Friday, October 06, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn ANNOUNCEMENTS: BLOG NOTE: I am trying a new way of composing The New Friday Notes IF you have any problems reading et. al. the Notes PLEASE let us know. On Thursday, November 2, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., the State Library will offer an ICN session for trustees on library governance and funding.  Topics include: how libraries are governed; roles of the mayor and city council, library board, library director; changing the library ordinance; power of the library board over the library budget; reporting income and expenditures to the city; amending the budget; budget roles of the director, the board and the city.  (It will cover the same material as the Library Board Orientation session at Town Meetings.) Each person who plans to attend needs to register in the CE catalog. http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/  It is very important to register because any ICN sites with no one registered by two weekdays prior to the event will be canceled. http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/ICN/sched-cancel Most library trustees have not created a user account in the CE catalog and some of them will need help.  For this reason, I am making this announcement first on the public library director list so you can decide how you want to handle getting your trustees registered.  A week from today on October 9, I will announce the ICN session on the trustee electronic maillist. Sandy Dixon Program Director Library Development State Library of Iowa NOTE ALSO: Trustree educations sessions customized for your board are available from the LSA. THE LSA: After 24 years as director of the Oelwein Public Library Vivian Petrik-Koloc is celebrating her retirement. Please join the Library Board and Staff as we honor her  Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:00-4:00 in the afternoon The New Oelwein Public Library, 201 East Charles, Oelwein, Iowa OCLC REPORTING NOTICE: Just a quick reminder when you are reporting OCLC received & returned.  Some libraries are still not reporting the correct number, which causes extra work and sometimes requires us to contact you.  This could end up with you being charged an overdue for the item.  I am asking that you pay attention to the number you are reporting, what needs to be reported is the Request Identifier Number or the ILL #.  This number is currently 8 digits long.  We do NOT need the accession number or the oclc number.  The only time we need those numbers is when you are placing a new request.  Below is a sample of a printout from OCLC with the number that needs to be reported.  Here is the address for reporting your received & returned items:  http://www.neilsa.org/oclcupdate.cfm SAMPLE REQUEST: General Record Information Request Identifier:     23148016         Status: SHIPPED Request Date:   20060915         Source:  FSILLSTF OCLC Number:    45702798 Borrower:        IX3     Need Before:    20061015 Receive Date: _________ Renewal Request:         Due Date:        20061019         New Due Date: Lenders:         GO9, *LFY Request History bottom of the pagemiddle of the pagetop of the page    Date   Lender   Reason / Response 20060918         GO9     Unspecified Bibliographic Information        bottom of the pagemiddle of the pagetop of the page Author: Eagan, John. Title:  How to pick up beautiful women in nightclubs or in any other place : secrets every man should know / Edition:         Rev. ed. Imprint:         Freehold, NJ : Secret Pub., 2000 Verified:        WorldCat Desc: xi, 265 p. : Type: Book Borrowing Information   bottom of the pagemiddle of the pagetop of the page Ship To: Bill To:         Library Rate Electronic Delivery: Maximum Cost:   $0.00 Copyright Compliance:   CCG Fax:     Email:   Affiliation:    CDGA & LVIS Lending Information Lending Charges: Shipped:         20060919 Return To:       Return Via:     Library Rate  CE: Web Junction class [Home of TechAtlas] co-sponsored by SLI & NEILSA, Thursday October 19, 9 - 12 Overflow session 1 - 4 In West Union. WebJunction Iowa is an on-line community where library staff meet to share ideas, solve problems, take on-line courses, and meet colleagues from around the state and country. This hands-on class will give you the opportunity to learn more about WebJunction Iowa. We will explore some of the information that can be found on the site, register and sign up for an on-line class, and learn to post to the web boards. Cost $15.00 CE 3 to 5 ce's Instructor Michele Leininger Class size limited for this class. Register via Statewide ce catalog search under: "Web Junction" Kid Safety on the Internet - November 20 9:00 - 12 noon Waterloo Public Library A & B - Fee: TBD Registration not yet open. You wouldn't let kids ride their bike/drive a car on the roads & highways without training, why let them do so on the Internet super highway? Parents of Literacy Partners - Overview March 19 & 26, 2007 -- Locations & Fee TBD Parents are critical to children's readiness for reading, learning, and school. Public librarians have a key role in helping parents learn how to help their children prepare. Mary Cameron will take participants through an overview of a  parent-training model that librarians can use with teachers to train parents on early literacy strategies. A more detailed training will be scheduled for those making a commitmentto participate in the project at a later date. 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: 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.... OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries--And All Library Users NEW: Streaming Audio Preview of OPAL online events coming in July (playback time: 6 minutes) NEW: Streaming Video Introduction to OPAL (Windows Media Video file; playback time 2 minutes, 39 seconds) 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:   “They don’t teach witchcraft in library school.” Opening sentence from the romantic fantasy novel The Girl’s Guide to Witchcraft (Red Dress Ink, 2006) by Mindy Klasky, about a librarian who begins reciting magical spells after her salary is cut by 25% For those of you who attended Town Meetings [for those of you who did not attend it is still there (;-{}}}], here are some resources compiled by the University of Illinois on "The Library as Place: The changing nature and enduring appeal of library buildings and spaces." Sandy Dixon Program Director Library Development State Library of Iowa SmartGirl.org offers teen reading survey In conjunction with Teen Read Week, YALSA is asking librarians to encourage their teenage patrons—young men and women ages 12 through 18—to complete an online reading survey offered by SmartGirl.org between now and October 31.... What are the core services offered by public libraries? (PDF file) PLA asks for your help in defining the unique role of public libraries today and in the future. You can find a complete report of the discussions about each of 13 service responses (core services, defined in the 1997 Planning for Results) on the PLA Blog, and you can add your comments there. This online discussion will continue until October 20, and drafts of proposed new service responses will be available on the PLA Results website and the PLA Blog on December 1.... Most reliable search tool could be your librarian Most people don’t bother to look at results past the first page or spend much time evaluating the source of the material, experts say. While the Web is good for offering quick results from a broad range of sources (which may or may not be trustworthy), librarians can help people get access to more authoritative information and go deeper with their research.... C|net news.com, Sept. 29 ACLU gets OK to pursue Patriot Act lawsuit A federal judge in Detroit rejected the government’s request to dismiss an ACLU lawsuit challenging the constitutionally of the controversial USA Patriot Act, an antiterrorism measure Congress enacted after the September 11, 2001, attacks. U.S. District Judge Denise Hood issued the ruling without fanfare September 29, nearly three years after promising a speedy decision in the case. Congress amended the act in March, well after the hearing before Hood in December 2003.... Detroit Free Press, Oct. 4 Harry Potter row heats up in Georgia A woman who maintains that the Harry Potter books are an attempt to teach children witchcraft is pushing for the second time to have them banned from school libraries. Laura Mallory, a mother of four from the Atlanta suburb of Loganville, told a Georgia Board of Education officer that the books, by British author J. K. Rowling, sought to indoctrinate children. Referring to the recent rash of deadly assaults at schools, Mallory said books that promote evil help foster the kind of culture where school shootings happen.... UK Daily Mail, Oct. 4 How will Google stay on top? Google is the 800-pound gorilla in the business of internet search, but how will it stay there? Now it’s Google vs. YouTube. As Chicago Tribune chief business correspondent David Greising reports, “Video over the internet is the next big land rush in the internet economy.” Go inside Google’s HQ with this photo essay (3:47) by Tribune photographer Alex Garcia and a special report.... Chicago Tribune, Sept. 21 Jack Prelutsky, America’s first children’s poet laureate Whether riffing on homework, dragons, pizza, or the dot-gobbling Flotz, Seattle’s Jack Prelutsky is arguably the nation’s most popular children’s poet. His works, which span nearly 40 years and 35 volumes, include A Pizza the Size of the Sun, The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders, and his latest, Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant. On September 27 in Chicago, Prelutsky, 66, was named the first children’s poet laureate, courtesy of the nonprofit Poetry Foundation.... Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 28 Most young people entering the workforce lack success skills A new survey (PDF file) of leaders from a consortium of business research organizations finds the incoming generation sorely lacking in much needed workplace skills—both basic academic abilities and such skills as critical thinking, teamwork, and communication. The report, released October 2, is based on a detailed survey of 431 human resource officials conducted in April and May 2006 by the Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management.... Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Oct. 2 Ensuring the net generation is net savvy (PDF file) Net Gen students may know the internet, but they are not necessarily “net savvy.” Exposed to huge quantities and multiple formats of information online, they are constantly challenged to sort valid from inaccurate information. Moreover, students are creating information, not just consuming it. This Educause Learning Initiative paper by George Lorenzo and Charles Dziuban explores the challenges students face online in effectively finding information, using technology, and thinking critically.... Educause, Sept. Animal sounds, courtesy of the Macaulay Library Cornell University’s Macaulay Library has the world’s largest archive of animal sounds. It has more than 160,000 recordings of 67% of the world’s birds, and rapidly increasing holdings of insects, fish, frogs, and mammals. The advanced search engine allows audio and video searches by common or scientific name, location, or recordist.... Macaulay Library LC places 10,000th map online The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress has placed the 10,000th map on its website, 10 years after the division began digitizing maps. The map is Samuel de Champlain’s 1607 vellum chart of the North American coast from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts.... LC Geography and Map Division, Sept. 27 LINKS: Learning Activity Written Summary: http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/learnactform/?searchterm=Learning%20Activity 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 ttp://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 DATES: NEILSA closed dates: 11/10, 11/23 & 24, 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 September 30 - Cataloging Supplement report due at SLI October 2 - Allamakee County Library Association - 7:30 October 3 - Butler County Library Association at Parkersburg - 7:00 ER October  3 - Howard County Library Association at Cresco - 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 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 16 2007 9:30 Fayette County Meeting West Union  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 encouraged and welcome to attend. NEXT NEILSA Board meeting:  Nov. 13, 2006 2:00 p.m., Clermont Public Library 11:29:44 AM