Friday, November 24, 2006

New Friday Notes: notes for next week The life so short, the craft so long to learn ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check out the NEILSA main page at: http://neilsa.org THE LSA: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. Reminder: as libraries move to new email addresses with the PLOW project, they need to let NEILSA know of the change Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving!  Today in EYE-OPENER: 1)  December 1st Deadline to Order Tax Forms 2)  Deadlines to Order Summer Library Program Incentives 3)  Da Vinci Code Read-A-Likes:  4)  Meetings / Events This Week – DROPPED Ken   1)  December 1st Deadline to Order Tax Forms:  If your library provides the service of distributing tax forms, then you need to be mindful of the December 1st ordering deadline. To expedite your order, the Iowa Dept. of Revenue asks that you use their website: www.idr.iowa.gov/taxforms/index.asp  This site allow you to access your current account—or allows you to create an account if your library does not already have one.  You may also update mailing information such as contact name, street address, email address, etc. Actually, libraries could begin placing orders in early October.  But time flies and if you’ve not yet done so, orders must be entered online by December 1st to ensure timely delivery.  The Dept. of Revenue will begin shipping in late December.  Use the same UserID/Password from years past to place your 2006 order.  If you’ve forgotten your UserID/Password or can’t access the application, call 515-281-5370 for help.  All questions can be answered by calling this number or checking the website above.    2)  Deadlines to Order Summer Library Program Incentives:  Another deadline to note, this one concerning orders for Summer Library Program incentives and prizes.  Believe it or not, the first deadline for ordering incentives from UPSTART is—yep—December 1st –- that is if you want to receive shipment by March 1, 2007.  But not to worry: if you can’t think about summertime fun while you’re up to your elbows in turkey and cranberry sauce, there are more ordering opportunities ahead.  Orders sent on January 1st will be shipped April 1st; orders sent on April 1st will be shipped May 15th.  Remember the theme for Summer Library Programs 2007 is GET A CLUE @ YOUR LIBRARY.  Call UPSTART toll-free at 1-800-448-4887 or go to www.highsmith.com    3)  Da Vinci Code Read-A-Likes:  The Da Vinci Code—as in the Ron Howard/Tom Hanks movie—is newly released on DVD, just in time for holiday gift giving (actually, it’s not on my Christmas list because I liked the book MUCH better J ) For your readers who, like me, loved the book and would like to find something similar, here’s a nice piece of readers’ advisory—Da Vinci Code style—courtesy of Sioux City Public Library: Riptide by Douglas Preston (involves treasure hunting and codes) The Camel Club by David Baldacci (the mystique of secret societies and conspiracies) The Eighth Day by John Case (art world and the Vatican) Seven Deadly Wonders by Matthew Reilly and Treasure by Clive Cussler (features treasure hunters galore) The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury and Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (illuminates Christian church history) The Prophetess by Barbara Wood (the role of women in the early church) A Clue for the Puzzle Lady by Parnell Hall and The Crossword Murder by Nero Blanc (both authors use crossword puzzles to advance the plot) STOLEN Lock Stock & Barrel from the NWILSA EYE-OPENER THANKS Bonnie   Dear Friends of North-eastern Iowa Libraries, Greetings from the Friends of the Decorah Public Library. We have for some time thought that we all should be sharing more ideas of what good things we are doing and examples we might take from each other that could strengthen our various endeavours. While there are many activities that we have done over the past several years one production we would be willing to share that we are excited about and has proven helpful to our work is a power point program that we have developed to present both the work of our Library and our Friends group to the community at various groups and clubs. If you would be interested to see our presentation as a possible model which you might develop for your Library and community feel free to contact Lois Roberts, 506 Mound Street Decorah, IA 52101 or Lorraine Borowski, Decorah Public Library 202 Winnebago Street, Decorah IA 52101. Jim Dale Decorah Friends of the Library Chair A FORWARD from ILA office: Dear friends,     I'm a retired prof. from UNI.  I've got a collection of over 20 years of National Geographics that I don't know what to do with--about half of the issues in the "official" protective and dated binders issued by the society.   I know, believe me, that they are hard to get rid of---but I'm wondering if there is a small public library somewhere (preferably near to BlackhawkCounty) that would like to have this collection.  I would deliver. Thank you, Dr. Thomas Tritle PLEASE contact Dr. Tritle directly at: Thomas.Tritle at uni.edu CE: The next LIBRARY 101 is set for December 12th at West Union - Registration required or site is canceled, other sites by request. UW-Madison SLIS, Continuing Education Services announces their Winter/Spring 2007 Online Courses. Complete course information and registration instructions may be found on their website, http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed Questions? Contact Anna Palmer (ahpalmer@wisc.edu) or 608-263-4452 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 of 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/ STUFF: .ACLU sues rural libraries over Internet filtering policies SPOKANE, Wash. -- A rural library district was sued Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union over its Internet filtering policy. REPEAT: Send us an e-photo of your library [flicker it] to post on the NELISA web site, we would like to promote every one of our libraries. Whats New blog - this is for your use and comments. Let us know what you have been up to. New programs, old programs that worked well, announcements, changes in personell, all the kinds of things that many of you share at county association meetings when you do your Round Robin sessions (some do some don't). The link: http://neilsa.org/weblogs/announcement.php Send announcements to Eunice for inclusion/posting at: riesberg@neilsa.org Model Trustee By-Laws are at: http://neilsa.org/consulting/boardbylaws.html 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: County Library Association Presidents/Chairs PLEASE send Ken a list of your meetings for 2007 and any spcial activities in which you will be participating, such as county fair, Supervisors Round Robin, Legislative Days et. al. NEILSA closed dates: 12/25 & 26, 1/1/2007 December 25 & 26 NEILSA Closed for Christmas The State Library's 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 meeting Jan. 13, 2007 2:00 p.m., ICN (sites tba) 12:23:56 PM