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The life so short,
the craft so long to learn.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: More
than one book a day challenged in U.S. schools and
libraries
The Office for Intellectual Freedom notes that there
were 405 known attempts to remove books in 2005. About 70% of the challenges
took place in schools and school libraries. Bookstores and libraries around the
country will celebrate the freedom to read with exhibits, readings, and special
events during Banned Books Week, September 23–30....
The latest issue of the State Library's newsletter, Footnotes, is now available online at
Beloit College Mindset List [Beloit College] Todays college student thinks...
Bar codes have always been on everything, from library cards and snail mail
to retail items.
The National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children has released a recent study entitled Online
Victimization of Youth: Five Years Later.
xx http://studytools.psych.und.nodak.edu/wordpress/?p=836
THE
LSA:
A REALLY good idea:
The one thing nice about attending
workshops such as “Libraries on the Prairie” is during conversations you glean
new ideas to test out. One such idea was inviting the county Board of Supervisors to tour the county
libraries. I approached one of the Winneshiek County Board members and asked if
he thought they may be interested. Within two days, he called back and said they
would be and wanted to do it in August. Today all five Board members traveled to
the five libraries in Winneshiek County. It was wonderful. They all
mentioned several times to me how much they appreciated actually seeing the
facilities and were amazed at viewing first hand the many services and
partnerships with city government and other area offices. It surely will help
next budget season when we go before them with our reports, for they will have a
picture of what each facility looks like.
COMING: Web Junction class
co-sponsored by SLI & NEILSA, Thursday October 19, 9 - 12 overflow
session 1 - 4 in West Union. This is an advanced notice we are NOT
ready for registration yer, watch the New Friday Notes for registration information. Class size limited for this class.
LIBRARY ASSISTANT - Northeast
Iowa Library Service Area, Full-Time salaried position, 40
hrs/wk. Salary: $17,000 to $21,000,
depending on experience. Benefits
include health & dental insurance. For job description/application visit: http://www.neilsa.org/searchcomm/index.html
WHY, you may ask?
Susan says:
I will be leaving the Northeast Iowa Library Service Area
office on September 15 as I have accepted the position of Library Director at
the Oelwein Public Library. Actually, it
does not feel like “leaving” at all, just a “move.” Thanks to my work at NEILSA, I have been able
to learn about and see a much broader perspective of the workings of public
libraries. I’ve enjoyed talking with and
meeting the different library directors and staff through out the state while
doing the day-to-day business of inter-library loans and e-rate!
I am much more confident about being successful as a new
director because of the helpful resources and advice available through the LSA,
the State Library, and the library community.
What a nice, wide safety net I’ll have underneath me! One can not say that about every job. I will miss working with Denise, Ken, and
Eunice. Let’s just say we have a few
stories we could tell! They’ve been a
great staff to work with.
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. Current sites scheduled West Union and Waterloo.
Grow
Your Own @ your library grants
PLA is now accepting
applications for its popular “Grow Your Own @ your library” institutional
scholarship. This year, PLA will award nine public libraries with grants of
$8,000 each to be distributed to staff members who are working to obtain a
master’s degree in library and information science. One library from each of the
nine Public Library Data Service (PLDS) population categories will be
selected....
Great CE delivered right to your desktop! Registration for YALSA's fall
session of e-courses opened Aug. 21st. The session will run from Oct. 2-30.
The courses are meant to be the equivalent of a full day workshop. The cost is
$135 for YALSA members, $175 for ALA members, and $195 for non members. To
register go to www.ala.org/yalsa. Three
courses will be offered:
OutReaching Teens
Outreach has always been important to libraries, and
now it is proving to be one of the only sure fire ways of reaching underserved
audiences. The content of this course will focus on the importance of
providing outreach services; different ways libraries can provide outreach
services to teenagers with minimal impact on staff and budget; and how to
garner support for outreach efforts. Instructor: Angela Pfeil
Pain in the Brain:
Adolescent Development and Library Behavior Teen
brain development rivals that of the toddler years: maybe that explains the
attitude and characteristics of this historically underserved age group. Find
out exactly why teens act the way they do and learn how librarians can address
patron behavior issues in a way that will develop relationships with young
adults. By the end of this class, participants will: 1) Understand the physical
development of the adolescent brain and how it manifests into physical and
emotional behaviors, 2) Examine the developmental needs and assets of
adolescents, and the role libraries must play in helping teens grow into healthy
adults, 3) Discuss how to apply newly acquired knowledge and techniques to
improve library services to teens in ways that meet developmental needs and
build developmental assets. Instructor: Beth Gallaway
New Technologies and New Literacies for Teens
How does teen use of
technology to play, learn, and create improve their text-based literacy skills?
How are teens using technology to communicate, collaborate, and create? What
technologies should librarians know about to support teen interest in building
community online? In this four week course you will find the answers to these
questions, become familiar with the tools and techniques teens use to
communicate and collaborate online, and discover how to inform your own
community about best practices that support teen's technology-based print
literacies. Participants in the series will have the opportunity to talk with
others about teen use of technology and how that use improves literacy skills.
They will also have the chance to create a framework for a program or service at
their library that supports teen technology-based print literacy. Instructor:
Linda Braun
 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.
Stuff:
The
books Google could open
Book Search is a Herculean
undertaking, digitizing both new and old works housed in some of the world’s top
libraries and rendering them searchable through Google’s website. This powerful
tool will make less well-known written works or hard-to-find research materials
more accessible to students, teachers, and others around the world. Book Search
comes at a time when college and university libraries are hard-pressed to keep
up with the publishing and technology revolutions....
Washington Post, Aug. 22
Smithsonian
photography archive online
The Smithsonian Photography
Initiative has launched an electronic portal to a portion of the vast image
collections residing in its 18 museums and galleries, nine research centers, and
the National Zoo. Its search
engine offers access to a cross-section of the work of more than 100
photographers, who used 50 different photographic and image-making processes and
technologies....
Smithsonian Institution
 University
of California launches Calisphere website
The University of
California launched on August 21 a free website
that offers educators, students, and the public access to more than 150,000
images, documents, and other primary source materials from the libraries and
museums of the UC campuses and cultural heritage organizations across
California. Calisphere’s primary sources include photographs, documents,
newspapers, political cartoons, and other cultural artifacts that reveal the
diverse history and culture of the state....
University of
California, Aug. 21
NCES:
School librarians are now instructors
The National Center for
Education Statistics has released a report
on expenditures for public elementary and secondary education for the 2003–2004
school year, which now includes librarians in the category of instruction and
instruction-related expenditures. It is unclear what changes, if any, the Texas
Education Agency (or other state agencies) will make to the 65% rule in light of
this recent change to the NCES definition....
Texas Association
of School Administrators, Aug. 17
 Chapel
Hill SILS celebrates its 75th year
The School of Information
and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is
launching its 75th anniversary September 18 with a celebration on the theme,
“Illuminating the Past, Imagining the Future.” Photos showing the school’s
history appear on its website....
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SILS
Search
privacy: The danger is real
It actually isn’t that
hard to identify someone just by their search information, writes Jim Rapoza.
Several national news outlets have been able to successfully identify
individuals based solely on groupings of search terms. One of the main reasons
this works is that people like to search for information on themselves or on
people they know, not realizing that these “ego searches” are often clear
markers for their entire search history....
eWeek, Aug.
21
How
to find free, quality, full-text articles and books on the scholarly
web
Robert J. Lackie, instruction and reference librarian at
Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, describes pertinent resources on
the free web of interest to librarians and other educators who conduct research
and would like to easily supplement their currently available holdings, in print
and electronic formats and via commercial vendors’ fee-based subscription
databases, within their own libraries....
MultiMedia &
Internet @ Schools, July/Aug.
 Award-winning
Australian children’s books
The Children’s Book Council of
Australia has announced its picks of the best literature for young readers
published in 2005, with J. C. Burke’s The Story of Tom Brennan (Random
House Australia) chosen as best book for older readers. The judges commented in
their report (PDF
file): “This year’s reading saw families wrestling with mental illnesses
such as bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia. In several notable
works, authors were able to provide shimmers of credible optimism as a
counterpoint to despair in the face of unremitting bleakness.”...
Children’s Book Council of Australia
Youths
are underwhelmed by it all
A Los Angeles
Times/Bloomberg poll finds that a large majority of the 12- to 24-year-olds
surveyed are bored with their entertainment choices some or most of the time.
Other polls in the series show that this demographic likes to watch brand-new
movies at
home rather than in theaters, says that duplicating
CDs or DVDs it owns is perfectly legal, isn’t as eager to watch TV on cellphones
and iPods as networks might think, uses the phone to text-message
friends more than call them, and often plays games or sends e-mail at the same
time as homework....
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 7–11
 23 things you can learn about Web 2.0
Learn along
with the staff of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North
Carolina, as they participate in a nine-week program to complete 23
small exercises to explore and expand their knowledge of the internet and
Web 2.0 technologies. (Sorry, only PLCMC staffers are eligible for the prizes.)
Details about the tasks are activated each week, and the project is in its third
week now....
Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg
County
Rejected
paper proposal blues
Steven Bell has some suggestions to offer
those whose papers were not accepted for the ACRL 13th National Conference in
Baltimore, March 31–April 1, 2007—or for any conference, for that
matter....
ACRLog, Aug. 23
What
does your browser reveal about you?
“Believe it or not, the
choice of your favorite browser reveals a lot about your personality,”
sardonically writes Michigan State grad student Luke Maciak, who says of IE 5.0
users: “You stubbornly refuse to upgrade that ancient Win 98 box that you are
using because you don’t need some fancy computer and in your opinion the one you
have works just fine. You also probably don’t use antivirus or antispyware
either.” He provides stats
on the browsers used by visitors to his site....
Terminally
Incoherent, Aug. 19
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 - Allamakee County Library Association - 7:30 KD
- October 3 - Butler County Library Association at
Parkersburg - 7:00 ER
- October 3 - Howard County Library Association at Cresco - 7:00 DL
- 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 DL
- October 17 - Clayton County Meeting 7:00 Gutenberg KD
- October 17 - Buchanan County Meeting Independence 7:00 ER
- 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
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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