $1.2 million from the Infrastructure Fund).  Earmarks $200,000 of that increase to the State Library of Iowa and $50,000 of that increase to the Library Services Areas (to be divided up equally among them).  Maintains current level of funding ($500,000) for the Department of Education's Iowa Learning Technology Initiative (pilot programs that encourage innovation, increase student achievement, and establish best practices in learning technology use).  Maintains current funding for ICN Part III leases ($2.7 million). Effective 7/1/2006. HF 2792 - Statewide Educational Standards (Sent to Governor) Reinstates the requirement that school districts have a qualified teacher librarian and an articulated sequential K-12 media program.  Allows school districts to apply for a waiver of the requirement for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 school years and grandfathers in all non-qualified media specialists (stating the schools are in compliance with the law until that person retires or leaves employment)  Changes the term "media specialist" to "teacher librarian." Also directs the Department of Education to study the establishment of statewide content and performance standards to determine the advantages and disadvantages of current law and administrative rules related to content, performance, and graduation standards for K-12 programs.  The bill would require the department to submit a progress report by January 1, 2007, and a final report summarizing the results of the study and making recommendations by July 1, 2007.  Includes teacher pay for performance and other educational policy compromises from the 2006 legislative session.  Includes an "Equity in Property Taxation Interim Study Committee" to address equalization of the school foundation aid formula.  Effective 7/1/2006. Read the latest Advocacy Hotline from May 7 in its entirety on the ILA website: www.iowalibraryassociation.org  And again, our thanks for your help in convincing legislators that libraries are an essential service—and for defending the Library Service Areas as essential support for local libraries!  2)  EBSCOhost Renews in June:  EBSCOhost has again been selected as the statewide database to be supported by the State Library.  The State Library will continue to highly subsidize the license for EBSCOhost so that these databases can be available to all Iowans within their local libraries—as well as from home and work.  As in past years, local libraries are asked to pay a small access fee; this fee represents only a small fraction of the actual product cost.  All current EBSCO participants will receive a bill directly from the State Library.  Invoices will be mailed in June; payment can be made in June or after July 1st, that’s a local option.  For public libraries, note the new pricing effective July 1: Base price of $25.00 plus .03cents per capita. When you do the math, you’ll see how affordable this is, even for the smallest of libraries.  For instance, Size A libraries in populations less than 500, would pay about $40.00/year, while Size B libraries in populations 500—999, would pay about $55.00/year.  And what are you getting?  Online access to literally thousands of magazines and journals—the vast majority in full text—plus 30 national newspapers, TV & radio transcripts, EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia…and a whole lot more.   Again, current participants will be automatically invoiced by the State Library.  Newcomers will want to contact Judy Jones at the State Library to sign-up for the first time.  Email judy.jones@lib.state.ia.us   More about the EBSCO advantage in the coming weeks, along with training opportunities available through NWILS.  Stay tuned… Computer Class -Power Tools - Limited enrollment May 31 at Waterloo PL 9:00 - 11:30 3 ce credits OK last time I forgot the REGISTRATION details:  Go to the ce Catalog http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/cecatalog or TRY: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/registrations/events/event_list.cgi?s_sponsor_id=6&;searchtype=sponsor&Browse=Browse I..  Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP     A.  What is it?     B.  Why should I use it?     C.  How do I use it?     D.  How can I get it?   II.  PowerToys for Windows XP      A.  What are they?     B.  Differences between - advantages/disadvantages     C.  Which ones should I use?     D.  How do I use them?     E.  How can I get them?  THE LSA: Many libraries have asked about Movie Licensing  Thanks to Berh Marie at the Central LSA we have some information.  Go all the way to the bottom of the blog for the LSA letter about Movie Licensing. REMINDER: Library 101 is coming up June 23rd. CE: Throughout June of this summer the Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center is offering an important day-long training for nonprofits all around the State of Iowa. The Governor's Nonprofit Task Force created the Iowa Principles and Practices for Charitable Nonprofit Excellence. They provide great guidelines on how to operate a nonprofit in an efficient and positive way. The brochure (link below) gives the dates and places of the Principles and Practices training as well as the method to enroll. http://inrc.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iowatraining.asp Here is information for a grant writing workshop - Show Me the Money - June 5, 2006.  The sponsor is the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque.  The cost is low and I highly recommend the speaker, Ron Mirr. It will be very informative.  For the registration brochure, go to: http://www.dbqfoundation.org/grants_training.cfm Judy Jones, State Library of Iowa Consultant Stuff: You are invited to provide links you found too.  http://news.com.com/Congress+targets+social+network+sites/2100-1028_3-6071040.html?tag=nefd.lede "A Newsweek article in January was titled "Predator's Playground?" A Dateline NBC report last month warned that teens using MySpace--now part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and boasting some 80 million users--are not as safe "as they think." The Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 proposes to extend CIPA's requirements to make certain that a library (and school):  >>>>>>>>>>>> (i) is enforcing a policy of Internet safety that includes the operation of a technology protection measure with respect to any of its computers with Internet access that- (II) prohibits access by minors without parental authorization to a commercial social networking website or chat room through which minors- (aa) may easily access or be presented with obscene or indecent material; (bb) may easily be subject to unlawful sexual advances, unlawful requests for sexual favors, or repeated offensive comments of a sexual nature from adults; or (cc) may easily access other material that is harmful to minors; >>>>>>>>>>>> See article at http://news.com.com/Congress+targets+social+network+sites/2100-1028_3-6071040.html?tag=nefd.lede Bill text is at http://www.politechbot.com/docs/fitzpatrick.social.networking.051006.pdf FROM: ALA e-rate Task Force Internet agency nixes '.xxx' addresses After objections from anti-pornography advocates as well as some porn sites, the Internet's key oversight agency rejects a proposal to create a red-light district on the Web. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12728784/ FBI director questioned on Patriot Act During a May 2 oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) asked FBI Director Robert Mueller for assurance that the recently reauthorized USA Patriot Act would exempt libraries from records requests by national security letter (NSL).... AASL issues statement on instructional classification AASL has responded to concerns over the proposed “65% solution” legislation being considered in many states nationwide, which mandates that 65% of all funding for schools be spent on “direct classroom instruction,” and which often uses the current definition from the National Center for Education Statistics classifying school library media services as “noninstructional.”... Net censorship spreads worldwide Repressive regimes are taking full advantage of the net’s ability to censor and stifle reform and debate, reveals a report written by the Reporters Without Borders pressure group.... BBC News, May 4 The RFID hacking underground David Molnar is a soft-spoken computer science graduate student who studies commercial uses for RFIDs at UC Berkeley. I met him in a quiet branch of the Oakland Public Library. About a year ago Molnar discovered he could destroy the data on the books’ passive-emitting RFID tags by wandering the aisles with an off-the-shelf RFID reader-writer and his laptop.... Wired, May School filters vs. home proxies A teenager at a Pennsylvania school gets caught handing out business cards with instructions on how to circumvent his school’s web filter. But instead of throwing the school discipline book at him, administrators offer a choice: They’ll give him a break if he lets the school’s tech people know how he beat the system... CNet News, May 3 MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites: Hot today, gone tomorrow? While MySpace and Facebook currently rule the popular crowd on the internet social scene, the forces that make a hot site are difficult to quantify; any site could become the next outcast.... Knowledge @ Wharton, May 3 State of the blogsphere is strong The blogosphere continues to grow at a quickening pace. Technorati currently tracks 35.3 million weblogs, and the blogosphere we track continues to double about every 6 months. Technorati also reports that English, the language of the majority of early bloggers, had fallen to less than a third of all blog posts by April 2006.... Sifry’s Alerts, Apr. 17–May 1 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 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 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 AEA-267 will end delivery to libraries on June 8 & 9 Summer delivery will begin on Tuesday, June 13 and Thursday, June 15 and will continue through August 15 & 17 Libraries will receive their deliveries either on Tuesday or Thursday as in the past, the schedule remains the same. Fall delivery will begin on August 21 with regular delivery. AEA-1 will end delivery to libraries on June 5 & 6 Fall delivery will begin on August 17 & 18 Libraries in AEA-267 wanting to send items to libraries in AEA-1 need to have them to NEILSA by May 30.  Items that we receive after this date will be returned to your library. 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. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael A 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 LIBRARY SERVICE AREA BOARD Meeting Next Board Meeting:  July 10, 2006 2:00 p.m., Manchester Public Library Movie Licensing USA  For counties interested in getting a copyright compliance license as a group: Need to collect the following information: 1.  Name of each library that will be participating 2.  Number of active library cardholders at each library  Select a county contact person to send the information to Julie Boggs at Movie Licensing USA.  Movie Licensing USA will then give a quote and divide it by the number of libraries.  If a library decides to not participate after the quote is received, a revised list of participating libraries will have to be sent to Movie Licensing USA so a new quote can be determined.  To get the license set-up, Movie Licensing USA will need the start date [such as July 1, 2006] and tax I.D.# for each participating library. Within a week participating libraries will receive the license, and then receive the invoice a week prior to your start date.  Each library will be billed individually.  Movie Licensing USA offers an annual license that covers 95% of the major motion picture studios. Once your library has the license you can show any DVD or VHS tape that is in your library, home, or local video store as long as our license covers it. Want to know if something is covered? Check out our movie search tool on our website http://www.movlic.com. Your library can search by title, actor, or genre. If the film comes up you are free to show it. You can show an unlimited amount of films, for any aspect of programming inside your library.  Once your library has obtained the license you will get a customer I.D. # that will allow your library to access over 300 movie posters that you can customize to your show date and time. If you can’t find a title that you are looking for we offer a youth and adult generic poster for you to use. Julie Boggs Movie Licensing USA 1-888-267-2658 jboggs@swank.com www.movlic.com 11:53:31 AM