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The life so short,
the craft so long to learn.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
 OCLC
Founder Frederick G. Kilgour Dies at 92
Frederick G. Kilgour,
founder of the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, died July 31 in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, at age 92. The Ohio College Association hired Kilgour in 1967 to
establish a computerized library network on the Ohio State University campus in
Columbus that became known as the Ohio College Library Center. Today OCLC’s
WorldCat database contains over 70 million entries with more than 9,000
institutions as members....
Senators need to hear the views of library and information professionals
on the Deleting
Online Predators Act (H.R. 5319), which the House has passed and
referred to the Senate. You can share with them personal stories about how you
or your library patrons use social-networking sites in educational ways, or let
them know how DOPA or similar legislation will affect libraries and library
users if it passes.
House
misfires on internet safety
Syndicated columnist Larry Magid
says passing DOPA
was a mistake: “DOPA does nothing to strengthen penalties or increase
prosecution of criminals who prey on children. Instead, it punishes the
potential victims and educational institutions chartered to serve them, by
denying access to interactive sites at school and libraries. It would be like
trying to protect children from being injured or killed by drunk drivers by
ruling that kids can no longer walk, ride a bike, or even ride in a car or bus
to school.”...
CBS News, Aug. 1
THE
LSA:
CHANGE Cascade Public Library e-mail. It is cpl@netins.net
SW Library Services Blog is online:http://southeasternlsa.blogspot.com/
CE:
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.
 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. ALA
testimony against Library of Congress cataloging changes
ALA submitted testimony
July 27 to the Committee on House Administration regarding the Library of
Congress’ decision to cease the creation of series authority records and treat
all series only via transcription in bibliographic records....
 Flickr
+ libraries = scary, scary, scary to some folks
Michael
Stephens has some insight on Flickr, filtering, and fear: “I want to tell
everyone about a bit of drama that’s playing out right now, right after DOPA passed
the House, and what may be boiling up (and over) in an important moment in
time for social software, users, and libraries. The theme here for me is
FEAR.”...
ALA Tech Source, July 28
Calling
Melvil Dewey
Efforts to simplify catalog systems at the Library of Congress may soon make
scholarly research a lot more complicated. Many librarians argue that moves
by the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution could hinder the ability of
professors and students nationwide to gather information....
Inside Higher Education, July 28
 Comments
requested on NCLIS/IMLS merger
The Institute of Museum and
Library Services is requesting comments on a draft plan for the consolidation
into IMLS of the National Commission on Library and Information Science and the
public and state library statistics surveys of the National Center for Education
Statistics. The plan, which would go into effect in fiscal year 2008, results
from President Bush’s fiscal year 2007 budget request....
Institute of Museum and Library Services, Aug. 2
New
Yorker
debuts “Ask the Librarians”
New Yorker
librarians Jon Michaud and Erin Overbey have begun a monthly column called “Ask
the Librarians.” Its debut includes answers to the questions, “When did Calvin
Trillin start writing food pieces?” and “What’s the first movie the New
Yorker ever reviewed?”...
Emdash, July 25
Amazon.com
to offer MARC records
Amazon.com announced July 31 that it has
launched Library Processing, a service that enables its library customers to
receive Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) records and have books and other
media they order from Amazon.com fitted with Mylar jackets, barcodes, and other
essential preparation services....
Business Wire, July
31
Wikipedia
celebrates 750 years of American independence (satire)
Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia,
honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special
featured section on its main page Tuesday. Founder Jimmy Wales said, “According
to our database, that’s 212 years older than the Eiffel Tower, 347 years older
than the earliest known woolly-mammoth fossil, and a full 493 years older than
the microwave oven.”...
The Onion,
July 26
 Best
titles ever! (not satire)
After several
emails on govdoc-l, the Free Government Information site compiled this list of
government document titles that are interesting, strange, and intriguing—such as
Distinguishing Bolts from Screws, Fertilizers in a National Emergency,
and State-of-the-Art Dummy Selection....
Free Government
Information, July 13
Some government document titles that are interesting/strange/intriguing.
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
- 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
COPYLEFT NOTICE 2002:
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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