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New
Friday Notes: notes for
next week
The life so short,
the craft so long to learn.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The New Friday Notes for
June 23, 2006 [next week] may not happen since I will be at ALA, I am
going to attempt to Blog on the Annual Meeting but who knows. One
thing that is most likely not to happen is an e-mail telling you it has
been posted so about 1:00 on Friday you need to check to see if I got
it posted. Ken (:-{}}}
Libraries on the Prairie -- 10 reasons to attend [Ken's editorial comments]
10. See old friends and make new ones in a fun and relaxed
atmosphere.
9. Delicious meals and snacks that you don't have to cook or clean
up after.
8. Two days away from the library to think about how you can make
your library even better than it is, with others who know the challenges
of being a rural library director.
7. Learn what city officials want to hear when you request
funding.
6. Prizes, giveaways, treats and loads of fun.
5. Library directors will be reimbursed round trip mileage
to the nearest workshop location at 34 cents per mile. You will also
be reimbursed for your overnight stay. When was the last time you
received this kind of reimbursement from the State Library?  [Or the LSA's (:-{}}}]
4. Chocolate [This may be #1 for some of you.]
3. You can "carry over" continuing education contact hours
from Libraries on the Prairie if you don't need them to recertify this
year. This is a special exception for this year's Gates training. (There
are up to 13 contact hours continuing education credit available for Libraries on the Prairie.)
2. You will have the opportunity to be chosen as a representative to
go to the American Library Association's 2007 conference in Washington,
DC. We will be choosing a minimum of 3 people from those who attend the
evening sessions for the all-expenses-paid trip, and we are hoping
that we will have the opportunity to send more!
And the Number One Reason to Attend Libraries on the Prairie:
1. Iowa received more funding from the Gates Foundation
because a large number of Iowa librarians attending previous Gates
workshops. Any future support from the Gates Foundation could depend
on attendance at
events such as Libraries on the Prairie.
Sandy Dixon
Program Director Library Development
Something to think about
"One strategy we could pursue involves meeting users on their own turf.
Since we know that students are spending more and more time in
social-networking environments like MySpace and Facebook, building
complex communities and sharing musings and opinions on everything from
new bands to favorite books, let's form a partnership with one of those
companies to build a networking space focusing on the information needs
of students. Such a site could enable dialogue and collaboration among
its users, discussion of readings, and creation of multimedia class
projects. Faculty members and librarians could create profiles of their
own, with commentary on the subject under discussion, and users could
decide how to integrate the content and tools we provide into the
environment they create for themselves."
THE
LSA:
If you have some “problem” patrons who are on probation but
you want to give them Internet access, for school work or what ever.
Here is a potential solution – set up one computer with two
monitors, one for the user and one for you to keep an eye on. The link(s) below will tell you how, it is long
so you may have to cut & paste it into your browser
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-10149-0.html?forumID=7&;threadID=184081&messageID=2006103&tag=nl.e497
OR use this "tiny" link:
http://digbig.com/4jgpq
Ripped off [& edited to be NEILSA friendly] from EyeOpener NWILSA newsletter.
FirstSearch is a good deal for you and your patrons, especially students, sign up chop/chop.
3) Remember to Renew Your
FirstSearch Contracts: By this time, all libraries currently subscribed
to FirstSearch have received word
that it’s time to renew your contracts. FirstSearch provides access to a multitude
of online databases; within 13 of them, public libraries have unlimited free
searching. WORLDCAT is one of
the 13 within which you have free, unlimited searching. But there’s
also ERIC for journals in higher
education, MEDLINE for medical
information, ARTICLES FIRST,
WORLD ALMANAC plus much
more.
Still
need convincing? - Don’t
let training be an issue: NWILS & NEILSA provides to-your-door training in using the
FirstSearch databases
- Last
year, about 75 Northwest libraries signed on to FirstSearch [I don't know how many NE libraries signed up]
Contracts are handled by Central LSA office in Ankeny. If you’ve not yet turned in your renewal contract,
please see to that ASAP by returning your signed contract to the address below.
Likewise, if you’re interested in signing on for the first time, contact
Beth Marie
Quanbeck to get the
ball rolling:
Beth Marie
Quanbeck
Central
Iowa Library
Services
1210 N.W. Prairie Ridge
Drive
Ankeny,
IA.
50021-1564
515-963-1943
bquanbeck@cilsa.lib.ia.us
QUESTION: Would you be interested in a book repair (one or two
hour) County Assiocation CE? If so send me an e-mail. One hour would
be demonistration & two hour would be the same plus hands on.
Lib 101 sites reserved for the ICN class: Waverly PL & West
Union PL If not used the sites will be canceled.
| Iowa Grants Symposium: “Iowans’
Partnering for Progress” |
Many public library staff and local city government staff
attended this symposium last year and rated it highly. This year
the symposium is being extended to include non-profits, academics and
others. It promises to be bigger and better that last year so
make sure you plan to attend. REGISTER EARLY.
Attendance will be capped. To make sure your are included,
register today online to hold your spot. The hote is offering
state rates for this symposium, so be sure you give the symposium name
when you register. Details and registration:
Iowa’s Office of Grants Enterprise Management presents the
2nd Annual Iowa Grant Symposium, “Iowans’ Partnering for Progress”
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel
Be sure to join your grant seeking peers from throughout the
state at this premier training event on August 16 at the Sheraton West
Des Moines Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa.
The agenda is filled with information relative to all grant seekers.
Some highlights
of the agenda include:
Opening session on “Nonprofit Oversight and the Iowa
Principles and Practices for Charitable Nonprofit Excellence” presented
by Sandy Boyd and Richard Koontz, Iowa NonProfit Resource Center,
University of Iowa
Workshops on proposal writing and grant seeking presented by
The Foundation Center
Grants.government workshop presented by the US Department of
Education
Concurrent workshops will cover the following:
Ø Grants.gov: Find, Apply, Succeed
Ø Do’s and Don’ts of
Administering Federal Grants
Ø Funding for Home and Community
Ø Enriching Your Public
Programs
Ø Proposal Writing Basics
Ø Grant Seeking Basics
Ø Iowa Community Foundations
Capturing the Transfer of Wealth, Providing Community Support
Ø How to Begin! A
Proactive Approach to Seeking Grants
Ø Creating a Successful Budget
Ø Using Hard Data to
Build Strong Proposals
Ø Corporate, Private and Community
Foundation Panel Discussion
$65 registration fee which includes a deluxe continental breakfast,
lunch and afternoon break
Register at www.iagems.gov
Questions? Contact Kathy Mabie at www.kathy.mabie@iowa.gov
or 515-281-8834
Kathy Mabie
Iowa Grants Management Director
Iowa Department of Management
515-281-8834
FAX 515-242-5897
FROM:
Judy Jones, State Library of Iowa
Consultant
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
Stuff:
You
are invited to provide links you found too.
Libraries
of gracious reading, for members only
Susan Kelly is an avid reader of detective novels, but the public library
doesn’t always have what she wants and she draws the line at buying books in
hardcover. So Ms. Kelly joined a membership library, where she has, among many
other privileges, the run of more than 15,000 new and classic
mysteries....
New York Times, June
11
Thru Sept. 1: Step
up to the Plate @ your library baseball trivia contest with prizes for
library users, including a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 100 participating
libraries will win a Jackie Robinson poster from ALA Graphics. Free promotional
materials are available.
Oct.
15–21: Teen
Read Week: “Get Active @ Your Library.” Contact: Beth
Yoke, 800-545-2433, ext. 4391.
JFK
Library to create comprehensive digital Kennedy archive
Senator Edward M. Kennedy announced June 9 a major and
unprecedented effort by the National Archives and Records Administration to
build a new librarya digital one consisting of the entire collection of papers,
documents, photographs, and audio recordings of President John F. Kennedy,
eventually making them accessible to citizens throughout the world via the
Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum’s website....
JFK Library Foundation, June 9
Reference
librarians use electronic resources six times more than print
sources (PDF file)
Lorie Kloda’s review of a
May 2005 article in the Journal of Academic Librarianship indicates more
research in this area is warranted....
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, vol. 1, no.
2
MLA
rates top 10 most useful health websites
The Medical Library Association’s Consumer and Patient Health Information
Section evaluates websites based on credibility, sponsorship/authorship,
content, audience, currency, disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity,
and disclaimers....
Medical Library
Association
How
MySpace works
Fifty-four million
people have profiles on MySpace as of February 2006, and 180,000 more register
to use the site every day. By all accounts, it’s a phenomenon. Some people call
it dumb luck, some call it brilliant, and a few call it a sexual predator’s
dream come true. In this article, we’ll find out what MySpace really is, what it
can do for you, how it blew past the competition, and why Rupert Murdoch thought
it was worth $580 million....
How Stuff
Works
Libraries
honored with Webby Awards
The 10th
Annual Webby Awards Gala took place June 12 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York
City. Among the institutions honored for their websites were the Library
of Congress, which garnered a People’s Voice award in the Cultural
Institutions category. Official honorees (the top 20% of all sites entered in
the competition) included the Tacoma
(Wash.) Public Library, the Jefferson
County (Colo.) Public Library, the Gerald
Ford Presidential Library and Museum, and homeworkNYC.org
(designed by the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens public
libraries)....
Webby Awards, June
12
“Librarians”: Parody of “COPS” TV show
This sketch was performed sometime in the 1990s by the
Seattle-based KING-TV show “Almost Live!”a comedy show broadcast from 1984 to
1999 that did frequent parodies. As you might suspect from context, the
performers were regulars on the show and not staff members of the Seattle Public
Library....
YouTube;
KING-TV
What
if they gagged Gutenberg?
Imagine if
the leaders of 16th-century Germany, feeling threatened by the democratizing
forces of the printing press, had taken Gutenberg’s invention and limited its
use to those they agreed with politicallyor if Luther had to pay licensing fees
for nailing up his 95 Theses on every church door in Germany. That’s what Big
Telecom is trying to do. By creating two internet tiersone that is fast and
charges fees to website owners, and a second-class Web that is cheaper and
slower and could limit access to independently run sites....
San Francisco Chronicle, June 11
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: 7/4,
9/4, 11/10, 11/23 & 24,
12/25 &
26, 1/1/2007
- June 21 - 29 - ALA Annual meeting in New Orleans -
KD
- June 23 Library 101
- 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
Summer delivery 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
Fall delivery will begin on August
17 & 18
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
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