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The life so short,
the craft so long to learn.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HOUSE PASSES DOPA
If DOPA passes the Senate it will be attached to
e-rate. You will be affected. It may have other ramifications for libraries
and schools that will greatly modify how you serve your “under age” patrons.
Why, simple: You just go to the public schools and libraries
and block access to any kind of technology that could put them at risk.
At least, that’s the answer if you’re Congress. From the C|Net
article:
HOUSE PASSES DOPA
"...this bill (DOPA) is reactionary, statist, ignorant of
technology, and almost certain to do more harm to students than good.
Reactionary because it is trying to solve a problem by attacking the medium
rather than the cause. Statist because it assumes that the government, not
parents and schools (libraries), are the best agents for educating kids on how
to use technology safely. Ignorant because it opens the door for a wide range
of educationally useful web tools like del.icio.us
or wikis (or maybe even a few
simple blogs)
to be placed beyond the reach of the kids who could use them. As one commenter
in this
post wrote: “We should definitely ban pencils, pens, paper, etc. because
students can write offensive things and share them with others. We may want to
look at banning markers too.”
FROM: http://www.castingoutnines.net/2006/05/11/so-whats-the-best-way-to-protect-kids-from-online-predators/
... From ALA's Washington Office: House of Representatives Passes Deleting
Online Predators Act Yesterday, the US House of Representatives passed the
amended H.R. 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), by a vote of
410-15. We believe the legislation will now go to the Senate, which may or may
not have time to vote on this before their ...
Confessions of a Mad
Librarian 
FYI
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learning.now/2006/07/dopa_passes_the_house.html
The SWILSA News and Views podcast for this week is up on the blog:
Podcast feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/swilsanews
Enroll now! Class starts Monday, July 31. Find out more:
--What equipment you'll need to set up a podcast studio;
--Get tips on making your podcast interesting to listen to;
--Learn about recording techniques and sound effects;
--How to edit, test, and save your podcast and promote it on the Internet.
Paperwork
Deadlines: Final reports for the Open Access, Access Plus,
and Direct
State Aid programs are due at the State Library by July 31st.
Renew FirstSearch: Please make sure your library
renews access to FirstSearch by
returning the FS Letter of Agreement to Central LSA office in Ankeny. If you’ve not
yet renewed access to FirstSearch
for another year, please mail—not fax—the FS Letter of Agreement to:
Central Iowa Library
Service Area
1210 NW Prairie Ridge Drive
Ankeny, IA. 50023-1564
LIBRARY 101, coming up September 13th? The time is
9:00AM—12:00PM If you are interested let NEILSA know so we can schedule a site near you.
THE
LSA:
FOLUSA is
coordinating a national Friends
of Libraries Week, October 22–28. The celebration offers a two-fold
opportunity to promote and celebrate the Friends. Use the time to creatively
promote your group in the community, to raise awareness, and to encourage
membership
CE:
 PLA announces new start dates for e-learning
courses
“E-Learning @ PLA,” the online education program of the Public
Library Association, will offer five new start dates for two of its popular
courses. “New Planning for Results” and “Creating Policies for Results” will
each be offered five times between September 2006 and April 2007....
The State Library is now
taking registrations for Public
Library Management 1 and 2 classes in the CE Catalog
(http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/).
PLM 1 will begin on Tuesday, September 12 and PLM 2 will begin on
Wednesday, September 6. The registration deadline for both
classes is Monday, August 14.
OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library
Users
OPAL is an international collaborative effort by libraries of all types
to provide web-based programs and training for library users and
library staff members.
These live events are held in online rooms where participants can
interact via voice-over-IP, text chatting, and synchronized browsing.
Everyone is welcome to participate in OPAL programs. Usually there is
no need to register. Nearly all OPAL programs are offered free of
charge to participants.
Examples of OPAL public online programs include book discussion
programs, interviews, special events, library training, memoir writing
workshops, and virtual tours of special digital library collections.
FROM: http://www.opal-online.org/
We are planning a DEMCO Book Repair Workshop for sometime
this fall, Ken will still do a workshop at county association
meetings if requested and scheduled anead of time.
| 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
Stuff:
You
are invited to provide links you found too.
 Reference
books in Spanish for children and adolescents
Isabel Schon,
director of the Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children
and Adolescents, California State University at San Marcos, reviews atlases and
dictionaries, including Atlas enciclopédico infantil (Everest, 2005) and
Diccionario de términos del mundo antiguo (Alianza, 2005)....
100-year-old
librarian “keeps dust off the floor” in Vinland, Kansas
For
the last eight decades, Martha Cutter Kelley Smith has tended to the books at
the Coal Creek Library. But not because she’s an avid reader. Just as she has
for the past 80 years, the 100-year-old Smith toils away at Kansas’ oldest
library, keeping herself busy and keeping a monument to the small community of
Vinland up and running....
Lawrence (Kans.)
Journal-World, July 24
 Dictionary
marks 200th anniversary
A Compendious Dictionary of the
English Language turned 200 years old this year, but most Americans probably
have never heard of the work that introduced 5,000 new words to readers and is
widely considered the first American dictionary. The 408-page book,
created by lexicographer and writer Noah Webster, does not look like a modern
dictionary....
Springfield (Mass.) Republican, July
24
Readers
vs. resellers at library book sales
When the Pequot Library in
Southport, Connecticut, begins its five-day book sale on Friday, there will be
147,000 books available, including a first printing of the novel Ben-Hur
and a 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. But those books, and
many of the other 300 rare books there, are expected to be gone soon after the
gate opens at 9 a.m....
New York Times, July
22
Can
Wikipedia conquer expertise?
On March 1, Wikipedia,
the online interactive encyclopedia, hit the million-articles mark, with an
entry on Jordanhill,
a railway station in suburban Glasgow. The Encyclopædia Britannica, which
for more than two centuries has been considered the gold standard for reference
works, has only 120,000 entries in its most comprehensive edition. Apparently,
no traditional encyclopedia has ever suspected that someone might wonder about
Sudoku
or about prostitution
in China....
New Yorker, July 31
Free
template for writing disaster plans
The Northeast Document
Conservation Center and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners have
created dPlan, a free online program to help institutions write comprehensive
disaster plans. dPlan provides an easy-to-use template that allows museums,
libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions of all sizes to develop a
customized plan that includes disaster response procedures, salvage priorities,
preventive maintenance schedules, and more....
Northeast
Document Conservation Center
Collaborative
reference work in the blogosphere (PDF
file)
UNC-Chapel Hill SILS Assistant Professor Jeffrey Pomerantz and
Ph.D. candidate Frederic Stutzman argue that blogs can be used to good effect in
reference services and discuss Lyceum, an open source blogosphere application,
as an environment for blog-based reference service....
Reference Services Review 34, no. 2
(2006)
Book
trailers are building hype, movie-style
Judith Keenan says the
rationale behind book trailers is to take the onus off retailers to promote
books and market to consumers directly. The convenience and immediacy of the
internet make it a no-brainer. HarperCollins has produced close to a dozen
trailers since early February. The motivation is “to drive early word of mouth,”
says Steve Osgoode, director of online marketing and new media for HarperCollins
Canada....
CBC, July 3
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: 9/4, 11/10, 11/23 & 24,
12/25 &
26, 1/1/2007
- July 31 - Reports due: Direct State Aid & Open Access
- August 1 - Deadline for letter of Intent to the State
Library for Staying Connected
- August 1 Postville 9:30 Allamakee County Association
- KD
- 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 KD
- September 23 - 30 - Banned Book Week
- September 27 - State Library/LSA Town Meeting (Waterloo Art
and Rec Center) ER & KD
- September 30 - Cataloging Supplement report due at SLI
- October 3 - Butler County Library Association at
Parkersburg - 7:00 KD
- October 11 - 13 - ILA Annual Conference in Council
Bluffs ER & KD
- October 15 - 21 Teen Read Week
- October 17 - Readlyn, Bremer Co. meeting - 7:30
- October 17 - Clayton County Meeting 7:00 Gutenberg KD
- October 17 - Buchanan County Meeting Independence 7:00
- October 23 - Grundy Co. meeting, 9 a.m. in Grundy Center
- October 27 -- Arlington 09:30 Fayette County Meeting KD
- 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 KD
- November 13 - 19 - Children's Book Week
- November 23 & 24 NEILSA Closed for Thanksgiving
- December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas
The State Library's 2006 calendar http://www.silo.lib.ia.us
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
Traffic Counter
available on loan from
the NEILSA
Experts agree that accurately counting patron traffic with a
people counter is the way you can make sound strategic
decisions.
With help from a Sensource counter, your library can easily evaluate
staffing needs,
hours and more. With hard data you can be confident that your decisions
are
based on facts not guesswork.
If you are interested in using the
counter, contact Ken at NEILSA to
reserve a time slot. If you would like
to learn more about how you can use the readings from the counter to
better
manage the library and to explain to Boards/City Councils your
staffing/use
decisions we can arrange that at the same time.
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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THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS FREE.
It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set
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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
The public is encourged and welcome to attend.
NEXT NEILSA
Board meeting: Sept.
11, 2006 2:00 p.m.,
Oelwein Public Library
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