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The life so short,
the craft so long to learn.
NEILSA closed: 7/4
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 (:-{}}}
Was not able to get in so you had a break....
THE
LSA:
Gates Rural Library Sustainability - Libraries on the Prairie: Growing Rural Libraries
 When
it comes to technology, rural libraries face unique challenges. To
help address these challenges, the State Library of Iowa was awarded
$129,450 from the Gates Foundation to "promote the sustainability of
public access computing in rural libraries."
- Through
the grant, the State Library will host workshops that will provide
tools, information and resources to help rural library directors
sustain public access computing.
- They will also provide
an opportunity for library directors to connect with one another,
sharing best practices, tips, and success strategies.
If
your library provides computers for public use, you will want to attend
one of the Rural Library Sustainability workshops, "Libraries on the
Prairie: Growing Rural Libraries." All expenses are paid for the
library director, including meals, lodging and mileage. (Reimbursement
for lodging and mileage will be paid directly to the library. Please
view the Cover Letter to Public Library Directors for more details on this reimbursement.) All Iowa public library directors, regardless of community size are eligible and encouraged to attend. Our target is to have 411 libraries (80% of the 514) rural public libraries represented at the workshops.
Dates / Locations:
- July 10-11: Buena Vista University, Storm Lake
- July 13-14: Holiday Inn, Council Bluffs
- July 17-18: Wartburg College, Waverly
- July 24-25: St. Ambrose College, Davenport
- July 27-28: Central College, Pella
Topics include:
- The Public Librarian and Information Literacy, Wireless Network @ Your Library, What Can U Plug Into a USB?, Using Tech Atlas.
- Assessing
your library's public access computing related to library connections,
technology connections, upgrade and maintenance, staff and patron
training, funding, outreach, and advocacy.
- Advocacy, including remarks from a community leader about what resonates when we tell the library’s story.
For more information or to register, visit the CE Catalog.
The
Rural Library Sustainability Project was conceived, in part, as a
result of a successful workshop that was hosted by the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation in conjunction with Public Library Association
(PLA) 2004, called “Sustaining Public Access in Rural Libraries.” The
workshops, attracting 135 libraries from across the country, were
filled with lively discussions, inspirational stories and honest
assessments of the tremendous challenges facing small libraries.
Inspired by what went on at PLA, the Gates Foundation, working with
WebJunction, created this grant project to give each state a chance to
replicate what went on at the workshops in 2004.
by
Sandy Dixon
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last modified
June 13, 2006 02:59 PM CE:
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.
| 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.
 Carleton
College library trading cards
Librarians at the Laurence
McKinley Gould Library at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, have
created sets of trading cards since 2002/2003 to publicize their services. You
can visit their poster session, “Penguins, Frisbees, and Trading Cards: Catching
the Student Eye,” Monday, June 26, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., in the Exhibit Hall at
Table V-15, at Annual Conference in New Orleans....
Carleton
College
Broadcast
flag makes it through committee
If the broad
rewrite of U.S. telecommunications laws (the Communications,
Consumer’s Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006) makes it to the
Senate floor, it will include the broadcast
flag. The Commerce Committee will continue running down the bill, amendment
by amendment, with network
neutrality next on the list....
Ars Technica, June
28
John Does allowed to speak, receive belated Robert Downs Award (PDF
file)
Nearly one year after receiving a National Security Letter from the FBI
demanding computer records for one of their member libraries, four librarians on
the executive board of the Library Connection—a nonprofit consortium of one
academic and 26 public libraries in central Connecticut—are able to discuss
freely some aspects of the only known time the USA Patriot Act has been invoked
in a library setting. The Justice Department officially abandoned efforts to
obtain the records June 22, after concluding independently that the implied
threat the FBI was investigating had no merit, the June 27 New York Times
reported....
New
Jersey director blasted for requiring subpoenas
Michele Reutty, director of
Hasbrouck Heights Public Library and president-elect of the New Jersey Library
Association, will face a closed hearing in July with the library’s board of
trustees over her requiring police to obtain subpoenas before giving them patron
records during a May investigation....
Love
it or lose it
Public libraries in the U.K. are on the
verge of extinction, warn campaigners. How can they be protected for the
future?...
BBC News, June 22
Guide
to Best Reading goes digital
The ALA Guide to Best
Reading in 2006, a coproduction of ALSC, Booklist, RUSA, and YALSA, is
available for the first time as a digital download from the ALA
Store. The guide is filled with annotated recommended and notable booklists
such as “Notable Children’s Books,” “Notable Books,” “Editor’s Choice,” and
“Best Books for Young Adults.”...
Cokie
Roberts to keynote closing session
Journalist and author
Cokie Roberts will keynote the closing session at the ALA Annual Conference,
June 27, 8–9 a.m. Roberts currently is the chief congressional analyst for ABC
News and is a news analyst for National Public Radio. She is also the author of
We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters, which tells stories of the fascinating
women of the American Revolution....
Newberry
Library finds a treasure in maps
One by one, Newberry Library
curator Robert Karrow pulled old maps from oversized file folders, each
recovered from a treasure trove that had been packed away and forgotten for
nearly a quarter-century. The maps show the range of 388 items the Newberry
bought for $120,000, getting the cream of an archive of 1,371 maps and atlases
that the Chicago History Museum had packed up for disposal in 1982, then left in
a storage room....
Chicago Tribune, June 19
Newspaper
archive offers free library access
Heritage Microfilm is
offering public libraries and K–12 schools free access to its online newspaper
database archive. Access NewspaperARCHIVE allows students and patrons to search
tens of millions of historical newspaper pages from anywhere in their school or
library....
NewspaperARCHIVE, June 19
Do
I still use reference books?
Rick Roche began wondering how
often he still used reference books. “There seem to be days that I use none and
days that I use many. Not knowing exactly what portion of my reference work
involves books I decided to keep a log of resources used.”...
Ricklibrarian, June 12
Cultural
tourism: A growing segment of the travel market
An increasing number of
tourists are special-interest travelers who rank the arts, heritage, or other
cultural activities as one of the top five reasons for traveling....
National Endowment for the Arts
"Increasingly, citizens are being forced to demonstrate a basic
knowledge of mathematics to have any chance of communicating
electronically with their congressional offices."
The original column at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100691.html
"Unlike some in the cyber-advocacy world, I agree with Congress's idea
that people e- mailing their elected officials should demonstrate they
are constituents ["Finding Fault With Logic of Congress's E- Mail
Plan," K Street Confidential, June 12]. This is, after all, a
representative democracy. Constituents are the first responsibility of
any member of Congress, and the only way to tell if someone is a
constituent is to know his or her full street address."
View the letter at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001595.html
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
- 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
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Please note: material found on the web should be assumed to be under
copyright and is presented here for purposes of education and research
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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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