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New
Friday Notes: notes for
next week
The life so short,
the craft so long to learn.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
YES, there was
no The New Friday Notes last week (09/08), I was in Washington DC
learning the new wrinkles in e-rate - if it gets any more wrinkles it
is going to look like one of those Shar-Pei pups.
REMINDERS:
1. Please send a copy of the Library
Board Membership list to the LSA.
So that others may learn from your experence.
3. If you wish to sign up for or drop out of the NEILSA e-rate
Consortia NOW is the time to let us know. Current members need do
nothing you will get informations in October.
Average return, POTS & Internet, last year was just less than
$1000.00. Average time to do Consortia paperwork about 3 hours -
Return On Investment circa $300.00/hour so if you make more than
$300.00/hour the Consortia is not worth your time but if you make less
than $300.00/hour.....
Southeastern Library Services' Blog Updated: http://southeasternlsa.blogspot.com/
Straight to Your Electronic Doorstep…
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The American Library Association (ALA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are pleased to announce the newest We the People Bookshelf. This year's theme is "The Pursuit of Happiness."
Part of the NEH's We the People initiative, this annual collection
development grant project will award sets of 15 classic books for young
readers to 2,000 libraries across the country. Selected libraries will
also receive 4 of the Bookshelf titles in Spanish, a bonus CD (Happy
Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder performed by various
artists), posters, bookmarks and programming resources. Libraries
interested in receiving the collection are required to develop and host
a program to introduce the collection and its theme to students and/or
patrons.
We hope you'll take advantage of this opportunity to receive the
"Pursuit of Happiness" collection for your library! With questions,
please contact the Public Programs Office.
Sincerely,
ALA Public Programs Office
800/545-2433, ext. 5045
FROM: Annette Wetteland
Communications Coordinator
State Library of Iowa
Discussion
group books available for the 2006 All Iowa Reads book Gilead.
From Denise: All Iowa Reads - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The phrase library automation has many diverse meanings in
the literature of librarianship. This ALA
Library Fact Sheet offers a selection of print and web resources on the
issues to consider when moving from the card catalog to the computerized
catalog, upgrading from one present ILS to another, or considering virtual
reference services.
THE
LSA:
NEILSA Van to ILA: Space
for 2 people, contack Ken - Cost split by riders.
ILA Conference Commercial: In Council Bluffs! The 2006 Iowa Library Association
Conference is October 11-13 at the Mid-America Conference Center in Council Bluffs. The theme is “Libraries,
Literacy, and Learning in the 21st Century”
You’ll find conference details in the
May/June and July/August issues of The CATALYST,
as well as on ILA’s website:
www.iowalibraryassociation.org
Conference registration is due by September 29th.
Job Opening - Last Announcement
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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
CE:
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.
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, full discriptions in New Friday Notes
08/25/2006:
OutReaching Teens
Pain in the Brain:
New Technologies and New Literacies for Teens
 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. 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:
 Google
Book Search offers downloadable public domain books
Search engine company
Google launched a service August 30 that allows users of Google Book Search to
download complete copies of books that are out of copyright. Google scanned the
originals from the collections of its library partners—the university libraries
at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan, and California, as well as the New York
Public Library....
Noted with sadness: Survival
uncertain for Minneapolis branches
Several branches of the
Minneapolis Public Library are facing potential closure as the library board of
trustees evaluates its 2007 budget and three-year plan. Among the libraries
facing termination is the Southeast Community Library, which avoided a similar
fate in 2003....
Gates
Foundation grant will improve public library connectivity
The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded ALA’s Office for Information
Technology Policy $525,000 in support of efforts to ensure free public access to
the internet in all of America’s public libraries. The three-year general
operating grant will allow OITP to help libraries meet an increasing demand for
public internet access by supporting their participation in the federal e-rate
program....
The
five types of content on library websites
David Lee King, Kansas
City (Mo.) Public Library acting IT director, classifies the types of content
most often presented on library web pages....
David Lee King
blog, Aug. 22
Google
Book Search joins Banned Books Week
Starting September 12,
readers can visit a new
site created by Google Book Search that lets users explore 42 of the banned
or challenged books that appear on the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100
Novels of the 20th Century. Interested readers can search or see basic
information about these books and then either check for them in local libraries
or buy them online....
Google
debuts 200-year news archive search
News and history junkies
take heart: Google’s new News Archive Search lets you search back over 20
decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously
available via the search engine. Google has partnered with news organizations
including Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York
Times, the Guardian, and the Washington Post, and aggregators
including Factiva, LexisNexis, Thomson Gale, and HighBeam Research, to index
full-text content going back 200 years....
Search Engine Watch,
Sept.
 DOPA
and the participation gap (PDF
file)
Illinois Library Association Executive Director Robert P. Doyle
summarizes some practical alternatives for teen online safety that are far less
intrusive than the Deleting Online Predators Act (H.R. 5319), passed by the
House in July. The article also includes basic rules of online safety for teens
and talking points on DOPA for librarians and educators....
ILA Reporter 24, no. 5 (Oct.):
16–21
How
to blog a conference
Web information consultant Josh Hallett
offers some practical advice on the tools and strategies you might need to
provide online coverage of your favorite conference. He writes: “Not every
organization has the luxury of having a large blogging staff (whether paid or
volunteers). You might be all on your own, but having some helpers makes a big
difference. If you plan to cover everything, your lowest common denominator is
the maximum number of breakout sessions.”...
Hyku, Sept.
6
 The
Wizard Rock movement and literacy
A new music genre called
Wizard Rock features songs related to the Harry Potter books, played by bands
like the Remus Lupins and Harry and the Potters. Josh Bernstein writes: “Almost
every one of these bands on their Myspace or website mention that one of their
goals is to promote literacy. Some even have links to sites or pdfs you can
download explaining how to help promote literacy in your own area.”...
Alternative Teen Services, Sept. 8
Six
tips to protect your online search privacy
Google, MSN Search,
Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your
search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be
embarrassing or even cause great harm. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has
developed six privacy tips ranging from the simple to more complicated measures
that offer near-complete safety....
Electronic Frontier
Foundation, Sept. 12
Wikipedia
vs. Britannica: The debate
Can Wikipedia’s
everyone’s-an-editor approach produce a reliable resource tool without scholarly
oversight? Are traditional encyclopedias like Britannica limited by lack
of input? The Wall Street Journal Online invited Wikipedia founder Jimmy
Wales to discuss the topic with Dale Hoiberg, editor-in-chief of
Britannica. The paper published their exchange, carried out over
e-mail....
Wall Street Journal, Sept.
12
Library
Technology Reports provides library professionals with insightful
elucidation, covering technology and technological issues. The upcoming
September/October issue features Jenny Levine on “Gaming and Libraries:
Intersection of Services.”
Disasters strike every area of the country and do not spare libraries.
Usually there is little or no warning, and the best defense is a plan for
effective response. The ALA Library offers a fact sheet that contains
links
to disaster preparedness websites, conservation, training, and other
available resources.
 Graphic
novels: Suggestions for librarians
ALA’s Office for
Intellectual Freedom has prepared a downloadable PDF
booklet (with artwork by Sergio Aragonés), in conjunction with the National
Coalition Against Censorship and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, that
offers tips on how to develop a graphic novel collection, ways to deal with
challenges in libraries, and where to shelve them....
 Free
to members: “Messaging and Talking with Congress” online
course
Designed for both veteran library advocates and those
who are new to Capitol Hill, the three-part online course “Messaging and Talking
with Congress: An Interactive Workshop” will help library supporters build or
hone effective messages and successfully communicate library needs to Congress.
The ALA Washington Office is making this course, led by popular Advocacy Guru
Stephanie Vance of AdVanced Consulting, available free to ALA members....
This is a good thing? (;-{}}} Ken
“Worthing Borough Council are closing the public toilets, and the space
will become a new IT computer suite in the library.” —“Goring Library’s
Information Techno-loo-gy Boost,” Worthing (UK) Herald, July 31.
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: 11/10, 11/23 & 24,
12/25 &
26, 1/1/2007
- September - Library Card sign up month
- 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
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
The public is encourged and welcome to attend.
NEXT NEILSA
Board meeting: Nov. 13, 2006 2:00 p.m., Clermont
Public Library
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